Review: Mini-Mech Mayhem (PlayStation VR)

Mini-Mech Mayhem has a highly accessible strategy component with deeper underlying mechanics and heart-warming humor at its core.

Pros:

• Amazing cartoon graphics.
• 1.58gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• A tutorial that is repeatable.
• Strategy gameplay.
• Table-top game board, you face off against opponents by setting 3 actions and watching it play out. The goal is to the first to collect 3 victory coins.
• Mech and avatar customization area and you can change everything and change the colors.
• Controls–ds4 or move controllers.
• Comfort settings-avatar height slider, board distance, and panel angle.
• Actions-move and shoot. Goes deeper by allowing you set direction, move length and what body part to shoot at.
• Each character has 3 hearts, once gone they respawn at their starting square.
• Rounds-once everyone puts their 3 action in the round plays the commands out.
• Frozen Synapse feels.
• Powerups/pickups on the game board.
• Earn EXP and level up to unlock new clothing options.
• Easy controls, all done via the panels and very straight forward.
• Emotes to use as well as a dance button.
• Cutesy animations and interactions.
• A lot of Replayability.
• Online play-search and host options including private invite only lobby.
• 4 player support.
• Ai difficulties-easy, normal and hard.
• Single player is just pick how many Ai to face and set the difficulty.

Cons:

• No fast forward button for ai/opponent turns.
• Only the one game board.
• 1v1 is not fun and can go on for ages.
• Ai can be very sporadic with tactics.
• Can’t assign emotes or shortcuts to the buttons.