Y-Type by Y-ZO (PlayStation 4|5)

[Sturmvogel Prime]

TRASHSTORM (EPISODE XLIV)
A NOT SO FUNNY TRASHMAS SPECIAL



TRASHSTORM IS NOT A REAL STORY.
IS NOT EVEN GOOD FICTION.
IS TRASH GAME REVIEWS.
ALL OF THE GAMES FEATURED WOULD CAUSE A PERSON DISAPPOINTMENT,
ANGER, FRUSTRATION, DEPRESSION, MONEY LOSS INCLUDED.
TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.

LIST OF PESTILENCE - THE TRASHSTORM SO FAR...

HALL OF INFAMY: THE WORST GAMES EVER Vol. I

Spoiler

I: EXIT TRASHFALL, WELCOME TRASHSTORM (POWER-DEAD BY BREAKTHROUGH GAMING) - (Nik & Kit's Math Quiz)
II: UNINSPIRED SPACE SHOOTOUTS - (X-Force Genesis)
III: NIGHTMARE DRIVING ON THE TRASH GAME ROAD - (Driverio)
IV: AGE OF DEVELOPER STUPIDITY - (Game Achievements "Stroke The Pet" Series)
V: TAKE THE TROPHIES, I DON'T WANT THEM! - (Rocketio)
VI: SUPERDISASTROUS SPACE SHOOTER SQUAD - (Super Rebellion)
VII: MYRON SAID "CRAPPY HOLIDAYS" - (Breakthrough Gaming: The Continents)
VIII: BREAK-TURD GAMING...AGAIN - (Project: Summer Ice - Pinball)
IX: DEEP SPACE ATROCITY - (Deep Space Anomaly)
X: ZAKYM'S DISASTROUS RETURN - (Rocketio 2 and 3)
XI: CRAPPER BOWL AND THE END OF BREAKTHROUGH GAMING - (Breakthrough Gaming's Football 2)
XII: ALPHA MORON - (Alpha Warrior by S-Mobile)
XIII: THE DEEP FREEZE - (SoulFrost by Xitilon)
XIV: WEBNETIC'S FIRST SHOOTER - (Space Defend by Webnetic)
XV: ONE BUTTON CATASTROPHE - (B Cannon by Xitilon)
XVI: CLASH FORCE? MORE LIKE TRASH FORCE! - (Clash Force)
XVII: TAURIAN MANURE - (Taurian Defense)
XVIII: INHUMAN ROAD: STINKING TURD LIGHTNING - (Thunder by Xitilon)
XIX: MORE XITILON TRASH - (S Lanes by Xitilon)
XX: TRASH-O-WEEN PRESENTS: CRAPPER-5 - (Hyper-5)
XXI: RED-CRAP-TOR - (RedRaptor)
XXII: FROM MEDIOCRE TO "X-CREMENT" - (X-Force Under Attack)
XXIII: CONSEQUENCE OF STUPIDITY - (Danjigoku)
XXIV: IF IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, IT'S EXTINCT - (Arcade Archives: Dinorex)
XXV: NEPHENTHEOSIC EUTHANASIA - (Nephenthesys)
XXVI: MESSED UP SHMOUPPING - (Shmoup by Phoenix Reborn Games)
XXVII: WAR AGAINST BLOCKS. AS STUPID AS IT SOUNDS - (Shooting Blocks by Webnetic)
XXVIII: (UN)HOLY WEEK SPECIAL - (Galactic Invasion by Pix Arts)
XXIX: DISADVENTURE IN VENARIS - (Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris)
XXX: THE OBSCENE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY - (Aabs Animals)

HALL OF INFAMY: THE WORST GAMES EVER Vol. II

Spoiler

XXXI: FECAL RAIDERS - (Space Raiders by Alexander Carparelli)
XXXII: STUPIDITY HAS NO LIMITS - (Hoodie Survivor by The Voices Games)
XXXIII: LEARN HOW (NOT) TO BE STUPID - (Learn to Play Vol. 2 - A Simple Shooter)
XXXIV: INVASION OF STUPIDITY - (Soraja Invaders)
XXXV: PAC-DISASTER - (Paku Paku)
XXXVI: THE GREAT STUPID RACE - (Learn to Play Vol. 4 - Happy Racer)
XXXVII: SEE-LA, CILLA! - (Cilla)
XXXVIII: DUMPED MIRAGE - (Cosmic Mirage)
XXXIX: TINY STARFIGHTERS, GREAT DISGRACES - (Tiny Starfighters)
XL: A BAD FRENZY (TRASH-O-WEEN SPECIAL 2024 - PART I) - (Tank Frenzy)
XLI: SHOT OUT AND WASTED (TRASH-O-WEEN SPECIAL 2024 - PART II) - (Anime Girls: Wasteland Shootout)
XLII: YOUR AVERAGE TRASH-O-WEEN REVIEW (TRASH-O-WEEN SPECIAL 2024 - PART III) - (Your Average Old School Shmup)
XLIII: A GLITCHED AND BLASTED TRASH-GIVING SPECIAL - (Glitch Blaster's Waifu)

Twas the night before Trashmas.
When all through the house.
Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse.
Trash games were hung by the chimney with care.
In hopes that game reviewers soon...would...be...there...



You made it through Trash-O-Ween and escaped Trash-Giving. Now try and survive Trashmas once more.
SILENT NIGHT, TRASH GAME NIGHT III: BETTER WATCH OUT!


Oh, fuck. More trash shooting in my way.
It's "Trashmas", when the worst of Christmas in videogames hits you in the face and it looks like gaming is treating me like the bad kid that gets coal in his Christmas socks.
Y-ZO is back, and this time is with the shmup with the "Oh-I'm-so-creative" named Y-Type.

