A 2D platform fighter spin-off based on the Medarot series.
The game maintains the series staple of having different attacks correspond to each part, enabling the player to customize their bots as they see fit. However, this does make the controls feel a little clunky because attacks have a cooldown to adapt the usual turn based combat to a real time setting.
Nevertheless, players get 2 basic attacks correcponding to each arm plus a special attack with limited ammo associated to their head piece. Each medal also has a unique medaforce.
The player is free to swap pieces around with those they have unlocked. Some may have more armor, but shorter cooldown while legs have special movement bonuses depending on the terrain, etc. The starting medarot is quite good regardless besides the somewhat low speed.
Also, the player's party has been decreased to 2 from the usual 3 but that's an acceptable compromise for the GBA's technical limitations. The player can only control 1 character in real time so an additional AI controlled unit wouldn't make that much of a difference.
I finished the game but I can't comment on the story because I don't speak Japanese. I think there's a tournament or something, definitely lower stakes than most games in the series.
I wanted to play this version because the Ax games have completely different designs for the most part, more in line with Medarot 2 which is more popular because of the anime and I wanted to see different designs.
I must say I wasn't disappointed in that regard and the game is quite fun for the 3 or so hours it takes to beat it.
The game maintains the series staple of having different attacks correspond to each part, enabling the player to customize their bots as they see fit. However, this does make the controls feel a little clunky because attacks have a cooldown to adapt the usual turn based combat to a real time setting.
Nevertheless, players get 2 basic attacks correcponding to each arm plus a special attack with limited ammo associated to their head piece. Each medal also has a unique medaforce.
The player is free to swap pieces around with those they have unlocked. Some may have more armor, but shorter cooldown while legs have special movement bonuses depending on the terrain, etc. The starting medarot is quite good regardless besides the somewhat low speed.
Also, the player's party has been decreased to 2 from the usual 3 but that's an acceptable compromise for the GBA's technical limitations. The player can only control 1 character in real time so an additional AI controlled unit wouldn't make that much of a difference.
I finished the game but I can't comment on the story because I don't speak Japanese. I think there's a tournament or something, definitely lower stakes than most games in the series.
I wanted to play this version because the Ax games have completely different designs for the most part, more in line with Medarot 2 which is more popular because of the anime and I wanted to see different designs.
I must say I wasn't disappointed in that regard and the game is quite fun for the 3 or so hours it takes to beat it.