I logged in for Mechas, But stayed for the bounce, Every frame a blessing, My will to resist? No ounce. Waifu in leather, Blade shining bright, I clicked “Start Game.” ...then edged all night.

I played the game before release and loved it. I was excited to play it until I was greeted by the insane "micro" transactions and an auction house you can sell said "micro" transactions on! $47.99 for a pilot and mech?! Wtf?! You can straight up pay money to extract items from mashmak (aka the extraction mode)! Who thought this was a good idea? This game had the potential to be the next big thing but now I feel dirty playing it! All they had to do was sell $15 skins like every other f2p game! TLDR: Greedy BS, I don't recommend! *Update* My response to the developer response and to the people who commented on my review: First of all, @seasun games please call off your bots and employees your not tricking anyone! -Devs: "Additionally, currency and item rewards can be obtained through in-game activities and the completion of tasks—there’s no requirement to spend money to obtain them." -Me:This is a straight up lie unless USD is a currency that can be obtained through in-game activities. You are required to buy your $50 skin with $50! -Devs: "We hear your concerns relating to in-game purchases and want to note that the core content of the game is fully available for free. Pilots can choose to purchase optional premium content (such as certain cosmetics) based on their own preferences." -Me:By playing the core content that is available for free I am being complicit in you price gouging your customers. You know you are taking advantage of people that don't know better! -Devs: "Please know that our team is actively reviewing feedback like yours for opportunities to improve the in-game experience for all pilots." -Me: I have an opportunity for you, stop price gouging your customers! Stop playing mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable! To all of the comments in here defending the game. I know bots can't understand this, but to the actual people defending a company trying to price you out of nice things, I have this to say: People who work for a living value their money and don't want their hobby to become prohibitively expensive like the video game industry has become. Only people with mental illness, more money then sense, or Mommy and Daddy's credit card are going to pay that kind of money for a skin. $50 is not even close to industry standard. No matter what way you look at it the developers are taking advantage of people that don't know better and trying to increase the price of games across the board! It's incredibly scummy! The devs would probably make more money charging industry standard but would rather take a chance by selling their soul instead. Also, the game is LITERALLY PAY 2 WIN! You can PAY MONEY to extract materials in a EXTRACTION GAME! Stop pretending this is only about cosmetics! I love all of the brain dead comments I've gotten! ----To everyone else, if you care about video games as a hobby and want them to remain affordable for everyone uninstall this game and/or don't play it! Boycott! Make it known you don't support developers that take advantage of their audience!

Cool game, but it uses a kernel level anti-cheat (ACE) which is developed by Tencent... a company with close ties to the Chinese govt. If you are okay sharing your date with the CCP then go ahead. Personally I'm not. Until they change the anti-cheat, I won't be playing and it hurts because I was genuinely looking forward to it.

Was a huge fan of both the betas that came out, but instantly lost all desire to even start up a game after seeing how much of the customization that was in the beta being either removed entirely, or added behind a paywall and user marketplace. Don't even get me started on the 50 dollar bundle of skins that cannot be customized.

The game is very high quality, very well thought out and fun, but as of writing this there is no purely PvE mode. It's been twice now that me and my friends fought off super strong enemies just for experienced players to come in and finish us off. This aspect of the game has completely sucked the joy out of it for me. The game is so well designed but falls flat on it's face when the obstacle blocking you from having fun with your friends are try-hard veterans. I really want to like this game, but now I just have a sour taste in my mouth.

Steam Decks running SteamOS (which is an Arch Linux based distribution) are whitelisted by the anti-cheat. That's great! Too bad desktop Linux installs are forbidden from playing!

