Indie Spotlight: Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (Tales of Game’s Studios)

[TimW originally wrote this over at the IndieGames Blog, but this is such a wonderfully obtuse game that it’s worth highlighting over here as well. Riffing off the old Charles Barkley console game and using the DIY-styled RPG Maker software to spoof the RPG genre, the game is so ironic, it hurts. But it also works! Try forwarding the trailer to 02.41 to get the chiptune vs. b-boy soundtrack highlights, incidentally.]
“The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the “B-Ballnacht”. Thousands upon thousands of the world’s greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide. The reason: the Chaos Dunk, a jam so powerful its mere existence threatens the balance of chaos and order. Among the few ballers and fans that survived the basketball genocide was Charles Barkley, the man […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back