Steel Assault offers several difficulty levels, each an order of magnitude more difficult than the last.Īnother big part of the game’s charm is its commitment to the 16-bit aesthetic. That zipline will come in handy! If you die-and you often will-Taro will continue from the beginning of the last area he entered, which is usually on the boss’ doorstep. The boss fights are incredibly fun and require some inventive thinking on your part to avoid attacks. Some fun Contra-like segments have Taro utilizing a gun turret to take down aerial assaults, including a pretty awesome robotic monster.
However, there are times where the difficulty seems to stem not from enemies that are themselves tricky to take down, but instead because there are so many enemies on-screen at once. You’ll also do a lot of melee combat, and your enemies are refreshingly diverse. Thankfully, the stages are quite short, and his health refills upon entering a new area. Taro has a good-sized health bar, but health pickups are exceedingly rare.
The game moves at a very fast pace, and I found that I could beat Easy mode in less than an hour-although some of that time was repeating the final boss, who’s surprisingly tricky. He can attack while moving across the zipline, as well. The zipline really sets Steel Assault apart: Taro will often use it to bridge gaps between platforms, both horizontally and vertically. Tako Takahashi may not have the most complicated moveset in the world, but it gets the job done: he can double jump, slide for a few frames of invincibility, whip his energy whip in eight directions, and use a zipline (also in eight directions). Steel Assault looks and plays like an old 16-bit mascot platformer, and, personally, it reminded me of a GBA game. You play as Taro Takahashi, a soldier armed with a mean energy whip and zipline, out to defeat the evil General Magnus Pierce and his band cybernetic malcontents from taking over the world-which already appears to be in a post-apocalyptic age. Even though it’s fun and inventive, it also toes the line between difficult and frustrating. They’ve partnered with developer Zenovia Interactive to produce Steel Assault, a tough-as-nails but mercifully brief action platformer. It would seem that Tribute, the studio behind such wonderful games as Panzer Paladin and Mercenary Kings, has gotten into the publishing game.
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