Not to dispel the magic but video games
are generally speaking works of fiction
giving developers the opportunity to
flex their creative muscles usually
makes for a more immersive experience
for the player often developers take
that sense of creative freedom and run
with it leading to a veritable Bounty of
Wonders being readily accessible at the
mere push of a button a big part of
achieving the immersion we know and love
is populating games with countless items
many of these are pretty mundane and
purely cosmetic but there are many
examples of video game items that are
just the opposite and as anyone who’s
ever stumbled into the dark side of
Internet fan fiction will tell you
imagination can sometimes get a little
weird whatever you need video games
cross-section of fantasy and function
provides a healthy crop of truly bizarre
items that serve a very specific
function strap on your Rainbow fueled
gravity packs because I’m Peter from
triple jump and here are the 10 weirdest
video game items that actually have a
purpose
number 10. groovertron glove Ratchet and
Clank the Ratchet and Clank franchise is
positively packed with unique gadgets
and weapons many of which were probably
Warren mentioning in this list however
there is one that stands out Above the
Rest for how utterly bizarre it is the
groovitron glove we’ve all been there
surrounded by a horde of hostile aliens
Our Lives hanging in the balance
thinking oh if only these creatures
would stop and dance enter the
groovitron glove a weapon that allows
you to throw disco balls and
incapacitate enemies by making them get
their groove on the groovitron has an
obvious purpose it stops enemies in
their tracks forcing them to abandon
their desire to turn ratchet into a long
back skin rug allowing the player enough
time to swiftly dispatch them however
this is also what makes the groovitron
so strange it’s technically non-lethal
leaving players free to do away with the
Hostile aliens on on their own schedule
still it does imply that these enemies
could theoretically dance themselves to
death although on the other hand that’s
arguably a Kinder fate than the one
waiting for them at the end of ratchet’s
trusty wrench no matter how effective
you might consider the groovatron to be
as a weapon it certainly is a strange
but useful tool for the aspiring
Galactic Ranger to possess number 9.
wall meat Castlevania in a franchise
about a vampire hunter exploring Count
Dracula’s castle you’d probably expect
there to be all manner of curious
artifacts lurking in castlevania’s
shadowy corners while you wouldn’t
necessarily be wrong the weirdest item
in the Castlevania franchise is actually
something that’s pretty mundane which is
kept in a rather unorthodox place when
vampire hunting takes its toll on Simon
Belmont and his health starts to run low
he can top It Up by attacking
castlevania’s walls smashing them open
and finding delicious cooked chicken now
eating meat might be a pretty standard
practice on its own especially by video
game standards but every facet of
castlevania’s wall meet is just so
incredibly wrong the implication is that
Count Dracula has spent his years of
immortality roasting entire chickens
putting them inside the walls and then
bricking them away exactly why he would
do this is perhaps castlevania’s biggest
mystery not only does it provide the
player with a much needed pick-me-up but
it also makes Dracula seem all the more
evil yes the blood sucking is pretty
horrifying but the thought that he’s
living inside walls lined with festering
roasted Meats oh the smell alone must be
unbearable number 8. gummy blocks
Kingdom Hearts the Kingdom Hearts
franchise May well exist as an answer to
the question what would happen if Final
Fantasy met Disney and that goes a long
way towards explaining some of its more
unique elements as the entire franchise
was built around the the idea of
connecting and traveling across multiple
different fantasy worlds Sora Donald and
Goofy’s Adventures needed to be
rationalized with a bit of clever
writing and that is where Kingdom Hearts
gummy blocks come in made of an entirely
undefined substance and used to build
inter-dimensional spaceships gummy
blocks essentially serve as an
explanation for how Sora is able to
visit so many colorful locales the gummy
is a bizarre and unexpected mystery that
Kingdom Hearts doesn’t deign to
illuminate their game-related purpose is
made Fairly clear but what makes them so
strange is how vague all the other
details are despite sounding as though
they’d rot sora’s teeth faster than the
