Planet Bob

Hm... either this phase is supposed to be very hard - or I'm missing something essential!

 

For the last two hours I've been running around with a single, broken mech and two more party members on foot. I don't have much credits, but what's a lot worse is that none is even selling stuff to me - everyone on the planet apparently hates me

 

Well it happens that one member of our trio was a traitor, so maybe it's all been due to his presence in the party

 

Tomorrows plan is to get another party member out of jail, which sounds like an interesting side quest

Okay, I successfully managed to break into jail and get my mate out of it

 

I also found another party member and managed to capture two more mechs, so now I'm commanding quite an impressive force. Still, repairs and ammunition usually eat up every money I find...

 

Apart from that, there's nothing much to report from today - I basically just tried upping my parties firepower some more.

Ah, today I finally met a mad scientist

 

And old friend of my dad actually and he told me the location of a secret weapons cache. Unfortunately all he gave me was a vague direction (south-east) and I wasn't sure what to look for, so I spent the better part of an hour running around on the map until I finally found it

 

I think this is pretty near the end of the game, so I went back to the nearest town, maxing out the equipment of all of my party members for tomorrows expedition

Well, there wasn't that much left to do and actually nothing left to fight. The last part of the game is more some kind of a switch riddle, where you have to open a dozen doors with thrice as many keys in the correct combinations.

 

The best part of the end is when you find your fathers mech:

 

 

The rest is just some more text and a little end screen.

 

For a RPG this was quite short and also rather shallow, but I had a surprising lot of fun with it despite some flaws. Especially the story is great.

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see its sequel in the form of "BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge", but first it'll continue with something different.