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Greedyselfish97
Since: Feb, 2016
9th Jun, 2017 02:53:29 PM
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Years ago, in the early to mid 2000s, I remember playing this very gritty and dark tactical flash game. I was only 6-10 years old, and my memory of it is somehow both specific and vague at the same time. I'm almost positive it was Flash, since I remember installing it and Shockwave to play other games on the same website. I'm pretty sure it was the Cartoon Network website, it had to be related to an anime on Toonami but I can't find which one. This would have been somewhere from 2003-2007, maybe as late as 2008.
Since I remember it as Toonami, I looked up the shows they ran. This game had giant robots, so I know a lot of people would think it's related to Gundam, but I don't remember the robots being brightly colored.
The game may or may not have had music, I know it had sound effects. You picked a character, and there were something like 4-6 of them, all outside their powered exo-suits. Once you picked a character, I can't remember how it handled levels, but when you got into it, it was a turn-based isometric thing. You had several characters under your control at once, and you each had points to spend on moving and attacking. There were melee attacks with huge swords, or various ranged attacks with guns. When you defeated an enemy, a pod would launch out of the top of the exosuit, and the exosuit would explode or fall over, I think. There were ruined buildings as obstacles, and I just remember getting this sense of dread from playing the game. Though, to be fair, I was a very frightful child... Dexter's Laboratory used to give me nightmares, and I'm still traumatized by Courage the Cowardly Dog to this day.
I never remember getting very far into the game, but I do remember two maps distinctly; A large square map, which was large enough that you needed to scroll around to see it all, and at least two sides of it had cliffs on the edges. The middle had ruined buildings, the ground was mostly grass and open so you could walk anywhere. I think there were 3-5 enemies on this map, and you had at least one ally. The other map was a narrow strip, you still had to scroll but only diagonally. There were the same number of enemies, but I can't remember if there were any allies. I remember it as having sandy hot desert terrain.
If I saw a picture from the game I'm sure I'd recognize it immediately, I have a good visual memory. I've wanted to go back and play this game to completion because looking back on it I remember it as being really fun, and something I'd enjoy a whole lot more now than I did back then.