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My body is a machine that turn 1200 Speed into 1 Guts Spark

This game is BOTH over the top dramatic vn nonsense and legit hard strategy game with some pretty interesting ideas where you go back and forth around a single crossing for 20 turns and thousands of faceless soldiers from both sides die for a kilometre-worth of advance

Sweden anti-tourism ad.

Interesting combination of tower defense and space invader style shoot-em-up. Basically you're stacking towers and moving layers independently, though it get chaotic enough later that you probably can't think anything other than putting as many towers as you can after a while.

Don't take me wrong, this game is technically a competent, working, even interesting game. But what makes the previous game, Fight In Tight Space, one of my favourite game of all time (that I still think is underappreciated despite its positive review) is its elegance in its simplicity and how the visual, the music, the gameplay, actually makes one surprisingly coherent theme. This one doesn't have it, sadly, but I guess that's why FITS is special instead of simply okay.

I wish Flam would shoot me with a giant anti-materiel rifle.

Surprisingly better than I even expected. Even ignoring the top notch sprite graphic, the gameplay is surprisingly fresh. It encourages you play hard and fast, to keep moving instead of hunkering down in chest-high cover, because you get resources by moving. The game revive your downed character if you win the mission, so you're encouraged to be bold. You can even simply ressurect your downed chararacters in-mission with resources. But despite all that, you have to take each turns carefully because you want to synchronize your character's attacks.

If there's any downside, it's the limited map and enemies. The game focuses on give you a lot of playable characters and loadouts instead of different enemies to shoot.

Definitely recommended if you want alternative from typical cover-based tactics.

By the most literal meaning, this game is "Armored Core Soulslike".

Probably what most people thought first what Armored Core 6 gameplay would be when it's originally announced.

The Emo Dante DmC of Earth Defense Force. As long as you understand it's different than typical EDF it's fine.

I hope there's pocket circuit plot in the next James Bond movie