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A delicious, delirious piece of PlayStation history has been awarded greater access. As spotted by BlueSky user @nightelectricity, the obscure, Japan-only PS1 release Suzuki Bakuhatsu receives a full English translation courtesy of the dothacktranslate team.
Released on PlayStation back in 2000, and published by Square Enix, no less, Suzuki Bakuhatsu is a bizarre puzzler telling the tale of a young girl - the titular Suzuki-san - whose day is interrupted by endless explosive encounters.
As she attempts to go about her daily routine, Suzuki-san (Rin Onizawa) is forced to defuse a constant series of bombs hidden within the environment - from an orange and a cassette player to a gun, a bento box, a railway crossing, and An Actual Woman. The plot (such as it exists) continues on this trajectory until our steely-nerved star is defusing devices in giant mech suits and even on the Moon!
Designed by former Capcom artist Kouichi Yotsui, Suzuki Bakuhatsu tells its wild tale via a series of photographs, with the player taking over the action for the defusals themselves, presented as 3D logic puzzles. With a small selection of tools - and hopefully a steady hand - the player must delicately disassemble each device, avoiding its triggers and deactivating the units within the given time limit.
Succeed and the day is saved; fail, and I'm afraid that bento box is gone for good, among migraine-inducing imagery and looped screaming. Fever dreams in motion. Suzuki Bakuhatsu even takes time out mid-game for an FMV music video. Sure, why not?
Suzuki Bakuhatsu is one of those esoteric PlayStation titles that, for localisation reasons or otherwise, fell between the cracks of history - file alongside outliers such as Capcom's FMV adventure Fox Hunt, or Human's Twin Peaks-inspired Mizurrna Falls. These are prime examples of the wildly unique nature of '90s game design, when publishers would be willing to take a shot at almost any concept.
Did it always work out? No, of course not. But for every entirely unplayable oddity, you got a PaRappa the Rapper, an Intelligent Cube, or an Incredible Crisis. Unsurprisingly, Yotsui would later find work as a puzzle designer for the equally death-defying Zero Escape series.
dothacktranslite's localisation file translates Suzuki Bakuhatsu's menu and in-game text to English, while adding subtitles to the in-game dialogue and cutscenes. If you've ever fancied yourself as a puzzle game aficionado, a bomb disposal expert, or a panicking Japanese woman, Suzuki Bakuhatsu is here to scratch all three itches.
Just don't touch the blue wire.