Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

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Armored Hunter Gunhound EX
Developer(s) Dracue
Publisher(s) Playism
Director(s) Hiroki Tomino, Hiroyuki Maruyama
Programmer(s) Hiroshi Iso
Artist(s) Noi Momoyama, Tōru Yoshida
Writer(s) Zero Kisaragi
Platform(s) PlayStation Portable
Windows
ReleasePSP: January 13, 2013
Windows: May 1, 2014
Genre(s) Mecha

Armored Hunter Gunhound EX [lower-alpha 1] is a Japanese video game developed by Dracue for the PlayStation Portable. It was originally released in 2013 for the PlayStation Portable and later ported to Windows in 2014 and given a release outside of Japan. The game started originally as a doujin game, and is a mecha action game.

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Story

The story is set in the far future, where warfare is fought with giant mecha. The story involves a pilot of one of these machines, fighting in a war.

Gameplay

The game is a 2D action game, and features the player taking control of a large humanoid mecha.

The game is a tribute to and plays similarly to Assault Suit Leynos , and Assault Suit Valken. [1] [2]

Development

The game was originally a Japanese doujin (independent) game. [3]

Norihiro Furukawa worked on arrangements for the main theme of the game. [4]

The game was released for the PlayStation Portable in Japan on January 13, 2013. [4]

The soundtrack for the game titled PERFECT SOUNDTRACK Kisou Ryouhei Gunhound EX was released as a bonus with purchase of the limited edition of the PSP release. [4]

Dracue software closed, and president Tomino Yuki left to join the company Garuru Labs. The original source code for Gunhound was made open source. [5] Due to the suspension of Dracue software, the game was removed from the Steam and Playism stores on October 18, 2018. [6] [5]

Reception

The game was well received upon release. Several reviewers compared the game to Assault Suit Valken . [7] [1]

Four reviewers in Famitsu gave the PSP version a score of 8/7/7/7 for a total of 29/40. [8]

The EX version released for PC was equally well received. USGamer gave it a score of 4/5. [1] Polish gaming magazine CD-Action gave the game a score of 7.5/10. Though overall positive, they noted that the ideas in the game weren't implemented to the extent that they could have been, and that they wished that a sequel could expand upon these ideas. [9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: 機装猟兵ガンハウンドEX, Hepburn: Kisou Ryouhei Gunhound EX

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