KO Mech

KO Mech starts out promising enough, with its bouncy, energetic presentation and soundtrack that provides a perfect match to the simplistic but satisfying core gameplay loop, all about flying around colorful mazes, punching the everloving crap out of hordes of other, less brawl-happy mechs, dashing into random debris to send it flying at mach-speed, bouncing off walls and pulverizing foes into cartoony dust clouds in a way that is as ridiculous as it is massively entertaining, before a room-sized boss delivers some surprisingly well-written comedic dialogue and gets punted into the stratosphere. But it doesn't take long for the deliberate simplicity to really start biting the game in its shiny metal behind, as the levels start to become increasingly maze-like, filled with the same types of glorified punching bags you've been slamming about since the beginning and there is a high-pitched hissing sound as KO Mech starts to run out of steam and you start to feel like you've been playing for hours and so you take a gander at Steam's playtime counter and it says that you've only been playing for around 90 minutes and then the level select screen flashes before your weary eyes, with a …

KO Mech is a Japanese 2D retro pixel twin-stick brawler where you control a robot that looks suspiciously like Brain from Pinky and the Brain. The objective is to move around and punch everything on each level, get a high score for all the things you punched, and move on to the next level. Ok, fun I guess? Nah. It's 2022, I think the gaming industry has really moved on a lot since then and gamers expect more. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the fixed resolution sprites/raster images used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can…

Zany action, and excellent presentation. Sort of in between a bullet hell and a brawler. If it looks fun, you'll probably enjoy it.

seizure-inducing button mash, i have no idea whats happening

This is my favorite game in the world forever and I love you guys.

If you're a fan of G Gundam and are a 80's or 90's kid who enjoys mecha action then I recommend this game. The option of using points to upgrade the abilities of your mech would give this game replay value if it were to be added. If the developers goal was to capture the feel of a Super Nintendo game they nailed it. From the graphics to the simple controls and challenging game play. Thank you for creating this game.