Armoured Hunter Gunhound EX ★★★☆☆

Short and brutal. The glass cannon run and gun mech is really good and there’s some really fun concepts in here: Mêlée attacks destroying bullets, booster mode acting as a crouch to duck under threats, getting a second health bar by jettisoning armour and making your mech lighter and faster but more vulnerable. I do wish there was an alternative way to unlock weapons rather than just grinding points and that loadouts could be changed between missions rather than only under options in the main menu (a strange place for it). There’s a lot of fun here but it’s a game that’s begging to be played over and over again until you can clear it without dying once and I don’t want to make that kind of commitment to it.