I think a lot of what makes the game weird is the combination of fairly realistic characters with such obviously silly animation and gameplay. It's very counter

I think a lot of what makes the game weird is the combination of fairly realistic characters with such obviously silly animation and gameplay. It's very counter to expectations and makes the game feel very sterilized, if they had gone for something more weird and stylized (like Splatoon) it wouldn't seem strange. Also if they made a game about UN Peacekeepers shooting people and called it Peace-Keeping Elites it would still be pretty funny to a US audience. They they might be called Peacekeepers but if you made a game about them shooting people and called them that no one would miss the irony of that.