Another day, one other scarily-intelligent animal in a four-legged mech with an uncomfortably deep AI voice translating its ideas. That’s proper, I’m clearly speaking about Wrecking Ball Mekko, the ultimate character revealed for Ninja Theory’s upcoming team-based brawler, Bleeding Edge.
I do know this game is consistently in comparison with Overwatch, however come on, they’ve actually put in a personality that feels like a water Hammond. While each heroes appear to play fairly in a different way, they’re each mammals in balls and subsequently will need to have a comparability accomplished. I don’t make the principles.
Before we get into it, let’s take somewhat have a look at Mekko’s bio so we all know what we’re stepping into.
“Once upon a time in 2047, a child dolphin named Mekko was born. Cuter than a billion buttons, the brilliant eyed and break up tailed mini-mammal had an entire life forward of him.
“A life of captivity and torture, as living property of a devious corporation, being slowly modified into a biological sonic weapon, the sole survivor of binary communication experimentation, to cause destruction and agony as his sole purpose in life.”
But then he discovered a household in Bleeding Edge (aww) and is searching for revenge on the individuals who made him (much less aww).
For starters, seeing as we’re evaluating him with a hamster with a grappling hook, I’m fairly dissatisfied that Mekko doesn’t have a grappling hook. Can you think about a dolphin with a kind of issues? That can be superior. But no, Mekko was not blessed with such motion talents – he can’t even tuck his legs in a roll round, so I don’t even know what the purpose in him being a ball is. He has received one means, known as Surge, that permit’s him sprint ahead, knocking into enemies. But it’s simply not the identical.
Do you realize what Hammond doesn’t have, although, that Mekko does? Abilities that defend his group. Sure he’s a speedy little fella, and he can get some short-term shields on himself, however let’s be sincere, most of the time he’s simply spinning round in circles someplace ignoring his group totally. Mekko, however, is an absolute group participant. One of his talents connects a lifeline to a teammate to allow them to share harm in the event that they’re getting hit. On prime of that, he may put down a security zone that lets his associates achieve armour and steal well being from enemies. What a swell man.
On the mech entrance they’re pretty equal, as a result of each are fairly rattling cool. Hammond’s is sort of a lethal hamster ball – good. Mekko’s is a fish tank that walks like a crab – I adore it. Come to think about it, Hammond’s walks like a crab too, when he’s not in ball-form. That makes much less sense. And Mekko has lovable pink dolphins painted on the aspect of his… Yeah, you realize what? Mekko wins the mech comparability.
Mekko has a great deal of talents, too. He can use a bubble protect that turns harm into issues known as energy orbs. Then, he can use the orbs to get additional particular results on different talents. He even has a brilliant that traps enemies inside a bubble to carry them in place! So many possibilites, and what does that dumb hamster have for an final? Mines! Predictable, boring.
Friendship ended with Hammond: Mekko is my new greatest good friend.
Bleeding Edge comes out on March 24th, so it’s not lengthy till we can provide that dolphin cyborg a spin. In the meantime, yow will discover out extra about him on his Bleeding Edge fighter page.
RPS is shaking as much as have a fairly stable Bleeding Edge group already, I reckon. I completely name dibs on Mekko, and Brendan has already decided the granny is going to be his main.
