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July 15

Witch-Bot Meglilo Out Now!

Witch-bot Meglilo is out now on Steam!

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July 8

Witch-Bot Meglilo Coming Soon!

Witch-Bot Meglilo is coming to Steam!

Meglilo travelled to the human world from the magical kingdom, but was sadly killed in the crossfire between Professor Amamori, inventor of the Vulkaiser, and the Gogoh Army.

Professor Amamori then performed a reconstruction operation on her, and now Meglilo has been brought back as a WITCH-BOT, to seek revenge on the Gogoh Army!

Mixing classic vertical shmup action with hilariously dark cut scenes, Meglilo isn't a game where you just skip straight to the action. Watch as our heroine waits until AFTER the villains do terrible things (usually watching the whole time) before leaping into action. With great campy dialogue and questionable morals, WITCH-BOT Meglilo's cute aesthetics belie the sheer amount of havoc that happens around you.

Features

Time-Stop Warp - reaching within and harnessing the power that Meglilo possess, freeze time and warp yourself to a safer spot.
Secret Weapon: Satellite - Some extra weapons are always welcome.
Hilarious and dark scenes
Unique fights and bosses

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About This Game

STORY

The year is 1977.

Meglilo came from a magic kingdom to visit the human world, but she was unfortunately killed when she landed in the midst of a confrontation between Professor Amamori, inventor of the Vulkaiser, and the Gogoh Army.

Professor Amamori performed a reconstruction operation on her, and she was brought back as a WITCH-BOT, to seek revenge on the Gogoh Army!

Join Meglilo and her adorable sidekick/conscience, Billiken, as they blast through multiple worlds and bosses to bring about order and justice...after tragedy has already occurred.

Mixing classic vertical shmup action with hilariously dark cut scenes, Meglilo isn't a game where you just skip straight to the action. Watch as our heroine waits until AFTER the villains do terrible things (usually watching the whole time) before leaping into action. With great campy dialogue and questionable morals, WITCH-BOT Meglilo's cute aesthetics belie the sheer amount of havoc that happens around you.

GAME FEATURES

Meglilo isn't your usual bullet hell vertical shooter. When your lightning fast reflexes aren't enough, this magical cyborg has a couple of tricks up her sleeve.

Harnessing the magic that still resides within, Meglilo can stop time and warp about the screen! Simply press the Time-Stop button and choose where in the stage you'd like to teleport. Meglilo will then warp directly to her destination, making her invulnerable to incoming bullets and obstacles. Using the Time-stop warp, you can dodge enemy attacks, teleport to strategic points, and much more! But be warned: there's a limit to how often you can zap around, and your magical gauge will deplete quickly, so use your power wisely!

But don't just rely on your witchcraft. Meglilo's satellites are interchangable and upgradeable, featuing around 10 variations include “Multi-target shot”, “Laser” and “Drill”.

Different Satellite variations can be equipped on the left and right sides, allowing for totally different attack styles every time. For example, having a right side devoted to a melee style while the left is powered up with lasers. It’s up to the player how they wish to enter battle!

Show that you have what it takes to take on the Gogoh Army, its fierce commanders and ultimately save(?) the world!

GAME CONTROLS

Z: shot
X: Time-stop warp
Left Ctrl: Pause
Esc: Close the game
Space: Go back to title

DEVELOPER'S VOICE

The concept for WITCH-BOT MEGLILO was to create a unique shoot ‘em up that allows players to “stop time and dodge through a hail of bullets”.

Players will feel unstoppable as they easily evade attacks that they would normally find difficult to avoid, as well as attacks that are impossible to avoid.

With the Satellites that can be equipped on the left and right, the aim is to highlight the fun of creating weapon combinations specific to ASTROPORT.
Please play many times and try out various unique weapon combinations!

The story that progresses with each stage is presented as a dark comedy.

This game is a work of fiction. All characters, groups and places appearing in this work are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual groups or places, is purely coincidental.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 7/ 8 /10
Processor: PentiumIII 1GHz or above
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA’s GeForce series / ATI’s RADEON series
DirectX: Version 8.0
Storage: 100 MB available space

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coolRONz

982 products in account

144 reviews

Posted: September 6

Ever wonder what it would be like to be a futurist retro robot girl who likes to blow things up? Well here is your chance. A charming little game that seems to support 640x480 SD, which is nice to see, because I personally don't like pixel art. Its not all blocky on my 34" 2560x1080 ultrawide and seems to scale just fine. Its sort of a 22ish letterbox display. really quite cutesy story, graphics and sound. I really like how you can warp to other parts of the screen, very interesting useful concept, but use it sparingly because it take time to build your warp energy up. game really looks and feels like an old DOS game, uses a typical pre-XBOX 10 button controller, for those of us old enough, PC had a standard 10 button 4 axis controller, 2 axis being for rudder control used in flight games. This being said, a typical "fight stick" for PC is what it was made for. Hence the partial controller support, generally full support means its meant for an XBox compatiable controller. But given the fact it looks and feels like something out of the 90s, its just right that it supports controllers out of the 90s too. This is a really fun well done port. Probably should have had full controller support, but thats forgivable if you understand the difference, so not really any reason to get your panties in a bunch. Given the fact its a well above average SHMUP at such a reasonable price, not really an issue for me, just an observation. What are you still reading this for, go and buy it already. VERY cute fun game!

