The mech is much heavier than Samus, making for a far less floaty jump. While it’s clear that Metroid is a big influence on the game, there are few titles in that franchise that move quite as quickly as Gato Roboto. That may also be because of how fast the game is. It looks great in person, but to the mechanical eye, it’s all a blur. In fact, my attempts to take off-screen footage of the game at PAX East were soundly squashed, as my high quality camera couldn’t keep up with the intense brightness of the game. Visually, its black and white graphics scream simplicity, but also stand out with a particular confidence and brightness that you might not find in full color game. In fact, I’d say “contrast” is the key word for summing up what Gato Roboto is all about.

Gato Roboto does even more to intensify the contrast between pilot and robot. It’s a lot more simple than the calculated AAA way, but it’s also a lot harder to predict which way the wind will blow. If they get excited enough about a game idea to see it through to completion, then it gets made.

Unlike in the AAA space, where there are marketing think tanks and corporate psychologists engaging in competing analysis to see exactly what is likely to make the most money at any given moment, indies tend to work more from the bottom up. It’s hard to say why trends in indie games happen. So while I could have led this post with something about “ Blaster Master-likes” or “ Metal Warriors-likes” or “ Kirby Planet Robobot-likes”, that might have caused the sad Titanfall fans in the audience to pass this post by, which would have been a shame, because this post is just as much for them as anyone else. If reading the words “ Titanfall-likes”made you frown, I hear you, but with the Titanfall series on indefinite hold, my guess is there are a lot of people out there who have a giant robot shaped hole in their videogame hopes and dreams right now.

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