Very few games have ever been created that are as overtly explicit as those in the Cho Aniki series, and while this first installment in the franchise is the tamest of them all it's easy to see the direction that developer Masaya intended evolving already. Cho Aniki is the weirdest and most nonsensical Import to come to the American Virtual Console so far -- and it likely won't ever lose that distinction, unless its own sequels show up someday. The even more ridiculous Ai Cho Aniki and Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Ranto Hen could be potential future candidates for the service, so if you want to see more nearly naked men come to the VC, put down 900 Wii Points for this one.
Presentation - 8.0
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 7.5
Gameplay - 6.5
Lasting Appeal - 6.5
Overall -
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Hey Poor Player's Francis DiPersio writes - "Flash back to February of 1995. Ai Cho Aniki, the second game in developer Masaya’s over-the-top Cho Aniki (Super Big Brother) series, flexed its way onto the PC Engine in Japan, delivering a staggeringly strange blend of testosterone-tinged horizontal shooter action to NEC’s 8bit powerhouse. While the original Cho Aniki put players in control of the hero and mystical maiden duo Idaten and Benten as they soared through a variety of stages, blasting biomechanical baddies and dodging bullets in a relatively conventional shooter, the sequel instead opts to squeeze players into the skin-tight swim trunks of the musclebound brothers Adol and Samson as they embark on what can only be described as the most gloriously homoerotic space shooter in homoerotic space shooter history. "
This reviewer certainly gave this game about muscular, sweaty, nearly naked men a pretty good score!
Some games are unique and innovative, while others are just flat out bizarre.
