I miss when games were sillier while still challenging like this; I think the style of outlandish humor and nonsensical plots in Warship Gunner 2's SPECIAL missions was a bit of Japanese taste, as Japanese game shows and comedy shows like Takashi's Castle, and light anime like Go! Go! Loser Ranger! remind me of it a lot. It's different from Western Cartoons like Codename: Kids Next Door, somehow.
Those games were also different from silly but challenging games of today...sometimes they're okay, but R.E.P.O. and Lethal Company also don't feel the same. I think it's because they're meant to play with friends, and the games I miss were singleplayer, so the story and world had to be unhinged enough. Ratchet & Clank and other classic platformers were good too.