Baldrhead: Busō Kinyū Gaiden

## Description

In the future, technological excesses lead to never-ending conflicts between
religious groups, newly-formed nobility and people of different social
classes. Giant mechs called GIGAS (Ground Industrial Giant Attachment
Servants) are used for military confrontations. Baldy Kirkland is the head of
a mercenary organization that does armament banking jobs, resolving money
issues in direct and often violent ways. Everything changes when he and his
partner Nina meet May, a timid young girl searching for her missing father.
Baldy becomes involved in a grand scheme that takes him beyond his mercenary
duties.

_Baldrhead_ is an overhead mecha shooter. Core gameplay involves exploring
hostile top-down areas and fighting enemy mechas. The player-controlled GIGAS
can use three types of weapons (short, medium, and long range), with separate
buttons assigned to each. Every time a mecha fires any weapon it needs a
certain amount of time for cooldown; during that time it is more vulnerable to
enemy attacks and cannot attack itself. Mechas can also dash to avoid long-
ranged enemy attacks (such as missiles).

Money is awarded for actions performed in battles. The GIGAS can be customized
on a separate screen by using this money. Customization includes swapping and
changing weapons, as well as upgrading various parameters of the GIGAS as a
whole and its individual weapons, e.g. damage, fire rate, time required for
cooldown, etc.

Missions are dictated by the storyline and progress linearly. Between the
missions, the player has to advance the plot by visiting various locations in
the city and meeting the game’s predominantly female characters, in a visual
novel-like fashion. Sometimes the plot may branch depending on the decisions
made by the player. Still-screen anime images that advance the story often
contain explicit nudity and sexual situations.

Baldrhead: Busō Kinyū Gaiden