Armored Shell Nightjar offers an experience mech-heads will be unable to resist: the chance to pilot a giant stompy mech from behind its imposing dashboard, by physically pulling levers, pushing buttons and adjusting sliders. It’s a very specific kind of fantasy and one I’m only too happy to get onboard with, not least because Armored Shell lets me operate said dashboard – forces is probably the right word – with just the mouse.
Sure, it’s not as tactile as using the Steel Battalion controller, but it immerses me behind the steering wheel well enough. Except it’s not a steering wheel, but a joystick-looking thing at the bottom of the screen. And to stomp forward, I push the throttlelooking thing on the right. I should probably Google the terminology, but I’m far too busy pulling this cord to make the mech jump vertically, and this enormous button to… well, I should probably leave something for you to discover.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?