Steambot Chronicles: PS2
Recently out in the US, and previously known as Bumpy Trot in Japan (and as yet unnavailable in the UK, bah), Steambot Chronicles is a PS2 role-play game. Now, I’ve not played this yet – but reviews seem to be fairly favourable.
The plot concerns the plight of a young man called Vanilla who washes up on a beach with his memories gone. In standard console RPG fare, you move from area to area, talking to people, making friends and doing tasks for people. But that’s not the important part – the important part is that you do a lot of your travelling, through this rural-industrial era landscape, in a Steampunk mech-walker. That’s right – capped mechanics take spanners to these ‘Trots’ and tinker with them at your behest.
Combat seems to be done in the ‘Trot’ vehicles, with various items in the world to be blown up (I mean really, what’s the life expectancy of a barrel these days?). I don’t know much more about it than this – but the Steampunk-ness is surely attracting me to it.
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