Nintendo Insanity

Nintendo Insanity is an M-rated video game series, spin-off of various Nintendo games.
The point is, the player plays as well-intentioned yet insane criminals (often living at the very edge of society) who are fans of Nintendo games and use them as escapism. What makes the series different from a standard crime drama like Yakuza is the massive camp flashiness due to the fact that those criminals compare reality to a specific Nintendo series, causing each game to play like said series.
Despite the name, those games are not Nintendo console exclusives, but are multiplatform in order to show that they're not real Nintendo games. They're also set in the real world, more often than not in Italy. 
Heroes from Nintendo Insanity are usually not silent, unlike the Nintendo heroes that they compare themselves to (this is possibly because at least Annalisa Miyawaki and Fumio Freda's games put huge emphasis on their insanity and the personal struggles that led to it), and are eventually written into the Nintendo canon as "things outside context", appearing in the Super Smash Bros series too.
While the first two have a loose sense of continuity and focus on the insanity angle, from Super Mario Insanity onward the games become more serious crime dramas like Yakuza. 
== Games ==
* Pokémon Insanity - Italy is Not Unova: Its main theme is "vigilantism", its gameplay is a Pokémon-esque turn-based RPG, and it stars Annalisa Miyawaki acting as a violent investigator against crimes throughout Italy while killing criminals and seeking revenge against the Ndrangheta.
* Zelda Insanity - The Last White: Its main theme is "white supremacism", its gameplay is action-oriented open world a la Breath of the Wild, and it stars Fumio Freda coping with depression by thinking he's a hero fighting to protect Italy and the glory of its civilization from being replaced as he slays Antifa, immigrant criminals and supporters of globalization who he think work for "Ganondorf the Jew" as a coping mechanism for his depression and feeling of worthlessness.
* Super Mario Insanity - Magic Mushroom Mania: its main theme is "drugs", it stars a drug-addicted high school student named Mario Onorati dealing in drugs and committing various crimes for the sake of helping his poor family. 
* Star Fox Insanity - Wings of the Devil: its main theme is "plane hijacking", it stars Jason McCloud, a former war veteran with PTSD who hijacked a plane and has now gone AWOL. 
* Kirby Insanity - Appetite for Destruction: Its main theme is "hunger". The protagonist is Kirby Adetokumbo, a child living in a country suffering from a famine, fighting to stop the black market of food and help his people.
== Trivia ==
* Each protagonist contrasts with the one in the sequels:
** Annalisa Miyawaki is a bisexual (gravitating more toward girls) otaku vigilante from Milan who has a lot of friends at a maid café, kills criminals such as pedophiles, fascists, rapists and anything else just for fun, and has a score to settle against the mafia organization Ndrangheta for what a Ndrangheta boss did to her mom.
** Fumio Freda considers himself proud to be "the last heterosexual white man standing against Ganondorf", lives in a normal family (normal... except his grandfather is notorious neo-Nazi Franco Freda), is a depressed shut-in with no friends, and considers it a duty to kill (for the glory of Europe, but deep down he does because he wants to stop being worthless), has been in jail for a homophobic attack, and targets Antifa, racial minorities, LGBT, influencer figures and people working in the showbiz who support globalization regardless of what they did, thinking he's at war. 
** Mario Onorati is much less interested in racial topics. He's just a drug-addicted teenager from Rome taking part in crime (and especially drugs dealing) to help his family and pay his own studies. 
** Jason McCloud is an American deserter with PTSD.
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