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VR Troopers Season One Volume One

SCORE: 79

Shout Factory provides families a history lesson in television shows from the past. You might have noticed we are supporters of that here at Family Friendly Gaming. Whether it is MASK, GI Joe, My Little Pony, Transformers or more - we appreciate how they are giving these franchises new life. You have no idea how many times we talk about shows we miss. Shows we wish someone would put on DVD. Shout Factory is making that list shorter each and every month.

VR Troopers Season One Volume One is definitely a Power Rangers clone in some aspects, and its own thing in others. There are three young adults in VR Troopers Season One Volume One who are the VR Troopers. A successful businessman is actually an evil character from the Virtual World. He is the main bad guy in this kids show.

VR Troopers Season One Volume One has a heavy focus on karate. The characters spend a lot of their time in a dojo. When they are not there they are in the news room of a local newspaper. Finally they will be in their lab, or out in the field. The monster/mutant characters start out more technological in VR Troopers Season One Volume One.

There are some campy costumes in VR Troopers Season One Volume One. They are definitely better than the Power Rangers enemies though. Computers play a large role in VR Troopers Season One Volume One. Which is almost laughable looking at the technology they had at the time.

Ryan Steele is on a quest to find his father. We start every episode with him remembering something about his father, and how it will relate to the episode at hand. Kaitlin Star, and J.B. Reese round out the group. We get a talking dog, and a virtual professor who never shows any emotion no matter how bad things get.

Too often the fighting sequences focus more on form than true function. Knocking the low level bad guys into each other sends them from the real world to the virtual world. Yet the team spends time knocking them around before putting them together. This is one area that frustrated me. Another was the repeat of certain visual sequences.

The song in VR Troopers Season One Volume One will get stuck in your head. I can still hear it as I am writing this review. It is played on the menu screens, at the start, and end of every single episode. All twenty-six episodes on the three DVD disc. Which to me is definitely an entire season, but this is only Volume One of Season One.

VR Troopers Season One Volume One splices a few things together quite nicely. We have the story part, the karate part, the costume fights, and vehicle fights. Vehicle fights are nothing like Power Rangers. VR Troopers Season One Volume One uses tanks and ships to attack the heroes. One or two will get in their vehicle and fight them off. Which leaves the rest to fight off one of the bad guys.

VR Troopers Season One Volume One does include some good lessons for kids. It also contains some extremely politically slanted messages. Stuff like save the trees, down with nuclear power, pro arts, pro animals, and anti business. The bad guys always takes the opposite side of these issues and he is shown as being evil for taking it.

VR Troopers Season One Volume One is more violent than Power Rangers, and it has less humor. In fact I found very few attempts in VR Troopers Season One Volume One at humor. This show is much more serious. It can be hard to take characters dressed in those costumes very serious though.
- Paul

Graphics: 73%
Sound: 76%
Replay/Extras: 90%
Gameplay: 80%
Family Friendly Factor: 77%
System: Shout Factory
Publisher: DVD
Rating: ‘TV-Y7’ - Specifically Designed for Children Seven Years of Age or Older

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