Tao is so strange, so inexplicably weird, and almost completely unknown and undocumented that it is legitimately mysterious. It’s not genre defying like Capcom’s cult hit Sweet Home, nor is it as bad as Hoshi wo Miru Hito, nor as genuinely good as Lagrange Point. As far as 8-bit JRPGs go, Tao is mediocre, sometimes frustrating and obtuse. But there’s something special about it. It is a mythic piece of unexplainable software, as weird as something like Monster Party.