A lot of the viewers were expecting a robot, but your warrior in this game (a female warrior, in fact) isn't mechanical, she's solid metal! You start the game as tin (judging by the "Sn" symbol in the corner) but can upgrade yourself to bronze by collecting enough "Cu" symbols, all the while avoiding baddies that drip acid and corrode away your progress!
"Ooh, what should we call her? Malli, cause she's kind of malleable? Or Moly for molybdenum or Iris for iridium, or hey YOU guys come up with better names, I'm trying not to get melted by this dripping bottle thing!"
aroseahorseboy: Alloyson
berd_snurglar: robot hotty with robot body, right! aw yeh
"Yeah, Alloyson sounds good!"
Doesn't seem too bad until she hits the first boss, apparently a sentient cloud of acid rain. She almost loses until she realizes she has to attack the machine itself that makes the cloud.
"You can probably tell but it looks like the more strong I get, the slower I get, I guess its the density"
If the first boss is any indication, then acids are the villains of this game-- the level ends with a bitter battle with a juicer-bot that splashes citric acid and pelts the metal heroine with oranges like a tennis ball server! But perseverance pays off, as victory upgrades 'Alloyson' to a lighter and stronger iron body!
"Fuckin' oranges, ARRRGH now grapefruits! BAM! Hey, what if we called her Ferrous? After this she's gonna take a day off!"
berd_snurglar: bea you suck
"Nothing here looks familiar, I think these are all new graphics, plus the style is a little different from what we've seen before."
This second stage has flying magnetic platforms to circumnavigate, and sometimes magnetic fields that send you flying! This time the boss is another cloud-- not acid rain this time, just a simple storm cloud that can rust Ferrous immobile before treating her like a lightning rod!
"This one's a little harder but I think- And of course I can fall to my death, why wouldn't that be a thing"
She's about to give up when she touches a magnetic field again, getting bounced back up to hit the boss!
"Ohhh, hohohoHOHOHHO, forecast: not a cloud in the sky, because I killed them!"
Her upgrade now, surprisingly, is to mercury! She loses her strong punch but it doesn't look like she'll need it in this level, she's squishing her way through tubes, some of which are heated and some are cooled, causing her to expand and contract to solve puzzles!
"See, this is how you teach kids about metal. Make cool games about robots! Or.. I guess she's not a robot, whatever she is! Liquid metal! Nobody happened to catch the plot of this did they, not that it really matters I guess"
Syrupentine: I have a weird suspicion this is based on an anime we don't get, maybe?
Baconnaise: This is actually a reimagining of the steadfast tin soldier
berd_snurglar: i don't see the
oh. oh there it is.
shit you were right
At the end of the tube maze is a chamber with a dancer-like figure trapped in a glass containment chamber. At least it superficially resembles a dancer, but looks to be another metal being!
aroseahorseboy: damn, good eye
Baconnaise: I was honestly just joking, lol wow how about that
Now arrives the third boss-- and what do you know, it's a hat! A MAD hat, clearly, judging by its flailing, random attacks, and the big "In This Style, 10/6" tag in its brim. Something is wearing the hat, but what? It's certainly not human... Bea's getting the shivers!
"Eeugh, I don't like this thing, at all, this guy is 100% skeevola"
She keeps dodging as it twirls around the room, striking back with a liquid mercury whip! Rather than whittling down his hit points, the idea seems to be to whip the hat and make it spin faster and faster until it comes off! And that's when you see what's in it-- a greasy, hairy black thing with a lot of yellow eyes and a nasty expression!
DueyDecimal: And there's the goblin! That doesn't make this the last boss, does it?
GlockRoach: Hey assholes, there I am in person and don't I look good
"God I HOPE so, I don't remember this part from the story?!"
Now it throws off eyeballs that explode with, what else, acid! She loses some power, downgrading to tungsten, but now she takes less damage and hits a little harder!
It's shattering! All those legs are coming off, squirming and bouncing on the floor and being hard to dodge-- but the end must be near, right? Your little tin boyfriend is pounding on the glass, seeming to warn you before the hat-gremlin makes another devastating stomp! For such a short game, this is an epic boss battle!
"AAAAAGH I hate this thing, it's so gross! But we've got this, we've got this.." RUMBLE, the next stomp splits the floor open beneath the heroine's feet, and she tumbles off screen as the goblin cackles! "................................................." Bea lets out a string of obscenities under her breath.. but she's not dead, there's a new stage starting in a different part of the sewer, or whatever this place is.
HNV: I thought it seemed like a short game, but... nope, there's a lot more fairy tale to play through. You up for it, Bea?