speed of light gummies are mostly
obtained during Kingdom Hearts tonally
dissonant space missions they’re also
randomly for sale in certain shops
around the franchise’s many worlds
making gummy blocks as mysterious as
they are useful exactly where they come
from and what they’re made of isn’t
clear but with out them Sora would float
away into the endless Chasm of space so
in that sense they certainly served
their purpose they also sound delicious
7. Dagger of Time Prince of Persia the
sands of time be honest who hasn’t
wished for the ability to control time
to those with a healthy imagination time
manipulation would come with endless
possibilities and when combined with
some totally sweet parkour skills might
just make you a Prince of Persia 2003
saw the Prince of Persia franchise
rebooted with Prince of Persia the sands
of time and with it came the
introduction of the imaginatively named
Dagger of time unsurprisingly the dagger
of time has the power to you guessed it
control time using magical sand you
might not have guessed the sand bit but
you know you get the point the same
magic sand has also created monsters you
know just to make sure that the dagger
part of the item gets some use too
though it may not be particularly
strange in the context of the game
itself the part hourglass part knife
Dagger of time is a pretty abstract
concept when you really think about it
keeping sand inside one’s weapon isn’t
really standard Behavior either making
the item more than a little bizarre in a
conceptual sense however it certainly
proves useful to the titular Prince
without it he’d never have managed to
navigate the otherwise impossible series
of traps and platforming puzzles he
encounters on his journey all in all the
magic sand knife does come in pretty
handy number 6. Mr Toots Red Faction
Armageddon Mr Toots the rainbow blasting
unicorn is one of the most notorious
elements of 2011’s Red Faction
Armageddon but no matter how many times
he makes an appearance the impression he
leaves remains untarnished as the game
consists of a pretty serious story
regarding an underground mining complex
on Mars the inclusion of Mr Toots serves
as a pretty big tonal departure this
makes him seem even stranger than he
already would have been after beating
the game players are able to make use of
Mr Toot’s highly destructive backside
equipped just like any of the game’s
standard weapons Mr Toots can be used to
shoot lethal rainbow beams at enemies
and the game environment wait where’s
the trigger on this oh my God are they
using his oh no Mr Toots Red Faction
Armageddon offers little to no
information on Mr Toot’s backstory so
exactly how he came to be in an
underground Martian Mining facility is
really anyone’s guess however regardless
of how utterly baffling his presence in
the game may be he’s certainly useful as
the force released from his lower
intestine can level small structures and
explode enemies into a puff of rainbows
and butterflies he’s cute he’s cuddly
and his Digest suggestive tract is
capable of producing lethal force not
unlike me after a Dominoes number five
mollusk launcher Saints Row the Third
for years the Saints Row Series has
reveled in pushing boundaries by
including as much Mayhem as possible
taking a third person action sandbox and
delighting in making it as vulgar as
possible Saints Row III combined
controversy and Chaos in equal measure
one of the game’s best or worst
depending on who you ask features is the
inclusion of items and set pieces
clearly designed to be as weird and
wonderful as possible perhaps the
strangest of these is the mollusk
launcher a weapon that fires
mind-controlling octopuses capable of
turning hostile NPCs into allies and hey
before you go running into the comments
octopuses are technically mollusks
apparently who knew the perks of being
able to alter the will of your enemies
really do speak for themselves making
the moles glass launcher a handy
addition to the Arsenal of Steel port’s
career criminal useful though it may be
it’s still an incredibly strange weapon
even by Saints Row’s standard
number four donor dog brain Fallout New
Vegas
ah Fallout New Vegas a game that
combines the tarnished Glitz of
apocalyptic Las Vegas with the
desolation of the irradiated Mojave
close your eyes and you can practically
taste the nuka-cola as you walk along
with a big iron on your hip and a a dog
brain in your pocket what the Fallout
series offers a fair few strange
surprises but is there anything more
off-putting than carting around a donor
dog brain during the nothing but a hound
dog Quest maybe but the fact that it’s
