Typo, artist, somewhat fluffy
‘Ello, ‘Ello, Hola! Ciao and Bonjour! It’s time for the Iono Zone2023-10-28 Update! This is actually two updates as I skipped over the last one as it was only two tracks.
The full collection is here, with relevant credits and folder structure.
Update only tracks are here.
Changelog in the archive and below:
I meant to do this sooner ‘cus I beat it on the 4th of December! Oh no I forgot! I actually don’t have too much to say really as it’s a quick snappy game!
The music was excellent, because of how short a loop was (success or fail) it didn’t feel like it was dragging on and combat was generally so snappy that it felt like you really had a lot of momentum going forward.
The way the OST was composed makes it really hard for me to go “yes this track”, and that’s a good thing! The music is clearly composed (and is evident from the OST with every battle track having an (Intro) track) so that you can on the fly swap between the tracks without a jarring interruption to the music, to the map, to a battle, to the map, to an event, to the map, and so on. But to make sure I pick a track and not go “All :)”, Self-Defense.
The story is simple, but honestly only once you’ve got it all, otherwise it is a ~mystery~. Which is great I love that. All the characters really stuck with me and even made me a little teary eyed at the end, what the heck how’d they do that to me!? Oh right it was mostly Riggs and Books.
That’s it! I put 35 hours in to it and if I say much more about it it’ll be spoilers! Books is already a spoiler but they’re too lovely not to have here, look at them breaking the fourth wall slightly and leaning on their character frame! Go play it if you like deck-builders, or rad soundtracks, or a possum who is just Hashtag Mood (that’s Riggs)
Oops it’s a game I beat (and it’s absolutely just a beat, not a complete…) and forgot to make any posts for (I beat it on the 12th of October)! Oh boy!
This is a really fun shmup, but man can it be tough! On the upside though it has a really lenient system to play it with a stage select and a fairly unique continues system. I absolutely cannot 1cc this though (though I feel like I got really close to 1cc-ing the first loop) haha… The power ups you can take do well to make the game play more how you want it to and boy did I land on a specific load-out (Type-C, Side, Charge, Drill) that honestly I struggled to play with the other options, oops!
The music in this game though is fantastic. Like ignoring that if you throw a growly synth at me I’ll go 👀, and the entire OST has that semi-FM synth feel semi-more modern instrumentalisation. It May Be Greenish is a fantastic opening stage theme, and not to compare it to another game, hits similar opening stage vibes that ZUN often does with his work (it’s probably the way the piano dances along the track) and given how shamefully long it took me to realise there’s a stage select, I heard it a lot :’D
The other tracks that really stand out to me are in sequence: Menacing, Descent At Last (two tracks separate tracks, but this vid has ’em paired and frankly that’s the best way to listen to them), and Despair. Like they’re spoilers as to what they play for but GOD DAMN they are all tied perfectly with where they play. And yes Despair absolutely has a vibe of a composition by ZUN again, which is probably deliberate 😛
If you aren’t late to the party like me and enjoy shmups, you absolutely need to at least give the demo a play!
EDIT 2024-04-21 – And now I’ve actually completed it
🔞 Adult Ref under the cut 🔞
So DO’s old reference is from 2018. My artistic ability has improved, and also I Gender’d (well technically, I ungender’d) so here we are, new reference.
That I’ve been trying to do since March. I may or may not have mentioned that the Ferris reference was meant to be DO’s so… we’re here finally.
I don’t plan on doing another reference for a while now but I’m glad it’s done, it needed that update.
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🔞 Adult Ref under the cut 🔞
Fun fact: Back in the late 00s/early 10s I genuinely considered actually being a rubber dragon but lets just say I got creeped on and went “NOPE”
Well I’m a decade older now and who gives a fuck? Not me anymore, I draw squeaky things with dicks for a living sometimes now :B
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Continue reading “DarkOverord Occassus – Rubber Dragon Reference”
Based on Lucian/VampBird’s prompt list https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53857792/
You can still trust those eyes 🙂
Yes I know exactly what I’ve done here
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Haven’t decided if I’ll do the full month but I had a clear idea on this :3c
Based on HyenaFace’s prompt list
You can always trust two glowing eyes, and some wisps, in the dark 🙂
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🔞 NSFW image under the cut 🔞
Fun fact: This was originally intended to be DarkOverord Occassus’ reference! But I was struggling so I just went “Screw it, bat time” so you get BAT FACTS!
This image is bigger than it needed to be ‘cus Wing Big.
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Decided to revisit this pic from HypNovember 21 as I wanted to test out a new colouring method.
Technically nothing should appear any different, even if I was fighting my own instincts on it, but hopefully it doesn’t look different ‘cus it’s technically half the time >_>;
On the plus-side, I’ve always enjoyed this image!
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