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've been busy with games lately.
Rainbow Billy Curse of Leviathan
Taking cues from Spongebob, Undertale and the Cal Arts style, Rainbow Billy tasks Billy and his trusty fishing rod Rodrigo with restoring colours to the world using the power of positivity, not actually fighting anyone, borrowing heavily from Undertale's ground-breaking RPG style of mercy before violence, not a bad use of it and a little easier to implement.
B-Tier Game
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
The developers learnt from their mistakes from the previous game and made a much better dungeon crawler than last time, Turnip boy this time drawn into robbing a bank, continuing the same daft humour the franchise is known for.
A-Tier Game
Fight'n'Rage
And people say I don't play difficult games, Fight'n'Rage has you pick Gal, F.Norris or Riccardo to take on a host of anthropomorphic bad guys dressed as Street Fighter characters in a proper old skool side scrolling beat em up, how difficult is it? I have zero achievements at time of writing and there are 56 endings, but I still at least try because the game is worth playing.
B-Tier Game
Time for more off the wall gaming.
Soccer Story
Imagine if the sport of Soccer was controlled by a corrupt organisation that only allows you to play on their terms and deems everything else as illegal, that's the premise this soccer rpg has going for it, while the actual soccer mechanics are fine they don't translate into an RPG sense, the ironic thing is, upgrading your character makes it harder to complete the tasks in the over world as you can't control shot power and many of the tasks require pin point accuracy from a small space and there is way more non soccer content than actual soccer in this game
C-Tier Game
Lego 2K Drive
Having collaborated with Forza enough times, Lego tried their own hand at an open world racing game, except it really is no different to Forza Lego apart from the addition of boats and Lego's trademark, needlessly cheerful world, the game doesn't get hard until much later, you can drive awful and still pull off a win in most cases, my only real gripe with the game is to make the tracks smooth for racing you have to do a lawnmower mini game.
C-Tier Game
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
You just play a Turnip with no respect for anything spending plenty of moments in the game just breaking things and ripping up legal documents, it's very silly and self aware and functional as a solid adventure game. He robs a bank in the sequel.
B-Tier Game
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)
