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|  "Tech Romancer review"
, posted Fri 28 Jun 19:46
Tech Romancer: Perfection when it comes to fighting mechas? Quite probably!
A week ago, a friend came from another state, and he bought Tech Romancer for Dreamcast, then (as usual) I borrowed it from him...
I played this game in arcades some years ago, but never paid attention because I thought it was just another 3D button masher, boy, I was wrong, very wrong...
This game is pure happines from beggining to end, and if you’re an anime lover, you will worship this game!
Tech Romancer (or Choukousenki Kikaioh in Japan) is a Capcom fighter, in it you control big mechas instead of humans, and your attacks are not your classic hadoken or reppuken, the mechas use missiles, laser beams, bombs, and stuff like that.
Gameplay: this game looks like a button masher at first, and while it’s true to a degree, it’s really enjoyed when it’s fully mastered.
The game plays basically in a 3d enviroment, your moves are quite limited, but you can wander through the stage with no problems.
The game offers the same motions for all characters, there are not qfc motions, just forward, back and a combination of buttons, if you press down or up, you will walk to the desired position on the 3D field.
There is a guard button, a jump button, two basic attacks and a button to change weapon.
This may feel weird at first, I mean, a block and a jump button? Sounds weird indeed, but you get used to it, believe me, and it works wonders.
And while we are at the gameplay thing, sometimes you destroy buildings, little mountains light towers and stuff scattered across the stage, when you do that, you will find items that will help you on your battle. There are tons of weapons with different uses, curative items, itmes that increases power, defense and armor.
Speaking of armor, let me explain the game system a bit: You start with a bar of energy, when this bar is depleted, you proceed to the next bar, and your opponent (or you) will continue fighting with the remaining energy (Think of it like in Killer Instinct or in Vampire Savior). You have an armor counter, initially it’s at 100%, and it decreases when you receive damage while guarding (it decreases when you get normal damage as well, but not as much as when you guard); when this armor counter reaches zero, you will receive more damage, even when you’re guarding, so, turtling is not an option in this game.
You also have your usual supers and specials, but when the enemy’s second energy bar has received 40% of damage (or more), you can perform a final attack move, usually these moves are slow, but if it connects, it kill the oponent inmediatly.
You have a wide selection of styles in this game, you have the classic agile mechas, strong but slow and the like.
Every mecha responds pretty good, there’s a character for every style of gameplay.
Sound: This game doesn’t have excellent music, but the tracks aren’t annoying or repetitive, they’re just not very memorable...
The voices sound clear and crispy, there’s tons of voice acting in this game (in japanese of course), and they all sound very cool (you gotta love when they say something in engrish, he he).
The battle sounds are good, you have your usual metal smashing sounds, beam sounds, and similar stuff... Oh, and explosions, tons of explosions!
Graphics: This game is average when it comes to graphics, it has many cool effects though...
Some of these effects are way too cool, for example, when you land from a very strong impact, you will leave a crater, or you will leave trace of your way on the floor. And of course, you can destroy buildings!
The stages are very good looking, you fight on a desert, city, snow, a terrain filled with lava, airports and some alien landscapes...
A detail I like a lot, is when your mecha get his/her armor destroyed, you can see the damage that the mecha has sustained, I mean, you can see broken armor and sparks flying on the damaged part!
Extras: Now, this is were the game really shines! It has the coolest single mode on any fighting game (IMHO of course), depending on the mecha you choose, you will have an unique storyline to follow, but that’s not all, because most mechas have branching paths, and some of them have more than a pilot. This is truly a gem when it comes to single player mode.
There’s the Hero Challenge mode too, this is, basically, a 1P game, without story, you fight all the mechas in order the reach the number one spot at the ranking, and playing this mode will let you earn poinrs...
Points? Yeah, points! There are TONS (and when I say TONS I mean TONS) of things to unlock! I won’t spoil anything, I bet you will enjoy unlocking things for weeks (or even months!)
This game, is a must have if you like fighting games, nuff said!
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