You may see my original brand-new 2012 superplay for this entire game right here on YouTube that I had uploaded just now to show you more clearly what it is all about, and the game itself is available for download and play on all MSX home computers and its emulators (like blueMSX and openMSX), through this simple link:
...and if you can scroll down a bit among the list of entries that were successfully entered into the MSXdev’11 compo, you will find the game itself... in which the download for it (as well as the game’s documentation and sticker) is just a single click away from there!!
You play the role in this game of a gorgeous, yellow-haired, no-nonsense ass-kicking lady named Tricia Thunder (24 years old) as she heads into the serious fray of battle as pilot of her newly suited machine called “Mecha Eight”, working her way through all five (5) levels of such challengingly intense play. And here to assist her along the way are the red-haired MRL director/top scientist named Scarlett Summer, and a blue-haired young woman on the team named Noriko Toroyama (who likes to show off and even break things sometimes!). As the game goes along as you clear the stages, brief cutscenes represent the story’s forwarding progress through text-based dialogue... and even some occasional bits of unintentionally-hilarious Engrish along the way — for example, right at the very first opening cutscene just before the game begins, one of the characters utters out the phrase “Send she immediately” (what!?)... well, just watch, as there is some unintentional comedy gold around here... and strangely enough to be honest, I was laughing so hard!!!
!!As for the game itself, once you get used to how it plays, it can be a lot of fun for a regular MSX title, even with its early primitive sound that it has. It works well in its own right, and is worth a pick-up-and-play; Aleste fans should feel right at home with this interesting little homebrew entry by Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez, and on that basis, Mecha 8 comes recommended from me. Not a half-bad shooting game overall if I do say so myself!!!
!Just thought I’d share this awesome little discovery with you.
