Artelius (アルテリオス), launched 11/13/1987, developed by revealed by Nihon Bussan
This recreation jogs my memory of Zoids — you stroll round an overhead map after which whenever you encounter enemies, you get taken to a first-person motion display the place you shoot the enemies.
The sport begins with the story in English (one walkthrough I noticed mentioned that step 1 is “learn the Japanese story from the sport guide”).
You then undergo slightly introductory sequence the place you develop into a cyborg and assign your stats. I evenly divided them however this isn’t what you need to do — STR is crucial attribute.
It can save you anyplace, but it surely prices 10 cash (grr).
The primary display seems to be like above. You wander round, and whenever you encounter a kind of balls, a combat begins.
The fights don’t have a complete lot of technique — you simply transfer the goal round and shoot the enemy till it dies. If it shoots at you, there isn’t any strategy to dodge. The massive subject is that in case your STR isn’t above the enemy’s Defend score, your assaults do 1 injury every. You’ll nonetheless kill them finally, but it surely takes some time.
Mainly all you do is wander round and transfer up ranges. There are some retailers however they only promote objects that go away after some time.
There doesn’t appear to be a complete lot of depth to this recreation — I performed for some time and by no means actually discovered something fascinating. There are warp gates however you want a sure “weapon stage” to enter a few of them. From what I can see in a walkthrough, nearly all of the sport is simply stepping into these gates to seek out passwords to open different gates, and to realize sufficient ranges to have the ability to enter the longer term gates. There appear to be solely a tiny variety of belongings you really need to do to complete the sport. This mixed with the very repetitive battle system makes this a fairly unappealing recreation. The Japanese evaluations I noticed of it weren’t very complimentary both.
