Game Title: Mechadroid Clash
Nation: The Democratic Republic of Gandoor
Developer: Tanoshii Games
Publisher: Tanoshii Games
Platform(s): GameKon 6 (Gandoor), Titan
Genre: Science-fiction action-adventure, third-person shooter.
Release Date: 19 March 2017 (GameKon 6, Gandoor), TBA (Titan)
Game Summary: Based upon the popular Human-Robot Fighting Squadron: Mechadroid franchise, Mechadroid Clash is a new story that features a new group of humans piloting their Mechadroids, futuristic vehicles able to transform into piloted robots, battling against the evil Kruls with the fate of the entire galaxy at stake. Players will control several pilots as they control their Mechadroids in levels ranging from a futuristic human colony on another planet, the middle of an asteroid field, in the emptiness of space, and more. The game features somewhat open-ended level design, with several different paths through the story leading to 30 different possible endings to the story. (Only one path and ending is the canon ending, however) Mechadroid Clash also features realistic destruction physics and about 90% of the terrain is destructible.
The game also features bonus unlockable content, including: 10 episodes of the original Human-Robot Fighting Squadron: Mechadroid TV series from 1989, concept art, a music player that lets you listen to music unlocked as you play the game, a detailed model viewer that lets you view the models for every character of importance in the game and many models of less important characters, and more.
Design choices
Complexity level: Medium complex
Difficulty curve: Depends on the difficulty setting. The difficulty settings available are: Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Difficult, Very Difficult, and Extremely Difficult (Extremely Difficult is only available after having beaten the game at least once on any difficulty level above Easy)
Tutorial: There is an optional tutorial before starting a new game, as well as optional tutorials whenever new gameplay features are introduced. Tutorials can be replayed by accessing the "Tutorials" option on the main menu when not playing the game.
Multiplayer: There is a multiplayer which allows up to 50 players to play as either humans or the Krul (up to 25 on each side) and battle each other for dominance on 35 maps based on settings from the single-player mode and settings based upon the various Mechadroid series starting from the 1989 TV series to the movie Mechadroid: The Dimensional Tear, the most recent Mechadroid media to be released as of the game's original release date in Gandoor. The multiplayer even lets create their own Mechadroids and Krul ships, with more parts being unlocked the more you play.
Single-player/Multiplayer focus: In numbers, 70% single-player focus, 30% multiplayer focus. The single-player is the primary focus of the game, the multiplayer is an add-on. However, we at Tanoshii Games have made sure that it does not feel just tacked on and useless.
Design principle: We want people who are playing Mechadroid Clash to feel like they are playing an actual Mechadroid series, not merely a waste of the license on a mediocre game.
Self-Evaluation (Out of Five)
Gameplay: 5
Design: 3
Writing: 4
Replayability: 5 (The 30 different endings and multiple difficulty modes ensure that people will want to play the game multiple times to see all that the game has to offer)
Graphics: 4 (We worked with
Miyamoto Productions, the animation company responsible for Mechadroid series, having them design the characters, Mechadroids, and settings for the game, which we then made into 3D models and utilized cell-shading to make the game resemble an animated TV series)
Media Information
Voice acting: Yes
Overall voice acting quality: Very good, all major voices are provided by major voice actors from Gandoor.
Cutscenes: Yes
Overall cutscenes quality: Cutscenes are in-engine, so they are the same cell-shaded graphics as used for the regular gameplay.
Gameplay/Cutscenes time ratio: For every 1 hour of gameplay, there is about 15 minutes of cutscenes.
Business Information
Downloadable or Retail: Both
Titan Exclusive or Multiplatform: Multiplatform
DRM: None
Recomended Vendor Price (USD):- Standard Edition - $49.99
- Limited Edition - $59.99 (Comes with the game and a strategy guide)
- Collectors Edition - $99.99 (Comes with the game in a collectible case, hardcover strategy guide and art book, soundtrack CD, limited-edition CLAUDIA SPRINGER VERSION Ami Fujita [one of the main characters in the game] figure [figure consists of Fujita's Mechadroid, fully transformable from her Model 6 Valkyrie fighter to robot with a removable and articulated Fujita figure, the Mechadroid stands 20 centimetres tall in robot-mode and the Fujita figure is 7.5 centimetres tall] decoed like Claudia Springer's Model 1 Valkyrie fighter from the original Human-Robot Fighting Squadron: Mechadroid TV series)
Company Representative: Rin Nishimura
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