In 1994, a Super Famicom\/Super Nintendo game based on the Cyborg 009 franchise was made one year after a game was made for the Mega-CD\/Sega CD. This game was set immediately after the Cyborgs defeated Black Ghost. Another unrelated threat arrived to challenge the 00 Cyborgs.<\/p>\n The game was never released in the States or in English. However, I was able to find an English patch for the game. However again, the patch ended up messing up on a very important spot in the game. When you get to the point where we finally learn who the villain is and what their motivation is, the entire segment is accidentally replaced with the dialogue from the Arctic Circle mission. So I still had to scramble to translate that myself. For the most part, the patch, provided by Bec of RomHacking.com<\/a>, was very good and I am beyond appreciative for it.<\/p>\n And thank god because I was trying to translate the whole game on my own and the text just would not stop (it auto-advanced too quickly) and the font was awful. It took me way too long to figure out what certain hiragana and katakana were purely because of the font, and I\u2019m still very uncertain about two of them which look nothing like any characters I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n But enough jibber-jabber, what of the actual game?<\/p>\n The plot of this game is really cut and dry. After the 00 Cyborgs defeated Black Ghost, a series of odd occurrences start happening across the world. Gilmore\u2019s like \u2018Oh thank god nothing\u2019s happening in Japan\u2026.ya know\u2026where we are.\u2019 And then things happen in Japan. Random robots or weapons from across the world get hacked and start attacking.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll be faced with four missions with a hacked robot boss at the end of each mission. After defeating the first four bosses, Gilmore and 001 get kidnapped by the enemy. When they\u2019re being held, Gilmore and 001 were able to find a photo and information on their captor. This is the part I had to translate myself, so this may not be completely accurate.<\/p>\n The man\u2019s name is Giss. He used to be a famous figure in the field of electronics. The aforementioned photo was a picture of Giss and his son who had tragically died in a car accident. After his son died, his personality drastically changed. Giss experimented on human beings as sources of electricity, and then he started experimenting on himself. His experiments lead him to gaining the ability to control computers all across the globe. His goal, I believe, is that he wants to destroy all the world\u2019s computers\u2026.for some reason.<\/p>\n When you finally confront Giss, he doesn\u2019t say anything to you, and, after the final battle, he just dies\u2026.and everything\u2019s okay again.<\/p>\n The end.<\/p>\n The story is fine for a quick SNES\/SF game. I just would have liked a tiny bit more substance with Giss. Like maybe a small cutscene with him, him declaring his own motivations, some dialogue from him or something. Even him just talking about his son, who doesn\u2019t even seem to get a name.<\/p>\n As I mentioned, there are a total of five missions in the game, but it seems like the missions are randomized besides missions one and five. I say this because I was watching a playthrough<\/a> of the game (That playthrough is also where I got these screencaps since I didn\u2019t record my playthrough. Thank you very much, Retro View<\/a>.), trying to understand what to do since I didn\u2019t have access to a manual to even figure out the control scheme. We had the same missions on mission one and two, but when we got to three I had a different mission. They had the Arctic Ocean mission and I had the England mission.<\/p>\n I thought maybe there were just two different versions of the game for some reason, but then I found and downloaded the English patch and replayed the first mission because I couldn\u2019t restart from where I was with the new patch, and the second mission wasn\u2019t the same as the first time I had played. The second mission for both my first time playing and the playthrough was the Greece mission. In my second time playing, I got the Arctic Ocean mission as my second, and I didn\u2019t get to Greece until mission four, for some reason.<\/p>\n I have no clue why missions two through four are randomized. There\u2019s literally no reason to do that. The only reason one and five aren\u2019t randomized is because one is coming off the start of the main storyline and five is the finale.<\/p>\n Mission: Japan<\/b><\/p>\n Leader: 009<\/b><\/p>\n A pretty basic level with a little bit of everything to help introduce us to the mechanics of the game and how the levels will typically work. It has water hazards, platforms that are high up, dark areas, places blocked by boulders etc.