GIGANTIC ARMY

This game is very reminiscent of a lot of old arcade games, but the controls are a bit finicky, especially with a controller. This would do really well as a twin-stick shooter, but by having movement and gun aiming on the same control, it's rather hard to get your mech to shoot where it needs to, especially if you're trying to move at the same time. Further, as others have said, the time limit is brutal. Even if the timer was just forcing you not to dawdle, that could be one thing, but that's not what we get. Instead, it's a race against time that you really don't have, forcing you to scramble for time pickups just to avoid the arbitrary mission timer running out. And yes, this also leaves you very much at the mercy of the RNG.

A very fun game. People nag about the time mechanic, but it is essential in making you learn the game to the fullest, otherwise people would be playing it sluggishly. Good controls, a little bit unwieldy (gets the mech movement across), aiming feels idiotic at first, but if it would be on the second stick the so much of the game's design would fall flat, well balanced difficulty with varied stages requiring slight changes in conquering them. The only downside is that when pushed to the limits certain boss encounters are more of an endurance test. They could have made the health bars lower for the no special weapons runs to feel less tedious.

Wow... :) J'ai l'impression de jouer à une suite directe de Cybernator de la SNES... Les sons c'est OK, la musique c'est OK et les graphismes c'est SUPER OK... J'aime bien le visuel en arrière plan car ça donne l'impression que je ne suis pas seul au monde, la bataille s'étire à l'horizon avec des petites animations, Je suis un peu rouillé de la manette car je joue pratiquement toujours au clavier mais j'imagine c'est comme faire du vélo ça va revenir lol Entk je recommande ce jeu qui rend bien hommage à la l'époque du 16bits. Une bonne bouffé de nostalgie bien dosé. AAA+ 100%

Very good game, my favorite of the series. Best with a controller, the controls take some getting used to but i quite like them, and the enemies are balanced around that. very nice game and its worth it.

This game carry the spirit of Cybernator (Assault Suits Valken) of the SNES console era. But also the drawback of the game of said era + additional specific to this game, considering todays standart: -No checkpoint. You die, you use a continue to restart right from the beginning of current stage. Too bad if you were on the boss stage -No saving: need to stop early? Too bad, it's one run or lose your full progress. -The only gameplay that annoy me is that you can't raise your shield mid-air and your dash don't give any momentum when jumping, compared to a walk-jump. So if you are into cybernator era and can deal with above cons, go for it. Otherwise, there are other game like this with actual QoL from today.

A brief but enjoyable side scrolling shooter that packs in some replayability thanks to it giving you multiple weapon combinations you can try. It can be beaten in a single sitting, so it might be worth waiting for a sale as something that can be cleared in an hour may not be worth a full eight bucks, but I had a good time with it.

8.5/10 A good 2d mech themed run and gun platformer that does a good job of remembering that these are big hulking robots, being that it does give you mobility but not to the ridiculousness of most japanese mecha themed media like that S*** known as gundam. Short but offeres a good challenge with out feeling cheap and feels pretty close to front mission gun hazard.

Возможно, эта игра была бы интересной для прохождения, но грёбаный таймер убивает напрочь всё желание проходить её.

After a trifecta composed of the bad [b]B.A.D.[/b], the disappointing [b]Gunhound[/b] and the decent [b]Leynos[/b] remake, there was good reason to be wary of approaching yet another mecha game from the mid-2010s, even if made by a developer with a good track record. Fortunately, [b]Gigantic Army[/b] succeeds because it's simpler: there is a shield but no lock-ons or dedicated run buttons, punches are delivered automatically to enemies up close with the same button as firing, and while of course bulky and slow as it should be, the mech is quite responsive. It feels familiar for fans of its subgenre, but quicker and easier to pick up and play. While some of the animation is too flash-like, it's overall pretty great to look at, with plenty of enemy mecha that go from the same size as the player to ridiculously huge war machines. Sprites and bullets stand out clearly over the backgrounds; the overall aspect is quite gritty in early levels, while the last missions are in cold, aseptic places spared from the destruction of war. The game however goes too far in simplifying certain aspects. The loadout is limited to a choice of one out of three main weapons and one out of three special weapons, and stays the same throughout a whole run. Each mission has a time limit that while it can and must be increased with "T" items found in crates, is only 180 seconds - it's not fast paced, it forces a fast pace even with that sluggish mech. The wasted potential of the story merits a paragraph of its own. It would be interesting because it's quite gritty despite being set in the same universe as [b]Vulkaiser[/b] (which came out later on Steam but was originally made earlier), it's narrated not from the point of view of the pilot-player but rather of an engineer maintaining the mech, and has an interesting twist midway in. However, a sort of PDA with slowly scrolling text of a personal diary is all there is, no story-related events or cutscenes happen during gameplay, so there is no impact. It ends up being just an excuse to glue the levels to each other. The developers wrote a lot of lore about this game and its whole timeline that includes more of their releases, but it's never left their Japanese website. The time limit may be a deal-breaker for some but ultimately I didn't mind it too much and while on one hand I wish it did more (see the story), on the other I found the game to be another "short and sweet" experience from Astro Port, open to replays exactly because it's so brief. Shame that a Switch version exists but has never been "backported", if anything for the updated soundtrack.

short game but addictive.