Ruckus – Just Another Natural Disaster

Creator: HeartFactory-KW

Let’s kick things off properly. A live report from Princeps City broadcasts direct camera feed of the star of the show – a surprisingly cuddly looking kaiju – emerging from the ocean. Amid credits and button controls, a giant zero looms up front before nipping to the bottom-right corner, as if to say “Go get ’em, tiger.”

The rounded edges of Morishiro1935’s creature design perfectly complements the lolloping character movement you so often see in Dreams. As you take your first lumbering steps towards Princeps City, it’s impossible to not be endeared to this walking natural disaster. Gleefully, we scoop up a tanker with w and chomp down with r. As we approach the shore, we’re fired up, so it’s time to fire off with i – we may not be the king of the monsters but we’ve got his atomic breath. That’s when the military marches in, though they may as well be conveyor-belt sushi.

As we climb towers and bunnyhop our way to a 4x score multiplier, we cut back to the newscaster with a breathless bulletin: a nuclear strike has been called in on Princeps City. The soundtrack ramps up to a dizzying tempo as we try to squeeze just a few thousand more points out of the surrounding rubble before the military does a better job of destroying the city than we could ever hope to and it’s razed to the ground. After the inevitable, our kaiju takes a well-deserved nap, but not before seeing us off with a wave from one of the most charming Dreams we’ve seen yet.