With Namco’s new still-buzzing import oddity Muscle March having just been released to WiiWare in Japan, the first full gameplay video has just been ripped from Nico Nico Douga to YouTube, shown above.

It’s basically exactly what you were expecting (and, with the later-stage posing fakeouts, actually looks fairly challenging), and is all the more glorious for it.

Muscle March [Namco]

Videogames are brilliant, aren’t they? Namco brings a port of its original arcade game Muscle March to WiiWare in Japan on May 26th. The premise? If it’s not abundantly clear above: after a pro football player steals the all-important protein powder, it’s up to March‘s rippled stars to strike the pose of the wall-smasher in front of you to keep the march moving and bring the thief to justice.

The downside: there but for the grace of Namco do we ever see this leave Japan, and the various regions’ WiiWare channels are hard-locked to each piece of hardware. Namco, if anyone’s reading: of course we do want this. It worked for Katamari, right? And even partners-in-fitness Cho Aniki earned itself a Virtual Console release. Let’s see what we can do.

Muscle March [Namco, thanks to Kotaku for the original video]