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When starting a new game, the players are equipped with a number of weapons and tools under their disposal that can be expanded by finding new weapons, which are divided into four categories and most of them have their own advantages and disadvantages between each other, as well as
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that can allow the mech to pull forward, swing from the ceiling of any platform or jump into the latched platform. Pressing both action buttons and down at the same time allows access to the
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under its genre. Commercially however, it did not sell well when it was initially released. Despite being exclusive to Japan, it has been retrospectively referred by publications such as
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became another popular title among the X68000 userbase from Exact and received praise for the graphics, music and gameplay that would eventually lead it to being nominated for a "
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of 600 pages spanning over 13 volumes, but the storyline for the seventh volume was condensed into the game project. Though it was initially launched by Exact on
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