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.
Who says that this feature has to be just recent games, I've been gaming for decades and there are way more games that make you ask WTF am I Playing? All three are N64 titles and all fighting games.
Fighters Destiny
Fighters Destiny is unique in that you could pretty much finish each match with one attack, instead of traditional defeat you get scored on how you defeat your opponent whether it be throwdown, ringout, counter or special, perhaps the reason it didn't come back was that you could cheese the game with one move if you were skilled enough, it's fighting roster highlights include a French clown with a giant nose, a old master whose outfit and hairstyle sort of makes him look like a rapper and a fighting cow, the style may not be up to much but the music is fantastic.
B-Tier Game
Clayfighter 63 1/3
A Mortal Kombat game if it were entirely made of clay, clayfighter takes a variety of unique and now very offensive looking characters considering that at least two of them are a witch doctor and a kung fu guy with exaggerated accents and puts them in a fighting game, the game is janky, slow and disgusting in places, any wonder when you've got Sumo Santa and Boogerman who use farts as a fatality, Santa's one being particularly nasty.
D-Tier Game
Mace The Dark Age
I'm baffled why this didn't catch on, Soul Calibur was still at least a year or two off and Samurai Spirits was hardly going to fill the void, so why didn't Mace catch on? It had Mortal Kombat's team.
Might be because it's notoriously hard, the object is to obtain the Mace of Tanis by defeating Asmodeus (knowing what I know about Asmodeus in demon lore, this is a far cry compared to other versions) the cast includes the likes of Lord Deimos an overlord in fancy red armour and a large sword fighting against, samurai, vikings, sorceresses, ninja, monks, undead soldiers from the crusade and my personal favourites a dwarf in a wooden mecha and a chicken. Lots of fun even if the lore can be exhausting to follow.
A-Tier Game
So a mixed bag today.
Crazy Strike Bowling Ex
This was recommended to me by an xbox friend who described it as a Gamecube era game, a mixture of generic anime characters who look worse in game than in official art compete in competitive bowling, sometimes with power ups, the game becomes trivial when you equip the large bowling ball, in fact it's the first bowling game I've managed to get a perfect game.
C-Tier Game
Little Kitty Big City
You play a kitty who survived a drop from a top floor apartment and now has to find his way home, doing cat things while also doing random tasks for the local wildlife, insanely adorable if a little janky, it has a similar vibe to Untitled Goose Game.
B-Tier Game
Another Crabs Treasure
Kril the hermit crab is minding his own business when a loan shark steals his shell on the bull shit reason of paying taxes and now has to enter the trash filled ocean to get it back where the pollution is slowly making the ocean creatures insane, armed with a fork and any piece of trash for armour, he must hack and slash through this souls like adventure. The message here is very heavy handed, the game like all Souls like games is frustratingly difficult, luckily the developers realise this and has an assist option that allows you to carry a gun instead that one hit kills every enemy in the game, I'm pretty sure that defeats the object of playing the actual game even from an achievement hunting degenerate such as myself.
B-Tier Game (Would've been A-Tier if not for the broken assists)
Four this special, were talking about different takes on Tetris.
Settris
With music far too pop like with an aquarium like backdrop from the people who brought you cheap achievements, East Asiasoft comes Settris, a puzzle game where you are given select tetriminos to complete a jigsaw like puzzle, pretty easy, no puzzle ever felt too hard to complete.
C-Tier Game
Tetris 99
Off the back of the battle royale craze comes Tetris 99, as the name suggests, 99 players all play the same time with one left standing, brutally hard to win where the average opponent reacts faster than most normal people, the amount of focus required is exhausting and very draining especially if that elusive win never comes.
C-Tier Game
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Collaborating with Sega's own puzzle game Puyo Pop comes the colourful puzzle extravaganza that is Puyo Tetris, having played to near completion, the addictive puzzle games mix well with a very colourful cast of characters in a variety of modes to keep you entertained, Sega's magic touch is plain to see, even if at times it can be notoriously hard to complete the game.
A-Tier Game
Tetris Effect Connected
I honestly believe this to be the magnum opus of the franchise, a carnival of sound and visual masterpieces combine to give you the greatest Tetris experience ever witnessed, it's like watching Disney's Fantasia on a Star Wars budget.
S-Tier Game
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
