GIGANTIC ARMY

Game is short with alot of flair. Nice effects with simple game play. There is a entire series of games the devs made that are related. I like this game for its simplicity and great work involved. Its cheap, check it out.

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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.

Its not bad, but can use improvements If I was able to change my load out between stages that would be neat. Story mode should allow you to continue from the stage you got a game over and then have an arcade mode that just makes you do the whole game in 1 try because currently you have to beat the game in 1 go and as soon as you get game over you have to start all the way from the first stage. its a short game, about 1 hour I would say but not a lot of replay since there is no stage select option. pick it up on sale if you want something simple, its not the greatest game but it is fun to play at least once I think.

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.