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Target Earth (Video Game)
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Developed by NCS in Japan in 1990 for the Sega Genesis (and known as Assault Suit Leynos there), Target Earth is a side-scrolling shooter and perhaps one of the earliest Humongous Mecha video games. It is also Nintendo Hard, and comes with a well-developed plot.An Opening Scroll (briefly) establishes the game's background: Earth's outcasts have returned with a vengeance and attacked the planet in a vicious assault. The Earth Defense League tries its best to hold, but later levels reveal that Earth has been at least partially overrun. The end of the intro and the beginning of the game focus on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons.Rex suits up in his special Assault Suit just as the base comes under attack, and so begins a brutal campaign to defend Earth from her assailants. Rex faces down hordes of Mecha-Mooks, Heavily Armored Mecha-Mooks, Elite Mecha-Mooks, and enemy warships, backed only by his Redshirt Army of bronze-colored Mechs and the far more useful officers and allies who provide intel via comm transmissions. Through the course of his battles, Rex learns more about the enemy that has attacked them seemingly without provocation, and begins to doubt the righteousness of the war.A prequel, Assault Suits Valken was released for the SNES in 1993. A Japan-only sequel for the Sega Saturn was released in 1997 which has a much more balanced difficulty, more Assault Suits to unlock and use, tons of customization options and a generally faster-paced gameplay. Still no less Nintendo Hard though. A remake of the original Assault Suit Leynos was released on PlayStation 4 in Japan on December 23, 2015 followed by a North Amercian and European release on July 14, 2016 and a PC version being released through Steam the same year. This remake was developed by Dracue Software, the doujin circle behind Armored Hunter Gunhound, and published by EXTREME, Co. and Rising Star Games. | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: Rance is your most persistent foe, and eventually becomes one of the few that can challenge you one-on-one. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: The reason for the entire war. | |
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Regenerating Health | |
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Regenerating Health: Too bad the mooks won't leave you alone long enough to take advantage of this. | |
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Reentry Scare | |
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Reentry Scare: A cutscene in Stage 3 shows a friendly pilot unable to make it back to the dropship and burning up in Earth's atmosphere. This was deleted in the PAL and NTSC versions and is considered an obvious homage to Mobile Suit Gundam. | |
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Informed Equipment | |
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Informed Equipment: The only addition that actually appears on the player's mech is the shield—weapons all look the same and extra armor makes no changes to appearance. | |
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Butt-Dialing Mordor | |
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Butt-Dialing Mordor: In Stage 5, Rex is given a communicator that can listen and broadcast on Chron communications. He forgets the broadcast part, and his loud exclamation of surprise when it starts tuning in to enemy messages alerts them he's listening, and allows for Rance to start directly addressing Rex. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: The Chron survivors built up their forces for 100 years before attacking Earth. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Thanks to Rex's efforts, the Earth Defense will soon be the winner of the battle against the Chron. But Rex feels no sense of victory from this, because he now knows they're survivors of a failed space expedition and the entire war was an unnecessary tragedy for both sides. On his way out of the enemy HQ, he detonates his own mecha, a metaphor of his remorse for the futility of the war. | |
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Story-Driven Invulnerability | |
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Story-Driven Invulnerability: Rance's first appearance has him shoot down your friendly escort warship, and he is completely immune to damage (but doesn't attack you—apparently you're beneath his notice at the time). | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Rance Culzus. | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: With a vengeance. Your health respawns on its own, so long as you aren't constantly being damaged. Guess what? The enemies never stop coming. | |
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Critical Existence Failure | |
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Critical Existence Failure: Both played straight and averted. All mooks, and the player, for that matter, can take their blows with no signs of damage and no decreased functionality. Averted with the warships, however. As you blast away their HP, they start losing parts of the ship, including turrets, making them easier to kill the closer they are to death. | |
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Graying Morality | |
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Graying Morality: As the plot progresses, Rex begins to see that the righteous fight to protect Earth isn't as clear cut as it had seemed. In the first few levels, he's a gung-ho pilot ready to win the war. By the time he kills The Dragon, all he has to say is "Another good man dead." | |
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Video Game Remake | |
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Video Game Remake: The game was remade by Dracue Software for PlayStation 4 and later PC via Steam with new HD graphics. | |
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Unflinching Walk | |
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Unflinching Walk: Rex does this in the ending. | |
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Man in the Machine | |
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Man in the Machine: Overlaps with Cybernetics Eat Your Soul. The survivors of the OSE program became part machine in order to survive by constructing and utilizing the Chron Cyborg Creation system. What exactly that is and what it involves isn't very well explained; Rance, for instance, appears human until after his battle at one of the Chron systems, and then is sporting noticeable cybernetics—however, he says that they used the Chron to survive 100 years ago and that "now the Chron keeps us alive". It's possible that they all became cyborgs in order to survive the length of time needed to get revenge, but if they are injured in battle then they have to have even more implants added. Since the Chron isn't clarified, the reason the cyborgs are so vindictive could be part of Cybernetics Eat Your Soul. | |
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One-Hit Polykill | |
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One-Hit Polykill: Only one weapon: the laser. | |
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Mini Mook | |
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Mini Mook: Almost every enemy you face is either a Humongous Mecha or some sort of oddly shaped vehicle. Towards the end of the game (or right at the beginning, depending on what difficulty you're on), dropships sometimes fly by and deploy actual footsoldiers. They're full sized humans, but to you, they may as well be ants. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Rance, as he is defiantly telling you that he can still fight. | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Rex laments Rance's death, and the entire, unnecessary war. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Particularly in the second mission, where you have to board a shuttle evacuating the base. As soon as you do, it closes its hatch and takes off, but the longer you stay, the more redshirts can make it aboard. | |
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Real Is Brown | |
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Real Is Brown | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Literally. The enemy bombers are incapable of adjusting their altitude, leading to a great deal of laughter when they plow into the sides of mountains. | |
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Last Chance Hit Point | |
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Last Chance Hit Point: The player character's health. | |
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Video Game Caring Potential | |
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Video Game Caring Potential: It's hard not to feel Papa Wolf-y towards your allies, especially the mechs that are half your size. Particularly in the second mission, where you have to board a shuttle evacuating the base. As soon as you do, it closes its hatch and takes off, but the longer you stay, the more redshirts can make it aboard. | |
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No Campaign for the Wicked | |
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No Campaign for the Wicked: Somewhat subverted. You start off as "the good guys", but it slowly becomes apparent that there's more to this conflict than first appeared. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
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Humongous Mecha: Very few soldier-level Mooks and Red Shirts aren't Humongous Mechas. | |
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Emergency Weapon | |
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Emergency Weapon: The gatling gun that serves as your primary weapon never runs out of ammo (though it has to be reloaded every 20 shots). However, you can remove it from your arsenal during the weapon selection segment prior to each level, which would probably make most of the levels unwinnable. | |
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Suicidal Overconfidence | |
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Suicidal Overconfidence: See Mini-Mooks above. | |
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