more than just a bizarre backpack filler
makes it all the more unpleasant even
though it’s entirely necessary the quest
in question is undertaken by the player
in order to save Rex the Cyber Hound’s
life and recruit him as a companion
carrying the brain is pretty odd but as
the only alternative is to not recruit
him at all it’s safe to say that every
single New Vegas player with a heart
resign themselves to harvesting the
organ and delivering it to Rex’s owner
the king it may have gathered a little
Mojave dust on the way but without it
how is Rex gonna know that he is in fact
a very good boy
number three fairy bottles The Legend of
Zelda The Legend of Zelda games arguably
make up one of the most iconic
franchises in all of gaming the
combination of fantasy action and
adventure is made all the Richer for the
series wealth of law and the depth of
its world there’s so much that makes the
Legend of Zelda unique but that also
means that every now and then things get
a little weird though the item may be a
staple of the franchise the fairy
bottles the protagonist link uses to
heal himself should be considered
strange at best they’ve been around for
enough time to no longer warrant too
much thought but on closer examination
they seem to prove Link’s capacity for
cruelty in The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule
fairies are sentient beings so link is
really imprisoning tiny people just to
exploit them for their abilities okay
the fairies don’t seem to mind all that
much and Link does set them free once
they’ve served their purpose but surely
the exploitation of fairy his magical
powers should be considered a huge
ethical issue the fact that link doesn’t
seem to concerned makes it even stranger
as does the idea that he’s directly
responsible for the unfair imprisonment
of countless fairies if nothing else it
certainly taints his heroic image a bit
doesn’t it number two pheromone Arrow
galgun it’s hard to separate all of the
elements of a game like gal gun or gal
asterisk gun if you want to get stylized
about this into what should be
considered normal and what should be
considered totally insane with the bass
line skewed so heavily towards
strangeness it’s easy enough to dismiss
the game’s pheromone arrows as more of
the same but they really are pretty
baffling playing as a young man shot
full of Cupid’s arrows galgon sees you
tasked with warding off the advances of
countless Love Struck school girls in
order to find true love how on Earth
does one go about doing this you ask
just get yourself a handful of pheromone
arrows and you’ll be all set to scare
away the people attracted to you finally
because I’ve had that issue for ages how
exactly such an arrow might work is not
something galgon explains but it’s
probably safe to assume that pheromones
play A Part this means that the arrows
most definitely smell bad making you
seem suddenly unattractive to everyone
around you it’s certainly a really weird
concept and though pheromone arrows
might only be useful in the context of
galgun’s story they undeniably have a
pretty clear purpose no matter how odd
they might seem and number one
crystallized demon orbs Devil May Cry if
you’ve never played Devil May Cry just
consider it resident Evil’s totally
radical cousin following Demon Hunter
Dante as he you know hunts demons the
franchise makes use of fast-paced combat
with lots of overly showy and impressive
techniques more offset Techniques plus
other abilities can be bought using
Devil May cry’s official currency
multi-colored demon orbs demon orbs
sound like a pretty standard video game
collectible by name but it’s the
franchise’s own explanation of their
nature that makes them so odd according
to Devil May Cry these differently
colored orbs are made from different
parts of demons various Essences red
ones for example come from Demon’s blood
white orbs consist of demons tears and
green contain crystallized fluids just
no one tell me what the yellow orbs are
okay I think I’d rather not know using
orbs made of various crystallized bits
of demon juice as currency is more than
just weird it’s utterly disgusting the
way that each color is used for a
different purpose somehow makes it worse
because it implies that Dante values
each discarded bodily fluid differently
the orbs may be useful for all manner of
things but knowing this about their
nature sure there’s no way we’ll ever be
using them again I don’t want to be
scraping Crusty Demon bits out of my
piggy bank thank you very much
Not to dispel the magic but video games are generally speaking works of fiction
