Mining Mechs Review (PlayStation 5)
Mining Mechs Review, Strange noises and weird activities have been detected underground and you’ve been called in to help! Mining Mechs is a retro 2D action game presented in a fluid pixel art style! Commandeer a high-tech mining mech to dig deep into the earth and collect valuable resources. Sell those resources on the surface to earn money, which you’ll need to upgrade your mech or buy new ones.
Mining Mechs Review Pros:
- Nice pixel art graphics.
- 210.4MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
- Game settings – disable tokens, and user interface size.
- Three skins (characters) to play as – Hank, Ava, and Jack.
- Two map choices – default and artic (DLC).
- Mining gameplay.
- 2D game World with 3D animated backgrounds.
- A central. Hub where you can upgrade your drills, buy and sell ore and other items, get and hand in quests, and other little bits.
- Own in-game gibberish voices.
- In-game character interactions can be fast-forwarded or skipped.
- Save and quit option.
- Handy unstuck menu option.
- You get into your little drill machine and go wherever you want underground, dirt and ore will fill up your inventory and once full you cannot dig anymore.
- In your hub is a guy to dump mud and dirt off at, another guy will turn ore into cash for you whilst another guy will upgrade your drill machine with coins.
- You can get in and out of the machine.
- One cool thing is you don’t have to bring the drill back up to the land in order to empty it, just get out and go up the faster way.
- You see ore and materials on the screen at all times. (well until you mine it away!)
- A coordinates display shows at all times.
- Gets very addictive once you learn how to play it.
- You can buy different drills and they all have unique stats and appearance.
- Upgrade your drill to get upgrade points to increase the stats for drill power, flight speed, inventory size, and dirt storage.
- Clear easy-to-read bars for ore and dirt storage.
- Find and use treasure maps that once clicked will point towards the treasure location.
- Using unstuck takes you back up top and you can empty mud.
- It doesn’t show it but the mines are all on a grid, every movement moves you in a direction by one square.
- Fill in the ore checklist by finding each type of ore, the list shows sale prices.
- You have main and optional side quests.
- Play how you want.
- Earn a passive income by buying and placing pump pipes, the guy running it will suck the resources out and sell it for you.
- Buy items to use when out of your drill – small bomb, teleporter, dynamite, big bomb, booster, and confetti.
- You find ore, times, and boosters within the mines.
- It’s a game you can put on and just chill out with.
- Easy trophy list.
Mining Mechs Review Cons:
- You get no tutorial at all so you are just lost until you happen to accidentally trigger or click the right thing.
- The music doesn’t really fit the gameplay and it’s on loop so it gets tiresome.
- The game doesn’t do itself any favors for welcoming new players.
- It’s a very slow-paced game, the first half hour to an hour is particularly slow as you have to keep going back to empty your pitifully small drill storage.
- Using unstuck doesn’t warn you that you will lose all collected ore. This sucks for when you are generally stuck.
- You cannot mine upwards.
- The writing is not great.
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Mining Mechs:
Developer: Delayed Victory
Publisher: Eastasiasoft
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