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.
The picture below is my main car in a racing game called Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, at time of writing yesterday, I was asked to join the unofficial pro league, but I turned them down.
There are many reasons why.
1. I play xbox and most players at that level are either PC or PlayStation.
2. As a UK player, time zones are a big issue.
3. As a full time worker, I refuse to give up my Sundays.
4. To stay that consistent is draining.
5. It will make me hate the game.
And finally 6. Elite players are arse holes.
The guy who tried to recruit me over sold the idea as well, putting me off, in fact its exactly like Smogen is for Pokemon.
A bunch of ever changing rules that only ever benefit those who are organizing it, groups like Smogen is one of the reasons why I retired from Pokemon (there are a couple of other reasons)
Hot Wheels Unleashed is the only game I own that I'm good enough to be pro and it kinda sucks sometimes whenever I try and race someone, they take one look at my gamertag and leave, I'm good but I'm human, I make mistakes, you will not get the same driver every race.
Gaming especially at my age is a hobby, if it stops being that, I'll retire for good.
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
Today we look at handheld titles.
The Rub Rabbits
Sega were pretty experimental during the DS era, more so when Sonic Team were involved, so during the time where Sonic was finding it's late 00s audience following the Sonic 06 fallout, Sonic Team made a bizarre dating game for DS called Rub Rabbits, unlike most dating games, in Rub Rabbits you have to constantly flirt and save the girl you are dating by using your stylus in mini games, rubbing if you will, the actual Rub Rabbits are your wingmen, it's a bizarre game but unintentionally hilarious.
B-Tier Game
Bubble Ghost
The Gameboy was a surprisingly versatile console even during it's early brick shape era but very few games could be considered that hard, even Megaman feels easier, enter Bubble Ghost, a puzzle game where you blow a bubble through increasingly difficult mazes, it's legacy as a speedrun classic has kept it alive, long after the Gameboy and DS family had been retired.
B-Tier Game
Pokemon Red and Blue
You'd think this game would be an easy S-Tier but rose tinted lenses are pretty common among my age group but having stuck with Pokemon up until today, going back to play the original is really rough as red and blue is a glitch filled mess, stuff like the Missingno trick, the Mew trick, catching safari pokemon outside the park and positioning yourself in certain pixels to trigger completion without even leaving Pallet Town are just a few of the glitches you can trigger in the average playthrough, even the mechanics allow you to cheese the game with just one Pokemon.
Back then it was revolutionary but now it's unplayable.
D-Tier Game
