ZOID ZOID TETSOIDEA Reviews

Boneless remake of Defenders of Tetsoidea in RPG Developer Bakin - not that the original was all that good. I reviewed the original, as follows: "The second sequel to Fateholders of Tetsoidea, Defenders of Tetsoidea returns to be around the (dubious) quality of the original, the length returning to about three hours as well. The names are even getting less questionable, though there's still a lot of bad diaper jokes and other nonsense that's probably mostly funny to the author. The mechanics remain overall similar, a linear progression from one map to the next with frequent save points that restore all of your HP and MP, with combat mechanics that are better than Tetsoidea Eternal's but only okay - there's some gimmicks with certain characters and enemies needing to spend a turn getting into melee range before they can attack, but not everyone really manages to be useful, especially in boss fights, and it continues the odd pattern from Tetsoidea Eternal of having more expensive special attacks that barely have any more effect than the basics. At least things were more interesting over all, in terms of adapting your strategy to the combat at hand rather than just doing the same thing every time. Story-wise, it's still disjointed and aimless, but the entire thing is a giant Final Fantasy 7 ripoff instead. Except there's not the twist from the end of Disc 1, I guess. Anyway, not recommended, but this one is more like my non-recommendation of Fateholders of Tetsoidea - if you already own it for some reason, I guess you can play it, but you really shouldn't buy it." In comparison, the remake gets rid of most of the diaper jokes, is about four hours long, and the mechanics feel a little tighter, with all four of the characters being uniquely useful and all of the special attacks actually doing something. However, it introduces a new, large problem - RPG Developer Bakin sucks and I hate it. Specifically, the fixed camera angles mean that you are constantly having to pixel-hunt for chests to open, and can get physics glitched and stuck on various props permanently, necessitating a reload. About on par with the original, which I didn't recommend. So not recommended. Whether or not you should play it if you already have it depends on whether you prefer SNES-style indie RPGs to PSX-style ones, I guess, but it's probably not worth playing both this and Defenders of Tetsoidea as they are more or less the same game.

It's a cute little game with an old and nostalgic combat system, but I could not even kill the first " boss ". I still want to support newcomer game developers, so this is recommended.