Esper Bouken Tai is one of those weird, charming NES games that never made it outside Japan. You start off in this maze-like dungeon crawling through rooms packed with monsters—some cute, some creepy—and your first thought is probably "how do I even fight these things?" Turns out you don't. At least, not directly.

Instead, you rescue other characters trapped in the maze, and each one has their own weird ability. One can teleport through walls, another shoots fireballs, and there's even a samurai who just slices everything in his path. The trick is swapping between them at the right time, because some areas are straight-up impossible unless you've got the right character. It's janky in that classic NES way, but figuring out how to chain their skills together is oddly satisfying.

Oh, and the music? Absolute 8-bit banger. Just don't expect the translation patches to make much sense—half the dialogue reads like someone fed a fantasy novel through Google Translate in 1995.