Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu

Game
Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu Metal Saga: Season of Steel
NDS Icon
Japanese Name	メタルサーガ ～鋼の季節～
Developer(s)	Crea-Tech
Publisher(s)	Success Corporation
Release Date(s)	JP: 15 June 2006 (NDS)
Genre	RPG

Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu (EN: Metal Saga: Season of Steel) is a post-apocalyptic, turn-based role-playing game (with vehicle combat elements) developed by Crea-Tech and published by Success Corporation. It is a sequel to the original NES Metal Max (and its SNES remaster, Metal Max Returns,) and the second entry following after the PS2 release of Metal Saga.

This article currently references the official Japanese-language game.

Synopsis

The Hunter's (from Metal Max 1 / Metal Max Returns) descendants has to safeguard the Noah Seed from reactivating the supercomputer AI Noah, after Noah was defeated earlier in the events of Metal Max 1 / Metal Max Returns.

Controls

NDS Controller
Touchscreen	Tap to move the characters in the towns, dungeons, and overworld Tap on to NPCs / Objects to interact with them Tap on the "Tank" to ride it / Double-tap on the "tank" to dismount Used for selecting combat/menu actions, especially to confirm/cancel actions

New Game Mechanics / Features

Metal Saga: Hagane no Kisetsu utilizes an isometric view (characters and objects facing in a variant of nortwest-northeast & southwest-southeast, instead of north-south-east-west orientation present in Metal Max to Metal Max 2: Reloaded) for all of its sprites and background designs. It is the only NDS game to utilize only the Touchscreen, while other console and handheld consoles use button configurations to move and interact with its characters and menus. This game is the first in the series to introduce shared seating for all of its party members when riding a "tank," even in combat (That mechanic got adopted to Metal Max 2: Reloaded, with certain tank classes having specific seating limits, with tanks and larger vehicles carrying four vehicles, and bikes carrying only one party member.)