UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER – The Feast of the Wolves

The game for those like me who grew up with Japanese robot cartoons (jeeg, mazinger etc...) is beautiful, it takes you back to better times. Despite being very repetitive, it remains fun in its simplicity; the attacks announced are beautiful as in the cartoon. The Italian dubbing is EXCEPTIONAL, perfectly in line with that of the 80s. The only problem is that the game is very buggy, to the point that if you are unlucky enough to die (as happened to me) the extra mission will be buggy without the possibility of finishing it or starting it again. The worst thing is that the developers don't seem to care. Very very bad, also because I paid much more than I would have liked just to finance the software house that made this childhood dream possible...

If you love the show, you will like, maybe even love the game. It's short and sweet. That's a plus for me, but maybe a negative for you. The art design is flawless. It looks like they took the characters right from the cartoon, upscaled them and put them in the game. It feels like you're Grendizer, in all his over powered self. You kick ass, just like in the show. It's pretty easy, but gives you that "I'm Grendizer" power fantasy. I skipped the DLC, as I've read it's extremely short. The main game has I think 7 areas, and this is an 8th DLC area, which I read is about half as long as the regular areas. My video card is pretty good, but it dips playing this game. The game is pretty poorly optimized, but if you got a beefy PC you should be just fine, just know you won't get that flawless performance you'll be expecting. It's 100% enjoyable though, at least for me. You know yourself. Are you here because you remember watching Grendizer as a kid, and can't believe they revived the property 50 years later with a game? Then get your butt in here and kill some aliens. It's fun, it's easy, and you can beat it in a week playing an hour or so a day. If you have no idea what Grendizer is, the game might not tickle your fancy. So in closing. Perfectly executed fan service. Short. Easy. Just plain fun to stomp through.

Despite its reptitive combat, the lack of more shoot 'em up sequences & slightly easy difficulty, UFO Robot Grendizer is a good open-world anime mecha action game that stays faithful to the original source material for the most part. Would only recommend buying during a sale or if you're a diehard Grendizer fan.

Having grown up with all the big robot/mecha TV shows in the early 80s in Italy, this took me right back to my childhood. And you can tell the developers were true fans as well. Yes, gameplay itself gets repetitive quite early on, and ranges from ridiculously easy to unfair (when fighting larger groups of robots with their individual "shields" that need to be broken in a specific way first). Some of the auto-targeting manages to be consistently wrong, which makes some challenges (the ones where you try to destroy the orbs that power one central hub) unnecessarily difficult. And yes, there's quite a few visual glitches when fighting near mountain ranges, with enemies or your own robot clipping into the landscape/under mountains...but at least you never get actually stuck. I'd have liked some sort of rewards - like an extra fight - for doing the post-ending completion destroying all the bases for good...but it's all good, and for the price, I had an absolutely nostalgia-drenched blast. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbPjl9UGMTyeRJ56E7mHwgPA7jxjqTPwc