Forget the paranoid xenophobic whiners worried that the CPC has their IP. I'm here to tell you about the monetization practices, because let's face it: If you liked the demo but were on the edge, you were probably wondering how bad it'd be. I have low expectations for any live service free-to-play game. This one, somehow, went lower. They massacred the customization options from the demo, both of mechs and pilots, to sell back to you for $5 a pop. Hairstyles, makeup colors, *eyelash sets*. The battlepass doesn't even give premium currency. This is in addition to all the other gameplay-affecting purchases the demo suggested would be locked behind either a paywall or a slow grind: mechs, mods, weapons, etc. On top of this, the english VA's are either extremely poorly delivered or sound AI generated, despite claims that they would be improved/replaced in the release product. They're trying to squeeze this much money out of players and they can't even get professional voice actors? I was an avid demo player, but I ain't giving this one a dollar, and I'll probably only log in to play if my friends invite me. Do better, Amazing Seasun games. **UPDATE** You can earn many of these time-limited rewards through slow in-game grinds. Sorry that I didn't mention this fact, I assumed most people familiar with free-to-play live services to be familiar with that basic and common knowledge.

As someone that really wanted this game to be good... I am very disappointed. I had over 100 hours in the closed and open beta combined and at the time of this review 13 hours on the released version. On the closed beta the game released with only the PvP mode which everyone loved. On the open beta they introduced the new PvPvE extraction shooter mode. A nice little gimmick mode that people mostly didn't care about but it was a little fun to play around. The game had a very clear and smooth progression for free to play players where they could unlock new features and cosmetics by leveling up their account. On release it seems they did a complete 180 and made PvP completely secondary and focused all resources on the PvPvE mode, called Mashmak. PvP gives little to no rewards and account levels where removed so now you can only buy progression with the 4 currencies they have. All progression and almost all customisation is exclusive to the Mashmak. This would be fine if the gamemode, unlike the PvP modes, was completely and blatantly Pay To Win. And not in subtle way either. Apart from being able to buy mods that make your mech tens of times stronger (5 times more HP, triple stamina, triple fire rate, and other massive buffs on a fully modded mech as an example) than those without mods, you can literally start the game with super rare guns that 1 or 2 shot your opponents stripping away any point in engaging with PvP during Mashmak as the biggest spender ALWAYS wins. Yes, you can potentially farm the mods by spending 100s of hours being destroyed by Pay to Win god mechs but what is the point. This method of forcing players to pay or suffer does NOT work outside of China and it is clear that the game does not care about its Western audience since they tripled down on it. Fun fact: I did the math based on my playtime and to unlock everything you can without spending any money from the Season 0 store, if you have a 60% win rate and get MVP every 4-6 matches (average player), you need 210 - 230 hours of game time. (Hours vary cause of the random missions you can get.) If you ignore all stuff for the Mashmak mode, it comes down to 160-170 hours of play. Fun :) TLDR: The game is unapologetically and blatantly Pay To Win and will be dead in a month in the west.

Max Breasts size is too small. I'm very disappointed. This is not acceptable for a Mech combat game.

