In Gunvolt you are our hero Gunvolt (Or GV) whom is a part of a special group of people who have suffered a mutation, where they gain psychic powers, and this scares normal people, But have no fear! A large power corperation known as the Sumeragi group have taken over and are now controlling the world and giving these misfits a chance in a shelter built just for these psychics. At least, that's what they advertise. Sumeragi group are actually putting these psychics in concentration camps, preforming cruel experiments, and keeping them there until they die. Sumeragi Group have keeped this a secret up until now, but a group known as QUILL has found out their plan, and as a revolutionary force for the rights of psychic people are fighting to destroy Sumeragi! Standard save the world from a tyrant spiel here.

The 7 heads of Sumeragi are actually psychic themselves, but they sealed their powers into sword like objects in order to maintain their high status, and they are your enemy in the game. This story is actually a little more complex, but that is spoiler territory... let's just say that some interesting rouge people show up and wreak havoc as well. overall a good story, but the fact that the true ending is locked behind little gems hidden in each level is a little irritating.

Azure Striker Gunvolt is a game harkening back to the days of megaman X, with 6 standard bosses, some spoilerific bosses, and a boss rush, and much like Mega Man, you can choose your order... although some stages are extremely easy with your base abilities, and others are extremely hard compared if you're just starting, like the Pharma Lab, or Biochem plant.

Our hero GV is a Psychic dealing with the element of lightning. using his gun he focuses it into light targeting shots that give his powers a focus, then you are able to fire off your L button to send off arced lightning at your foes, decimating them quickly. He also has a nice little skill gauge that allows him to use special moves to even the odds like an AOE that does a lot of damage, or a heal move. He gains these skills by "levelling up" but that really doesn't actually do much besides unlock these skills

There's also crafting! Yaaaaaaaaaay. seriously, what is it with games now and crafting? just give us an item shop or something, I need something to burn all these coins on, but the game gives me nothing.

Okay, now for the fun part, the mooks are standard looking robots/army dudes, but the Psychics that you fight against are REALLY interesting. I'll describe the fights one at a time. Also, they're all named after car stuff.

Viper/Daytona

This guy is your fire boss, creating flame pillars on both sides that he uses to make himself invincible, he is also the fast fighter, zipping around quickly so you only have a second to hit him. The reason he wants to fight so bad? you "jockblocked him" from the roll of the game and he's pissed.


After the water level, next up is Merak, the lazy motherfucker sittin in his chair shooting lasers at you and creating portals with his portal gun. Then his lasers go through portals and fuck your day up, this guy just wants to play WoW, so he has to kick your ass with his lasers.


Next up is Elise, who has a split personality and the power over the undead, generic bipoalr trait is generic. She also uses threads like a spider to move through the arena and attack you with a doppelgänger who copies her pattern on the opposite side of the arena. relatively easy boss when you've died with them at a SLIVER OF HEALTH! AND THEY USE THEIR SPECIAL TO KILL YOU and learned the pattern.

FRACK THIS BOSS AND HIS STUPID BUG GIMMICK! Can't hit him half the time, and the other half he's in the middle of an attack. He's a fgt who just uses his retarded bug wall attack then blindsides you with his grabby arm of death. Avoid the bugs with your lightning field, then jump for your life.


This guy is your big brute mofo, he controls black holes for his special, and it's does a FUCK TON of damage. he also grabs you then slams you into walls, watch out for the giant hands, he's also a perfect first boss because of how easily you can lead his sorry ass with his charge, giving you a HUGE amount of time to kick his ass.

HIS DRILLS ARE THE DRILLS THAT PIERCE THE HEAVENS! also, they shoot lasers, so watch out for that. this guy is also a prideful motherfucker, acting all high and mighty before the fight, but he's incredibly easy to beat because his drills bounce off of your lightning field

All in all the cast of characters is quite diverse, but a bit generic.

The graphics are actually quite nice, and the sprites are highly detailed unlike some "retro" games that look like ass, and the music is all ambient noise sex... but the problem is that it's all so ambient that you forget about it, and would only recognize it if you knew that the song was coming.

7.5/10 It's a fun throwback with a great story, but the forgettable music and grindy RPG mechanics make it longer than what it would be without that shit. Pick it up if you have the $ for it. You can find Azure Striker Gunvolt on the eShop for your 3DS and it's well worth the $15 price tag.

There is none, no story at all, just go into the stages and kill the things.

3 Characters, 3 different abilities, 2 are broken, one isn't. Gunvold has a Double Jump, Ekoro can hover and her gun turns enemies into orbitals that help you, and Beck is Mega Man with a dash, and a slide, and a lemon gun.

You only get 4 stages, that's it, you can literally complete the game in an hour, and each stage is less than 10 minutes long with the boss at the end included.

all the bosses are 8 bit versions of their counterparts in Azure Gunvolt, and the enemies are the same... literally could just copy-paste the enemy section of the gunvolt review minus the interesting charracters bit, because there is no character in these bosses.[

The graphics are 8 bit, and really do portray their more pretty counter parts quite well, and the music is much improved upon compared to the ambience of gunvolt's tracks remixed.

4/10 this is not a game to buy if you're looking for a full gaming experience, it's lacking in so much and doesn't equal out to a full game, unlike the games that this is based on, it's just a little add on to Azure in all reality, It honestly isn't even worth 5 bucks so if you WANT to try it yourself, get gunvolt while you still can.