<\/p>\n The enemies are pretty basic. There are some floating orbs that shoot at you, some mole robots that shoot at you, some pillars hiding in the ground that shoot missiles at you, some pillars that shoot lasers at you, some domed things on the ground that shoot at you \u2013 basically a lot of things that shoot at you. There are different types of enemies throughout the game, but they\u2019re still largely the same concept. The only thing that really changes with the levels are the hazards.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll quickly take notice of the fact that these levels are all insanely confusing and frustrating mazes with zero indication of where you\u2019re meant to go. I got lost several times throughout the game, and that was with a playthrough to follow. It\u2019s very easy to get trapped as well. You\u2019ll never be softlocked, at least far as I could tell, but you will get into spots where getting out is a giant pain in the ass for no other reason besides the controls being janky.<\/p>\n The boss for this level is the giant enemy crab \u2013 the Crab Walker. He is defeated very easily by 005. All you have to do is hop on on the platforms of its legs and shoot at its eye with 005\u2019s special ranged ability. Technically, I think any Cyborg would work well here as they all have blasters that could work just fine, but 005 has more powerful ranged attacks. About three or four shots and it\u2019s down. 009 then swoops in, accelerated, and grabs the two cyborgs before it explodes.<\/p>\n Mission: Arctic Ocean<\/b><\/p>\n Leader: 008<\/b><\/p>\n This level is a fucking nightmare. I hated every second of it. Not surprising considering it\u2019s an underwater level. Your leader here is 008 because Pyunma\u2019s the only cyborg who can breathe underwater. He\u2019s also the only cyborg who can swim at all \u2013 and 90% of the level takes place underwater.<\/p>\n The beginning of the stage is a long series of ice platforms, all just leading to some energy and experience, which, considering you have to deal with numerous robot fish who jump out of the water and shoot six bullets in a spray pattern every couple of seconds, it doesn\u2019t really feel worth it. Once you get the items or if you want to skip that altogether, you just dive into the water as 008.<\/p>\n Do not under any circumstances turn into any other cyborg while in this part of the level. They drown, which is weird, because all of them are supposed to have at least extended lung capacity, but they all drown pretty fast when underwater too long. Your health goes down in chunks when you\u2019re underwater, and it does not recover when you get out of the water, which I think is pretty lame and doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n In the Japan mission, I fell into the water, was slowed down way too much, couldn\u2019t swim and couldn\u2019t get out as 009 in time. I did not have 008 in my roster because I didn\u2019t think I needed him. Even the picture of the boss in the mission briefing was in the middle of a dense forest. I had been given no indication that there would even be water to fall into, nor that the other cyborgs were so slow or drowned easily. Even being under waterfalls for a second will deplete your HP. How does that make sense?<\/p>\n 008 moves normally underwater, and his special ability allows him to swim upwards, which the other cyborgs, barring 007, can\u2019t do for some reason \u2013 they can only walk underwater \u2013 and quickly swim in any direction. Unlike every other level which can reasonably be done with an assortment of any of the cyborgs, this one needs<\/i> to be done with 008 \u2013 you have no choice whatsoever. Which is fine because he\u2019s forced upon you as the leader of the group in this mission, but you still have to be him for nearly the entire level.<\/p>\n Figuring out where to go in an underwater mission is even more annoying, especially since one part of the level technically has two ways out as opposed to one exit in every other level. And where you exit from actually does matter. I had found the right exit, which immediately started the mini-boss of the level, the Black Moby Dick submarine thing, to bob up and down in a very enclosed rocky area. I had no idea I had to go left under the sub because that seemed like suicide, so I went up, and quickly kept getting crushed, but it was clearly an area I was meant to go on because there were enemies.