Not to dispel the magic but video games
are generally speaking works of fiction
giving developers the opportunity to
flex their creative muscles usually
makes for a more immersive experience
for the player often developers take
that sense of creative freedom and run
with it leading to a veritable Bounty of
Wonders being readily accessible at the
mere push of a button a big part of
achieving the immersion we know and love
is populating games with countless items
many of these are pretty mundane and
purely cosmetic but there are many
examples of video game items that are
just the opposite and as anyone who’s
ever stumbled into the dark side of
Internet fan fiction will tell you
imagination can sometimes get a little
weird whatever you need video games
cross-section of fantasy and function
provides a healthy crop of truly bizarre
items that serve a very specific
function strap on your Rainbow fueled
gravity packs because I’m Peter from
triple jump and here are the 10 weirdest
video game items that actually have a
purpose
number 10. groovertron glove Ratchet and
Clank the Ratchet and Clank franchise is
positively packed with unique gadgets
and weapons many of which were probably
Warren mentioning in this list however
there is one that stands out Above the
Rest for how utterly bizarre it is the
groovitron glove we’ve all been there
surrounded by a horde of hostile aliens
Our Lives hanging in the balance
thinking oh if only these creatures
would stop and dance enter the
groovitron glove a weapon that allows
you to throw disco balls and
incapacitate enemies by making them get
their groove on the groovitron has an
obvious purpose it stops enemies in
their tracks forcing them to abandon
their desire to turn ratchet into a long
back skin rug allowing the player enough
time to swiftly dispatch them however
this is also what makes the groovitron
so strange it’s technically non-lethal
leaving players free to do away with the
Hostile aliens on on their own schedule
still it does imply that these enemies
could theoretically dance themselves to
death although on the other hand that’s
arguably a Kinder fate than the one
waiting for them at the end of ratchet’s
trusty wrench no matter how effective
you might consider the groovatron to be
as a weapon it certainly is a strange
but useful tool for the aspiring
Galactic Ranger to possess number 9.
wall meat Castlevania in a franchise
about a vampire hunter exploring Count
Dracula’s castle you’d probably expect
there to be all manner of curious
artifacts lurking in castlevania’s
shadowy corners while you wouldn’t
necessarily be wrong the weirdest item
in the Castlevania franchise is actually
something that’s pretty mundane which is
kept in a rather unorthodox place when
vampire hunting takes its toll on Simon
Belmont and his health starts to run low
he can top It Up by attacking
castlevania’s walls smashing them open
and finding delicious cooked chicken now
eating meat might be a pretty standard
practice on its own especially by video
game standards but every facet of
castlevania’s wall meet is just so
incredibly wrong the implication is that
Count Dracula has spent his years of
immortality roasting entire chickens
putting them inside the walls and then
bricking them away exactly why he would
do this is perhaps castlevania’s biggest
mystery not only does it provide the
player with a much needed pick-me-up but
it also makes Dracula seem all the more
evil yes the blood sucking is pretty
horrifying but the thought that he’s
living inside walls lined with festering
roasted Meats oh the smell alone must be
unbearable number 8. gummy blocks
Kingdom Hearts the Kingdom Hearts
franchise May well exist as an answer to
the question what would happen if Final
Fantasy met Disney and that goes a long
way towards explaining some of its more
unique elements as the entire franchise
was built around the the idea of
connecting and traveling across multiple
different fantasy worlds Sora Donald and
Goofy’s Adventures needed to be
rationalized with a bit of clever
writing and that is where Kingdom Hearts
gummy blocks come in made of an entirely
undefined substance and used to build
inter-dimensional spaceships gummy
blocks essentially serve as an
explanation for how Sora is able to
visit so many colorful locales the gummy
is a bizarre and unexpected mystery that
Kingdom Hearts doesn’t deign to
illuminate their game-related purpose is
made Fairly clear but what makes them so
strange is how vague all the other
details are despite sounding as though
they’d rot sora’s teeth faster than the
