Gravity Circuit

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The Virus Army has returned, and it's up to Kai, the Gravity Circuit, to stop them. Rescue civilians, power up, and put a stop to the Virus Army! If you've seen Mega Man before, this is similar. You choose between 8 stages with a boss at the end, once they're defeated you unlock their powers. To be more specific, this game is more similar to Mega Man Zero, focusing on high mobility while attacking your enemies closely. Kai is pretty smooth to control, and he has a pretty vast moveset. He can punch, slide, wall-jump, divekick, summersault, and use powers from bosses. You also have a Grappling Hook that can be used for mobility, but also as a weapon. You can use it to grab some projectiles, or even enemies to throw it at other enemies. What makes this game great is its combat. You can just punch enemies, or you can combo them by using Bursts. Using those can launch enemies, allowing you to follow up with more punches and Bursts. Most can be acquired by buying them after defeating a boss. The game has 20 different Bursts. They're pretty different from each other, and you can make a loadout with 4 different ones. You can customise Kai quite a bit via Chips too. There's 10 Palette Chips, and only one can be equipped at a time. Those modify Kai based on bosses, and have a variety of effects, from giving him projectiles to adding new moves. My personal favorite is Heavy Orange, due to how many buffs it gives to the Grappling Hook, and a better divekick. Lastly, we have Booster Chips. There's 20 of them and you can have 3 at a time. Those can make you get more energy, give more survivability, increase your mobility or your offense. Due to all this, there's a lot of variety and great replayability thanks to different builds. You can focus on getting energy to spam Bursts, or you can make a tanky one, or a Grappling Hook build, or you can even make some that makes you act as close to the bosses as possible. And there's more after you beat the game. You unlock New Game+, allowing to restart the game with everything you have. Circuit Mode, a mode that allows you to use health to use Bursts if you lack enough energy. And my favorite: Modifiers. Those can make the game much harder. We have: Master Levels: Changes the layout of every level, making them harder. Rude Enemies: Make enemies and bosses harder. Also gives bosses more health if used on the Hard difficulty. Double Hazards: Hazards deal 2x damage. Single Credit: No checkpoints. Dying kicks you out of the level. Can't be enabled with Iron Circuit. Iron Circuit: Permadeath. Dying sends you back to the title screen. Can't be enabled with Single Credit. Flip World: Flips your screen vertically. Combining everything together made me beat this game over 20 times. This may look odd due to my low playtime, but that's because I played this game on my PS4 before and have 55,5 hours of playtime in there. And we have the soundtrack, which is fantastic. The entire thing was made by Dominic Ninmark, the same guy responsible for the Mega Man X Corrupted soundtrack (yes, that one fan-game that has been in development for a decade). I believe the biggest problem I have with this game is the balancing, it's very flawed. Let's start with Palette Chips. Playful Blue turns your jump into an attack. I don't see any reason to use this when the rest is better at helping you offensively, and this can screw your combos by triggering invincibility early on bosses. Fading Onyx. All it does is make you take double damage, that's it. This was fine back then since it was the only option to make the game harder, but now we have modifiers so this aged poorly. Bursts have more problems. If you use a loadout with Hardware Barrier, Gravity Dash, Clone Array and Surface Render, there's pretty much no reason to use any other Bursts. Hardware Barrier is the best defensive Burst. Gravity Dash is very versatile, it's great for combat and platforming. Clone Array is the best Burst is the entire game. It creates 2 clones behind Kai that copies what he does, including Bursts. This buffs most of the Bursts, and when combined with Surface Render, gives you the most busted combo in the entire game. Thanks to this, pretty much half of the Bursts are not worth using. I wish some Bursts had different costs. This could have added some variety, and also helped with balancing. It would also be neat if they had unique interactions that lead to more powerful effects, like using Heavenly Piledrive on a Explosive Decoy. And then we have the aspect with the worst balancing, the Booster Chips. As I mentioned earlier in this review, there's 20 different ones and you have 3 slots. Let's talk about Air Jumper. This Booster Chip allows your character to double jump, and this game is a platformer. Needless to say, this is the best Chip in the game by a landslide. There is no reason whatsoever to not always have this equipped. I really feel like this is something Kai should be able to do passively from the start, or shouldn't be in the game at all, since it's so impactful that you will always have this equipped. So now we actually have 19 different Booster Chips and 2 slots for them. Now we have Dodge Slider. This allows you to be completely invincible while you're sliding. This adds so much survivability that it once again becomes a must equip. So now we really only have 18 different Booster Chips and only a single slot to choose. It feels like 50% of the Chips are not worth using, 25% are ok, and 25% are amazing. Seriously, there's some that all they do is allow you to manually slide down walls, or have a magnet for collectables. Those things are competing against things like a double jump. This really screws with build variety since it effectively becomes just using the best Chips. I wish the chips were all impactful, or they used a system similar to Hollow Knight, where they would cost a certain amount to be equipped. More impactful ones cost alot, weaker ones would cost less. Alternatively, maybe make some of the Chips have downsides. As much as I praised Kai being smooth to control before, there's some things that I don't like. The divekick has Kai do 2 entire frontflips before he actually attacks, making it take half a second to come out. This make it feel much less responsive when every other move he does comes out instantly. The Slide barely goes somewhere. Feels pretty worthless unless you're using the Dodge Slider Chip, or the Speedy Teal Palette Chip. The Grappling Hook is also quite clunky and takes some time to get used to it. Difficulty is a bit wonky. The start is a struggle but the moment you get some upgrades the game gets much easier and only really gets hard on the last stage. This is even more apparent if you enable Master Levels or Rude enemies or both. The tutorial kinda sucks. The combo system isn't explained at all. Instead of fighting against a proper dummy or enemy, the game makes you play around with balls instead. There is a proper training area, but it's only available after beating the first stage, and it's somewhat hidden too. Readibility is also a bit of an issue. Stages focus too much on a single color, which can make hazards blend with them when you're going fast. Some items are really hard to find and basically requires you to blindly get it. This is more of a nitpick, but It's odd how beating bosses doesn't give you their powers, you gotta buy them first. The last criticism I have is the final boss, because it's one of those bosses that you can't engage properly. You can't combo him, and some Bursts also don't work. He's very tanky and you have to fight him and another boss back to back. Very underwhelming final boss that is memorable in the worst way. [h3] Conclusion: [/h3] Overall, this game is an 8/10. The gameplay and music are fantastic, but it's being held back mostly due to questionable balancing. I can't wait for the sequel. Hopefully it's even better than the first game.

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A few days ago, I remembered this game was sitting in my Steam library. Since I've been replaying Mega Man games recently, it felt like the perfect time to play it. And... it's great! It looks great, it sounds great, and it plays great. Great level design, good boss fights. It takes a lot of inspiration from Mega Man X. You don't have a gun, so I suppose you could think of it as a X game where you can only play as Zero. The core hookshot mechanic is really fun. You can use it to swing through levels or grab & throw enemies. It's very satisfying. I don't like the default control setting for running, having to hold down the left trigger on my controller to run. My finger was starting to cramp towards the end. But you can change that in the options, so that's good. And not just remapping either; you can make it so you run by default. I love a game with good customization. I can't think of anything to complain about. Easy recommendation for anyone who likes platformers like this.