(If you die mid-stage with lives in hand, you'll respawn at one of the many checkpoints, and if you reach the boss but lose the fight you'll have the option to skip the platforming sequences.)Īt times the simplicity of the platforming can get a little mundane - you can skip over the majority of enemies, focusing only on the forced battles where the game locks you in an area until you defeat all the megacs nearby - but it's balanced out by some interesting level design.
You start out with three lives, but you'll have to restart the level if you lose them all before reaching the boss. Most of your time will be spent in the campaign, which comes with six stages broken into three levels each and a boss battle at the end. But the fluidity of the combat, mixed with the destructible environments and the vibrant retro-styled graphics makes it a pleasure all the same. The diversity is nice, although it's not as much fun as having a well-known roster of characters beating up a featureless, nameless robot isn't quite the same as kicking Pikachu or Mario into the abyss. There are 150 items in all, as well as a range of colours to jazz up your megac. Beyond the basics, your megac can be equipped with a variety of attacks, including a projectile weapon, a teleport, a jetpack that doubles as an attack and an escape mechanism, a controllable whirlwind, and more. Your character has one attack button, one button for specials, a rechargeable shield and a move that can break opposing shields and launch enemies into the air. What underpins the game is a fighting system almost identical to Smash Bros. As you travel throughout the levels, you'll fight off a variety of robots and collect a range of power-ups. You play a "megac," or a robot, tasked with repelling two rival factions vying for control of the Heartcore, a sentient, AI-like being that powers your little town. The core of Megabyte Punch revolves around combat.
Inspiration has been taken from Mega Man and Mario, with a degree of exploration and a particular flavour of level design absent until developers decided they wanted to resurrect the spirit of yesteryear.
Megabyte Punch fits into the second category while it's technically an action-platformer, the debut effort from Reptile Games is best described as a homage to Nintendo's beat-em-up classic Super Smash Bros. The latter applies to a lot of Kickstarter titles, especially the most successful ones: games like Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous and Project Eternity are all trading on the popularity of genres that owned a greater share of the spotlight in the late 90s and early 2000s. You can broadly separate indie games this year into two genres: those trying to deliver different, unusual experiences (the dystopian Papers, Please, macabre games like Depression Quest and Cart Life or co-op centric games like Monaco) and those weighing heavily on nostalgia (the rogue-like Rogue Legacy, or old-school RPGs like Shadowrun Returns).
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