Mojib-Ribbon, a spinoff of Vib-Ribbon, one of the few spinoffs that I enjoyed more than the OG game
(Sorry if English is bad, I'm an Indian🇮🇳, so it isn't my first language. TLDR at the end)
I'm sure the majority of you never heard of this game. Ever. Probably because it's a japanese exclusive game. Well, more of you might have heard of PaRappa the Rapper, right? No?! Then surely you've heard of FNF...?
From what I know, the inspiration to FNF was PaRappa the Rapper, developed by Rodney Alan Greenblat and Masaya Matsuura; Nana-On-Sha. Masaya Matsuura made another game, Vib-Ribbon, and made a spin-off in 2003, named Mojib-Ribbon, which I want to introduce to you today.
First of all, 'Moji' means "Letter/Character" in Japanese, the language this game exclusively used. The main character (Mojibri)'s face is even a "(.t x t )" with a mouth, being surprisingly expressive... This is because the game is based on text. As you could input custom songs in Vib-Ribbon and custom images in it's direct sequel Vib-Ripple, in this game, you can input custom text, or raps.... custom letters. It was for the PS2, only in Japan, now avaliable to play through emulation.
The game only uses 1 button, or control, the analog stick. You have to flick down the analog stick to write stylish letters. If you hold the stick up too long, the letters become blurry and bleed through the paper, and if you don't hold it up at all the letters become scratchy and faint. If you leave it on the page even after the sentence is over, the last letter becomes a blot.
About the characters.. They're all adorable!!! The main character is Mojibri, who's this... ink creature(?) born from a mistake of the gods. The god spilt ink on a page and created an ink blot, from which he was born.
There are 2 other characters, Mojiko, like a female ink creature similar to Mojibri, and a giant volcano robot named Osorezan 1999 (after the real life Mount Osore) They all have different forms depending on how good you're doing in the game. I like Mojiko the best
I played this game via emulator on my PC, and I see many people who haven't ever tried it hate on it only because it's a spin off of Vib-Ribbon. The songs are lovely even if I don't understand a word.. I rely on the youtube translations to understand them. If you want something different and don't mind the language barrier, you can try this game. I really enjoyed it and got a few japanese words from it. (Also, apparently Mojiko is also a place in Japan, so..)
So far my favorite part of this game is the fail cutscenes. I couldn't put them in here because you can't put images and videos in Reddit but heres a link to all of them: https://youtu.be/Gmg\_gF\_B6mg?si=\_oBH-gTh-5dhih4J
(Sorry for writing an essay, heres the TLDR: "funny japanese rap and writing game with silly characters made by the people who did parappa the rappa")