I love strategy games with genuinely unique characters. Depending on the character you choose, the way you play changes. That was my goal with the characters in Saikyo Robots. I'm proud that with a few of them I managed exactly that. It was very difficult to do, so let me share the design of the two new characters with you.
Hacker Granny
She comes with ten sequential quests, each offering rewards upon completion. What to do is simple, but doing it is difficult. The quests give her various buffs but buff her ranged robots the most.
Lumberjack
The lumberjack can build bridges faster aaaaand he starts with no robots. But he does gain robots whenever a building in the base is created. The buildings also give additional buffs to make him stronger but they also cost more.
What makes them unique?
Normally each level has an optimal path for maximizing efficiency. Also there is a certain playstyle you have when playing a level. A character is unique when you no more follow the normally optimal path and when you change the way you play the game.
With the Granny you focus on the quests instead of the optimal path. You will ignore enemies until a quest requires you to fight them, you will pile up scrap around the base as you are anticipating the next quest. If you play normally with her, you won't be able to get all the quests done!
With the Lumberjack you focus on getting scrap. You start of rather weak so you need to build your base to grow stronger. As it's very expensive you will play the game focusing on gathering resources while avoiding fights. Other characters are focusing on fighting as much as possible, especially early on. The Lumberjack is the opposite.
That's all. Well some quality of life changes here and there, some tweaks and bug fixes and oh yeah, a brand new weapon! The weapon is my personal favorite so I hope ya'll enjoy using it as much as I do. It's pretty fun to keep shooting with it if you know what I mean. What does it do? You'll figure it out when playing the game!
Thank you for reading!
- Deniz