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MO: Astray is an action puzzle game developed by Archpray and was released on 25 Oct, 2019 by Rayark Inc. on Steam. It’s one of few games that are excellent at every aspect. In 2019, MO: Astray had 97% very positive reviews despite 300 players.

Story

The game takes place in a human’s laboratory on an alien planet when humans began to travel in space. However, many accidents happened, pushed everyone there into chaos and destruction. Players play as a slime and begin the journey to rescue a mysterious female character. If players want to know about the REAL plot, they have to explore by themselves. The information about the main plot are hid in game environment including enemies, secrets, environment around players, even bosses and the name of each chapter.

By completing a chapter, players will unlock a story explaining what had happened before the laboratory was destroyed. These stories will provide players the information about characters’ past and events.

There are 2 endings: Bad and True. Bad end will happen when players only finish the game without exploring the main plot. Or if players collect all the information about the main plot and finish the game, they will unlock True end.

Gameplay

Although the main goal of every puzzle stages is always to find the way to get to the opposite side, it gives you a diverse experience because of the detailed design of puzzle stages. Moreover, when you finish a stage, you will get a present that is that mysterious girl's cute voice :3.

 All puzzle stages force you to use your brain and master your reflexes. Your skills need to be like when s1mple uses AWM and eliminate enemies easily.

There are 2 difficulty: Easy and Standard. According to the description, “Easy” is suitable for the players that have never played this kind of game, and “Standard” is suitable for the players who have already played. But the difficulty of “Easy” is not really different from “Standard”. It’s like the distance between easy mode and normal mode.

There is a boss in each chapter, you must knock it out if you want to continue. The bosses seem to be huge and powerful. This kind of design shows that the slime is so “small” and “weak” . Being similar to Touhou or the others, the new players usually dodge and die many times, find the way to defeat the boss.

Graphics

Visually, MO: Astray has detailed pixel graphics with moody background. It left a strong impression on almost of players.

 
Soundtracks

The tracks were carefully made to suit for each puzzle stage. Most of them have dark and sad background music, which represent the tragic events in the past. Especially, the tracks of all boss fights are very great, they make you feel comfortable when playing.

The theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bblhKQGhVLc.

Conclusion: 9/10

MO: Astray is worth playing for players who don’t like pixel graphics game or Indie game fans. And this is the first game which Rayark released on Steam so let’s support them ($14,99). You won’t regret buying it!

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As a new branch of the emerging battle simulation genre, Total Tank Simulator as its name will recreate epic tank battles in World War II, with military units typical for each faction at that time. It is a combination of tactics, array and first-person shooter, providing a completely unique experience like never before.

Super cool campaign play

Total Tank Simulator has an extremely epic campaign part, with battles set in the battlefield in Europe World War II. Nearly all factions appear in the game such as Germany, England, France, the USA, Poland and the Soviet Union ... give players a huge number of units. Each country will have a separate play for the corresponding events in history, for example, if you choose the German side, it will be the campaign to attack Russia, and the UK and the US will land on the coast to attack. Axis faction ...

Each part of the campaign will span each year of the World War, it is divided into individual stages, the goal is that you will have to calculate the move so that it is enough to reach the designated point. Each move will correspond to a battle, the player will be given a fixed amount of resources to buy soldiers, Total Tank Simulator has many game modes such as Deathmatch is 2 sides spread soldiers then rush in or wave like Like the door, you will be given a certain number of soldiers to defend against each attack of enemies.

Because the game is based on a historical theme, Total Tank Simulator pays great attention to the diversity of units. In total there are 4 types of soldiers common to all sides are artillery, tanks, support vehicles, aircraft and infantry, then depending on the country they will be classified down, for example Germany is strong in tanks, Poland are infantry and the US is more inclined to the air force. The game is also quite funny when it will try to integrate a few memes, such as the German firefighter (Flammenwerfer) or the bears with guns on their backs made as Russian armored vehicles.

After each battle the player will receive money and upgrade points, all units in Total Tank Simulator can "evolve" to become stronger as you upgrade your skills in RPG games. You can choose a lot of different branches, focusing on strength, speed or reduce the cost of the military ... depending on many different tactics. Moreover, the game also allows players to recruit officers to assist, in order to increase the hidden stats for each type of soldier.

The battlefield of Total Tank Simulator is quite similar to Total War, each side will be at the top of a fixed map, the player will arrange all soldiers at their disposal and then we will advance towards the opposite side to automatically attack. In general, this style is more like playing chess than arraying, because you can not control your army in any particular direction or microphone like Total War. The good thing is that players can cover and enjoy the battle more, not to mention it also combines with role-playing.

Players can switch to the perspective of any unit in their army, then directly control it as a first-person shooter. Total Tank Simulator does quite well this when each unit is equipped with very terrorist weapons, say for example the most common soldiers also have rifles, pistols, hand grenades, petrol bombs and even knives ... similar order with the rest.

This style of play is very similar to Battlefield, because it gives players a clear sense of the fierce battle in the first perspective, as well as many other factors. You will see in a big battle how weak the individual is, because even if he is as good as a headshot saint, it will seep into the tower before thousands of enemies. Players can switch anytime or when the current unit is defeated.

Freely customize thousands of units

This unique game of Total Tank Simulator makes it quite interesting, especially when you unlock after dozens of different units of soldiers. For example, there are missions that require the player to use the entire infantry, which sounds very impossible, but you can immersive into a gunner using a sniper, then wriggly handle all enemy officers. is to win without having to kill the whole thing.

Each unit in the game will conflict with the rules of pull-hammer-bao, such as anti-aircraft artillery to destroy tanks, tanks used to destroy several machine guns and bombers will be fighter planes. crush. Therefore, each battle you will consider and how to counter the enemy, because after entering the battle, it can not be fixed because it is all automatically, if the Total War a little soldiers can offset by Micro Total Tank Simulator does not have that.

The images in Total Tank Simulator are quite strange, they are more like polygons combined together, so you will hardly see the difference except the colors of the factions. Explosion effects as well as bullets fired in the game are also very normal, compared to other arrayed games, it is completely inferior, so those who are difficult will probably not like this type. The music of Total Tank Simulator is good, but the monotony and the voiceover are few, so playing a lot will begin to fade.

The counter-play style of countering the Total Tank Simulator also loses interest when you have fully upgraded, because it is impossible to feel the virtue from the soldiers who spend a lot of money on them directly. control them. And finally, despite being set in World War II, most of the battles are organized and then rushed into each other, so we do not recognize the important events.

Conclusion

Although the image is not very good, the gameplay of Total Tank Simulator is quite good when creating tons of tanks on the fierce battlefield.

Of course, in an easy way, Total Tank Simulator is still a playable game for entertainment, although it may not have the depth as the mainstream Total War series, but at least not many games allow you. Tank battle with the number up to hundreds of such where.

Enjoy! :3