⚖️ Grade = B. Worth a buy, if you enjoy playing with controller. However, if you're looking for a full PC port, it isn't

✔️ Exciting gunplay
✔️ Loadout management
✔️ Variety of mission
✔️ Blocking ability
✔️ High difficulty
❌ No reload reward
❌ Unlock Infinite ammo
❌ Coop mission
❌ Score/Time Attack for replay value


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🕘 1990: Game release on Mega Drive/Genesis
🕘 2007: Remake for Wii Virtual Console
🕘 2016: Remaster & release for PC gamer
🕘 2021: Play for the first time & satisfied
🕘 3 hours later: Short but fun & interesting

🔊 Full screen setting still remain low resolution graphic
🔊 No mouse support
🔊 Two different campaign available
🔊 Arcade Mode = Refined visual and scene
🔊 Classic Mode = Original from 2007 version + Tough play
🔊 Armor = Extra life
🔊 Reset = Return to main menu
🔊 Earned rank will not display on the stage menu
🔊 Earned score will be convert into unlockable rewards
🔊 Community Rating: Mixed

⚠️ Cannot rebind keyboard controls ➜ True, the default is awkward
⚠️ Controller & gamepad doesn't work correctly ➜ Not happen here
⚠️ Unfriendly for keyboard mouse user ➜ True

💎 Low resolution but beautiful Arts
💎 Loadout management
💎 Exiting bullet impact effects
💎 Self repair while blocking
💎 Unlockable artworks

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Hello, First off this is a dream come true to see the first VG. i ever played revived.

This is a great remaster, i love the way the shield works similair to Valken (Cybernator)

The redone music is pretty good, And you can unlock the classic music for arcade mode which is cool.

The 3 Documents you can look through in the extras are also pretty sweet. For someone like me who loves every bit of info i can get about this series it helps alot.

Their are however a few glitches that need to get worked out. I will list them so hopefully the Developers look at this review.

1.Character portraits:Do not display correctly sometimes, being just a blank black box instead of whoever it is intended to show.

2. Water splash graphics: in stages 4 and five there are grapical erroes that show up when jumping in the water, they are like green boxes.

3. Weapon previews: These are not showing for any of the weapons, The Light gatling Gun shows the first few seconds of it and the other weapons just have a blank video feed.

4. Mission overview picture: the popup video that shows the tactics for Mission 4 do not display correctly, it continues to try and pop in.

overall if they can fix these bugs i would give it a 9/10

And for those new to the game, it is kinda short. 8 Stages with 2 version each. but there is a nice little unlock system similair to Gunhound that unlucks neat little things such as a laser sight.

I would have loved to have English voice overs and also the NA release of the Instuction Booklet.

Assault Suit Leynos is a mecha platformer, similar to Assault Suits Valken (a.k.a. Cybernator for the SNES). It is designed as an arcade game that can be finished in two hours casually, or much faster if you practice speedrunning it.

The story is a pretty basic Gundam (Universal Century 0078) derivative, so its main strength is in the gameplay. Standard mode on easy difficulty is very casual-friendly, with regenerating health and plenty of opportunities to tradeoff weapon variety for more health. You get weapon and equipment unlocks in each mission depending on how well you do, and whether or not you fulfill certain secret conditions. Before each mission, you choose eight pieces of equipment, which can also include taking multiples of a special weapon or multiple layers of armor. You can even remove your standard gun (leaving a punch as your only ammo-less weapon), shield, and booster backpack if you really want to challenge yourself.

There is a classic mode with a much higher difficulty, and you can also turn up the difficulty higher if you really want. Anyone who wants to prove that they have the biggest e-p should do a no-equipment run in classic mode on hard difficulty.

If you can't get enough of games like Assault Suits Valken (Cybernator for the SNES), Armored Hunter GUNHOUND, and the like, then you should definitely buy this one.

If you loved the Genesis/Mega Drive game you'll love this!

For those not in the know, Assault Suit Leynos here is a remake of a classic side-scrolling mecha action game for the Sega Mega Drive, known in the US on the Genesis as "Target Earth."

There's some really great content here. Not only do you get a newly remastered "Arcade Mode" with voice acted dialogue, expanded missions, and brand-new bosses, but the game also includes a "Classic Mode" that keeps things remarkably faithful to the original version of the game (even going so far as to change the music and firing sound effects to the original Mega Drive versions).

The controls here are super solid. While the game can be played with a keyboard though, I'd highly recommend using a gamepad instead. And don't forget to lock your firing angle (left shoulder button on a 360 controller) when you need to focus your aim on a particular target!

As you gain points in missions, you'll unlock new features to mess around with, like a laser sight for your primary weapon, a visible boost gauge, and more. You'll also unlock all of the story mode weapons to use in Stage Select, allowing you to replay missions you've beaten with any loadout you'd like.

Topping things off are (sadly untranslated) scans of concept art, development material, and the original Japanese Mega Drive instruction manual all found in-game, as well as a BGM player. A nice little bonus for sure!

This is not a long game. Arcade and Classic Mode can easily be beaten within an hour each, but if you're a fan of the original game or classic mecha action games in general, you owe it to yourself to pick this up.

A remake of Sega Mega Drive classic Assault Suit Leynos (Target Earth on the US Genesis), the first game in the underrated Assault Suits series best known for Assault Suits Valken (censored and released as Cybernator in the US). With both a fun, if a little easy, main arcade mode that re-imagines the game and adds references to Valken and a more hardcore classic mode that plays closer to the original game.

The 2D anime graphics are fantastic and there's something here for both casual and hardcore side-scrolling action fans. For fans of the Assault Suits series this is a no brainer and you've probably already bought it. Veterans will be better off playing the arcade mode on the hardest difficulty or sticking to the classic mode.

Dracue already showed love for this franchise with their own Gunhound EX and this game is an obvious labor of love. There's lots of stuff to unlock so there's definate replay value even with the game's short length though people who aren't already fans might be better off picking it up at a lower price though I personally feel there's $15 worth of enjoyment here for mecha action fans.

This game is a rusty old mobile suit you found in an abandoned hanger. If you're technical enough, or just obsessed enough, you can jump through all of the hoops needed to get it running. If you're the right kind of person, this game will be special enough to warrant that effort.

Leynos is a short, but technical game that lets you fly around like a maniac putting your robotic fist through the windshields of enemy pilots, and has some of the best zero-gravity combat in any game ever. Want to jet backwards in space at mach 20 while strafe-shooting at a giant battleship? This is your game. Features like the gun direction lock and jet boosters give you a high level of control over your machine.

Most people, who don't want to fight with keyboard/controller support, should seek out the much more polished Assault Suits Valken and play that instead.

nice remake of a classic. games like this show you can make games hard without 1hit death's. i just wish recent dev's would learn something here but i fear it's done out of laziness and lack of ability. anyway there are 2 modes the new or classic versions of the game and you can take 6 items on each of the 8 mission with and without gravity. the items you can use range from weapons, jets, shield (blocks shots), and/or more armor and you'll unlock more as you play.

i never played this before but this was a blast and it's nice to play the classics now and then
6.5/10

Old school mecha destruction!

Forget about the complex space war story and saving Earth..
In this remake of the Sega Genesis classic you're really on a quest to impress 'n bang a blue haired woman !

And you're inside a cool Mech Suit !

Quality old school 2D Mech Shoot 'Em Up right here. Enjoy!

I grew up playing Target Earth. This is as true to the original as it can get, and I like it. I'm really glad I picked it up, it's a lot of feel good nostalgia. Says a lot, as I don't normally like games like this.