Hi, I'm Dranzerstorm
Welcome to the Video Game & Music Lounge
This world is dedicated to Video Games and Music as I'll be showcasing the following.
Video Game Reviews set to the same tones as Retro Retrospective's Anime Reviews
Music reviews of Anime Openings & Closings
Western Cartoon music
Vocaloid Classics.
We may even have some Top Tens
I hope this World entertains you.
I had enough for a part two, so let's get going.
Panorama Cotton
Continuing the trend from previous games, Cotton goes after more willows to eat with her sexy fairy friend this time taking out an assailant that's burning the willows, the main difference is that were playing a super scaler rail shooter like Space Harrier, the blast processing showing impressive speed for a very busy game back in the 90s but not so much now, while easier to play than Cotton 100% it can feel like there's more chaos than ever, it'll be luck whether or not you survive a playthrough.
B-Tier Game
Gunbird 2
Seven warriors embark on a quest everything from vampires and witches to robots and gay samurai to Aladdin types and girl geniuses plus Morrigan Aensland if you own the Dreamcast version, they look to find three sacred treasures to create a potion to grant any wish, a classic style shooter in the genre with plenty of amusing moments but very limited on replay value beyond all the character and co-op endings.
A-Tier Game
Trouble Witches Neo
All the cute witches in the anime world cannot save this game from the worst, yet most hilariously bad English dialogue in gaming history, a bar already set quite low if you've been around the gaming community for a long time.
Is the game any good? yeah it's pretty good but that voice acting, my god.
B-Tier Game
The cute'em up is a sub genre of the shoot'em up, a style of game consisting of a spaceship, lots of enemies and endless shooting, where the cute part comes in, is the aesthetic of mostly cute anime girls but can just as easily fall into just cartoonish design, the sub genre taking it's roots from Konami's Twinbee and Sega's Fantasy Zone. We have three to show all come backs from previous generations.
Sister's Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire
As a spin off of Castle of Shikigami, this is the only title that you can honestly say is from this generation, you play one of five sisters who battle each other for the right to marry the player controlling them, if achievement ratios are anything to go by this is considered the easiest of the three titles to finish but that's not saying much as the genre is still infamous for being difficult by default.
C-Tier Game
Cotton 100%
I never realised how extensive this franchise is until I tried it recently, bribed into saving the world with the promise of candy called willows, Cotton the little witch and her sexy fairy sidekick fly into battle, the game already feels 30 years old and no amount of remaking is going to improve it but I do appreciate the 90s anime look and the fact that Cotton is about as heroic as Darkwing Duck.
B-Tier Game
Deathsmiles
Cute gothic girls fly into one of the most terrifying games in the entire genre, nightmarish Halloween music provides the tone for the literal bullet hell experience. You play any one of four girls taken from their own world to stop Jitterbug from summoning Tyrannosatan, the name says it all, you'll be smiling to death, be prepared for 999 death mode! Very few games are harder than this one.
S-Tier Game
We are going for a few wild choices today.
Tembo the Badass Elephant
Game Freak trying to prove they are more than just a one trick pony, tried their hand at the Sega style platformer Tembo the Badass Elephant. As a rambo like elephant you must free hostages and stop an evil army, fairly straight forward if a little bit strict with 100% completion.
B-Tier Game
Ravenlok
With graphics styled and pixelated in a way to give off the effect of stop motion, Ravenlok takes a girl that looks suspiciously like Coraline and brings her on a nightmarish Alice in Wonderland adventure, plays like a souls like but way too easy to be one. Ravenlok is a very stylish game.
A-Tier Game
Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse
In a world destroyed by Llamas, you pilot a mecha to take back the city eliminating all Llamas in the way, packed with puns and notoriously difficult, VALA will have you starting again constantly with no feeling of progress.
C-Tier Game
A few intriguing ones today.
Ben 10: Power Trip
Ben 10, the Zoomer version, not the OG version is on vacation in a non descript European city, so Germany then. The peace is interrupted by the most try hard emo looking wizard ever seen and now he has to save the world from monster invasions, for those who don't know, Ben 10 can take on the form of ten different aliens but the game only had the budget for six, and apparently not enough for a sound fx guy either as this game lacks any audio impact. Very basic open world collectathon with lame fighting.
D-Tier Game
Clockwork Aquario
Back in 1992, this game was meant to be the final arcade title from Westone developed on the aging Sega System 18 board, it was cancelled in a mostly complete state in 1993 due to poor consumer tests, in 2017, strictly limited games purchased the rights from Sega and brought it back to life with collaboration from ININ known for rebuilding other lost Sega games along with former Westone members, 28 Years, 81 Days starting from late 1992, Clockwork Aquario was released setting a new world record for development time.
You punch colourful creatures and throw them at other creatures, the gameplay is very reminiscent of Wario Land but far more anime esque. The game is short and a little erratic with difficulty, the story behind the game is more impressive than the actual game.
C-Tier Game
Figment: Journey into the Mind
Inside the mind of a car crash victim, you play Dusty who is minding his own business when nightmares steal his scrapbook prompting him into action alongside an optimistic bird called Piper, Dusty is the Mind's Courage and it's up to him to defeat the fears of Disease, Spiders and Loss to regain his scrapbook all while piecing together the events that led to these nightmares. A competent puzzle game up there with the likes of Psychonauts, a solid game that even includes musical numbers.
A-Tier Game
It's been a while so let's fix that with some new titles.
Bluey
Little known fact that Bluey is named after the worlds oldest dog who was also from Australia. The children's show that became the first choice for millennial parents now has her own game and is written like a four part episode of the show as best fictional Dad, Bandit finds a treasure map of a time capsule during a regular family playtime session, the game is clearly for young children as it barely qualifies as difficult but more than makes up with writing that adults can relate to such as the noisy toy you conveniently lost.
B-Tier Game
Lil Gator Game
If you've ever been the younger sibling in a family, this game is for you. A few years after visiting the park as a toddler with his older sister, Lil Gator returns as a ten year old with his now college aged sister in an effort to bring back the fun times of fantasy play, Lil Gator gathers new and old friends to make the ultimate quest which Lil Gator hopes to convince his sister to come play again. Another easy title that may as well be called baby's first Zelda as it plays and parodies the fantasy juggernaut as all your enemies are cardboard cutouts nor can you get damage from anything, the game itself is surprisingly solid, it's a good sign for children if games for them can be made this well.
A-Tier Game
Botany Manor
The term Gert Lush is going to be lost on my non British audience, set in 1890 at a country manor in Somerset, botanist Arabella sets out to grow several flowers all the while piecing together her story through puzzles in a very well made Country Manor, probably the nicest looking game in quite some time. Not much else to say, it's a first person puzzle game, their shelf life is painfully short.
A-Tier Game
