Metallic Child

Metallic Child delivers a compelling, dialogue-packed and seemingly fully-voiced quasi-roguelite anime adventure with quite some aplomb, and is certainly an impressive achievement from apparent solo dev Studio HG. The price is right and it's only some issues with repetitive gameplay that bring the title down a little. There's plenty to see and do and a meaty adventure to get stuck into, with "achievements" to unlock and permanent incremental upgrades to purchase with dropped currency as you smash your enemies to pieces. An impressive debut that's very clearly made by someone who understands how important feedback is to a game like this; it's a slick, exciting robot-smashing fest for your Switch.

Metallic Child looks great, sounds great and most importantly feels great to play. It’s a satisfying game that runs super-smoothly and slickly on both Nintendo Switch and PC, and with its compelling combination of relatively short individual play sessions and its absolute mountain of challenges to overcome, this is absolutely a game you should have in your collection. So if you’ve passed on it up until now, I urge you — give it a go, ’cause Studio HG are clearly immensely talented, and their work deserves to go recognised!

Move over, Mega Man. Roguelite Rona is the new champion to keep an eye on.

Metallic Child is one of this year's welcome surprises. With a fun combat system, immersive storytelling and an impressive visual presentation, fans of action and roguelite mechanics will find lots of fun. Even the occasional setbacks aren't enough to detract from the shine of this adventure, which proves to be a consistent addition to Switch's already plentiful library of independent games.

METALLIC CHILD is a title with a very interesting alien rebellion, it combines this good narrative with good combat mechanics and a great technical section. It is a pity that the set of combos is very limited and the control is quite rough at times, making combat difficult but that quality / price is a more than recommended title for lovers of the genre.

Metallic Child is a game with dynamic, fun and extremely challenging action. The roguelike elements greatly enhance the title, making each playthrough unique. Besides that, the story is an emotional affair and fulfills its role to entice the player and guide them through the adventure. However, the lack of weapon variety goes against the title's diversity, and this is what I consider its main issue. Despite that, this is an excellent game, filled with action, charm and fun. With a few fixes, it has everything to become even better.

I can't pretend like I didn't have any fun with Metallic Child and honestly I should probably give it more credit for getting me to play it to its conclusion, even though I usually skip games of this genre. But it has a repetitive nature, game breaking bugs, and heavy handed poorly paced story.

Despite the repetitiveness of the various stages, Metallic Child is a fun action-filled story, highlighted by unique gameplay. If rogue-lite games are one of your favorite genres, it’d be a sin not to give Metallic Child a go. Actually, even if rogue-lite games aren’t your typical cup of tea, it’s still worth a go.

Considering that it is a one-man development, it is a fairly well-made game. Don't judge it by its cute graphics. It well mixed two different style-Hack and Slash/Roguelite in gameplay, and showed off deep, challenging combat experience. Especially all the bosses had their own characteristics that you may feel it smell like Megaman series at all. However, it's a shame that its stage design and process is monotonous.

The combat doesn’t get old thanks to the mini-core system and cool weapons. The writing is genuinely heartfelt with fantastic localization, and there’s even unlockable fan art. And, again, the visual and audio presentation is fantastic, with great user interface design. There’s plenty of replay value in unlocking new items and improving scores, and uncovering the story is fun.