Incredible Crisis
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| Developer(s) | Polygon Magic |
| Publisher(s) | Titus Interactive (US) Tokuma Shoten (JP) Tecmo (JP, Arcade) |
| Release date(s) | June 24, 1999(JP) November 6, 2000(US) |
| Genre(s) | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) |
| Platform(s) | Sony PlayStation, Arcade |
| Media | CD-ROM |
Incredible Crisis (Tondemo Crisis in Japan) is a PlayStation game featuring music from the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. It consists of several mini-games strung together and book ended with pre-rendered scenes.
[edit] Story
It's grandmother Haruko's birthday. She wants everyone home early for her special day: the day that serves as a reminder that she has alive for more years than she can remember. Unfortunately her family has completely forgotten, because apparently they are too busy to remember things like this. So the entire goal for the game is a very simple one: throw together a birthday party for Haruko at the last minute, while still surviving your daily routine. All in all, it is a fairly normal weekday in the Land of the Rising Sun: the father is tasked with evading a very determined oversized stone globe, the mother is menaced by terrorists wearing wolf masks, and the children are wrapped up in various extraterrestrial invasions. One thing they can all look forward to is the knowledge that there is no shortage of leaky boats in Japan. Get home, don't be late, and make sure you, as each of the family members (Father Taneo, Mother Etsuko, Daughter Ririka, and Son Tsuyoshi) have accomplished whatever part of the grand birthday celebration you were assigned.
[edit] Gameplay
The game starts with Taneo's adventures. He's all stressed out from work, as the bell for the daily exercise rings. However, instead of engaging in the stock regiment of calisthenics, Tanae's company forces them all to DANCE! So, you are prompted to hit a sequence of directions and buttons that will make Taneo groove, and, if you're lucky, do the robot. This mini-game is pretty indicative in both tone, and structure for what the rest of the game provides. There are about 24 mini-games that comprise the larger game as a whole, but some of them unfortunately repeat. Despite using only one controller, the game still falls under the party genre, because the simplistic, quick hitting mini-games allow for the controller to be passed from player to player.
There are plenty of movie, TV, and US pop culture references in the game. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Titanic, Star Wars, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Indiana Jones, the handheld game SIMON, Independence Day, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Godzilla and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are all visually referenced throughout the game.