<\/p>\n After I died, I found the left entrance, which didn\u2019t trigger the sub bobbing up and down, but I still had to deal with the dozen or so turrets. The water being so difficult to maneuver in made it hard to dodge the shots. However, I did discover a little mini-cheat all by myself. Are you proud of me? :3<\/p>\n If you walk to a point where you can just barely see the turret and wait for it to sound like it just shot, you can time your approach so that it doesn\u2019t shoot you. I think it\u2019s either glitching on the shot when it\u2019s barely off-screen or it\u2019s shooting in the complete opposite direction for some reason. I never see any bullets when I do this, so I think it\u2019s the former.<\/p>\n Still, it\u2019s hard to avoid getting hit going through here, but I was probably just frustrated and going too fast. I got to the other side, which I thought would be the end, but it wasn\u2019t. Getting to the end just triggered the sub to start bobbing up and down. Turns out going the right way was correct as it was a bit of a shortcut. But, again, the way the map is laid out leads you to believe going under it would be suicide and you have to go up. Not to mention that, it\u2019s a submarine. Typically the entrances to subs aren\u2019t on the very bottom \u2013 they\u2019re on the top. So I just wasted health for no reason. Yay.<\/p>\n The only way to get to where you need to be under the sub is by dodging more turrets and using 008\u2019s propelled underwater skill, if you can manage to trigger it. This is tricky and a pain in the ass. You\u2019re bound to lose health either by the sub crushing you or the turrets hitting you. Still, for some reason, it was easier than the top section. Go figure.<\/p>\n You find the entrance to the sub, indicated by a white arrow, and blow a hole in it. Once you\u2019re in the sub, the underwater part is over, thank god, but now you have a weirdly designed sub which trades in the normal maze format for a level maze format. You have about four levels each that are accessible through a series of elevators. You have to find the right elevators to get to the top and the boss room.<\/p>\n It\u2019s actually not as frustrating as the normal maze levels are. I think this map may actually just be somewhat small compared to the others considering it\u2019s meant to be a submarine. However, the confusion starts back up again when you reach the boss room.<\/p>\n Unlike every other boss room which is accessed via leaving the area by running right off screen indicated by a white arrow, this boss actually has a giant door. A door so giant I initially thought it was just part of the background and that I was in the wrong place (After all, why would such a massive door be in a submarine in the first place?), so I left and then came back later. As I stood there wondering where to go next, the door activated (Doors in this game activate by standing in front of them for a second or two). I thought I had tried waiting in front of the door the last time I was there, but maybe I didn\u2019t wait long enough\u2026?<\/p>\n Anyway, the boss of this level is shockingly easy compared to the difficulty of the rest of the level. Again, 005\u2019s your ace in the hole here. Two arms reach out to grab you, but there is one safe spot. You just goad the arms into attacking then shoot with 005\u2019s special ability when the arm retracts. Each arm takes one hit. When the arms are gone, it will then shoot at you with mini-turrets before opening up to reveal its giant kill-me spot, which also gets destroyed with a handful of blasts.<\/p>\n Suddenly, you become 008 and swim away, meeting your two friends up on the ice, which, uh, how the hell did you guys get up there?<\/p>\n Really, the only thing enjoyable about this level is the music, because it is really nice. So fitting and pretty. I loved it.<\/p>\n Mission: England<\/b><\/p>\n Leader: 005<\/b><\/p>\n The reason 005 is the leader here is because there are apparently boulders blocking the English Channel or something and only 005 has the strength to destroy them.<\/p>\n This is largely an underground level, which is weird because this is supposedly the English Channel. There\u2019s a little more darkness in this level, which means 003 can be of some use here, but it\u2019s a mostly straightforward level. The boss is definitely the easiest boss in the game. I don\u2019t even really see how it qualifies as a boss. You literally walk up to the tank cannons and, as 005, you one-punch each barrel. You don\u2019t even need his special ability, just his normal punch works fine.<\/p>\n Then there are three little turrets and computers with force fields that are also easily destroyed, but this time with 005\u2019s special ability. Just one shot on each pretty much finishes the job. Retro View used 004\u2019s leg missiles for the middle section in their playthrough, but I got through it without using 004.<\/p>\n Then 005 destroys the rocks which we didn\u2019t even see and were like lazily put behind the boss at the last second, and the three leave to their next destination.