Its colourful cast of memorable characters is represented by lavishly designed 2D models. The first most outwardly exceptional thing you’re likely to notice about Dodgeball Academia is its extraordinarily phenomenal aesthetic. In-game Screenshot “Dod geball Academia delights itself upon the mundane facets of its extraordinary world.” Not only does it perfectly craft the ultimate Saturday morning cartoon, but it also allows the player to truly immerse themselves in it like no other media before it. That was, of course, until I played Dodgeball Academia, a game that excels where so many others have failed. It is a show both brilliantly bizarre and wacky as it is tearjerkingly saccharine. The only one that would spring to mind is the sports anime Inazuma Eleven. There are so few shows that spring to mind when thinking of the successful coalescing of two diametrically opposed facets of TV.
Successfully balancing the overtly cliché tropes of an overly enthusiastic children’s show with the heartfelt and grounding genuineness of a brilliantly charming drama has rarely been achieved. And it's not like there’s a dearth of great television to consume in this day and age – as such, Bloodshore doesn't exactly feel like time well spent.The endeavour one must go through in order to encapsulate the captivating appeal of a Saturday morning cartoon is likely arduous.
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Suffice it to say, it stretches suspension of disbelief to near breaking point, and the infrequency with which you're given decisions to make renders Bloodshore less a game, and more a low budget movie that's not particularly exciting. The central cast is almost exclusively comprised of unlikeable dickheads attention-seeking vloggers and influencers who are taking part in Kill/Stream in a bid to garner views on their social network feeds. Neither the script nor the performances are the main problem, however. Despite these choices being the crux of the game, they're actually unusually rare, and with some dodgy performances failing to engender much engagement, you might feel your attention span start to wane. In the middle of all this is washed-up actor and protagonist Nick Romeo, and Bloodshore plays out like a conventional FMV adventure, interrupting what is mostly a passive viewing experience with the odd binary decision. How it's got that far in the first place, we'll never know, nor is it ever explained, beyond being part of our oh-so human nature to be entertained by abhorrent things. Invariably, it doesn’t really succeed.Ĭhopped together with snippets of viewers watching the show, making ridiculous comments, or interviews expressing moral outrage at the creator of Kill/Stream and Alyn Corp, the evil corporation funding it, despite the show apparently being in its thirteenth season.
Bloodshore seemingly doesn't know what it wants to be, occasionally drifting into slapstick silliness before attempting to wring a modicum of drama out of the situation. Or the idiot who plummets to his death while parachuting to the island. Note a masked death row inmate who steps on a mine, exploding in a fountain of blood, before his mask hits the floor, followed by one of his eyeballs. Each time you start up the game, you're reminded that it's laced with “graphic depictions of violence, blood and death,” which are more comical and stupid than graphic.
Instead, we're presented with eight mostly unsympathetic souls, who've volunteered to take part in a show called 'Kill/Stream', presented by a manic host who revels in the wanton bloodshed. This is you: Nick, the washed-up actor with the good jawline.
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