Not sure if this one gets to be posted, but I'll do it anyway. Despite the fact it's less about the pilot and more about the preparation for his next tournament.
My ratings will be done on four scales, each ranging from 1 to 5:
- RPG: How much does this feel like an RPG to me, as opposed to a board game?
- Soup Stone: How little content does the game expect you to add? For this scale, 0 is a complete Soup Stone since I'd like to sum the scores to see the game's total score.
- Would I Play: If I were given a chance to, would I play this game?
- Would I Write: If I were inspired enough and had time/energy for it, would I get back to working on this game?
The Heaviest Metal
Lotta Pi is getting ready for the next tournament by fixing her mech, E.14.
- (2) At first, she goes through a breakdown. Her machine is not at all ready, and finding spare parts for it is hard.
- (5) But then she finds a secret, some kind of device that should aid her in the tournament.
- (4) Upon doing some more research, she learns that this device is a secret government experiment meant for the protection of the Earth. It's damaged, obviously, they wanted to get rid of it, but why? And why is it abandoned in the junkyard, though?
- (6) She overhears an explosion; someone else is having bad luck preparing their mech. (At this point, I would twist another player's cube twice.)
- (4) She learns that the device was in the junkyard on purpose. Someone was meant to find it.
- (2) Someone comes looking for the device, giving Lotta a hard time.
- (1) On the next day though, she finds something that could fit the secret invention into her mech.
- (1) A friend of hers gives up on the tournament participation this time, and offers her an arm of his own mech suit. She gladly accepts it.
- (1) Her father sees the determination she has for this tournament, so he chips in too with some finances. Just what she needed.
- (6) A strong competitor of hers has an accident. (Twist another player's cube twice again).
- (1) Lotta receives a mysterious gift. Yet more parts that she needed
- (3) She finds out that all competitors received mysterious gifts. How strange.
- (4) There's a secret saboteur among the competitors looking for parts, trying to make people hate each other.
- (4) After some time spent searching, the pilots have identified the mole, a government agent who was meant to disrupt this tournament from ever happening.
- (4) The secret plan that the government has for these competitors is to give them deadly parts that they could use to actually kill each other so that the tournament doesn't happen.
- (6) I guess it worked on someone. Their mech went boom.
- (3) ... unless it was an accident?
- (3) Lotta finds love, I guess? Love in the junkyard.
- (1) With the help of her partner, she gets just the part she needs.
- (1) Her rival tossed away a part that he couldn't fit into his machine, so Lotta snatched it for her own.
- (1) And then she found another one of those government experiments. How strange.
- (9) To her shock, combining the force of two of these devices leads to exponential growth in destructive force. The time is up, though. The tournament day has come.
That was more tiring than it looked. But hey, now we know that Lotta has a couple of friends, rivals, a supportive father, and even a romantic partner.
Ratings
4/5 RPG. I'll be a bit more lenient; at least there's something to roleplay here.
1/5 Soup Stone. Here are the rules for how the mechs can fight. As for anything else, including everything I said in the previous section, I had to make that up myself. I was getting quite tired of it, honestly, since the only prompts I had to work with were Another Man's Treasure, Secret, Explosion, Breakdown, and Revelation.
1/5 Would I Play. I don't feel the draw to do it. Maybe as an experiment one time.
2/5 Would I Write. It's got potential. It would certainly benefit from a bunch of roll tables or more things to use.
8/20 Total Rating
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