An enjoyable, but flawed, armored core clone with fantastic music, unfortunately forgotten by the internet in both Japan and the west.
I'm not fluent in Japanese so I could only understand so much of the story, but from what I did understand its largely uninspired and forgettable. It has all the beats you would expect from a mecha story and even has a Char Aznable clone of its own.
The combat can be best described as a poor man's armored core although that's not necessarily a bad thing. Its hard to make mech combat combat boring and the combat here is generally fast-paced and arcadelike. However, the game itself feels poorly designed. The strategy elements presented in the main map of the game are barebones and its just a glorified level select when the game decides to even give you that option. Once your in the game the field maps themselves are repeated throughout your playthrough and are largely empty although some of them do look charming. Due to the lack of any health items or any pick ups the gameplay boils down to sprinting to the boss fight to save health and avoiding or ignoring any enemies in the fields themselves. Driving around fast and blowing up little dudes is still fun mind you but I can't imagine this being the intended way to play the game.
The game's more house / chill 90's edm music really shines and I really do enjoy these tracks. They have a lot of personality and make the game experience much more memorable. There's some nice funk guitars and basslines spread throughout the OST and they're very enjoyable. Some of the more "actiony" tracks a bit uninspired but the good ones are REALLY good. I get nostalgic listening to these beats. I'd recommend finding the soundtrack online and giving a good listen to what's offered (They're not even on YouTube, but you can still find them).
The game even has JAM project singing the OP track, which like everything else they do, is phenomenal.
Its a shame that this game became so obscure even if it is flawed in many areas. I recommend it if you're looking for a short and enjoyable little adventure with giant robots, you wont need too much JP skill to actually play the game itself.
I'm not fluent in Japanese so I could only understand so much of the story, but from what I did understand its largely uninspired and forgettable. It has all the beats you would expect from a mecha story and even has a Char Aznable clone of its own.
The combat can be best described as a poor man's armored core although that's not necessarily a bad thing. Its hard to make mech combat combat boring and the combat here is generally fast-paced and arcadelike. However, the game itself feels poorly designed. The strategy elements presented in the main map of the game are barebones and its just a glorified level select when the game decides to even give you that option. Once your in the game the field maps themselves are repeated throughout your playthrough and are largely empty although some of them do look charming. Due to the lack of any health items or any pick ups the gameplay boils down to sprinting to the boss fight to save health and avoiding or ignoring any enemies in the fields themselves. Driving around fast and blowing up little dudes is still fun mind you but I can't imagine this being the intended way to play the game.
The game's more house / chill 90's edm music really shines and I really do enjoy these tracks. They have a lot of personality and make the game experience much more memorable. There's some nice funk guitars and basslines spread throughout the OST and they're very enjoyable. Some of the more "actiony" tracks a bit uninspired but the good ones are REALLY good. I get nostalgic listening to these beats. I'd recommend finding the soundtrack online and giving a good listen to what's offered (They're not even on YouTube, but you can still find them).
The game even has JAM project singing the OP track, which like everything else they do, is phenomenal.
Its a shame that this game became so obscure even if it is flawed in many areas. I recommend it if you're looking for a short and enjoyable little adventure with giant robots, you wont need too much JP skill to actually play the game itself.
SerphOX
4 months ago