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For Games Ranked 10–9
Unranked.
Fruity Quest
by
DarkLordCale
Release Type:
Unofficial Entry
Fuzzy Description:
A badly drawn boy is looking for his flip-phone and somehow embarks on a quest through a Sim City style town to stir up trouble or something political or something fruity. Makes fun of George W. Bush for some reason.
Basically incoherent.
Average Score:
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
4
Lowest Rating:
1
Achievements
Achievement
Time Capsule
-Refers to the obvious delay in release, as this game was most likely made before 2005.
Achievement
Ultra Throwback
-The earliest OHR games were a hodgepodge of chaotic characters, map design, and textboxes that crammed multiple speakers into a single enclosure, which this game does all three.
Achievement
2001 Is Calling
-Similar to the previous achievement, but with the added cellphone reference, which the game talks about.
Audience Consensus:
Story and game design make the game seem too much like a forgotten title found on the author’s hard drive 11 years later and subsequently released.
10.
Dark Planet
by
Ichiro
Release Type:
Original Release
Fuzzy Description:
150 years in the future, man will visit a planet where darkness permeates the land and beetles infest power stations. Thankfully, the new recruit to the Special Division, guardians of the dark planet, can take care of these problems, as soon as he consults his PDA.
Well, he could if there was more to the game.
Average Score:
(Two-thirds Rule in Effect)
Raw Score: 2.0
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
3
Lowest Rating:
1
Achievements
Achievement
Short and Nearly Sweet
-This game clocks in well under the required 30 minutes of gameplay, leaving much to be desired on all fronts. But what’s there is promising.
Achievement
Menu Madness
-It seems most of the game’s design time went to developing the perfect menu system.
Achievement
Unfinished Business
-The hero’s first quest doesn’t actually exist yet.
Achievement
Below the Knees Champion
-No vote for Dark Planet reached the middle third barrier (any score greater than 3). This is worse than James Doppler’s (2014) “Below the Belt Champion.”
Audience Consensus:
Solid design and promising graphics create a strong introduction to a game that ultimately lacks depth or substance. Misses the mark for now. Doesn’t even clock in at the required 30 minutes of gameplay. Should’ve been released later, whenever it gets more content.
9.
Grapnes 2: Kepnalcide
by
Taco Bot
Release Type:
Original Release
Fuzzy Description:
As a child, a sentient blue rectangle witnesses his father’s murder at the “hands?” of a rival red rectangle army, called Kepnals, hence the title, and in his angered sadness vows to seek revenge. Then he gets captured, escapes his prison camp a good ten years later, and decides to fight unrelated opponents instead of Kepnals, using the power of…
multicolored blueberries?…
and the funk.
Average Score:
(Two-thirds Rule in Effect)
Raw Score: 3.5
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
4
Lowest Rating:
2
Achievements
Achievement
Play that Funky Music
-In spite of the game having ugly graphics and design choices, the soundtrack is perhaps the catchiest of the 2016 Heart of the OHR lineup.
Achievement
Shiny Quarter
-The introduction suggests one main quest, but the game itself takes us on another unrelated quest.
Achievement
Below the Belt Champion
-No vote for Grapnes 2: Kepnalcide reached the midpoint barrier (any score greater than 4). Note: There is usually a game that receives “Waist Level Champion,” which caps at 5, but not this year.
Achievement
In Defiance of Logic
-Blueberries aren’t multicolored. Why are they here?
Achievement
The Unhelpful Grind
-Random battles are too few and far between to properly level-up for the upcoming boss battles.
Achievement
The Forgettable Unforgettable Title Award
-The most unusual title of the contest, yet it’s so unusual that it’s hard to remember it.
Achievement
The Real Fruity Quest
-Again, blueberries.
Achievement
Winner of the Prestigious WTF Award
-With the exception of 2010, every Heart of the OHR somebody wins this award. It’s given to whichever entry is the oddest of the bunch. Previous winners include AR-PUH-GUH (2012) and T4R4D1DDL3 (2014).
Achievement
Play that Funky Music
-In spite of the game having ugly graphics and design choices, the soundtrack is perhaps the catchiest of the 2016 Heart of the OHR lineup.
Achievement
In Defiance of Logic
-Blueberries aren’t multicolored. Why are they here?
Achievement
The Forgettable Unforgettable Title Award
-The most unusual title of the contest, yet it’s so unusual that it’s hard to remember it.
Achievement
Shiny Quarter
-The introduction suggests one main quest, but the game itself takes us on another unrelated quest.
Achievement
The Unhelpful Grind
-Random battles are too few and far between to properly level-up for the upcoming boss battles.
Achievement
The Real Fruity Quest
-Again, blueberries.
Achievement
Below the Belt Champion
-No vote for Grapnes 2: Kepnalcide reached the midpoint barrier (any score greater than 4). Note: There is usually a game that receives “Waist Level Champion,” which caps at 5, but not this year.
Achievement
Winner of the Prestigious WTF Award
-With the exception of 2010, every Heart of the OHR somebody wins this award. It’s given to whichever entry is the oddest of the bunch. Previous winners include AR-PUH-GUH (2012) and T4R4D1DDL3 (2014).
Audience Consensus:
A slow moving slog of a game that surprisingly doesn’t have enough random battles to adequately prepare the hero for the upcoming boss battles. For some reason makes blueberries into other colors, which makes no sense, even though the actual blueberry mechanic is innovative. At least the music is catchy.
