Steambot Chronicles | |
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North American box art
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Developer(s) | Irem |
Publisher(s) | |
Series | Steambot Chronicles |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Action-adventure, action RPG Sandbox |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Aggregate score | |
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Aggregator | Score |
Metacritic | 74/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Edge | 7/10 |
Eurogamer | 7/10 |
Famitsu | 32/40 |
Game Informer | 5.5/10 |
GamePro | |
Game Revolution | B |
GameSpot | 7.1/10 |
GameSpy | |
GameTrailers | 7/10 |
GameZone | 7.1/10 |
IGN | 7.3/10 |
OPM (US) | |
The A.V. Club | A− |
Steambot Chronicles, known in Japan as Ponkotsu Roman Daikatsugeki: Bumpy Trot (ポンコツ浪漫大活劇バンピートロット?) is a 2005 action-adventure role-playing game developed and published by Irem Software Engineering in Japan for the PlayStation 2 Video Games Console. It was later published by Atlus in North America and 505 Games in PAL regions. The game features a sandbox-style of steam-powered, mech-based gameplay.
A sequel, Bumpy Trot 2, was announced and shown at the 2006 Tokyo Game Show, though it was officially cancelled in 2011. Two spin-off titles were also released: Steambot Chronicles: Battle Tournament for the PlayStation Portable and Blocks Club with Bumpy Trot, originally released for the PlayStation 2 and later ported to the PlayStation Portable.
Steambot Chronicles begins with a personality quiz, answers to these questions affecting the personality of the character and how others will react towards him. Afterwards, a young male named Vanilla awakes on the shore of Seagull Beach, a seemingly cheerful girl named Coriander (shortened Connie) beside him, and currently suffers from amnesia due to a shipwreck nearby that occurred before the events of the game. The player learns that Connie is picking herbs for her bed-ridden mother, Rosemary, who lives in Nefroburg, and after this, Vanilla spots a vehicle on a nearby cliff that shoots a long range cannon, trapping the two in Seagull Beach. It is inferred that Coriander (Connie) is using the herbs as medicine for her mother.