Software:Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

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Short description: 2009 Japanese video game
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.

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

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Famitsu29/40
USgamer4/5
CD-Action7.5/10
M!Games76 /100

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Davison, Pete. "Armored Hunter Gunhound EX PC Review: Robots Like They Used to Make". USGamer. https://www.usgamer.net/articles/armored-hunter-gunhound-ex-pc-review-robots-like-they-used-to-make. 
  2. ↑ 株式会社インプレス (2014-03-11). "【イベントレポート】インディーゲームの祭典"BitSummit 2014"会場レポート 第2回" (in ja). http://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/special/639019.html. 
  3. ↑ "G.Rev's Armored Hunter Gunhound EX Gets an Official English Release" (in en-US). 2014-05-01. https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/05/01/g-revs-armored-hunter-gunhound-ex-gets-an-official-english-release/83314/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "『機装猟兵ガンハウンドEX』2ndPVおよびサウンド試聴動画が公開" (in ja). Famitsu. https://www.famitsu.com/news/201301/11027146.html. Retrieved 2019-04-22. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 賴浩然 (2018-10-13). "重裝機兵/機裝獵兵開發室結業 專精橫向機械人動作遊戲" (in zh-HK). https://www.hk01.com/遊戲動漫/246448/重裝機兵-機裝獵兵開發室結業-專精橫向機械人動作遊戲. 
  6. ↑ "Notice: Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX Distribution Ending |" (in en-US). 2018-10-10. https://blog.playism-games.com/notice-armored-hunter-gunhound-ex-distribution-ending/. 
  7. ↑ Schmid, Matthias (2013-02-20). "Kisou Ryouhei Gunhound EX - im Test (PSP)" (in de-DE). https://www.maniac.de/tests/kisou-ryouhei-gunhound-ex-im-test-psp/. 
  8. ↑ "機装猟兵ガンハウンドEX [PSP"]. Famitsu. http://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=28350. Retrieved 2019-04-21. 
  9. ↑ "Gunhound EX review". CD-Action: 71. September 2014. 



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