The real challenge, like the finest Platinum Games offerings, comes from completing the game with style and achieving those elusive S ranking. There are options to ramp things up or to make things easier, but on the default setting, most seasoned gamers shouldn’t have too much trouble making their way through the majority of the game. This is not an easy game, and in all honesty, it doesn’t do a great job of explaining the mechanics at the start (you’ll need to go in to the menu for that), but it’s not absurdly difficult game either. One of the things it does better than most games in the genre is to provide a genuinely accessible experience.
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Whether it matches the finest games in the Mega Man series is up for debate and will depend largely on whether you prefer the 8-bit incarnation or the flashier 16-bit inspired, X series, but whatever the case, judged on its own merits, Inti Creates’ latest is an exceptional action platformer, one as likely to please newcomers as long-standing fans of the genre. The ongoing story of the evil Sumeragi and the ruling class Adepts, the long suffering Minos and the heroic and suitably grumpy, Copen (otherwise known as iX), won’t be for everyone, but beyond some interesting character buffs linked to listening to additional conversations between stages, it’s easy and in no way detrimental to the gameplay to skip the entirety of the story.Īnd let’s be honest, whether you’re in to the anime-inspired narrative or not, what we’re really here for is the gameplay, and in that department, Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX delivers in spades.
While the story won’t be for everyone, Inti Creates clearly have a love for the world that they have created – something made clear by the surprisingly large amount of dialogue in the game. The mechanics are all largely recognisable, but their use of those mechanics and the way that they play off each other combine to create a surprisingly unique gameplay experience. This is still the genre as you know it, but this is a series that has been fine-tuned to within an inch of its life by a team with more than two decades of experience working in the genre. The latest, and arguably finest game in the series, the rather absurdly named, Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX might deliver little in the way of genuine innovation, but what it lacks in invention, it more than makes up for via its exceptional gameplay, gorgeous art design and brilliant soundtrack. While that game failed to set the retro gaming world alight, its far superior spin-off, Mighty Gunvolt brought attention to the developers flagship series, Gunvolt – Inti Creates’ own take on the genre that, despite the occasional foray in to more 8-bit inspired visuals and gameplay mechanics, primarily takes its roots from the Mega Man X and, for obvious reasons, Zero series of games. With Capcom kind of dropping the ball on the Blue Bomber (despite Mega Man 11 being perfectly decent), Inti Creates have been quietly building their own repertoire of Mega Man-alikes via their hugely successful and largely brilliant Gunvolt series.Īfter splitting from Capcom in the mid-90s, Inti Creates worked on a number of Mega Man Zero and ZX games before more famously assisting on the somewhat ill-fated, Mighty No.
Inti Creates….well, for all intents and purposes, Inti Creates Mega Man games.
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