Assault Suit Leynos

Avoid Everything From This Dev out of 10 The game couldnt detect my controller without my first configuring it with the keyboard. configuring with the keyboard took forever because the default bindings for 'enter' and 'back' are X and Z, as opposed to ENTER and ESC. When i finally got the game controlling as it should, i went to screen settings to turn off 'windowed' for 'fullscreen,' only to find the game becomes too much for my 4090 to handle in fullscreen. i thought about exiting to enter a command line to disable v-sync on launch --as there is no way to disable it in screen options-- but first decided to try playing the game first, hoping it'd be worth the effort. Sadly, the tutorial bugged out halfway through, causing all my ammo to exhaust the entire magazine in one shot. For every gun. Then, i thought maybe the tutorial was thrown together last-minute, and the campaign itself, a sega classic, would be more polished. Nope. I cant have my 17 minutes back, but i did get my dollar refunded!

Fresh from the disappointing experiences with [b]B.A.D.[/b] and [b]Gunhound[/b], I approached this game with caution, given the reviews and having the same developer as the latter, clearly fit for the job but at the same time leaving doubts on how they would deliver. While it suffers some of the same flaws, and makes me doubt I'd be able to manage the game at higher difficulties, I came out with a better impression. The original Mega Drive game from 1990, known in the west as [b]Target Earth[/b], while not great visually even for the time (except for the beautiful intro and ending sequences), succeeded at making the player feel not like a lone hero but rather an ace pilot with a great support system, pivotal to the success of missions but never alone in the middle of a sudden and brutal war, in a plot that was fairly developed for an action game of the era. There's lots of inspiration from Gundam of course, including a wannabe Char Aznable as a nemesis fought several times. This remake is quite faithful, except with the mechas. Whereas the original had them quite "lean", the AS here are bulky, can throw punches and raise a Shield - they clearly made them like the ones featured in the successor (but prequel) [b]Assaults Suits Valken[/b] aka [b]Cybernator[/b]. There is weight, the screen shakes every time the mech lands from a jump. Despite that, the controls are more reactive than they were in [b]Gunhound[/b]. Regenerating health may of course be thought as a modern concession but, surprise, the original game already had it. It doesn't make it any easier, though. Given it likely shares part of the code with [b]Gunhound[/b], it's unfortunately no surprise to me that the game has trouble running in fullscreen and no key configuration, even if I found the available scheme not too bad once used to it, or maybe it's just the more refined gameplay and level design which, of course, is based on a dated but good game. Still, they can't be ignored either, along with the odd choice of putting some bullet hell style enemy attacks in a game clearly not equipped for them. While sometimes the mechas and ships can feel like "cutouts" over the backgrounds, the HD graphics are overall good and many ships look quite improved in size and menace compared to the original. Great remixes of the original tracks are heard but the Mega Drive music and sound effects can be used in Classic Mode, which strives to give an experience closer to the original as much as possible. There is even the same exact trick to unlock all weapons early! At a late point of the game, there is a big translation error: a dialogue refers to 10 years while it should be 100. There was no such mistake in the localization of the original. In the end, [b]Leynos[/b] is better than those other two games but only for their demerits rather than its own merits. Decent but could have been more.