Get ready for Mech-on-Mech action with hardcore meha. Hardcore Mecha is an elegant lateral scroll with beautiful 2D visuals, a diversified distribution of characters and much more, all packaged in this explosive game. The story and the presentation often give the impression of having been extracted from an animation film - and I mean that in the best possible way. The gameplay mixes the pilot of great meca with moments on foot on a smaller scale. Hardcore Mecha brings a lot to the table and offers all the style if not grace.
Hardcore Mecha takes place in a distant future on the planet Mars. You will assume the role of Tarethur O'Connell, a pilot of the Hardcore Defense Corp which has been mandated by the United Nations to hunt an intelligence officer. Armed with massive mechs, Tarethur and his teammates will discover that the mission is more than just a hunt for man. You will be responsible for navigating eighteen levels that range from the surfaces of dusty planets to the depths of the ocean. While most missions will adopt a pretty direct approach, exploding everything that is in sight while you fly your robot, some missions will take a little more finesse, where you will stealthize the mission on foot.
Hardcore Mecha is usually pretty linear with some returns back minor through the levels. Your Mech is equipped with an assortment of offensive and defensive capacities - and it is finally there that I find the most defects in the game. Orders are simply too heavy and clumsy. The battles are fast, so I often found myself to grop between my shield, my dodge and my different attacks. Weapons often have recharge times, which added to frustration at the heart of the battle. I often wondered how much this game would have been better if it had adopted a more simplified approach, as the Mega Man games often did. That said, the game has an upgrade system that improves things such as the force of Mechs and charging times.
The largest sale of this game is the quality of the presentation. The graphics, at least during the gameplay, were incredible. 2D animated characters beautifully drawn with so much incredible details - it looks great. The cinematics, unfortunately, follow the laming approach of the speaking heads, with character profile photos arising from each side of the screen and joking back and forth. The missions in the game are all expressed - but not in English, so you will do a lot of reading, which can be a bit distracted in the heat of the action. Between the missions, the dialogue is simply text, no voiceover, and it is often quite dramatic what made me laugh for all the bad reasons.
Hardcore Mecha offers two multiplayer modes; online and local. The local multiplayer supports up to four players, each choosing his own robot and waving in a battle for the most victims. Unfortunately, the local multiplayer divides the screen into four quadrants regardless of the number of players. So, if you have two players, you will each get 1 / 4th of the screen, the other half of the screen being completely black. I can not talk about the online component. While the game said that the waiters were online, I have never found a match.
Hardcore Mecha will not suit every1. Although visuals are often quite impressive, there are some trouble with the general presentation, such as the lack of English voice, the laming approach of the talks for cinematics and stupid dialogue. The gameplay can become quite frenzy and I often found myself grope with orders and to be frustrated by the limitations of the Mechs. That said, there were some moments in the game that were pretty cool, and overall I appreciated most. It's not easy, but as you progress and improve your robot, you will find that it reaches a decent difficulty balance. If you are ready for a somewhat difficult game with a very inspired look of the anime, so hardcore mecha could be exactly what you are looking for.
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