Metal Wolf Chaos XD

released on Aug 06, 2019

An expanded game of Metal Wolf Chaos

The country is in peril as President Michael Wilson defends the nation against a full-scale rebellion lead by Vice-President Richard Hawk and the mechanized legions he commands. As the 47th President of the United States, it is your sworn duty to take your country back by any means necessary and end this unjust coup d'etat! Battle in your advanced mech - armed to the teeth - across iconic American landscapes including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Grand Canyon, and the front steps of the White House.


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The game is a giant meme and whilst it can be fun to listen to absurd dialog and participate in over the top action scenes at the end of the day the overall game flow is so poorly balanced and janky that it becomes grating to play.

Copied from my Steam review:
Fantastic game. Super fun, super funny, with plenty of unlockables, secrets, and replay value. As much as the "AMERICA **** YEAH" type of humor doesn't necessarily land the same these days, it absolutely works here. Everything is completely absurd, and President Michael Wilson and his secretary, Jody Crawford, are a constant delight. Even the nasty conservative coup-leading villain is hilarious with how oddly delivered all the dialogue is.

If you like robots even a little bit you gotta try this. It's the best game FROMSOFT ever made.

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I would like to add on to this, and mention that the game does have some pretty big flaws. It can get a bit too janky and frustrating at a few points, and unless you start a brand new file there's no way to revisit some of the between-level story segments, which make up a LOT of the plot.

Alright man yeah this is a fun romp for the first half where you just kinda tear through shit and listen to President Shinji Ikari quip his ass off but the last four or so levels here are genuinely some of the worst I've ever played in a video game.

This game brought a constant smile to my face. The gameplay is simple and satisfying and the music is dumb and catchy. But what will really make this game stick in my head forever is the dumbass story and voice acting. It's so nonsensical and absurd that it constantly got a laugh out of me. ESPECIALLY Jody and Richard. Richard is just so fun to watch, I don't think I've seen a character as cartoonishly evil as him in a long time. He's so fun. Uhh I guess it can get kind of annoying and repetitive sometimes but who cares, game's cool

Metal Wolf Chaos is incredible and terrible in equal measure across every element. The story concept is completely insane and hilarious, but the game feels like it's missing 80% of the cutscenes that explain how anything gets from one point to another. There's a point where you talk to a character, it fades to black, and in the next cutscene they've been kidnapped and ask if you can ever forgive them for betraying you. There is zero explanation for this series of events and it is never addressed afterwards. The voice acting is "terrible" in the best way, but the writing itself is clunky with abysmal broken English and lines of dialogue that get cut off mid-sentence. The action is completely over the top and it feels great to save America by blowing most of it up, but weapons do a seemingly random amount of damage on every shot, anything that's not a rocket launcher is effectively useless, and the bosses have unbelievably cheap attacks that tear through your health faster than an executive order. A total lack of checkpoints guarantees you'll be slogging through entire levels, bracing for the return of a boss' third-phase invisible attack.

To the outside observer, Metal Wolf Chaos is loud, obnoxious, deliriously over-the-top, with explosions and patriotism as far as the eye can see. To the player, it's a series of half-baked systems designed to undermine the entire experience and, in some ways, actively work against its enjoyment.

To put it simply: it's the perfect American game.

RRRIIIIIIIIIICHHHAAAAAAAAAARRRDDDDDD
(I could not figure out the controls ngl)