BREAKARTS: Digital racing robots
So, the CosmicBreak 2 kickstarter hasn't been doing to well and I think the best outcome for the long run would be for the project to not reach their goal by the time this campaign ends. From my perspective it seems like whoever running the crowd funding campaign complete mishandled the execution and management of the kickstarter. If it gets funded during this project it would justify their decisions, but failing will prompt them to review the project and potentially revive it in a much better form. However, this is just a recap to followup the previous post so lets move onto the main topic.
While doing my usual indie game crawl across the internet I found an article on the Japanese version of Playism for BREAKARTS, a racing game with battling giant robots. For people from my generation this is reminiscent of IGPX with a look similar to Armored Core. Back in the day, and actually a few weeks ago, IGPX aired on Toonami and as advertised it involved giant skating robots that fought each other while performing laps. An interesting thing about IGPX is that it actually had two versions, a pilot miniseries and a full TV series. The premise of the series was slightly different from the TV series, the tournament was purely combat and it was switched to racing for the TV series. Even though it's a pretty generic premise as far as giant robot shows go, I preferred the the standard tournament from the miniseries. Call it an old-school preference, but that's just what gets the blood pumping when watching robots brawl. Putting nostalgia aside, BREAKARTS appears to be for mobile devices and they successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign that ended with 559,000 yen. I have a hard time telling exactly what is happening from the gameplay videos, but I would compare it with F-Zero due to having negative consequences when exiting the track boundaries. Since I haven't played it or anything, the main purpose of this post is to mention it since it looks cool. Definitely a title to add my "games I'd play if I owned a smartphone" list, hopefully someone notices the game and translates an English version. Here's a link for the official website.
While doing my usual indie game crawl across the internet I found an article on the Japanese version of Playism for BREAKARTS, a racing game with battling giant robots. For people from my generation this is reminiscent of IGPX with a look similar to Armored Core. Back in the day, and actually a few weeks ago, IGPX aired on Toonami and as advertised it involved giant skating robots that fought each other while performing laps. An interesting thing about IGPX is that it actually had two versions, a pilot miniseries and a full TV series. The premise of the series was slightly different from the TV series, the tournament was purely combat and it was switched to racing for the TV series. Even though it's a pretty generic premise as far as giant robot shows go, I preferred the the standard tournament from the miniseries. Call it an old-school preference, but that's just what gets the blood pumping when watching robots brawl. Putting nostalgia aside, BREAKARTS appears to be for mobile devices and they successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign that ended with 559,000 yen. I have a hard time telling exactly what is happening from the gameplay videos, but I would compare it with F-Zero due to having negative consequences when exiting the track boundaries. Since I haven't played it or anything, the main purpose of this post is to mention it since it looks cool. Definitely a title to add my "games I'd play if I owned a smartphone" list, hopefully someone notices the game and translates an English version. Here's a link for the official website.
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