Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 Reviews

The masterpiece of the Gunvolt series gunvolt 2 is great at everything a 2D megaman-like platformer: the gameplay flows smoothly both as GV and copen, the stages are memorable, bosses have personality and their gimmicks are mostly fun to tackle and replay. in classic inti-creates fashion the game wants you to be moving at top speed thru the levels demolishing the oposition to get a high ranking, thankfully the ranking system is really well balanced this time around and you dont need to be a mechanical god to get S+ on every level; which ties in to the amazing replayability of the title, it MAKES YOU WANT TO KEEP PLAYING IT to complete challenges and get better at it, this is thanks to the fast paced gameplay and the positive feedback the player gets from: a) defeating multiple enemies at once as GV b) getting insane air chain combos as copen the only rough spot i can think of for casual players is the kudos mechanic: for JOULE or LOLA to start singing you must hit 1000 kudos by defeating enemies and building combos, this is the most hype part of the gameplay loop and where skill expression is, however this requires you to not get hit a certain amount of times (unless on gutless mode) and dont get checkpoints as those bank all your kudos into score which can be really hard to do if you arent an absolute pro so you may not hear them sing for long on the first playthrough and it can feel a bit unrewarding to conclude: Get this game and have a blast, give it a shot even if you havent played 1, the story is not hard to follow and its self contained enough youll be able to understand when they do callbacks to the previous game by context clues alone (plus, in the steam version you can fight the bosses from 1 in the extras tab of the main menu, it was DLC on 3DS but here it comes included)