Review: Anime Girls - Wasteland Shootout (PS4 - PS5)

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Review: Anime Girls - Wasteland Shootout (PS4 - PS5)

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TRASHSTORM (EPISODE XLI)
SHOT OUT AND WASTED (TRASH-O-WEEN SPECIAL 2024 - PART II)



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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)


As promised and warned, here's the second part of this 2024 "Trash-o-ween" special.
Time to check Anime Girls: Wasteland Shootout by Maksym Vysochanskyy trading as "IndieGames3000".



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THE EARTH DIED,
AND IT WAS TO ENTER UPON
SILENCE TIMES...


The plot of this game might sound promising as you take the role of a girl who is in the "Wasteland Vixens" team fighting the undead in a post-apocalyptic world in their way to find a place called "Rainbow Sanctuary". Unfortunately, the premise, the game and your fucking hard-earned money goes all the way down the gutter once you start playing.



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Let this screenshot explain the whole game.

The gameplay of Anime Girls: Wasteland Shootout is an arena shooter in the style of Smash TV and Robotron 2084, so this might imply Twin-stick shooting, but guess what? Your girl fires automatically as soon as your enemy is within range, so its kinda like the same deal as Tank Frenzy; you only have to move and dodge fire. Also, the perspective is annoying for a vertical arena shooter since there's towers blocking your visibility in some of the levels. One of the things you'll notice is the use of RPG mechanics rather than the Run N' Gun/Arena Shooter basic premise of 1-hit to kill enemies as they need a few shots to take'em down. Sadly, the majority of enemies doesn't do the effort of fighting you back since they're thugs with bats or with a slow firing rate gun and they will attack you once they're in your firing radius. The idea of this game is to pick weapon cards and open treasure chests for money, but unlike gun-themed games where shooting opens the box, you have to get close to the treasure chest until it opens. At the end of the tenth part of the level, you'll be facing a boss, and they're extremely easy and predictable to fight. Being the first one a guy with a rifle that shoots a rebounding bullet and the second one a big guy shooting scattered grenades on a fire rate of 3.

¿Need to see this shit in action? Well, here it is: WATCH THIS CRAP



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The Pri¢e of Life!

You only have one life in this game and if you die, you'll have to start the level from the beginning unless you have the money to respawn. Yeah, as if it was some fucked up phone game, your spare lives require in-game currency, and yes, your lifebar depletes fast because it has "Turridamage" which means take 1 hit and if you take another one immediately you'll lose more life due to the lack of afterhit invincibility. Same as in Tank Frenzy and many, many, many, many, many indie games I've played before.

Since the game has levels that split into 10 stages each one, you might be thinking you're gonna go through a long campaign in order to survive and save the post-apocalyptic world, but guess what? The game repeats forever. World 3 is the same as World 1 up to the same enemies with their respective power levels and the same boss at the end, and to add more insult to injury the trophy progression is ridiculously simple: Just complete up to level 1-5 and you're done. You've conquered this fucking disaster of a videogame. As a product, the game defeated itself already.



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Just four weapons, nothing more.

While your initial weapon is the minigun, you have to obtain "Weapon Cards" to unlock the additional three of them. But here's the catch; their firing rates are terrible, making the Minigun the best and most effective weapon of the game. Pathetic? You bet, but that's what happens when you have no idea of how to make alternate weapons for your videogame. Even GunForce got that right. Speaking of weapons, remember the money you've got on the stages? You can use them to upgrade your weaponry and make it more powerful, being the Minigun the most efficient of all.



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Pick one of the three, they're all the same in status.

As you progress in the game each game will grant you "Star Points" which will unlock a new character after a certain amount of stars are reached, but as far as I noticed, the characters are all the same and they're just "cosmetic" rather than having unique status.



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Something's wrong here...

I've found a curious goof of this game. For some weird reason the girls have masculine names. ¿Crossdressers?, ¿We were tricked? No. The best explanation possible (my best theory about this) is that during its early development the game was intended to be a male-cast arena shooter but it was changed into an "anime girl" themed game to boost sales, but as we've noticed, the developer forgot to change the names while doing this rushed job. So, it might be possible that Akira is what the game wrongly calls "Jim".



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I saw better CGI anime girls in RWBY.

The graphics of this game are a mixed bag... a mixed bag of all kinds of trash. Your characters, which try to look Anime-like look more like cheap plastic figurines and both "Jim" and "Mike" look like simple headswaps of the same body model, and when they're holding the Minigun, their hands are in the wrong place, looking like a badly assembled CGI model. Speaking of CGI models, while the player characters look as the most detailed aspect of the game, their weapons are more "cartoonish" as they're not rendered to look as part of the character. The same goes for the enemy cast which is simply a bunch of white faceless guys in a crappy world where the decoration clashes with the rooms where everything is confined, it's "Pathetic" in all the expression of the word.



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AI Art has reached the game artwork scenery.

The character artwork in-game and in promotional art blatantly screams "AI ART" as the drawings have the typical imperfections that distinguish anime art done by artificial intelligence, being the anime-like eyes the most notorious, but in a weird twist of irony, it is the best part of the whole game. The audio department is pathetic. Starting off with a bored off-voiced actress telling you the plot of the game and her performance is worse than Eshiria's first lines in Raiden V, but that's only the beginning of the problems with this game at the point that this could be an "Early Warning" from this game before you get bewildered by the horrible gameplay and lame graphics. The music is a low note guitar riff trying to be action packed but it falls on the repetitivity, the same league as Allumer's early arcade titles. If you hated Rezon and Mad Shark's repetitive music, now you'll be appreciating them after playing this game.



ANIME FUN FACTS - WASTELAND CURIOSITIES


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Very "High-Tech" for an "anime girl in a wasteland" game.

(Click on the pic for full size)


- Along with the wrong character naming, the start up wallpaper is very high-tech, further implying its origins as an entirely different game.
- The CGI models of "Mike" and "Dustin" were recycled for Anime Girls Military Strike, a horrible first person shooter.




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An "Armageddonic Catastrophe" should be the right description AWACS Galaxy.

Anime Girls: Wasteland Shootout is just another addition to the ever-growing list of "Anything for a buck" where the developer doesn't care about the product quality. Inconsistent graphics, atrocious gameplay, repetitive music, notorious use of AI art (a theme of controversy nowadays) and easy-to-get and very few trophies are among the many failures within this game. If you want to play a shootout game with anime styled girls, a playthrough of Spidersaurs using Victoria would be a great idea.

Let met tell you right now, this Maksym guy made one of the WORST games for your PlayStation ever, he took the words "Anime Girls" and slapped it on its failed experiment waiting for some idiot otakus fell for it. Well, if this game is Anime Girls, then I'm the Bydo Empire.



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