I barely made it two hours into Steambot Chronicles before getting clobbered by some spiky train in a canyon. I like everything about the game: the story so far (amnesia excepted), the characters, the setting, the music, the art (the cover really doesn’t do it justice), everything. I like the hunger stat, the music mini-game, the funny items I get to wear, the multiple-choice responses, seriously everything.

Except the Trotmobiles! I cannot for the life of me pilot the darned things! I can’t aim. I can’t defend. I can’t fight. I can’t even move in a straight line! Even the boss in the tutorial whooped my butt with ease. I managed to beat the first boss somehow, and I BS’ed my way through the station square battle, but now the thing in Wagtail Canyon is… I don’t want to be vulgar and say “reaming my ass” but that’s exactly what it’s doing.

I’ve given it several tries and I’m on the verge of giving up. Let’s see what the FAQs have to say about this battle. Hmm. “You need to jump onto each platform and destroy the cannon on top of it. The blades will block your shots so you need to wait until the platform rises before shooting it or jumping to the next one. Once all the cannons are destroyed jump down and hit the boss one more time to defeat it.”

That sounds easy enough… NOT. But I’ll give it a try.

*10 minutes later*

Nope, nope, nope. I couldn’t even see what I was doing, and then I fell off the cliff and got mashed again. Awwwww ;____; This is when I wish I had a Gameshark and could just BS my way through the whole game. Guess I’ll have to settle for reading/watching a Let’s Play. What a shame.

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