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Strayed Lynx

262 products in account

65 reviews

Posted: August 18

A Very nice shmup from the creators of Armed Seven,Steel Strider and Gigantic Army starring a cute witch/robot girl and a story that's a parody of the old 80s anime.

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SupaSuga-mk-II

694 products in account

7 reviews

Posted: July 15

I downloaded this demo around 3:00am EST about an hour before launch. I ended up buying this fantastic piece of software for one single reason, the flying cross-eyed, derptastic bird that randomly comes out in each level. The first few encounters, it freaked me out and caused me to fly into enemies, walls, or stray bullets. I realized he can't die. I went to delete the game, but I came back. WHY? SO MANY QUESTIONS. Why does it follow me? What is its purpose? Why are his eyes crossed? Is he a powerup? WHY DOESN'T HE DO ANYTHING? For some reason, I'm compelled to find out this avian creature's history. Is he an intergral part of this game's universe? Is he God? Does he have sinister and, or perverted plans for our flying heroine. All I know is I must keep playing. I must complete this game to obtain the truth. Too bad I'm terrible at the game and keep dying at the final boss.

9 out of 10.

Buy the game and let us discover the mystery together.

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Pendy

147 products in account

82 reviews

Posted: July 15

Don't be fooled by the graphical presentation. It's a solid game that's definitely a toss up from the other Astro Port games. I think it shares alot of gameplay mechanics from one unreleased on steam: Zangeki Warp. To sum up: you're a girl like Sailor Moon, but you're also a robot. And you kick ♥♥♥. Your primary gimmick is to be able to warp from one area of the screen to another, to avoid often inescapable walls of bullets, or environmental hazards. Decently pulled off, and as it runs on an energy meter, you won't be spamming it every other level. It takes alot of strategy to pull off.

+gameplay is challenging and is what you'd expect from a shmup.
+story has some black humor. Not a bad thing in the slightest, but it's a toss up from the normal campy atmosphere of some of astro port's titles. Think Steel strider/Gigantic Army levels of humor.
+No checkpoints here, so like Armed Seven and Vulkaiser, if you lose all your health or your lives, you're dead. So it's best to not get hit. I consider this a positive because it's more of an incentive to not get killed, although I have nothing against checkpoint systems if they're done right.
+no glitches as far as I know. Gamepad integration works just fine
+resolution is just fine too. You can stretch the window like you could with GA and Wolflame.
+the devs are very quick to listen to feedback, and they're very friendly. You can tell they're passionate about their work.

-The music can get pretty grating during the story segments, so don't expect a stellar OST there.
-the game seems like it's rather short, but for 5 bucks it's a good deal
-it's a shmup in a sea of shmups. I love the genre, but I can understand if someone's already had enough shoot em up arcade titles. If you have no problem with another installment, then this shouldn't concern you.
-graphics are weaker than Astro Port's other titles, by a larger margin. I guess that's the point, to illustrate the tonal difference between badass giant robots and a sailor moon-esque atmosphere. More of a subjective than a negative.

Two thumbs up. I'd recommend it, although it could use some more polish. (I'll be editing my review as time goes on, because Astro Port is a pretty quick dev when it comes to fixes. for example, they've already patched achievements so I've removed that negative)

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ghostornamental

2,525 products in account

6 reviews

Posted: July 22

great game! not the most advanced art assets ever and the story is window-dressing (not out of the ordinary for bullet hells), but it provides a nice challenge and good music, and the warp mechanic is fun and innovative, an idea that provides for some really unique bullet patterns and obstacles they couldn't employ without it. I kind of can't believe it hasn't been done before, it probably has, but it's not something I've seen in a danmaku game yet, and I play 'em all :) reminds me of the kind of new things bullet eater games like Ikaruga and Exceed 2nd can pull off when they don't have to worry about providing gaps to graze through. I haven't beaten it yet as it's deceptively hard but I give it full credit. play this game if you want a new take on a vertical shootemup :)

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David Lee Roth Split Kicks!

