As you can see in that other control image, you also have special attacks that you can do. So this is one way that Implosion tries to keep you on your toes and keep you paying attention to what you are attacking. Doing those special Strike combos though, those take pauses and leave you vulnerable to other types of enemies. Now, spamming the Strike button will result in much quicker hits and these are great for a certain type of enemy. This is what you will use to avoid enemies though so use it sparingly and only when you need it. So you can’t just go around and spamming the dash to keep away from enemies. This button appears in the bottom right of the screen and it actually has a cooldown. Once you get the hang of moving around, you’re told about your first action move, the Dash. If you’re not touching the screen, you won’t see a digital control pad in the bottom right but once you touch your thumb to the bottom left of the screen you’ll see one appear and this is how you move your warmech around. As with most games nowadays, you are presented with a tutorial that slowly teaches you the ins and outs of the game. This is your first clue that something strange is going on here and hopefully that mystery gives you enough to get you curious.Īs soon as you gain control of your warmech, you are eased into the game. When you land and you start to look around, you notice that the landing pad has been kept up and the overgrowth has been trimmed back. You’re in communication with some people in charge(and your sister) throughout the levels and they will help guide you and feed you information about what is going on while you are playing. Everything you tell it to do with your mind, it does in the battlefield.Īs I said, the mission is to find out what happened to the Earth and what is going on there right now. Instead, you are mentally connected to them with your mind. I don’t even think you are actually inside them(like in Pacific Rim). This reminded me a little bit of The Matrix and Pacific Rim as you are simply controlling these machines with your mind. Instead, you are ‘jacked in’, so to speak, into these machines that they call warmechs.
You don’t physically go to the planet’s surface though. This team is working for some company(or maybe the government) and you are on a mission to find out what happened(or is happening) on Earth right now. Something happened to these siblings as they have lost their parents(in what seems to have been during those events) and they are now on their own. You learn that you are on a mission with your sister and after so many years you are actually able to make it back to Earth. You’re told that the Earth has gone through some catastrophic events that has forced everyone off the planet. This time around, things are more hand-drawn and while it looks like it might be animated, I think it’s only the camera that is moving around(mixed with some effects). Once you begin the campaign for the first time, you are shown what the other art style of Implosion has. There’s also an Expert mode which is probably unlocked after you complete a certain percentage of the game.
This is where you go through the story elements of the game(which generally happens before and/or after each level) and this is probably where the majority of players will spend most of their time. Campaign mode is just as you would expect. The developers are so proud of their opening intro, and probably spent a lot of money getting it made, that they want you to be able to watch it any time you wish. This is also a reason why so many games focus more on gameplay than things like story or graphics.Īfter the intro movie, you’re taken to the main menu of Implosion and from here you have three options. This is why you see so many mobile games with the ability to pause and resume at a hat. Millions of people love to play games for 1 or 2 minutes here, 5 to 10 minutes there so having an incredibly complex game(story wise or gameplay wise) can be quite off-putting to this new type of gamer. Still, none of these strategies are very complex on the surface, but when you implement them into a sandbox style area(like hack and slash games tend to be) that is where the fun happens. Drop in some bad guys to beat up and let the player come up with some combos that they like to spam until they are dead.ĭevelopers can add in various types of bad guys that require specific strategies like using a certain combo on them, dodging out-of-the-way or even hitting them in a certain spot. Hack and slash games do not have to have very complex and in-depth gameplay elements in order to be fun.
There are very few console caliber games that transition into the mobile space as easy as hack and slash games have.
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