War of the Human Tanks - ALTeR

There's so much I could say about this game, but I'll try to keep it short. The gameplay is fairly straightforward. If you've played the first game, you know what you're getting yourself into; if not, it's still pretty easy to pick up. Grid / tile based strategic movement, Battleship-like firing, fog of war, time-based unit recharge rather than turn-based. Though I will say, once you get into the Great Cavern... they really step things up. Gonna take some mad strats to survive down there. Fairly extensive customization (and even more tanks!), though later in the game you'll encounter some checks to stop you from getting too overpowered and just nuking everything. The story is... well, it's actually pretty incredible. Well, okay, the main story is fairly standard stuff. But the NG+ side story, the Great Cavern, is amazing. Gets into the origins and motivations of the Human Tanks and is far more moving than I ever expected. Aaaand there's at least 6 or 7 times as many missions in there as in the main story. Art is the simple, sometimes blobby stuff you can see in the previews. But again, it actually manages to get better as you progress through the Cavern. You can find some pretty impressive, and unnerving, visuals as you go along. Soundtrack is as eclectic as ever. I don't know if there even is a genre for the sorta stuff you'll hear. Very fitting sound design though. Ah, as a last note, you don't have to have played the first game to enjoy this. It just fills in a few details, and leads to some neat inferences as to the lore, if you happen to know when the game is calling back to the first one's characters. ....and Heshiko Mk III is an absolute beast.