Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

released on May 01, 2014

Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

released on May 01, 2014

Gear up and get ready for war! Take on hectic 2D action shooting stages with your deadly Gunhound mech.


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weirdly involved writing i like the characters

Plays somewhat like the Assault Suit series. Fun gameplay, can switch out your three weapons and melee attack, voice acting for all the dialogue (though it is in Japanese). Very short. The five stages offer variety but two of them have you in very small areas. Scoring system to unlock new weapons is terrible, requiring scores that forces you to grind, by the end of the games five missions you might have reached 3,000,000 points for the first unlock, with the next needed twice as much and the last needing 99,000,000. Annoying zero gravity gameplay that is only used for final two bosses, giving you no time to get used to it unless you do the training mode and giving you no time to use it against regular enemies to change up the gameplay.

Despite the jank this has got to be one of my favourite mech games. The health system is interesting and the levels and bosses are consistently varied and interesting, with no particular format or gimmick overstaying its welcome. You can parry bullets which is pretty awesome.

Armored Hunter Gunhound also has an actually great tutorial. The tutorial is basically just a small set of extra levels which have medals to collect and rank your performance at the end.