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.
Not done one of these for a while.
Henchman Story
You play as Stan, a villain henchman going through the day to day under Lord Bedlam and a needlessly happy supervisor named Dave, when a new villain named Madame Scorpion changes things up and makes Stan think he can be more than just a grunt, the visual novel has 12 endings and a story engaging enough to keep you switched on.
B-Tier Game
Amabilly
Amabilly is a classic Mario style game where you take out the various viruses in each level with your trusty guitar Jimi, the story implying that the girl you play as is in a coma and fighting her illness in her mind, the most unique trait is that the game's music is royalty free and has been heard in other games. Decent showing for a small studio.
C-Tier Game
Steel Racer
The same studio as Amabilly also made this game, while they can make a passable platforming, this racing game with Outrun and Top Gear elements is insultingly easy, not once did I have to restart a track, the physics being bare bones basic.
D-Tier Game
Time for a return to reality with today's episode.
Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends
A surprisingly cute little relaxing game where you free a town of a curse by making sushi for everyone as a little robot on wheels, apart from the Diner Dash gameplay being a little chaotic, it's easy to play and very charming.
A-Tier Game
Sunrise GP
A quaint little retro game set in the age of the iron curtain, Sunrise GP is a racing game with a solid game engine amongst janky collision physics and pointless features like colour palettes that don't work due to the retro aesthetic pretty much choosing your colour for you and a number of cars that apart from the Alpine are all shit, although it's not for me to judge late Soviet era auto manufacturing.
C-Tier Game
Roommates
A visual novel that actually plays like a proper visual novel, you play Max or Ann and have the choice to pair up with any one of four choices each with at least one of them being a gay option, you then go through a full college year in an attempt to get one of many endings based on your choices in various events while balancing your money and stamina, but once you play it once, the story ceases being interesting as you'll witness it another six times assuming you played as both characters.
C-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