Quick edit for all the people throwing jester reactions, thanks, I love jesters :3 Keep 'em coming insects! Really shows just how pathetic y'all are, no brains what so ever. Edit2: In 2 days y'all have only given me 29 Jesters, I'm beyond disappointed in y'all! You can do better than that! I want to see 100 by the weekend or else! Actual review here ↓ The game is fun, but there are still some clear balance issues. I would give the game a positive despite that but the cashshop/marketplace is probably one of the worst I've seen and no Linux support only because of anti-cheat. First, as others have said the customization got gutted. Ignore the people defending it, yes you still have amazing customization but why were the color sliders removed from things such as eyes? I swear I was able to color my lips in one of the previous tests too but I spent probably a good 30min-1hour in the character creator and I couldn't find an option for either, instead we now have preset eye colors to pick from and there isn't much. Why? For lips it's not much either, felt more like different shades of the same color to me. Ok, I figured out why the lip and eye color are missing, it's because they've been added to the RNG FOMO different per-person cashshop as presets, you'll be reading more about that in the next section of this review. I always used the twintail hair in each of the playtests I did, I was completely shocked to see it was missing, I thought it was removed but then I opened the marketplace, players are selling the hair. How did they get it? Nothing anywhere states how to get it, I've not gotten a single drop in my 4-5 hours of playing, I was thinking maybe they drop from a lootcrate? But I've not gotten anything like that so far. So I went to the Discord to see what's up, it turns out its in the cash shop, somewhat tucked away, however it's a revolving cash shop. It's random what you get in the shop. To make matters worse, it's not only random but it's random per person. I have a stupid ponytail in my cashshop, I saw someone else has the pigtails, someone else with the twintails. So great, not only do I have to pay $5 for a hair that was originally freely available in the beta but I can't even buy it when I want to, I instead have to come back and check the shop every time it refreshes (which seems to be every 5 days???) and pray that I got the hair I want. Are you fucking serious? Y'all are insane. Big no. This is insanely predatory and just plain stupid. I can get having to spend money to buy the hair, that's fine, the devs need to make money. But are you serious? Revolving random cashshop that's different per person!? DO YOU WANT MY MONEY OR NOT!? Get rid of this FOMO garbage and let me buy what I want, with this current setup it's entirely possible I won't ever even get the chance to spend money on this game because it's possible I won't ever see the item I want. Okay, onto the next one, so the hairs are an issue, what about outfits? Samething. The final playtest had a school outfit, where did that outfit go? Apparently right into that same FOMO bin, I got the mechanic outfit this time apparently. Looking at the market, I see people selling the school outfit for $30-$50, ARE YOU INSANE!? Okay, lets ignore the outfits and hair.. What's next.. Oh, mods, you can spend IRL money to buy mods which give you an advantage over other players in the PvPvE mode, so it's also P2W, cool. The marketplace/cashshop is probably one of the most predatory designs I've ever seen and I play gacha games (despite my hate for them), I never thought I'd see something worse than gacha games and FOMO battlepasses. Alright, now, let's just ignore all that and go onto my last, final gripe. Worst of all, according to Steam discussions, it's yet another game that doesn't support Linux because of an anti-cheat. I will be fully transitioning to Linux and completely leaving Windows behind by Windows 10's EoL, so I won't even be able to continue playing even though I want to. And for the braindead losers who like to attack people using Linux or like to say it's easier to cheat on Linux, cope harder. Do your research instead of copy and pasting outdated info. It's just as easy to cheat in Windows, most cheaters are using Windows.

Look, if you're here for the cool mech fighting, the awesome mechanics, and the immersive gameplay, you're gonna have a good time. But if you concentrate on their monetization practices, from a certain standpoint you do have to understand it's a free game and we're getting way more than what we bargained for in the beta in terms of gameplay. Many people have left reviews about cosmetics and characters costing $5 a pop. Characters only cost $5 if you want to create a character that is the opposite sex of the character you first created. Most customization options are free or locked under the new earnable currency. But accessories, which to be fair you don't really see much even you see the pilot very minimally, so I don't really understand why people are so bummed about the monetization considering the game just came out and they need an income from somewhere. The gameplay is 10 out of 10. You will enjoy yourself. There's a game mode for everybody. There's casual play, there's a sort of ranked play, there's 6v6, there's an extraction shooter, there's more content and we're gonna be getting constant updates. I suggest you give a chance to this game because more often than not you will enjoy it. Don't let the reviews demotivate you from experiencing one of the best games I've ever played. For my reviews purposes I have to preface that I have played the beta before. It may have been only the most recent beta but I clocked a shit ton of hours during that time.

