SLAVE ZERO
In the towering skyscraper canyons of a Mega City a giant lumbering mech blasts everything and engages in illogical platforming hundreds of stories in the air. I learned to love Slave Zero in 2025.
The controls are terrifying on Dreamcast. The frame rate is garbage. Either of these sunk it at release. Removed from time the grandeur and feeling of navigating a grimey cyberpunk city does the job. You see little people running around and cat walks. The oppressive kahn making demands to bring down the one human-robot-gunhammer that can stop him.
I love mediocre robot games for Sega consoles no one really likes. I love Heavy Nova for the Sega Genesis. I love Metal Head for the Sega 32x. I love Gungriffion the Eurasian Conflict for Sega Saturn. I can say this year I loved Slave Zero for the Dreamcast. Which is an unfortunate collection of words. You don’t want to say you love that, and cut off the sentence early.
I finally beat Slave Zero this year, and closed a loop from the previous century. Now it makes sense to sit in a box in my closet until I have to move.
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