Truly a childhood gem...

Back in 2014, when I was little and was blissfully unaware of the world around me, watching Youtube and playing Flash Games on my grandparent's old computer.. I came across this gem of a game on Cda games, and instantly fell in love with it!

Scrap Metal Heroes is a game which combines four of my favourite elements found in games which are: Heavy customization with loads of parts and items to choose from, character/unit progression through buying parts and upgrading, said characters/units battling other characters/units, and most importantly: robots!

The art style in this game is beautiful; the 3D parts look very detailed and each head part has its own personality, even if some lack a mouth. In battle, each robot looks well animated when walking or performing an attack, bigger badder robots look badass when entering into a group of other smaller/weaker robots. While the 2D character icons look gorgeously drawn; each character is unique with their own little description which highlight what type of personality they have, even their robot unit names and designs also reflect on it.

Despite having only two tracks for the game, I still enjoy listening to both of them respectively; while building my robots, and while fighting enemy robots.

What I apprectiate about this game- unlike any other games -is how it handles item/part prices: they retain the same cost after being bought; meaning you can sell them at the same price you bought them. Sure; it may be a way to cheese certain, more costly/powerful parts that you get later on the game. But it is still better than to accidentally sell everything and having to grind previous levels (or challnagers in the league) again just to re-obtain the stuff you lost.

Fun fact: To acquire each and every single part in the game (including starter parts, but excluding specials which don't appear in this version of the game), you need to spend exactly $3,325,300 dollars in order to obtain everything from the League Market (for comparison: the lowest part costs $500, while the highest costs $220,000).

The balancing in this game varies; early game can be piss easy when you get yourself part like 'Jarhead' for each of your unit until you start to get better heads, or midway through the game when you get 'Laser Sights' for your gunner units and can practically carry them up to the endgame. In summary: some parts and their stats make no sense, the best parts often cost cheap and/or have the best abilities (like Armor/Block, Combat Specs, Focus Fire, and Armor Pirecing just to name a few).

The difficulty really just depends on what kind of parts you bought and choose to pick for your units, but sometimes you might be stopped by some powerful enemy units which require a specific weapon in order to counter them (like the EMP Rocket Launches against the Shield bot which appears in few main missions). Like I said: it all comes down to what parts you purchase and own.

In conclusion, I greatly enjoyed this game: it offers the player with loads of content; large amount of parts and items that provide a whole wide range of possibilities which opens up to many stragedies, which incentives replayability. And once you get everything, you can basically turn it into a robot dress up game, if you really are into that kind of stuff.

I would highly recommend the game, it is one of those classics which absolutely deserves more attention than it gets, five stars. :)

I used to love this game so much, this is about to be a great nostalgia trip ^w^

A classic, a true classic.

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