Mecha Break, the lately launched free-to-play mecha shooter from Wonderful Seasun Video games, is a hell of a number of enjoyable. The minute I discovered of its existence, I knew I’d be devoting quite a lot of time to beating up big robots with my very own big robotic. I didn’t, nonetheless, count on to be devoting quite a lot of time to the sport’s character creator.
In any case, the mechs are ostensibly the star of the present right here. Except for a couple of transient moments in cutscenes, gamers don’t spend a complete lot of time taking a look at their player-character, a human pilot, as these pilots naturally spend most of their time hanging out contained in the aforementioned big robots.
However the lack of player-character screen-time definitely hasn’t stopped me from treating Mecha Break prefer it’s Infinity Nikki, as a result of holy smokes, this sport has the most effective character creators I’ve encountered in latest reminiscence. At this level, I’d fairly funnel my artistic urges into Mecha Break’s wildly customizable character-builder than spend hours messing round in The Sims 4’s Create-A-Sim mode.
The quantity of element is what really blows me away. Like many video games with character creators, Mecha Break permits you to select from a collection of pre-made characters and tweak them to your liking. Hair, eye, and pores and skin shade can all be altered, and albeit, given how little screen-time Mecha Break’s pilots get, Wonderful Seasun Video games might have simply left it at that. However as a substitute of tossing in a couple of customization choices and calling it a day, Mecha Break’s builders went in a totally completely different route. Along with enhancing your pilot’s physique form, you too can considerably alter their peak. As a 5’3” lady who continuously finds herself balanced on her toes in actual life, it’s extremely cool to see my equally-short Mecha Break pilot climbing into an unlimited mech.
Mecha Break’s character creator isn’t simply good, it’s phenomenal. Frankly, it’s higher than the character creators supplied by most fashionable single-player RPGs. Mecha Break takes commonplace character-creation options — like multi-colored hair choices, for instance — and elevates them. Gamers can alter their pilot’s hair shade and its size. Bangs will be adjusted individually, permitting gamers to create brief fringe or anime-esque hairstyles with chin-length bangs. Each single a part of a personality’s eye will be tweaked, from the thickness and angle of assorted components of their eyelids to the size of their eyelashes and form of their eyebrows. Pores and skin texture choices vary from tough and grizzled to baby-smooth. Each a part of the face will be molded with precision. You possibly can even alter the size of your pilot’s fingers, a characteristic I’ve by no means personally seen in any sport’s character creator.
Better of all? A lot of the sport’s customization choices are free. Gamers should use Mission Tokens — a plentiful in-game forex earned simply by enjoying the sport — to unlock completely different colours for his or her character’s bodysuit, however in the case of physique tweaks like peak, coiffure, and eye shade, there’s no cost. Further gadgets (like outfits) will be bought from the in-game retailer utilizing actual cash, however I used to be in a position to customise my pilot to my liking with out spending any real-life money.
There are some limitations, in fact. The sport’s mechs (referred to as Strikers) sarcastically have far fewer choices for personalization, regardless of ostensibly being the celebs of the present. Some pilot hairstyles require real-life cash to buy, and the vary of pores and skin tones and physique shapes does go away a bit to be desired. However for a free-to-play sport that hasn’t even been out for per week, Mecha Break’s character customization is completely unbelievable, and presents gamers the power to craft their ultimate pilot with surgical precision.
Mecha Break isn’t a vogue sport, a life-sim, and an MMO, or an RPG. However in the case of character creation and customization, the sport about big, flying robots nonetheless manages to beat franchises like Infinity Nikki, The Sims, and Cyberpunk 2077 at their very own sport, which is not any small feat. Mecha Break is clearly a improbable sport for followers of big robots, but it surely’s additionally a hidden gem for these of us who like to play dress-up.
