
A small mech with a heart of gold embarks on a quest to punch everyone to death.
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Languages: English, Japanese
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KO Mech starts out promising enough, with its bouncy, energetic presentation and soundtrack that provides a perfect match to the simplistic but satisfying core gameplay loop, all about flying around colorful mazes, punching the everloving crap out of hordes of other, less brawl-happy mechs, dashing into random debris to send it flying at mach-speed, bouncing off walls and pulverizing foes into cartoony dust clouds in a way that is as ridiculous as it is massively entertaining, before a room-sized boss delivers some surprisingly well-written comedic dialogue and gets punted into the stratosphere. But it doesn't take long for the deliberate simplicity to really start biting the game in its shiny metal behind, as the levels start to become increasingly maze-like, filled with the same types of glorified punching bags you've been slamming about since the beginning and there is a high-pitched hissing sound as KO Mech starts to run out of steam and you start to feel like you've been playing for hours and so you take a gander at Steam's playtime counter and it says that you've only been playing for around 90 minutes and then the level select screen flashes before your weary eyes, with a good half of the game's increasingly samey mecha-maze-otrons still teeming with electronic evildoers and if you're anything like me you'll probably decide to pack it in. Games greedily emptying out their modestly-sized idea buckets before the half-time break, only to later drag their feet across the finish line are dime a dozen, but when the total run time even with all the padding still falls short of the three hour mark, well then the thumb really starts to tilt down south. KO Mech is a bizarre case in a lot of ways, often feeling like more like a proof-of-concept, but polished to a shine and padded until the cracks start to show beneath its titanium hull. More variety in the levels or enemies could've helped, some added depth to the gameplay could've helped, or alternatively, how about just cutting away all the chaff and streamlining the whole thing into a sub-one hour romp, one that can actually sustain its initial energy throughout its whole runtime. With how cheap the game is, I doubt many people would have complained. As it stands, it's a charming, but ultimately underwhelming game that someone obviously poured a good bit of heart and effort into. A chromium-plated disappointment with a heart of gold.
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Great game for the price. The gameplay is simple but entertaining, the controls are tight, and aesthetic is excellent, and the soundtrack is fantastic. Definitely recommend picking this up and supporting the devs
Pretty awesome! It's like a non-hectic Bangai-O but you punch stuff. You have a lighting fast light punch, dashing heavy punch (which is the key attack in this game), and you can charge up shoot a medium sized blast. You also have a super move once you have enough meter. Heavy punch enemies and things stuck to the wall and it'll send things flying. If it collides with something, it'll most likely bounce. If there's a lot of enemies and collectibles on the screen, everything starts bouncing and exploding. Good action. Wish it was just a tad more hectic. A+ for muxing into originality! Totally worth the $4.99 US price tag.
KO Mech is a Japanese 2D retro pixel twin-stick brawler where you control a robot that looks suspiciously like Brain from Pinky and the Brain. The objective is to move around and punch everything on each level, get a high score for all the things you punched, and move on to the next level. Ok, fun I guess? Nah. It's 2022, I think the gaming industry has really moved on a lot since then and gamers expect more. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the fixed resolution sprites/raster images used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. KO Mech is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
Принципе неплохо Ураганный геймплей и ост классный , любителям 2D игр рекомендую .
Eh It's not a [i]bad[/i] game. It's just not really worth the time tbqh. It's relatively short so you don't feel cheated but its also bare bones so you get what you pay for. You move in all directions, and can shoot or just keep pressing attack to be invincible 90% of the time. The basic premise is that you traverse a level and open doors to get to the boss of the level. You move in all cardinal directions and evade and/or attack enemies whilst flipping switches. Very reminiscent of old 90's "collect the keycard to proceed" gameplay. It's nothing too complex, and beyond the fancy looking trailer and eye-candy there's really not a lot going on here. Don't get suckered in by the fancy art package, there's nothing too deep or crazy here. It's not awful (just crazy barebones), but it's also just a waste of time more than anything. Hard pass.
You play as a little robot who flies around and punches everything into oblivion. If that's not enough, the combat is great, the soundtrack is funky, and the visuals are unique.
tutorial guy calls himself a "strong daddy"
Thanks for giving the game out for free on 4chan dev man! It's good ♥♥♥♥.
近接ブン殴り版『バンガイオー』と言った感じ。 パンチで弾幕を撃ち返し、突進で吹き飛ばした敵がピンボールの様に跳ねて他の敵を巻き込み一掃。アクションとしては非常に良く出来ており、爽快感もあってとても楽しい。 が、難点が幾つか。 ステージの作りがちょっとマズイ。一つのステージが序盤から結構長め、しかもゲームオーバーで最初から。この長さだと中継ポイントが無いのはキツイ。また、地形が非常に見辛く何処へ進めば良いか判り辛い。扉が判り辛かったり、どう見ても壁なのに実は穴が開いてて進める、なんてまるで隠し通路みたいな正規ルートが普通にある。しかもマップ表示は無い。 更には、各ステージに3個ずつ隠されているトロフィーを全て集めないと、途中でロックが掛かっており進めない。コレクション要素じゃなかった…しかも全部? わざわざ足止めして集めさせる程にステージ数は少なくないし、前のステージをやり直さなければならずモチベーションを下げる要素になる。 アクションゲームとしてはバランスも良く、非常に良く出来ていて間違いなく面白い。多少難点はあっても、この値段、このボリュームなら絶対に損は無いと思う。少なくとも『バンガイオー』が好きだった自分には大アタリだった。
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