<\/p>\n Mission: Greece<\/b><\/p>\n Leader: 002<\/b><\/p>\n Gilmore says 002 is needed for this mission because it involves planes and he\u2019s the only one who can fly, but that\u2019s pretty much a lie. You never need 002 at any point in this mission. You never even see any planes.<\/p>\n The start of the mission throws you into the sky, I have no idea where their starting point was before the level started, but you can easily land on the platform for the actual level no matter which cyborg you are, and there\u2019s never any section where you can\u2019t go through it without flying, nor does the boss require him, so\u2026.<\/p>\n Actually, being honest, he\u2019s pretty much a detriment in the boss fight.<\/p>\n The only thing really different about this level is that some sections have some sort of giant train or trolley thing running through them, which only push you at first but damage you if you get crushed against the floor or wall.<\/p>\n Since there\u2019s not much to talk about regarding the level, let\u2019s just talk about the completely random boss fight with Apollo.<\/p>\n Yes, Apollo the cyborg from the Mythos arc. No reason given as to why he\u2019s here or how. He should either be dead or this is pre-Mythos arc, which doesn\u2019t make much sense. Is he being controlled? What\u2019s going on? I have no clue how we went from being on an airplane to being in a Greek colos\u2026..wait, the Colosseum\u2019s not in Greece. Where the hell are they?<\/p>\n Apollo\u2019s actually a bit of a pain in the ass. He\u2019s certainly the second hardest boss in the game. He starts by zooming across the boss room on his chariot, trying to hit you with his horse. However, you can easily avoid these strikes by ducking. After about four passes, the horse will come in on the lefthand side of the screen to stop and shoot at you. 005 kills the robot horse in a few basic punches. Horse is easy \u2013 Apollo\u2019s the pain.<\/p>\n Apollo also zooms in back and forth across the boss room, but he\u2019s faster and does more damage. The reason I said 002 might be a detriment here is because, if you stay under the top of the wall, Apollo will stay in an area where you can easily hit him. If you fly above the wall, he\u2019ll follow you and more easily hit you while it will be really difficult to hit him, even with a blaster.<\/p>\n The trick to this boss is using 007 and 005 in tandem. When Apollo is zooming around, you switch to 007 to transform into a bird and fly around under the height of the wall to avoid his strikes. Once he stops, after about four or five passes, he\u2019ll do a pretty damaging AOE. When this happens, immediately fly to the lefthand side of the screen, untransform, switch to 005, and then, when Apollo\u2019s done and is standing for a few seconds, go punch him a few times. Doing that about two or three times will kill Apollo. Yup, he explodes and everything, making this even more confusing. 002 then gives everyone a ride as the place blows up.<\/p>\n Mission: Germany<\/b><\/p>\n Leader: 004<\/b><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think they even give a reason as to why 004\u2019s leader here, besides the fact that he\u2019s German. Most of the briefing dialogue is talking about how Gilmore and Ivan got kidnapped. Ivan just asks for Albert specifically when their communication gets cut off.<\/p>\n This is our final level, and, sadly, it doesn\u2019t do much to stand out. It has a new section where there are conveyor belts for assembly lines and you have to avoid getting crushed and hitting the little hook things, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n The mini-boss for this level is some sort of spaceship thing. 005 is again very useful here. It will just keep swooping down at you and you have to blast it with 005\u2019s special attack or punch it about a dozen or two times and it will crash. It doesn\u2019t even do much damage, to be honest.<\/p>\n When the ship is defeated and Gilmore and Ivan figure out who the enemy is, they send in 009 alone to fight him. Why? I have no idea. They just say only he can do it. I guess I kinda understand because his acceleration is a tiny bit helpful in the boss, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n After going through a somewhat unique level with colorful platforms and lightning shooting from the floor, we quickly (and linearly, for a change) get to the boss. This boss is a pain in the ass. And it has nothing to do with how difficult he is \u2013 it has everything to do with how little opportunity you have to hit him and the fact that he has way too much HP.