Gunhound EX

Shame you can't buy this game anymore. It's damn good.

Overall has some glitches and some objectives are not clear but a fun time to just blast through in about 4 hours or so depending on your skill level

Cute little game, no idea why it was taken off the steam search. It was short, but fun.

Didn't know this was removed from Steam years ago... I think I played the original doujin release back when it was new. I'm down for a game clearly inspired by the [b]Assault Suits[/b] series (games that back in the 16 bit era were localized, with cuts, as [b]Target Earth[/b] and [b]Cybernator[/b]), and the love of the developer for those games is clear, starting from the graphics whose resolution may be quite low but look straight out of a Sega Saturn. Unfortunately, it immediately trips with the controls. The keyboard layout is not comfortable and, worse, not remappable. I then plugged a controller but I needed to map commands one by one. Now, I'm not used to controllers much but even then, the feeling wasn't that great: it's fun in less hectic moments but where it would be needed the most, there is not a sensation of full, tight control. It also seems to have been ported badly (while the original is for Windows, this upgraded version was released on PSP first), so on a PC not for gaming but still more than enough to run more recent 2D games, it goes into slow motion in fullscreen. Not even something related to more recent Windows versions or CPU/GPU, as it's been reported ever since its release. Also, when quitting, it doesn't fully close and I've found no other way that closing the whole Steam client every time. Between two of the main missions there is a "Scramble Mission" that requires to first remove the heavy armor, otherwise the mecha won't be able to fly at all, but it's badly explained. There are some great setpieces that display, once again, the passion put into the game but it sadly struggles a lot to be fun. The story has a nice anime series flair, with even some "eyecatches" with characters, but suffers an iffy translation, and a main enemy introduced late who talks nonsense. Maybe when I get more used to controllers I may give another spin but the overall mixed rating is fair.

There doesn't seem to be any controller compatibility and the game menu has no options for changing button assignments to play the game. You just have to keep button mashing until you find a key stroke that does something in the game. It's completely broken, which is a shame because it looks fun to play.

Good luck playing fullscreen. This thing is a mess.

♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ control

Fun but very short.