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23 reviews

Posted: July 16

Cute'em ups seem rare to come by these days, especially on Steam. Witch-Bot Meglilo is probably one of the better ones I've played in recent times. Even though it features some twisted comedy, I think that it's still fair to compare it. It seems to feature all the staples that make a good cutem up. Between the cutesy characters, bizarre yet hilarious story and dialogue in between cut scenes; along with some pretty funny boss designs. You're given a pretty wide selection of weapon power ups combinations to choose from. It makes the experience fairly enjoyable to have a good amount of options with weaponry since you're limited to Meglilo as your only character to select.

The time stop warp mechanic adds a whole different strategy to the way you can play the game. Some of the bullet patterns and level designs require you to become pretty handy with it. Most of the time you can survive without having to rely on it if you're good at dodging. The controls and hitbox size lend themselves well to that style if you have quick enough reactions.

The game does offer a fair amount of challenge on hard and insane for more veteran plays. Even if you're not a master at shooters you can still probably enjoy and complete the game rather easily on the lower settings. To make things easier for more casual players you're given shield power-ups that allow you to take a few hits as well as lives. Although the game features no continues so once you're dead it's back to the very start of the first stage again.

The music isn't bad. It fits well with the game and has some cheerful tunes but nothing to memorable and a bit repetitive at times. Most of the backgrounds I find to be rather bland and unchanging. It would have been nice had they put more work into those. It's a tad bit short and lacking in extra modes but all in all I found it to be a really enjoyable game.

If you've already played some of Astroport's previous games like Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser you'll also probably enjoy that Meglilo takes place in the same universe. I believe if you're a fan of this sub-genre; whether you're more of a hardcore player or just enjoy these kind of games for a bit of quick fun you won't regret purchasing it. Well recommended.

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Boats and Hoes

335 products in account

8 reviews

Posted: September 9

Very fun game. I know it looks kinda dumb, but it's great. Basically what makes it interesting is the different shot types you can get, and in place of having a bomb you can warp somewhere. This gives you quite a few ways to approach the stages. Add on an amusing story and you've got a pretty fun time.

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N🎒RL

348 products in account

34 reviews

Posted: July 23

-the teleport mechanic and weapon variety are fun
-difficulty levels have a good range
-it's genuinely funny

-Enemy sprites are amateur looking, like mspaint level

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knife crab

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2 reviews

Posted: August 24

this game is a lot of fun and the characters and graffics are great, but there should be an option to save after every boss battle so if u die, u don't start from the very beginning. its very annoying having to start from the beginning and try to make it back to the level u died at. also, there should be ways to get more lives. 3 isn't enough, especially with the fact that u start from the beginning every time u die.

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Ness1228

114 products in account

99 reviews

Posted: September 3

I feel this game is best reviewed with a simple pros and cons list.

Pros

The demo gives a spot-on accurate feel of what the game is like and what to expect
Several difficulty settings to match any skill level
Simple and customizable (i.e. remappable) controls that are very easy to learn
Skippable cutscenes
Several levels are designed around Meglilo's teleport-mechanic, encouraging (but not abusing) the use of this game's gameplay gimmick
Lots of different power-ups to add variety to gameplay
Unlockable new clothing and outfits serve to make Meglilo even cuter.
The story refuses to take itself seriously, from the very beginning to the very end
ZA WARUDO! TOKI WO TOMARE! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Cons
The screen can get cluttered, especially in later levels; it's often hard to tell which bullets are yours and which are the enemies'
Resolution is locked at 640x480, although fullscreen fits it to your monitor in proper 4:3
Absolutely no way to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode; you're prompted to choose between either upon launching the game
If you're interested in the story, the dialogue presents itself at its own pace; pressing a button skips the cutscene entirely
The soundtrack is decent, but gets repetitive at times
No in-game volume adjustments
Hitting escape instantly closes the game; I did this by accident, thinking it would pause the game. There's a separate pause button you can configure in the options menu
Cutscenes contain (censored) gore which can be very jarring/unnerving to unexpecting audiences; viewer discretion is advised

In conclusion, I think this game is definitely worth looking into. The downsides to this game pale in comparison to what it has to offer. $6 USD is a little on the high side for a game like this, but I would absolutely recommend picking it up if it goes on any kind of sale (I bought it for 30% off and feel it's well worth that price). I was sold when I learned about the unlockable Maid and Kimono outfits.

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Posted: October 3

WITCH-BOT MEGLILO is one of best shmups i've ever played! The simple yet beautiful artstyle, music, many interesting weapon power-ups (you can try many crazy combinations), bosses and well-drawn characters really makes it unique!

In short, great shmup for newcomers since it is very pleasant to the eyes, but challenging enough for veterans too thanks to its many difficulty levels!

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