<\/p>\n In the playthrough, and this person definitely knew what they were doing, it took them a solid 10 minutes<\/i> of doing the same go around over and over and over and over. It took me over 20 minutes<\/b><\/i> and a few tries because I couldn\u2019t get the right pattern down. Once you do get the pattern down, it\u2019s very easy, but also tedious.<\/p>\n The pattern is, stand on the middle platform in the center, right in the middle of two of the little lightning things so they don\u2019t shock you, let the lightning things cycle through until they reach the end, then Giss will appear in a completely random spot in the boss arena. I\u2019m not just guessing \u2013 it is random. I confirmed this by using a save state. Whenever I would put a save before he\u2019d appear, he\u2019d always be in a different spot on the load. And yes, I\u2019m confessing to using a save state because, dammit, I didn\u2019t want to have to keep sitting there for hours doing the same thing over and over and over, just because I\u2019d wind up getting worn down by random damage. Trust me, I earned the win, and I still don\u2019t feel accomplished.<\/p>\n When Giss appears, you have approximately two seconds (maybe three with acceleration) to hit him before he does his series of attacks, all of which make him invincible to harm.<\/p>\n First, he\u2019ll AOE cloak himself in lightning and teleport to various random spots in the arena. Dodging is sometimes helped with the accelerator, but the accelerator only lasts a few seconds, and it really only helps in avoiding some damage. He\u2019s only slightly slowed down when you\u2019re accelerated. Even when you\u2019re accelerated, he can BS damage by teleporting right on top of you, leaving no room to escape.<\/p>\n By the way, if you\u2019re on a platform and, after the lightning attacks from below, he appears on the ground floor, just forget about jumping down to hit him. You\u2019ll likely run out of time before you can get down there to aim and shoot.<\/p>\n After his AOE lightning attack, he\u2019ll sometimes skim across the screen while still cloaked in lightning. Sometimes, he\u2019s up above, meaning you have to duck, sometimes he\u2019s down below, meaning you have to jump, and sometimes he\u2019s right in the middle, meaning you have to hope you\u2019re in a spot where you can get to the ground level or jump on the higher platforms otherwise you\u2019ll get hit.<\/p>\n Finally, he\u2019ll shoot some small ball of energy and teleport away, causing the cycle to start all over again. Repeat ad nauseam forever. That small ball of energy, by the way, is the one thing that never hit me\u2026.at least when it was aimed at me. For some reason, he\u2019s so tall that if you are on the platform directly above him when he\u2019s shooting this little ball, the hit box will be just big enough when he\u2019s summoning it that it will cause you damage, even if it doesn\u2019t make any sense how that would hit you.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re finally able to whittle down his health, he dies, you reunite with Gilmore and 001, and pat yourselves on the back for a job well done.<\/p>\n The gameplay mechanics are a little janky, I\u2019m not going to lie. This is an action platformer, meaning the jumping mechanics have to be very good, but they\u2019re not. You constantly miss jumps that you should logically be able to make. You make the exact same jump, down to the pixel, later and suddenly you can make it.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no double jump, but there is a wall jump, and it\u2019s automatic for some reason. I didn\u2019t even realize this until I saw it in the playthrough. Apparently, while the wall jump is automatic, it\u2019s only automatic if you\u2019re pointing the directional pad in the direction you want to jump next as you hit the wall, which is so awkward. I\u2019ve never seen a wall jump ability that didn\u2019t utilize the jump button. The fact that the game will also put little stalactites and other ceilings and stuff to hit your head on as you\u2019re jumping doesn\u2019t help matters.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t terribly unwieldy, but considering the levels are already a massive maze with spots you can easily get stuck in unless you get lucky with jumps or have a character who can fly, it\u2019s definitely frustrating.<\/p>\n You have a normal jump, a jump with attack, and a special ability. You also can crouch, which is useful sometimes.<\/p>\n Some of the characters also have a secondary special ability that is triggered\u2026.somehow. I was never able to really get down pat exactly how to do this. The most frustrating example being 008 and trying to figure out how the hell to rush in any direction. I know it has something to do with the jump or fire buttons after the ability is activated, but for the life of me I couldn\u2019t figure it out. It was sheer luck that I was able to activate it underneath the sub during the Arctic Ocean mission. If I hadn\u2019t lucked out there, I\u2019d just have to slowly float across the bottom and definitely take too much damage from being hit by the sub.