speed of light gummies are mostly
obtained during Kingdom Hearts tonally
dissonant space missions they’re also
randomly for sale in certain shops
around the franchise’s many worlds
making gummy blocks as mysterious as
they are useful exactly where they come
from and what they’re made of isn’t
clear but with out them Sora would float
away into the endless Chasm of space so
in that sense they certainly served
their purpose they also sound delicious
7. Dagger of Time Prince of Persia the
sands of time be honest who hasn’t
wished for the ability to control time
to those with a healthy imagination time
manipulation would come with endless
possibilities and when combined with
some totally sweet parkour skills might
just make you a Prince of Persia 2003
saw the Prince of Persia franchise
rebooted with Prince of Persia the sands
of time and with it came the
introduction of the imaginatively named
Dagger of time unsurprisingly the dagger
of time has the power to you guessed it
control time using magical sand you
might not have guessed the sand bit but
you know you get the point the same
magic sand has also created monsters you
know just to make sure that the dagger
part of the item gets some use too
though it may not be particularly
strange in the context of the game
itself the part hourglass part knife
Dagger of time is a pretty abstract
concept when you really think about it
keeping sand inside one’s weapon isn’t
really standard Behavior either making
the item more than a little bizarre in a
conceptual sense however it certainly
proves useful to the titular Prince
without it he’d never have managed to
navigate the otherwise impossible series
of traps and platforming puzzles he
encounters on his journey all in all the
magic sand knife does come in pretty
handy number 6. Mr Toots Red Faction
Armageddon Mr Toots the rainbow blasting
unicorn is one of the most notorious
elements of 2011’s Red Faction
Armageddon but no matter how many times
he makes an appearance the impression he
leaves remains untarnished as the game
consists of a pretty serious story
regarding an underground mining complex
on Mars the inclusion of Mr Toots serves
as a pretty big tonal departure this
makes him seem even stranger than he
already would have been after beating
the game players are able to make use of
Mr Toot’s highly destructive backside
equipped just like any of the game’s
standard weapons Mr Toots can be used to
shoot lethal rainbow beams at enemies
and the game environment wait where’s
the trigger on this oh my God are they
using his oh no Mr Toots Red Faction
Armageddon offers little to no
information on Mr Toot’s backstory so
exactly how he came to be in an
underground Martian Mining facility is
really anyone’s guess however regardless
of how utterly baffling his presence in
the game may be he’s certainly useful as
the force released from his lower
intestine can level small structures and
explode enemies into a puff of rainbows
and butterflies he’s cute he’s cuddly
and his Digest suggestive tract is
capable of producing lethal force not
unlike me after a Dominoes number five
mollusk launcher Saints Row the Third
for years the Saints Row Series has
reveled in pushing boundaries by
including as much Mayhem as possible
taking a third person action sandbox and
delighting in making it as vulgar as
possible Saints Row III combined
controversy and Chaos in equal measure
one of the game’s best or worst
depending on who you ask features is the
inclusion of items and set pieces
clearly designed to be as weird and
wonderful as possible perhaps the
strangest of these is the mollusk
launcher a weapon that fires
mind-controlling octopuses capable of
turning hostile NPCs into allies and hey
before you go running into the comments
octopuses are technically mollusks
apparently who knew the perks of being
able to alter the will of your enemies
really do speak for themselves making
the moles glass launcher a handy
addition to the Arsenal of Steel port’s
career criminal useful though it may be
it’s still an incredibly strange weapon
even by Saints Row’s standard
number four donor dog brain Fallout New
Vegas
ah Fallout New Vegas a game that
combines the tarnished Glitz of
apocalyptic Las Vegas with the
desolation of the irradiated Mojave
close your eyes and you can practically
taste the nuka-cola as you walk along
with a big iron on your hip and a a dog
brain in your pocket what the Fallout
series offers a fair few strange
surprises but is there anything more
off-putting than carting around a donor
dog brain during the nothing but a hound
