Steel assault 37/10/2023 ![]() It felt great feeling my thumbs dance around my gamepad while adrenaline flowed through my body as I continuously tried, and failed, to pass that section. One level auto-scrolled upward with green acid rising from the bottom and I had to figure out how to continually grapple-jump through a pair of parallel conveyer belts while shooting and dodging enemies. But it doesn’t take too long before you’re balancing those basics while attacking or dodging enemies and avoiding obstacles. At first, its use is pretty mundane since most opportunities to deploy it are boiled down to attaching it between two walls or moving between lower and higher floors. You can effortlessly fire it in eight directions to reach different heights, avoid traps, or you use it to place yourself in advantageous situations. You obviously have a capable gun, you can slide, and there are various power-ups you should grab that alters your weapon’s abilities, but the most interesting is the grappling hook, which functions more like a zipline. There aren’t a lot of abilities and tools you use. As I learned from my mistakes and became more proficient using my tools, I took less damage and even some later stages felt easier. Of course, taking damage and dying becomes frustrating at times but you’re never caught so off guard that you’re wondering how you got hit. Your character responds instantly to your commands, making most deaths easier to stomach. You’ll see all the classic tricks used from the 90’s to keep you on your toes, but it’s your job to use whatever you have to avoid them and Steel Assault successfully places that responsibility in your hands. ![]() No matter what stage you’re on, enemies pour on screen, surprising you by hopping out of buildings or leaping at you just as you approach the right spot, and you have to deal with craftily placed obstacles to avoid. A few clunky mechanics and hard to distinguish graphics make Steel Assault tougher than it should be, but the high-wire difficulty, retro sounds, and short length more than make up for any downsides.Īrcade games typically increased in difficulty as you made it to later levels, but Zenovia Interactive chose to make jumping through levels and using tools in unique ways as the method to keep the challenge steady from beginning to end. Steel Assault is that tough-as-nails, trial by error kind of platformer, and its style is inspired by old-school, wallet-draining 90’s arcade games like Metal Slug, but also features influences from Contra. In early 2046, General Pierce’s soldiers started refurbishing and deploying old nuclear, military, and robotic tech, and they started restoring the power grids of various abandoned cities which they now moved to occupy.If any of the Soulsborne games were a 2D side-scrolling run and gun, I’d probably enjoy them a lot more. Taro grew up to be a core member of the Daybreak Resistance, an underground insurgency led by Hans Albrecht and Sonia Singh. His regime began a large-scale purge of all its real and suspected enemies, including protagonist Taro Takahashi’s parents. One man rose to rule over the ashes: Magnus Pierce, a famous inventor and roboticist turned army general. The Second Pacific War saw the debut of the thorium bomb: a radiation dispersal weapon which caused almost no visible destruction, but which could render entire cities uninhabitable for several years, preserving their resources for specialized robotic units to sweep in and pick them apart (while their human populations fled or died off).Īmerica’s cities were decimated. ![]() ![]() The late 2030s were the era of radiological warfare. Steel Assault originally made it to Switch in 2021 as a digital release.
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