In this latest Viewtiful you play through the game as both Joe and his girlfriend, Sylvia, switching between them on the fly with the touch of a button.
This basically means taking one character at a time into a series of labyrinths under the city to beat past levels of bad guys and finally take on the level boss.
It takes a lot to make a Nintendo game seem bizarre, probably because no matter how strange a Gamecube game is, players are having so much fun playing it they don't notice.
Right alongside Street Fighter III in Capcom's impressive list of games to bring stateside is Tech Romancer, a 3D fighting game inspired by giant robot anime of the last three decades.
It's nice to see the occasional role-playing game that isn't formulaic, something that shows the developer took some time to create a plot worth living in a game worth playing.