dog Quest maybe but the fact that it’s
more than just a bizarre backpack filler
makes it all the more unpleasant even
though it’s entirely necessary the quest
in question is undertaken by the player
in order to save Rex the Cyber Hound’s
life and recruit him as a companion
carrying the brain is pretty odd but as
the only alternative is to not recruit
him at all it’s safe to say that every
single New Vegas player with a heart
resign themselves to harvesting the
organ and delivering it to Rex’s owner
the king it may have gathered a little
Mojave dust on the way but without it
how is Rex gonna know that he is in fact
a very good boy
number three fairy bottles The Legend of
Zelda The Legend of Zelda games arguably
make up one of the most iconic
franchises in all of gaming the
combination of fantasy action and
adventure is made all the Richer for the
series wealth of law and the depth of
its world there’s so much that makes the
Legend of Zelda unique but that also
means that every now and then things get
a little weird though the item may be a
staple of the franchise the fairy
bottles the protagonist link uses to
heal himself should be considered
strange at best they’ve been around for
enough time to no longer warrant too
much thought but on closer examination
they seem to prove Link’s capacity for
cruelty in The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule
fairies are sentient beings so link is
really imprisoning tiny people just to
exploit them for their abilities okay
the fairies don’t seem to mind all that
much and Link does set them free once
they’ve served their purpose but surely
the exploitation of fairy his magical
powers should be considered a huge
ethical issue the fact that link doesn’t
seem to concerned makes it even stranger
as does the idea that he’s directly
responsible for the unfair imprisonment
of countless fairies if nothing else it
certainly taints his heroic image a bit
doesn’t it number two pheromone Arrow
galgun it’s hard to separate all of the
elements of a game like gal gun or gal
asterisk gun if you want to get stylized
about this into what should be
considered normal and what should be
considered totally insane with the bass
line skewed so heavily towards
strangeness it’s easy enough to dismiss
the game’s pheromone arrows as more of
the same but they really are pretty
baffling playing as a young man shot
full of Cupid’s arrows galgon sees you
tasked with warding off the advances of
countless Love Struck school girls in
order to find true love how on Earth
does one go about doing this you ask
just get yourself a handful of pheromone
arrows and you’ll be all set to scare
away the people attracted to you finally
because I’ve had that issue for ages how
exactly such an arrow might work is not
something galgon explains but it’s
probably safe to assume that pheromones
play A Part this means that the arrows
most definitely smell bad making you
seem suddenly unattractive to everyone
around you it’s certainly a really weird
concept and though pheromone arrows
might only be useful in the context of
galgun’s story they undeniably have a
pretty clear purpose no matter how odd
they might seem and number one
crystallized demon orbs Devil May Cry if
you’ve never played Devil May Cry just
consider it resident Evil’s totally
radical cousin following Demon Hunter
Dante as he you know hunts demons the
franchise makes use of fast-paced combat
with lots of overly showy and impressive
techniques more offset Techniques plus
other abilities can be bought using
Devil May cry’s official currency
multi-colored demon orbs demon orbs
sound like a pretty standard video game
collectible by name but it’s the
franchise’s own explanation of their
nature that makes them so odd according
to Devil May Cry these differently
colored orbs are made from different
parts of demons various Essences red
ones for example come from Demon’s blood
white orbs consist of demons tears and
green contain crystallized fluids just
no one tell me what the yellow orbs are
okay I think I’d rather not know using
orbs made of various crystallized bits
of demon juice as currency is more than
just weird it’s utterly disgusting the
way that each color is used for a
different purpose somehow makes it worse
because it implies that Dante values
each discarded bodily fluid differently
the orbs may be useful for all manner of
things but knowing this about their
nature sure there’s no way we’ll ever be
using them again I don’t want to be
scraping Crusty Demon bits out of my
piggy bank thank you very much
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