Vanilla Villain by YDS & Decadence by FLCL_Naota_Hina

Today I post two forgotten games, that are pretty short demos: both can be completed in 5-10 minutes and present a well mad urban modern setting with many edits and custom made animations. Both games are pretty stylish, come from two now defunct communities (GamingW in the first case, SodaRPG in the second). And both games start with an animated cutscene and end with the apologies from the developer for not completing the game... yet!

 

Vanilla is the protagonist, and at the beginning of the game she's driving her pink car while watching the news, when then her boss, a Panda, calls her... in the end our Vanilla has to blackmail the evil anti-porn antagonist to help her pandas bosses. 

 

 

Vanilla Villain is, like the next game, a sort of prologue of an adventure that was never made. To be honest Vanilla Villain is a little more interesting because besides the intro and the first exploration sequences it also offers a couple of shooting levels with a psychedelic background. Anyway everything is pretty easy and skippable. The nightclub map and Vanilla's house are both really well made.

 

Download Link

Rpgmaker.net 

Rmarchiv.de

 

Random Fact: in 2008 Sarevok presented the GamingW community a lucrative challenge: Create a game using these themes: "pandas, antagonists and a rag tag team." For incentives, Sarevok offered $450 worth of prizes for three lucky winners! One team took the opportunity and ran with it and created what you now see.

 

 

 

Decadence starts with an angel being punished for not following the orders, refusing to hurt the humans. Then the real game starts with a normal man, Chipp, a military officer in a futuristic city where a bomb exploded. Chipp leaves his house to investigate.

Once again we have a short prologue without combat, about what was supposed to be a mystery adventure. Decadence, unlike Harry, doesn't rely on custom graphics but includes lots of edits and custom made animations and sprites, and considering its shortness this is well detailed.

Download Link

Rmarchiv.de 

Oniromancie 

 

Random Fact: Decadence is a game in English created by a maker speaking in French the pseudonym of FLCL_Naota_Hina, ex-member of Dream-Square, deceased creation group managed by none other than Soda (aka. Pickles Lover) after the death of its site SodaRPG. This game created in 2002 was extremely promising although largely unknown to the majority of the community.

 

RMN Midsummer Dreams 2010 by YDS & AznChipmunk & Ocean

 

"RMN Midsummer Dreams 2010" was created by the community and directed by YummyDrumsticks with the help of AznChipmunk. 

 

In this episode, the RMN crew finds themselves partying away at the resort hotel Casa Del Sol. However, only a single person remembered about the celebration at the end of the holiday! The time is ticking and there is only one day to make the necessary preparations before the end of the day.

 

This game is a simple adventure game with no combat nor difficult puzzles, it's a rather simple lighthearted walking simulator or visual novel with a couple of fetch quests. The game also allows to create the alter ego, that will play and interact with the developer and many other personalities of the Rpgmaker.net site of that time. You may or may not enjoy the humor, that subjective, in any case it's a pretty nice game, with good mapping.

Download Link

Rpgmaker.net

Rmarchiv.de

 

Random Fact: this was actually the second entry of the RMN Celebration series that started with  RMN Christmas Card 2009, a Christmas game that will surely be posted here in december, of course!

 

Final Verdict: from the cute and funny introduction to the equally nice ending the game won't take you more than 15-20 minutes to complete, and I am one that check everything and talks with all characters. All of them! It's also a look to the past and to the Rmk.net world of ten years ago (meet all the legends like Kentona, Liberty, Ocean, Stangeluv, Darken, Solitayre, Max McGee, AznChipmunk, Calunio and many others, besides YDS of course!). Ok, nostalgia time!

Anyway, let's say I enjoyed this little short romp. The rating here is more for the value it had at the time, but even if not everyone may appreciate this kind of work, no one can deny that there are some cool parts in it and YDS always used the RefMap resources really well (it's maybe a cheesy game but that was clearly the aim of the project, it's a parody and sequence of gags that cannot be taken too seriously)! FUN and with a certain historical value too!