This was a cherished childhood rental for me, I may as well had been the guy in that meme pic where the Gundam shoots a bullet over my head as I go "wow cool robot!". Unfortunate that the single player campaign is rough to play again, it's full of bullet spongey enemies and annoying small targets that are hard to aim at. Just not very fun, and overstays it's welcome with how long and punishing it is.
You know what though? Fuck that. May I point you to the option underneath the single player option? This game's head-to-head is absolutely heavenly. It's extraordinarily deep for what it is, with six different robots and the ability to hop out of your mech to either fight on foot and escape your dying robot, or swap to a different mech that was somewhere on the map. You can even have jetpack fights on foot! Encounter a robot that's parked and a bad matchup for your current robot? You could blow it up to keep your opponent from potentially using it, or perhaps commandeer it because it's better against your opponent as well? There's even a "scramble" option at the end of the fight to randomize everything for the next round! It's so goddamn fantastic, and it makes for copious amounts of fun once you and your buddy get used to the mechs and their controls.
My favorite mech was Ballistic, it was a Droideka several years before Phantom Menace was a thing and it could spindash! Drache the flying starfish was a close second. I drew all of the mechs in this game a bunch on my math homework back in the day, their designs live rent-free in my mind constantly. It's all just too cool really.
Wow.......cool robot.
This was also probably the first game to make me realize how cruel the retro market was. It may surprise you, but there was a time where you could buy this game for a nice price even online, but...at some point somewhere someone decided that this game should be 200 bucks. Now how much does it go for? Oh...my heart. Seriously, for all of you out there interested in retro stuff please keep circulating the tapes. Don't give these assholes a single cent and continue what you're doing. I hope the retro mafia goes to gamer hell and are stabbed by tridents tipped with N64 controller prongs belonging to the Jersey Devil from Jersey Devil.
I will never own a physical copy of this game and it pains me a bit to think about. Thank you so much zsnes, you will always be a hero.
You know what though? Fuck that. May I point you to the option underneath the single player option? This game's head-to-head is absolutely heavenly. It's extraordinarily deep for what it is, with six different robots and the ability to hop out of your mech to either fight on foot and escape your dying robot, or swap to a different mech that was somewhere on the map. You can even have jetpack fights on foot! Encounter a robot that's parked and a bad matchup for your current robot? You could blow it up to keep your opponent from potentially using it, or perhaps commandeer it because it's better against your opponent as well? There's even a "scramble" option at the end of the fight to randomize everything for the next round! It's so goddamn fantastic, and it makes for copious amounts of fun once you and your buddy get used to the mechs and their controls.
My favorite mech was Ballistic, it was a Droideka several years before Phantom Menace was a thing and it could spindash! Drache the flying starfish was a close second. I drew all of the mechs in this game a bunch on my math homework back in the day, their designs live rent-free in my mind constantly. It's all just too cool really.
Wow.......cool robot.
This was also probably the first game to make me realize how cruel the retro market was. It may surprise you, but there was a time where you could buy this game for a nice price even online, but...at some point somewhere someone decided that this game should be 200 bucks. Now how much does it go for? Oh...my heart. Seriously, for all of you out there interested in retro stuff please keep circulating the tapes. Don't give these assholes a single cent and continue what you're doing. I hope the retro mafia goes to gamer hell and are stabbed by tridents tipped with N64 controller prongs belonging to the Jersey Devil from Jersey Devil.
I will never own a physical copy of this game and it pains me a bit to think about. Thank you so much zsnes, you will always be a hero.