Azure Striker Gunvolt

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супер мега топ гамза + я гражданин нео-аркадии

10+ years later, it's still an amazing game. No matter if you're a casual player or a diehard score attacker, there will be something you'll enjoy in here.

This is a mediocre port and gets repetitive quite quickly. The gameplay is just kind of boring.

Azure Striker Gunvolt, originally for the 3DS, is a Mega-Man X style action platformer that trades out weapon switching for a wider initial moveset. Gunvolt’s lightning abilities are powerful but lacking in precision, so the combat mainly involves swapping between tagging enemies, dodging attacks and frying the opposition. Gunvolt by default has the ability to avoid damage when not attacking, but to get a high score you can’t rely on that, and later levels and challenges may take even that away from you. It’s one of those games that starts you with training wheels and offers you the chance to take them off if you want to go the distance. There’s a crafting mechanic and different guns that change tagging, but honestly I got through the entire game without engaging with these systems. Similarly there’s a narrative but it’s sort of all over the place. It’s not bad but it is just a bit ephemeral, although a bit of that may be a consequence of the direction the sequels took. I enjoyed Azure Striker Gunvolt and would recommend it to fans of action-platformers. Given there is now a three game definitive collection available if this game speaks to you it’s probably worth buying that one…

Mostly fine game that just gets boring and repetitive after a while. Very boring plot with long cutscenes. Weird controls, but without being interesting.