<\/p>\n I\u2019d constantly activate 007\u2019s secondary ability on accident and I still don\u2019t know how. I\u2019d just be jumping and suddenly 007 would transform into an enemy. However, I still never managed to figure out how to use 004\u2019s leg missile. Maybe this was just the way my buttons were mapped to my controller, because it doesn\u2019t seem like anyone else had this issue, but literally everything else worked perfectly fine except the secondary ability.<\/p>\n Each mission starts with choosing a three person team, the leader of which already being chosen for you. The only cyborg you\u2019re not allowed to use is 001 because he\u2019s a baby I guess. Also probably because he\u2019d be too OP for this. You cycle through the cyborgs by hitting the left or right bumpers. Despite having three cyborgs on your team, they share health for some reason, meaning you can\u2019t switch to a fresh cyborg if you\u2019re nearly dead.<\/p>\n Each level has pickups for health, energy and exp. You health is finite in each level, meaning you\u2019re limited to purely what health you can find.<\/p>\n Finding energy, which is used for special abilities, is kinda useful, but energy replenishes on its own so I didn\u2019t really find myself too excited when I found one.<\/p>\n Exp is doled out at the end of the level. And if you accidentally dole it out to someone you didn\u2019t mean to give it to, tough shit. No takesies backsies. And it took me a little bit to even understand how to cycle through the cyborgs in the experience screen. On my first play, I accidentally nearly maxed out 002 (the default choice) because I couldn\u2019t figure out how to cycle to the next cyborg. It\u2019s the bumpers again, but it\u2019s super finicky on whether it wants to register. Again, though, maybe that\u2019s just my problem with the controls or unfamiliarity or what have you. I don\u2019t really feel like exp helps make the cyborgs noticeably faster or stronger, but maybe I just didn\u2019t find enough of it.<\/p>\n After each stage is over, you\u2019re given a score, shown the percentage of exp you found from the level, and then you move on to the next stage.<\/p>\n I really did like how each cyborg felt useful in each level to varying degrees. I am SO HAPPY that it gave them quite a bit to do, at least optionally for the most part. I feel like, besides 008 in the Arctic Ocean level, every level could be done with any assortment of cyborgs to varying degrees of difficulty. It didn\u2019t feel like 009 was the most powerful one because he\u2019s the star\/leader, which tended to happen a lot in the manga and anime. It really feels like a team effort, and that\u2019s something I desperately wanted from a Cyborg 009 game, so big props to them for that.<\/p>\n 002 can fly. He can either hover or fly fast in any direction. This pretty much just makes him slightly faster than the other cyborgs since there\u2019s no point where you\u2019d need<\/i> to fly. Well, there are platforms that you definitely can\u2019t access unless you have a character who can fly\u2026..but\u2026..I\u2019ll address that in a bit. His flying eats up a LOT of energy, so you can\u2019t fly for very long.<\/p>\n 003 can use her super senses to see in the dark, which is useful a little bit, but I never used her. There just wasn\u2019t many darkened areas to justify bringing her along, and the dark areas really aren\u2019t that bad to navigate, especially since health\/energy\/exp shows up in the dark. Enemies don\u2019t show up in the dark, which is her main benefit here, but you do have a fairly reasonable \u2018light\u2019 area around you. I can definitely see her benefit in these areas, but they\u2019re kinda nearly entirely useless when\u2026\u2026.I\u2019ll address that in a minute.<\/p>\n 004 has a scatter machine gun that shoots in three different directions. He also has a leg missile that can be shot upward. 004 comes in handy once, and, like I said, even then, I didn\u2019t really need him since I used 005 just fine.<\/p>\n 005 has the ability to destroy stone barriers, allowing the player access to certain locations in the level. But his main claim to fame is his higher defense, his powerful punch and his ranged super punch ability, which makes quick work of many bosses. There are two downsides to 005, however. His special ability is super slow, both on activation and recovery, and he has no blaster. His basic attack is pure melee.