The backgrounds of the game are decent, but there’s nothing about this game visually that I couldn’t see being done on the last generation of systems. Sure you can have some fun switching around clothing and mech parts, but in the end, there’s nothing visually appealing about anything in the game. The character designs are pretty ugly, as are the Trott-Bots (Mechs) themselves. The graphics just did absolutely nothing for me. So did the TMNT multi-platform game released three years ago. It’s not the fact the game was partially cell shaded. It’s not Nightmare of Druaga awful, but man, the visuals were not appealing to me. Ummm…how to put this? This is one of the ugliest games I’ve seen on the PS2. Average, run of the mill and blasé These are the adjectives that you’ll most likely see me using throughout this entire review Nothing bad, but nothing truly interesting. It’s very light hearted though as even the bad guys aren’t really that bad, but once you’ve played any RPG from Dragon Quest on, you’ve pretty much got the gist of this game’s plot.
There’s too much cliche and not enough anything else to really make me care about any of the characters in the game. And those games are still ones I’d chalk up as “Really fun!” If I want a game with little plot, I’ll grab Gradius V or Ikaruga. That’s perfectly fine for some gamers, but for me? Well, I happen to want a good story. You can spend well over 100 hours trying everything out (although sometimes you hit points where the game just won’t let you backtrack), but much the same as the GTA comparisons, there’s little character development of any true substance behind any of the characters. There’s so much to do and see in the game. Steambot Chronicles did turn out to be very much like GTA for a less f*cked-up mindset. The only real way to hit story is to follow and eventually become a Globetrotter via harmonica or guitar. Sure you can become a reporter or gladiator or miner, but none of those ultimately give you much in the way of plot. There’s very little that actually goes on in the game in terms of giving you any sort of substantial story.
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A lead singer without a primadonna attitude or a nose full of coke? Only in an video game! The first character you meet, and the main love interest for Vanilla is a sweet down home good little girl, who happens to be the lead singer of the Globetrotters, the land’s most popular music band. The other characters in the game don’t fare much better on the personality charts. Spikey hair (at least at first), suffers from amnesia, possibly a dark past, and possesses a trinket once owned by the character everyone in the game seems to hate. Vanilla is your prototypical RPG main character, bogged down by nearly every RPG cliche in the book. Yes, I know…I hate the name too, but ever character in the game that has any substance at all is named after a spice or flavour or some sort. Steambot Chronicles is ultimately the tale of a young man named Vanilla Sparks. So in the end, even though SBC wasn’t the game for me, can I still recommend it to you the readers of Inside Pulse? After all, I may not be a racing game fan, but I can appreciate and recognized the level of quality in a game like say, Forza Motorsport. But the job of the critic is to separate his emotion from the actual quality of the game before him. Maybe I had just gotten my hopes up a bit too much regarding the combination of non-linear + Steampunk + Atlus, but I found myself decidedly apathetic towards the game as a whole. In the end however, Steambot Chronicles proved to be merely an above average experience to me.
The latter guess would prove to be correct (after a fashion) once the game arrived in my grubby little hands several weeks ago. That or a Grand Theft Auto that was a little more “All Ages”friendly and featured street performing rather than shiv’ing a whore after engaging in intercourse with her.
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With the game pegged as “Non-Linear Adventure,”I was expecting this game to be something akin to the closest to Oblivion the PS2 would ever get. Red Company and Sacnoth are the biggies, and Atlus (We’ll pretend Samurai Western does not exist.) is the third in the triad of companies thanks to their Megaten games, Hellnight, and various other titles that have tickled my fancy over the years. What can I say? There are few companies I trust to consistently release games I will I enjoy. A steampunk game with customizable mechs and it had the Atlus seal of approval. Which is why Steambot Chronicles caught my eye and made me pretty damn excited. Yes my friends, I have always been and always will be a Steampunk addict. Vanguard Bandits? I own it and love it? Sakura Taisen? I own pretty much every version of these games ever released, from the original Saturn discs to the Dreamcast boxed collection. If you can give me mechs set in a world where oil companies don’t exist, I will buy it. Genre: Action Adventure with Rhythm elements
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