Taneo must flee his workplace after the globe chases him, only to be hospitalized, meet up with a seductress, and survive a runaway subway ride after manning a battleships’ artillery. Each focus on their side of the story with many plot points only fleshed out and explained within another’s scenario. The game is a set of minigames dolled out amongst the 4 main members of the family.

That and Taneo’s high-pitched goofy scream. To many, the main theme is the most memorable part of Incredible Crisis. The game itself is composed with an original score by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, highlighting the farce of the events in a plucky manner.

Such one dimensional everymen and women serve to further emphasize how out-there their monumental adventures play out. The father Taneo is a everyday salaryman, his wife Etsuko is the Japanese housewife that never takes off her apron, Tsuyoshi is the plucky youngest son looking straight out of a Gamera film with his bowl-cut and tiny shorts, Ririka is the fashion conscious cell phone yapping older daughter, Hatsu is the sweet elderly granny turning 80, and Pesu is their dog. In startling contrast, the Tanamatsuris are as stereotypical of a Japanese family the culture can surmise. The story has no qualms trying all the threads in a very bizarre manner, getting the ball literally rolling with a statue’s globe falling off its planned placement by accident before dominoing into an alien invasion. Incredible Crisis is a very Japanese game, in the same league as Katamari Damacy as the sort of loony, offbeat foreign title gamers flock to and/or laugh alongside, generally attributing the creation being done under the influence of drugs. As Britian’s Ministry of Information stated: “Keep Calm and Carry On”. Stress can kill about as bad as bullets or explosions, and you don’t want to blow your top in a tense situation. Bank heist, turmoil at work, bug attacks, marital affairs, store sales, bad photo op, aliens, near-death experiences, giant teddy bears, off-key karaoke, and worse yet, they might miss Grandma’s birthday! It’s a race against time to make it back home in time and in one piece, never mind the possibility of saving the city from total destruction. Ever had one of those days? The kind where nothing goes right and it feels like the world’s out to get you? The Tanamatsuri family is in the middle of a collective quagmire of bad luck.

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