The first thing we will notice is that the sound doesn't come from the TV, but from the PlayStation controller. Yeah, even for a low budget shitty game, this is an anomaly because they try to dodge any ambitious idea when they work on the cheap. However, this is only for the menus.




Blast off and strike the evil Bullshit Gaming.


Y-Type, also known as A Bibelot: Y-Type is as you can see, an horizontal shooter which like many "Do-it-Cheap" indie developers go to the simplistic instead of doing an effort with that few things they've gathered (think Spacewing War for example which looked like a Gameboy game). Your ship ony has one weapon; a rapid firing vulcan which fortunately, can be powered up increasing its strength and firing rate. You can also aim up or down granting you a slight advantage against enemies above and below you.
You are granted the option of selecting your starting difficulty: Easy, Normal and Hard. The difference between them is the staring firing rate of your ship and the damage dealt to the enemies. Regardless of the difficulty, you are given 4 Hearts of life in pure Legend of Zelda style. Lose them all and its game over and you have to start all over since the game lacks of spare lives or continues. One thing that I noticed throughout the gameplay is the massive enemy spamming in the later levels. This wouldn't be a problem if you had a charge shot to take a row of enemies or a screen clearing bomb, but even with a fast firing rate machine gun, you'll be missing enemies since their numbers are higher than your weapon offensive capabilities.




Is that a rejected Final Fantasy character?

Boss battles are extremely easy. Despite having frontal shields, all you have to do is to shoot up to damage it and when I say "Damage it" you will because depending on the difficulty, you might be taking a large chunk of its health or even kill it (on Easy). The most "dangerous" of the bosses is the one on Stage 3 as it tries to ram you. The others are just the "stay on the right and firing against you" while moving up and down.




CONGLATURATION!
YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT GAME
AND YOU ARE SPLENDED SPRERRIOUR CONSPCUOUS
AND PERSISTING PLAYER!

You saw the game, it sucked. Well, it's the same for the ending, a bad screen that makes your efforts worth absolutely nothing. Except for a few trophies, and believe it or not, you have to play the game 21 times to get the "21 Types" and a total of 77 to unlock the "77" trophy for killing the same boss 77 times. Now that's some videogame hell.




Stay where you are.
There's more of this trash game coming up.

Well, fuck. I didn't expected to see bonus contents on a trash game, especially from a Y-ZO game.




At least you're just facing the bosses.

After clearing the game, you'll unlock the Boss Rush mode which is you against all the bosses of the game. Like the normal game, if you die once its game over since there's no spare lives or continues. Also, you can decide if you want to play it on Easy, Normal or Hard.




You've gotta be kidding me...

Is this game shitting me? There's still more?
Hard to believe but this game REALLY wants you to stay.




Pretty much the same as the regular game.

The final unlockable is the Endless mode which is to see how far you can go in the game, but the objective is to at least clear the 7th level and then you can die, ending the run in "You Won!" and obtain the "Put an end to the infinite" trophy. Like the previous two modes. You can select which difficulty you want to play.



Finally.

Glad to hear those words, Nina.
Now I can finally uninstall this game after wasting my time and getting 44 PlayStation trophies for two bucks.

Visually, the game is eye torture. As if the bad use of monochrome graphics wasn't Do-it-Cheap already, add a horrible screen filter and a horrible "sphere" distortion filter "for the sake of nostalgia" and what we actually got is a fucked up mess that makes the game nearly unplayable because the distortion parameters used were way too much, even for retro TV standards (As a former Sony Trinitron owner I'm telling ya the truth). While the choice of colors are evocative of the Gameboy, it goes all the way down to the trash with the filters. To be fair, it is worth of praise that Y-ZO at least decided to do a little parallax scrolling which looks nice, proving these guys have what it takes to make a game, they only need to make a greater effort if they want to bring some quality to the game. The sprites are also unrecognizable as well, most of the time you'll be asking "What the hell was that enemy"? Being the eye enemy on the last level the only thing we can recognize. In a pure display of laziness, the boss psprites are way too overpixelated, thus its an absolute zero in graphics. The scenery is ridiculously repetitive. The same asteroid/moon surface and the Earth on the distance.

You know what's the dumbest thing about this? The music department. Instead of giving each stage a song, the idiots behind this game decided to give an unique theme for each difficulty level. Easy is a calm yet somewhat somber drumming, muffled with a filter of course to sound "videogame-ish", Normal gets an Ambient-Synthwave style music and Hard gets a badly muffled electronic pace that feels like a "Cheetahmen wannabe". Whatever the case, the music lasts for a few minutes, it stops and then repeats in the style of the early CD-Rom games that readed the music like a music CD track with the "LOOP" option toggled on.



Y-FACTS

- The name is obviously a pun to R-Type.
- The eye enemies might be or not a reference to Lar from the Aero Fighters series.
- If you take a look to the Earth in the background you'll notice that Europe is gone.



No...comment...about it.

The list of trash shooters keeps growing non-stop and Y-Type just contributes to that. I feel sorry for all the people who paid 2 bucks and 80 fucking cents for this pile of shit. I think you should thank me for suffering the torments of trash gaming so you don't have to.
Since game delistings are common in this digital era (God rest Triggerheart Exelica on XBOX), I can guarantee no one will give a fuck when Y-Type gets delisted. Yeah, this game is just that bad and its demise will be as if the world told him "Welcome to gaming's graveyard. Enjoy your stay".


In the Brand new "R-Score", gets 1 R-9 out of 10:


The fucking scales exploded!
It's a disaster in all the meanings of the word!