Tiny Metal
It’s WAR in TINY METAL, the revival of Japanese arcade war gaming!
The golden age of turn-based tactics returns with a distinct Japanese flavor. A story filled with political intrigue and personal conflict follows the assassination of the Artemesian king. Command your infantry, roll out the tanks, and take to the skies to exact swift retribution against your foes. Artemesia is awaiting your orders! Inspired by turn-based strategy games of the past, TINY METAL takes the finely honed gameplay of classical Japanese war gaming and brings it into the modern era with great graphics, 15 unique units, and never-before-seen gameplay mechanics. TINY METAL is the Japanese arcade war game you wish you had as a kid.
Play as Artemisian Lieutenant Nathan Gries as he commands his units to victory against the villainous nation of Zipang. There will be several friends and enemies along the way with varied factions, units, and abilities in the 20 hours of single-player campaign gameplay. Players will have to carefully consider varying terrain, positioning for attacks, and strategic advancements and defenses.
Lieutenant Nathan Gries hails from a family of military lineage. His father died in the last war when Nathan was still young. Col. Lindberg was a friend of Nathan’s father and came to offer guidance to Nathan. Nathan is well-regarded by his superiors and peers alike with a promising future and noble intentions… Although Nathan is a model officer, his lack of experience may lead to situations where he could be exploited.
Features:
Campaign mode
Follow the gripping story of Nathan and his unit as they struggle with the war and question what is — and what isn’t — worth fighting for in a 20-hour campaign full of unique characters of various factions.
Unique Attack System
Use careful planning and strategy to attack from positions behind and beside to inflict more damage, or Focus Fire attacks with multiple units to crush your enemies!
Online Multiplayer
Soon-to-be-added online mode will test you against other players in 1-on-1 matches online or via local play!
Skirmish Matches
Jump straight into the action with dozens of skirmish matches that challenge the player with fun scenarios against a variety of foes.
Units
Take control of 15 unique units, from basic Riflemen to advanced Gunships and Metals, each with their own strengths and weakness. Witness your units get stronger as they gain experience on the battlefield.
Tiny Metal Review
Tiny Metal is a passion project developed by an almost exclusively Japanese team. In short, they love Japanese War Games in the Advance Wars vein and, since nobody else has been making such games, they wanted to make one of their own and add their unique spin. In my opinion, they succeeded wildly. This is a great game with loads of personality and a solid balance underpinning. It looks good (with tweakable settings on PC to make it hyper-crisp), sounds good, and aside from a UI that could use some tweaks (that the lead programmer has already said he wants to address), it plays well.
As of right now you get 19 campaign missions, a New Game + mode (with enhanced difficulty) and about 52 skirmish maps, some of which are labeled “Fun” difficulty, and some which are Expert level. There is a multiplayer option — it’s just greyed out, but the devs have promised that it’s coming soon and they have Sony’s budgetary backing to make it happen. Does the game have all the features and nuances of the later Advance Wars games — a series, mind you, that started in the late 80’s as Famicom Wars? No… those games had several iterations to cram in as many features as possible.
The bottom line is that if you enjoy fun, tactical, turn-based war games and you were a fan of the AW games, you WILL enjoy this game if you keep in mind that the current feature set is barebones, with more planned to come.
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