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Ordem Paranormal: Quarentena

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Contains minor spoilers for the series

A virus has spread throughout the world. Unknowingly, you have just volunteered your life to stop it. Five teenagers are taken by an industry called Pancea, and it’s your job to stop this outbreak. With nothing much but a mistrustful guide, an unremovable glove, and a… hamster? You have to find the cause for this disaster and fix it.

Ordem Paranormal is a tabletop roleplay game series that features content creators from all over the world. We have Cellbit as the gamemaster, Baghera as Lucie, Quackity as Benito, Pactw as Diego, FoolishGamers as Jeffrey, and Roier as Luis. It is split into two parts: par tone, which took place online, and part two, which took place in Brazil in real life. The series is available on Youtube in English and Portuguese.

The scene starts out at an office in Mexico where Benito, Jeffery, and Luis sign up for the program. They’re not told much except for that it will help advance the future. A few of them are in it for the money, too. A similar scene is happening at the same time in Brazil with Lucie, Diego, a girl named Emi, and her dad. They are taken into a room and asked a few questions. Not even a few minutes later, both surveyor plant a drowsiness bomb and flee the room. All participants black out.

All of them arrive in a sweltering hot boiler room with a mechanical glove attached their left hand, and their right tied up. A stranger by the name of Micael hands them a key before running out of the room with no further explanation. After a few moments of Jeffrey consulting his pocket hamster, Wallace, they’re able to free themselves and flee the room. They’re met with a strange facility, where blood is stained everywhere and dead bodies litter the ground. The only thing going through their minds are “Where am I?” Micael is able to answer that. He tells them that a virus has spread all over the country, and that they’ve been blacked out for quite a while. The glove they have is the only thing protecting them from being infected too. Then, from around the corner, a disfigured creature stalks towards them. It has glowing, neon wires connecting human-like bodies together into an abomination. It moves jerkily, as if fighting for control. Little do they know, this isn’t the only one out there.

That is just the beginning of an entire series of incredible storytelling and jaw-dropping plot twists. If you’ve never watched a roleplay game, this is your chance. Personally, this was my favorite series out of everything watched, even out of professionally made movies. Cellbit’s ability to bring the player’s words to life plus characters you can’t help but root for make for one remarkable story. I fell in love with Ordem Paranormal, and if you watch it I guarantee you will too.

Spaceland Review

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Spaceland, produced by Tortuga Team, is a dynamic strategy game. It follows the old school tactical game genre which requires skill as well as planning. The story follows a team of desperate fighters that have crash-landed on a mysterious planet. You need to help these heroes fight their way through dangerous monsters and enemies to help them discover the secrets of the perplexing world. The game has multiple types of enemies, objectives, weapons, and heroes. Each hero can help out the team in different ways.  You can mix and match different heroes with each other to make the most powerful and optimal teams for each mission.

The actual game itself is very simple. Your team is assigned a certain mission, and once you complete that mission you go onto the next quest. Each of these missions does not take too long, and you are usually trying to complete an objective such as rescuing a soldier or destroying a monster. The controls for the game are also quite simple. There are a certain amount of moves that each hero has, as well as a certain amount of ammo and health. Throughout the missions, you can move your character across the game grid. After you use a certain amount of moves, the enemies have a chance to move around the board and attack you. This forces players to tactfully move around the map, watching the different opponents and their movements. The graphics of Spaceland are also quite simple but are very clean. They are both cartoonish and futuristic, giving off a chill, relaxed, vibe.

On top of different objectives and controls, there is also a wide variety of heroes that you can unlock. You can unlock heroes throughout the 28 missions in the game. Each of these heroes has special abilities such as grenades, automatic rifles, etc. These special powers are quite valuable during different missions. The broad assortment of heroes also brings a large range of weaponry to the game. Snipers, shotguns, assault rifles, are just a few examples of the collection in the weapon inventory. Each weapon also has a different rate of fire, damage, range, etc. This diversity can lead to a great amount of customization and creativity in tactics as well as teams.

Overall, I enjoyed Spaceland made by the Tortuga Team. The simple but yet classic tactic game really was nostalgic for me, especially since I played a lot of those games when I was younger. There were some improvements that could be added to enhance the game. When you first start the game, there is no option to adjust the screen stretch of the game, so the game did not fully fit my TV screen, not allowing me to see what was at the bottom of the screen. Also, there was not a tutorial at the beginning of the game, but that was ok because of the simple and easy controls. The final adjustment I would make is to add a multiplayer option of some sort. I found that some of the missions were somewhat repetitive, so the game could become boring at some point. Besides those few minor improvements, I really enjoyed Spaceland and would rate it a 9/10.

-Daniel C.