Steambot Chronicles is an interesting little beast that's part mech combat, part role-playing game, and part insane minigame collection that'll leave you running around trying to decide what to do next. Steambot Chronicles is much more than simply another RPG. It combines elements of nearly every genre and puts them in a neatly wrapped, uplifting package with giant robots to boot.
Our blond and bemused hero is Vanilla Bean, a strapping youth who wakes up on a beach with a problem: He's lost his memory. Vanilla is introduced to the trotmobile, a robotlike machine capable of walking upright that's supplanted the automobile in the Steambot world.
Driving a Trotmobile is something of a unique experience. You use both analog sticks to move, pushing them in the same direction to move and different directions to turn, which gives an appropriately mechanical (though kind of rough and unrefined) feel to the controls.
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The choices Vanilla makes, the Trotmobiles he builds, and the friends he keeps are all up to gamers -- completely open-ended gameplay
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Sandbox style gameplay offers a fantastic non-linear action adventure - Make your living playing in a band, farming, or even as a Trotmobile arena fighter
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Customize your gameplay experience - Buy parts to pimp out your Trotmobile, or play music in your own band
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Earn money by learning to play different instruments on busy street corners
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Battle over land, sea, and air in your Trotmobile
A character attempts to find out who attacked them and why while at the same time looking for the secrets behind his mysterious past. Well, that's true - up to a point.
The game gets choppy from time to time, but environmental effects like rain and sunlight add a lot of warmth to the game. Load times create seams in the world, but the towns are full of detail and personality, and when you walk into a building you can look out the window to see street life continuing to bustle.
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