Hello Games continues its quest to add every cool science fiction thing possible to procedural space sim No Man’s Sky with free update 2.4, Exo Mech, which gives players access to giant effing pilotable mechs. Also other things, but mainly mechs.
I recently got my hands on Daemon X Machina, the new mech action game for the Nintendo Switch, and I was immediately dazzled — not by the power and might of my giant robot armour, or the weighty action of sci-fi combat — but by how much fun it was…
Left Alive is not a very fun game to play. Its mashup of stealth gameplay and mech combat is clunky and frustrating. But these gameplay shifts do create spectacular contrasts that capture one of the most important features of the giant robot genre: the human costs of mech combat.