M.A.S.S. Builder

Fighting is sooo boring but the building is pretty cool :-/

The game is just very good for building flexibility but the gameplay is very boring and repetitive. Besides enemies are always the same and backgrounds/scenarios are mainly the same.

kind of feels unfinished and abandoned, released minimal viable product.

good concept but game is essentially a roblox game... customization is destroyed by ui clutter and unintuitive mechanics and the gameplay unfortunately doesn't make up very much... not much enemy variety and they are very spongy... me no like... also my penis fell off from my body while I was playing this game so I will forever associate that bad experience with this game... developers if you read this just know I believed in you and I wanted to make takemikazuchi muv luv (I can tell you guys are fans of Meiya) but you have betrayed me

this game is good in theory but in practice it's absolutely awful. the system used to design equipment is unintuitive, clunky, and mildly overwhelming. you have an absurd number of greebles to attach, but to do so you use *SLIDERS.* rather than a simple drag and drop interface you adjust the position of greebles with sliders, which is quite frankly the dumbest way to do it. BUT! that's not the worst part! the worst part is the writing! whoever wrote the story has no concept of pacing and felt the need to include all of the worst anime tropes! it's awful in every conceivable way for a story to be written and not just be word salad! it reads like a neckbeard reddit post! it makes me regret being literate!

Overall a solid game with much potential for the future with patches/dlcs etc. On first start you get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff you can do. Massive upgrade trees, each part of your mech can be changed (when you unlock the gear) and on top of that you have total freedome to manually add and customize stuff. I almost wanted to quit after like 2 hours since I did not find how to change weapons or amors (my bad for not reading i guess). In addition to that it takes quite some time to find what suits you and what you like, I ended up with melee and full armor-shield at first and it was painful. Low dmg and bosses are bulletsponges. If you actually go through all upgrade trees and mix and match what you want, bosses are done in a very short time. Unfortunately there are no achievements that keep me playing after finishing the story and all optional mission. On thing that annoyed me the most is the constant add spawn during a boss fight. You kill one to get some breathing room? well it instantly respawns. Also some nemies are just annoying. They constantly jump over you and you can barely hit them, and others are running away all the time (the mecha/human enemies). If you shoot at an enemy with like a gatling, it dies and you target the next enemy without letting go of the trigger, you end up shooting into the ground. Also some icons - especially for weapons - are not explained and you have trial and error if you like it and figure out how it works. (hover over icons to get a tooltip would be nice) Would I recommend it? Probbly not, except you look for some insane mech customization with some missions in between. The story is okay not really something new. Beside me being nitpicky, bosses have cool designs and the mecha is awesome. Overall a solid game - had no bugs or issues and runs smoothly - so it gets a thumbs up.

the controls are terrible!! with that said the customize and build your Mechanical Assault Skeleton Suit (M.A.S.S.) is amazing, if the devs could just unlock everything and lets us just build M.A.S.S's i'd buy it full price!!!

Really disappointing. Don't get me wrong, MASS Builder's customization is completely unprecedented. That is the biggest thing that sets this game apart from the others of it's type and the main reason why I wanted it. On the technical scale, the game's pretty polished. BUT... I mention the building being good - this is only after you can navigate through the absolute nightmare that is this game's UI. I've played games with very unintuitive user interfaces before, but I think this one takes the cake. The combat is... fine, I guess, aside from a few enemies being a little too bullet-spongy. However, major problems surface when you realize how exceptionally cheap feeling that combat is - there's no feeling of impact at all. Whether you're shooting at enemies or hitting them with your melee. Melee ESPECIALLY. Then there's the issue of the game's story. It would be fine - if it wasn't being presented to us in continual dialogue boxes. It gets to the point where it drags out for way too long and makes me question the genre of what I'm playing. I didn't come to play a visual novel, I came to build a sick looking mech and beat up the enemies. It absolutely nails the building aspect, but everything else is either just "eh it's ok" or frustratingly bad. Even for the sale it's not worth it. 3/10.

ロボットアクション＋ハックアンドスラッシュの皮を被った模型作り ロボットアクションとしてもハックアンドスラッシュとしてもそこまで出来が良いわけではない。 ロックオンが遅く、敵が見えて直ぐの射撃は足元を撃ってしまうし、 画面がロックオンしている敵を追いかけないため突進中の近接攻撃はすれ違って空振りする。 一方で自動ロックオンは突然これまで攻撃していた敵とは異なる敵に向かうことがある。 実弾とエネルギー弾があるが、再装填・再補充以外に違いはない。 敵のドロップ（開発の材料）は触れるまで接近しなければ拾えないし、どこのステージで入手できるか表示されない。 正直まったく勧められない。 しかし、本作の見どころはそこではない。 金とデータを稼いでパーツを揃えて自分だけのロボットを作ることだ。 パーツには装甲と飾りがあって性能とは全く関係ないため本当に好みだけで決めることができる。 装甲の部位は頭部だけでも頭頂部、側頭部＋後頭部、顔面、首と細かく分かれ、各部位20種類程度ある。 上下肢は形・色ともに左右非対称も作れる。 これに数百種類の飾りを各部位8個まで自由に取り付け可能。 youtubeにはどこかで見たようなロボットが多数投稿されているところからかなりの自由度があることが分かる。 武器も基本的に2か所のパーツから作られ、これも出来合いの装甲に飾りを付けられる。 パーツ集めが面倒なだけの模型作成と考えればかなり出来が良いと思う。 最後に三行 これはアクションゲームではない。 これはハックアンドスラッシュではない。 模型作成シミュレーターだ。

the detailed customization is what I was after, and that *is* cool for what it’s worth. But the gameplay is mid and the story… what story 😭 I can’t get past ts it’s like I’ve experienced the great misfortune of stumbling upon some horny fifth-grader’s online roleplay as soon as they discover anime tropes. (And can’t even just ignore it and play for the customization because I would have to play through to unlock everything)