If The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Saturn ever made a baby, it might be named Cho Aniki (Big Brother).
A shmup, it features homoerotic digitized man-sprites on hand-drawn pixel backgrounds… but like Rocky Horror, it never takes itself overly seriously as either a sexual statement or a shmup. Passed over for Western release, Cho tapped Japanese Saturns in early 1996.
The visuals are campy, the gameplay semi-hard, and the overall package just a bit sweaty. Cho Aniki: a male-centered surreal parody shooter. Of course, it’s #BestOfSaturn.
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