Sooo, I go exploring, shooting badguys with my magic sword, big ol' wings on my helmet that look like bunny ears even though they aren't, jumping platforms (this is a top down 8-way shooter btw, pretty neat), come across an oni beating up some girl that's tied up, quick boss battle, kick his ass, find the girl who got kicked aside before the fight, free her and she's leading me somewhere. So far, pretty fun!
TACNET THREAT DESIGNATION: REACTOR GIGANT
CATEGORY 4
[CAPABILITIES UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED ESCHATOLOGICAL HAZARD, LIKELY FULLY COGNITIVE//LINGUISTIC, DEPLOY MEMETIC COUNTERMEASURES: DO NOT TRUST]
- - - VENGEANCE IS NIGH - - -
you're part of something greater than yourself, plugged into the machine, riding the kinetic high. you're in the role of predator and the whole world is your prey. over the years, tragedy after tragedy, you and your mech have reciprocally pruned away every instinct besides martyrdom; battle-lust; venge. you know exactly who's to blame. it's not the kaiju - no one knows what they want, where they come from, if they're a singular force or we're just the battleground for a thousand powers beyond our sight.
it's the companies profiting off disaster and keeping pilots in the hole. it's the states deciding that business as usual is somehow okay when the monuments to the dead grow as high as skyscrapers. it's every two-bit pilot who wants the thrill of being a hero instead of seeing behind the facade of the Kaiju Era and the Survival Paradigm.
and something clicks. and the eschaton engine roars. and you feel invincible. you don't bow to alerts and apps. you're here and will not be denied.
*dies in the second level right as everything goes to heck after getting the wallcrawler powerup, despite clearing level 1 without any issues whatsoever and beating the boss in the time honoured fashion of chucking a full powered Force into its chestmouth and then just hammering the firebutton as fast as possible*
ah, just as I remember.
like, seems to be that instead of just bein out on a picnic with your lover like on the nes and spectrum versions, and she gets kidnapped, like, the kingdom is just full on under attack like lasers flying down from the sky and the princess is running towards arthy boy past a whole bunch of bodies of her people and she gets lazered and so does Arty's horse and he falls off and he swears revenge I guess. preeety sure the princess is dead.
actually time to just go through all the games and see which are good. this Coryoon game looks cute as heck? like, you're a tiny cute li'l dragon and there's this princess who you love I guess? but then a wizard shows up and like, shrinks her down to chibi size so you go to kick ass. and it's a nice horizontal scroller shootemup
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.