Comments on: Mr Robot!

By: Mr Robot for Mr No Money | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Lost in SPAAAACE Week.

Mr Robot for Mr No Money | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Lost in SPAAAACE Week. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:09:52 +0000

[...] Robot is now free and on Gametap’s ad-supported service. You may remember Mr Robot from when we’ve previously talked about it, but it’s a hyper-cut retro-mash-up of Knight Lore and a jRPG, with System Shock’s [...]

By: BunnyHead

BunnyHead — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:08:25 +0000

@Shanucore: according to their forum they used a writer for Mr. Robot (they actually mention the problems with Starscape dialogue which is supposedly now fixed although I haven’t checked this myself)…

By: roBurky

roBurky — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:43:46 +0000

I just played the demo, and really liked it, apart from the turn based hacking battles. If they’re going to dress up a turn-based RPG as a hacking game, I wish they’d disguise it a little more.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:04:35 +0000

On that note, there is a remake of Head over Heels you can get here:

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/

If you feel like some nostalgia. It’s still pretty good fun too, if frustrating in the extreme.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:41:07 +0000

I loved Alien 8, so naturally I had my fingers poised on my credit card throughout the demo, but then the turn based battles started.

Developers! Please, if you’ve already got cute isometric robot platforming in your game, you don’t need to add anything else.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:27:48 +0000

I still need to play StarScape, so can’t actually compare. But I thought the narrative was cutely done.

By: Shanucore

Shanucore — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:02:35 +0000

I’m tempted to give it a go, as StarScape was a great little game in many ways, but the writing made me cry. Have they got someone literate in to handle Mr. Robot, or have they used an alternative narrative method?