Bop to 90s hip-hop beats in JRPG Orangeblood

Pixelate your senses.

Pixelated neon cityscapes full of characters wanting to shoot first and talk later – they’re the worlds we’re always drawn to in games aren’t they? Pretty lights and harsh realities. Orangeblood has all this in spades, with a rather generous heap of 90s inspired hip-hop to accompany the action. Don’t harsh my mellow, man, this game looks pretty good.

Set at the end of an alternative 20th century, Orangeblood takes place on a manmade island off the coast of Okinawa. Its a hectic city where buildings pile on-top of one another and the people are also constantly in each others way. Your avatar is Vanilla, “a prisoner of a gang war charged with a secret mission in exchange for her freedom”. It’s your job to takedown the mobsters and robots that litter the city, all in exchange for loot drops of powerful guns and the ever important sneaker-armour. These loot drops are procedurally generated, so who knows what you and your crew will get decked out with.

The battle system is turn-based, all with the hip-hop beat thumping away in the background. For someone that finds turn-base combat absolutely tedious, this might actually spice up my experience somewhat.

We’ll have to wait a little while for Orangeblood, but never fear, it will be released on the 14th of January for PC with the consoles following suit later in the year, just in time for those January blues. To find out more about the pixel madness, go take a look at Orangeblood on Steam.