metal Heroes Combat alchemist

In contrast to the far too crammed story, the actual gameplay is a near bare-bones experience.

metal Heroes Combat alchemist is a side-scrolling beat-em-up, a style that is far too overused and dated.

Players run through dozens of hallways, mashing on a single attack button to defeat any enemy they come across.

There is a touch screen controlled alchemy move that can be used to blast away foes and break up monotony,

but it takes more work to remember it's even there and use it since the game is simple.

Only during the boss battles does it even become necessary, and that usually means the boss is killed in two hits.

Touch screen minigames sporadically occur, offering a break from the monotonous button mashing.

They're pretty fun, and follow events from the show. Some of them are pretty humorous too.

Once the minigames are completed, players can go back to the main menu and play them whenever they wish.

Though honestly, most people probably won't want to play them more than a couple times.

None of the minigames can be played with friends, a common trait used for the game.

Shame too, since the arm wrestling touch screen game,

and even the running from the giant ball minigame could have both been solid multiplayer minigames.

Even with two types of gameplay, fulmetal Combat alchemists only takes a couple hours to beat.

After completing the game the first time, players unlock the ability to play the game again as another character.

Playing through the game again takes even less time and is considerably less fun.

It's not like this game is broken and hopeless. There are the makings of a really solid game in there,

that just need to be expanded upon. A few really simple things could have made this more fun,

the most obvious being a different attack button. The combat is solid, it's just repetitive.

Getting to pull off more than one three button combo would have been cool. Maybe even some combo to alchemy attacks.