Metal Walker
Although Metal Walker is a console RPG, battles are fought in a pinball or billiards-like atmosphere in a top-down perspective arena. As each turn of the battle starts, players decide which direction a Metal…
Metal Walker is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Capcom Japan, released 24 December 1999 on Game Boy Color.
What Metal Walker is
Metal Walker is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Capcom Japan and released in 1999. It is available on Game Boy Color only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Although Metal Walker is a console RPG, battles are fought in a pinball or billiards-like atmosphere in a top-down perspective arena. As each turn of the battle starts, players decide which direction a Metal Walker will move and how hard they will move. Players are encouraged to form strategies that allow Metal Walkers to hit a single enemy, bounce off a wall, and then hit another enemy, all in a single turn. On the battlefield, players can throw several different types of items onto the field. The items are used when a Metal Walker hits them. Capsules and healing items strengthen and heal Metal Walkers, whereas attack items, such as Napalm, are only useful when the enemy hits them. There…
What it launched against
Metal Walker launched on 24 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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