<\/p>\n 006 has a flamethrower, which can destroy obstacles and is a slightly longer ranged attack than the super gun. I never used 006 either. I think any barrier he can destroy with his fire is one that can be destroyed with a super gun or 005\u2019s punch. I think there might be some metal barriers in the final level that could be melted by him and no one else, but I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s a shame, because, being the Mole of the group, he could\u2019ve tunneled under levels or dug to other levels or something.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll address 007 in a minute.<\/p>\n 008, as we\u2019ve discussed, has swimming abilities. They\u2019re very much just like 002\u2019s flying abilities, just\u2026.ya know\u2026underwater. Also, he\u2019s the only cyborg who can breathe\/take no damage by being underwater.<\/p>\n 009 has his accelerator, which allows him to evade some damage, and avoid certain obstacles, which is cool, but A) for some reason, the accelerator shuts off after about five seconds and I don\u2019t know why. Any other power that is meant to stay on, like 002\u2019s flight or 008\u2019s underwater abilities, stay on the entire time unless you press the button again, but 009\u2019s accelerator just won\u2019t stay on. I get that having it on indefinitely would make the game too easy, but I still feel like it should be able to stay on a bit longer and maybe have a cooldown instead of having it be in five second bursts. And B) While it is nice to avoid some damage and obstacles, the controls feel too janky for me to ever use him unless I was forced. His accelerator did help a bit in the boss fight against Giss, I think it helped me avoid some damage, but it also lead me into zooming straight into his face several times.<\/p>\n As for 007\u2026..<\/p>\n He completely breaks this game.<\/p>\n 007\u2019s ability is listed in the Fandom page as simply being the ability to turn into enemy robots, giving him their attack abilities, which, honestly, is just kinda lame because nearly every enemy has the same gun, and the blaster\u2019s better. They also may or may not be tricked into thinking he\u2019s an ally and won\u2019t attack him when transformed this way. It was hard to tell.<\/p>\n What that page doesn\u2019t tell you is what his other special ability is \u2013 turning into a tiny game-breaking bird.<\/p>\n Now you\u2019re probably wondering how turning into a little bird when you\u2019re up against robots and god knows how many weapons of war is worth anything, let alone is game-breaking.<\/p>\n Basically, Lil\u2019 Bird 007 allows you to avoid nearly everything in every level.<\/p>\n Stuff up high? Imma bird, let me get it.<\/p>\n Ooh scary enemies down below. Imma bird, I\u2019ll fly over them.<\/p>\n This level is a giant maze, so difficult to find my way on foot. Imma bird, I\u2019ll just fly around until I find my way.<\/p>\n Platforming in this game is a bit of a pain. Imma bird, no need to platform at all.<\/p>\n Ooh these things are shooting every which way. Imma bird, my hit box is too small to get me most of the time.<\/p>\n Uh oh, this place is cloaked in darkness and there are enemies everywhere. Imma bird, I\u2019ll just follow the ceiling, fly to avoid the enemies and make my way just fine.<\/p>\n Lil\u2019 Bird 007 isn\u2019t even hindered in water. He still loses HP, but he has the same amount of speed and mobility, which makes no sense.<\/p>\n Lil\u2019 Bird 007 is also much easier to handle in the air than 002, and the transformation takes up much less energy than 002\u2019s flight. There\u2019s no reason I can see to ever use 002 besides the fact that he flies faster, but, like I said, he eats up so much energy that it balances out.<\/p>\n The only thing that annoyed me with Lil\u2019 Bird 007 was the fact that he\u2019d sometimes randomly get his head stuck on the ceiling, but that was it. Flying around as 007 made what would have been an extremely frustrating traverse through each level into a relatively easy affair. Not to the point where I never found any challenge in it, but still enough to lift quite a bit of stress and frustration from my shoulders.<\/p>\n 005 is also fairly game-breaking, but not nearly as bad as 007. 005 is basically the boss machine. He makes quick work of pretty much any boss, sometimes embarrassingly so. I\u2019d actually want to see how he\u2019d fare against Giss, but the game doesn\u2019t let you fight him with anyone else besides 009. The only boss where any other cyborg was useful was Apollo because I really needed flight, and like I said 007 was better in that situation than 002.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/W3HRjlh.jpeg\")
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