I want to start off by saying. This game's gameplay is some of the most fun and fast-paced moment-to-moment gameplay you can find. However, as someone who has played the beta and put in roughly 100+ hours. I can say that, IMO, the game took a few steps back and/or did not improve on anything as of its release. No, I'm not going to complain about the marketplace or the $50 pilot/mech skin. I'm instead going to talk about the fundamental gameplay loop and the direction of the game that the devs are desperately trying to force. I understand that mods in Ace Arena and ranked mode were frowned upon. Because it was "payt2win." However, I don't think people realize how much that gutted the progression experience by removing it from those game modes. Similar to D2. Mecha Break had a very unique ecosystem where two wildly separate game modes offered you rewards. These rewards (mods) directly benefited you in any content you decided to partake in. The mods enhanced your moment-to-moment gameplay; even if they were below average, they still made a huge difference when it came to a smoother gameplay experience. Now, yes, in a competitive environment, I can see how this is problematic. But hear me out. Who the f*ck cares about the competitive environment? As someone who climbed to Grandmaster 1 with my eyes closed. I don't care if the game has a competitive scene. Not every game needs to be Valorant or Overwatch. Sometimes a game can just be fun, I know, crazy. And yes, making micro adjustments to my mech that personalized my falcon's strength made the game feel more intimate. I wasn't going round after round partaking in gameplay that did not offer me a substantial reward. " but the competitive rank up is the reward." No, it's not. I'm not 17 anymore; I don't care if I'm in the top 100 on a meaningless leaderboard. This is coming from someone who's done it on multiple games. It's a waste of time. Unless you're streaming, rank is irrelevant; it always has been. Video games aren't my job. The annoying part is, they could have kept the mod system for the casual PvP mode at least. Is the game still fun? Yes. But a big part of the appeal has been lost. I have zero reason to do mashmak because whatever mod parts I extract won't come with me to the other PVP game modes. So why even touch it at all? After waiting like 2 months for the full release. All they added were a few new maps and a few new mechs. No new game modes. Meta feels mostly the same. Which is lowkey a problem. Also, the VAs suck. I liked it better before when all I heard was the AI voice. Now I have some cringe dialogue in my ear while I'm trying to chase an Aquila across the map. I won't speak on the meta too much because that's a book of its own, but the game is very rock-paper-scissors. If you think you can play one mech and kill anyone, you're sadly mistaken. You do have counters, and IMO they take this way too far sometimes. It's gotten to the point where if I'm in a lobby where everyone is around my skill level. I simply perma-target 3 individuals at most that I know I can kill. (Aquila Narukami Luminai) And simply ignore everyone else, which at first is fun but after a while gets really remedial and boring. Yeah, if I run into a Welkin player, that's terrible. I can solo him as Falcon, but how often is that going to happen? I understand they want a very balanced game, but sometimes a game can be too balanced, to the point where every round just plays the same as the last. And for a game that's trying to be balanced, it's not that balanced. "hey falcon go chase the snipers; that's your job." Yes, I know it is, and it's been my job for the past 12 lobbies. 90% of my gameplay is spent fighting those same mechs and nothing else. God forbid I wanted to screw around and fight a stego; sure, I can do it, but I'm actively griefing the lobby if I do that. Which means I have to play the same time every game. Sure, I have good lobbies back-to-back with ten kills per game and zero deaths, but all those kills are just me farming the same dude and nothing else. That poor Narukami. I know he's not having fun, and neither am I. Hopefully i can change this review to a positive one day.

People malding because you need to spend money to play waifu dress up. This is a mech game btw and the actual gameplay is all free

Lack of ultrawide support is just atrocious in 2025. Add super ultrawide support and I'll change my review

In this game you customize your waifu for maximum jiggle potential and will most likely buy pretty outfits for her with your hard earned money. Oh and there is also this Mech mini game you have to play and a story apparently idk i didn't really paid much attention i only watched my creation bounce up and down. Jiggle physics/10 would bounce again!

Tldr version, game is good and intuitive with some balancing problem of new mech and the price of premium costume is too much. 60US$ for a skin instead a full game ? in this economy ? no

Ignore the overdramatic people complaining about microtransactions, if you want to spend money do it, if not just dont buy it, the 50$ skin well yea its there, but the battlepass is 12$ and the game is well polished. Do you play a game becase of the microtransactions or to enjoy your time? if its the 2nd one play it, simple as that.

helps me forget about her

Wurst gameu evar! Long unskippable boring 1hr+ tutorial you are forced into immediately upon logging in. I quitu 4evar!

I thought it was heavy pay to win but to be honest the most i see is cosmetics.its a super a fun game.. give it a shot. its free dont hate on a free game. they gotta make the money somewhere.

its like the code geass game we never got to see, give it a try !! The game also includes strategy to win, as the great Lelouch would do, if we can call it strategy going forward and shooting, hitting everything that moves

I get to stare at a character butt everytime I get into a match

As if the monetization wasn't already disgusting enough, some features of the character creator (such as detailed eye color and makeup editing) that were present in the beta are absent on release, presumably to drive even further monetization.

Cant have sex with the mechs

So far enjoying the game. feels like armored core in terms of gameplay or even zone of the enders.