Dragons Layer Productions

Dragon's Layer Productions is a YouTube channel for Let's Plays, (rather free of needless criticism)video game reviews(in a post-apocalyptic wasteland), one minute rants, riffs on commercials for useless products, and a fledging Podcast about gaming in general known as "Gamers Without Borders". Known also as Doug Hancox, or Test Zero(named after his aforementioned review), Dragon's Layer Productions is a minor, yet well-made and interesting persona on youtube, and highly worth checking out (albeit not incredibly popular).

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It can be found at his youtube channel, and it can also be found in the creator's blog here.

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Dragons Layer Productions provides examples of the following tropes:

• Ascended Fanboy: Kotaro, a fan of TZ's, is occasionally consulted by TZ himself for brainstorming. See also The Cameo below.
• Awful Truth: When reviewing Sonic, he had no restraints in complaining about anything he had problems with, including the control scheme.
• Caustic Critic: Averted. Though he will pick on certain aspects of the game, all of the reviews are fair and will not Accentuate the Negative to the point where the entire review becomes a slam on the game.
• The Cameo: One episode of the "Video Game Bunker" ended with a voice communication from a "Kotaro," creator of an even more obscure review blog called "Gaming on a Budget." A later episode also featured Cassini (aka, "SwichWitch") as the computer system "M.A.I.A."
  • "Commercial Failure" also featured a brief cameo by The Gaming Pixie.
  • TZ himself cameoed in one of the Fanfiction Critic's reviews.
• Fridge Logic: From "TZ's Answering Machine": Why would Kotaro record his questions as three separate messages?
• Let's Play: One of the major older features of his channel.
• MST: In the series "Commercial Failure," TZ makes fun of ads for the most worthless products he can find.
• One of Us: Mentioned browsing tvtropes in his "Sleep" one minute rant.
• Orphaned Series: The One Minute Rants did not last long. Supposedly, he ran out of things to rant about.
• Podcast: Has one called Gamers Without Borders. It frequents guest appearances by many people in the game fandom community and others.
• Story Arc: Test Zero intends to add these to the Video Game Bunker starting with Season Two. As for whether this will cause the series to grow a beard or a shark, only time will tell.