This is one of the most inaccessible games I have ever played. The "tutorial" is woefully insufficient to help you learn how to play the game. The tooltip pop-up text only appears on about half of what it should. Even the in-game manual, which does offer a lot of useful tips and guides, is written is a painful-to-read pixel font. The starting tutorial tells you the city is under attack, and you need to assign pilots to mechs and send them to battle. Okay, cool. There are then 4 blinking items, only one of these being the pilot button you're supposed to click on. You get to the pilots screen, it tells you to drag and drop in a way which is actually helpful. Not too bad. Once you assign your pilots, nothing happens. Maybe you should go back to the mission screen, makes sense right. You click on the big "enemies are approaching the city" image, which opens up small window with 8 empty boxes, grouped by two, with "priority target" on each grouping. Then there's the battle button, some icons off to the side, and a blinking "district 62 = 75" text. Nothing makes sense without spending a long time pouring over the manual, trying to connect the vague images seen there with something in the game. This game does not have a steep learning curve, it has a learning cliff with multiple fake summits, because just as soon as you figure out you have to build a mech by building its reactor and configuring its weapons and you finally make it into battle and somehow survive to the next day, you learn there's an entire city mechanic which was helpfully unexplained. All my annoyance being said, this game has a lot of potential, but it's the kind of game that "gets good after 10 hours" because that's how long it takes to learn everything. I shouldn't have to have a wiki open or watch several hours of YouTube videos teaching me how to play your game.
