Go Mecha Ball is an arcade motion recreation developed by Whale Peak Video games and revealed by Tremendous Uncommon Originals. It combines roguelite components with twin-stick shooter mechanics at its best. When you’re on the lookout for one thing difficult, then this shall be price testing.
The premise of Go Mecha Ball is to defeat the malfunctioning AI. In any other case, there isn’t an excessive amount of of a narrative at play right here. It’s closely gameplay-based reasonably than following a storyline and creating characters. For an action-arcade recreation, I’m completely okay with this. I don’t want a lot cause to shoot my method via hordes of enemies. It’s enjoyable both method.
Apart from capturing, Go Mecha Ball takes inspiration from pinball. Every degree has a comparatively open ground plan with obstacles and ramps you’ll have to maneuver round (however so do the enemies). While you first begin the sport, you’re outfitted with one gun. As you defeat enemies, they’ll drop different weapons you’ll be able to decide up and swap between as much as two at a time. Enemies may also drop ammo, so make sure to decide that up as nicely.
You don’t have to defeat enemies simply by capturing them, although. That is the place the pinball is available in. Your character can flip right into a ball, roll round, and sprint into the enemies and obstacles. Assume Sonic the Hedgehog model. Dashing into enemies as a ball damages them and might actually kill them. It might probably additionally knock them over the sting of the map. (Fortunately, you’ll be able to’t fall over the sting!)
I discovered I may get via the waves of enemies simply as a ball without having to fret about studying the twin-stick controls. Nonetheless, that additionally precipitated me to study the exhausting method that for those who defeat enemies like that, they received’t drop cash. And for those who push them over the sting, they undoubtedly received’t drop cash. There are two forms of foreign money to gather: yellow cash and blue, often known as glitch cash. The yellow ones can help you purchase gadgets from the store and the glitch cash can help you go to a merchandising machine to get a capability, improve, or weapon at random.
Weapons are different forms of weapons that may drop from enemies, permitting you extra of a variety on defeat them. Talents are additional assaults with cooldown instances your mecha ball can have. For instance, you’ll be able to leap tremendous excessive and trigger AOE harm once you land, throw grenades, or stun enemies. Upgrades make you stronger, akin to rising the gun harm or increase harm, rising your max well being, and extra.
As soon as you utilize your glitch cash for these, you don’t get the improve, skill, or weapon immediately. You merely have unlocked it for the prospect to get it throughout your play via. After each degree, you’ll be able to select from a random pool of as much as three upgrades or skills to make your self stronger for the subsequent degree.
Every degree is split into three waves of enemies that more and more get stronger—some shoot lasers, others chase you as a ball of their very own, and extra. When you make it via the three hordes, you’ll get to decide on an improve or skill, after which transfer onto the subsequent degree of three waves. Get via three ranges (9 waves whole) and also you’ll have the choice to spend these yellow cash on the store. Right here you should buy one other improve, skill, or weapon. Or, you’ll be able to heal as much as 50% of your well being. Nonetheless, I discovered the store gadgets to be too costly. I virtually by no means had sufficient cash to purchase something. Even after killing enemies with the weapons, they didn’t appear to drop sufficient foreign money for me to heal myself proper earlier than the massive boss.
Sure, Go Mecha Ball has bosses. After visiting the store, you’re thrown right into a battle. It took me a number of tries to defeat the primary boss. I wasn’t kidding once I mentioned this recreation was difficult. Nonetheless, I had hoped to get via the primary boss with relative ease because it’s the primary boss. My drawback was that I had low well being and couldn’t afford to heal earlier than the battle. Once I lastly beat the boss, I assumed I’d get a free heal. Sadly, I didn’t. The sport threw me into the subsequent degree of three waves of enemies once I solely had two HP. I died instantly, and that’s once I discovered the sport doesn’t save in any respect.
Go Mecha Ball is a type of video games the place it’s good to see how far you’ll be able to go in a single sitting. There are solely 4 worlds; if you wish to full it, you’ll want to take action in a single gameplay session. Now, that is the place I bought pissed off with the sport. I perceive follow makes good, however to you’re employed so exhausting on one thing just for it to all get erased in the long run was tremendous disappointing.
Let me clarify what I imply. While you lose a run on this recreation, nothing carries over aside from the glitch cash you’ve collected and haven’t used but. No matter skills and upgrades you bought with glitch cash have reset, too. You should use your remaining glitch cash on upgrades, skills, and weapons you could have already unlocked. The yellow cash don’t carry over in any respect. So, I didn’t have any hope of saving up for that store to heal myself earlier than the boss battle. I discovered this once I died in the course of the ranges earlier than the primary boss, however I had hoped defeating a boss would function some kind of checkpoint or can help you maintain what you already labored so exhausting to realize. However no, it fully resets, solely permitting you to maintain what remaining glitch cash you had left over.
Earlier, I mentioned this recreation is an effective problem, and it’s. Nonetheless, the longer I performed, the extra pissed off I bought. I didn’t see a lot incentive to maintain attempting when nothing I already achieved carried over. Nomatter how exhausting I labored, I’d at all times begin again at sq. one if I misplaced.
That doesn’t imply this recreation isn’t good, although. I nonetheless had enjoyable with it. I simply don’t suppose I’ve the persistence to grasp the mechanics. With that mentioned, the controls have been fluid, clean, and fast-paced. It was a whole lot of enjoyable to stumble upon the enemies as a ball. The music is a bop, and the graphics are simple on the eyes, too. When you’re up for that problem, then actually give Go Mecha Ball a strive.
