So yesterday I played through the rest of Biomotor Unitron. Spoilers ahead!
I picked up just before taking on the scary new Unitron at the arena, but I was short on funds to get a few of the new pieces - so I decided to take my great new gun to one of the dungeons and earn some money. I'd been mostly focused on the earth dungeon up to this point as I was using wood weaponry, but my gun was fire type so I went to the forest this time assuming that would be easiest.
And it was a lot easier - my gun made mincemeat of everything in the first 5 floors, one shot killing enemies before they could act. A few enemies in floor 6 could take 2 hits and floor 7 enemies sometimes even more - but my very high armour score meant even with my low 150 hp (compared to them often having 500+) I outlasted most things. I actually managed to get to the final boss of the dungeon, Ent, and beat him too, awarding me with a new item. This also allowed me enough money to buy what I was after, and I went to the arena.
Fighting through the first 5 opponents (who were all the bosses of previous arena tiers), I took on the new mech. He was actually pretty tough and hit hard, but I defeated him - only to learn it was being piloted by the flower girl from town who was being mind controlled by an evil alien monstrosity living under the arena - time to go down there and finish it off.
I went into the new dungeon, and my power level was still high enough that no enemies were really a threat, even if the water element ones took longer to kill due to my fire element. There was some good equipment there too, which I picked up as I went. Each floor was guarded by a boss who were like easier versions of the dungeon guardians (like Ent who I fought before) but none of these were too tough, besides the water boss taking a long time to whittle down with my fire type weapon.
Eventually I got down to the bottom floor, stocked up on some amazing equipment and material that was down there, and took on the boss... Who totally wiped the floor with me, taking me out in 2 hits. Ouch. To rub salt into the wound, unlike every other fight in the game where you just lose money and respawn in town if you lose, this gives you a bad ending and a game over - meaning all that progress was lost!
I did the dungeon again, looted the bottom floor and left without beating the boss. I made use of the material I found to forge the best weapon in the game - the demon sword, a dark elemental sword that is super effective against everything except light & dark element unitrons, which at 400 hundred power was over 50% stronger than the gun I had before which is the second or third strongest weapon. With this and other equipment found in the last dungeon I set out... and cleared all 3 of the remaining dungeons I hadn't done. The Water dungeon was first and other than some annoying layouts fell quickly. Wind was next and the more open and less maze-like design of this one meant I took it down in less than 15 minutes. Earth was last and despite it being all mazes, I pushed through and took down Behemoth to clear all dungeons. It was very easy with my new equipment.
I finally went through the final dungeon one more time to take on the boss. This time I took a full stock of healing items, my new sword, an accessory to change my element to light to resist the bosses attacks some more (I believe they were dark type so did a lot of damage to my wood-element robot) and all sorts of other power ups.
The boss still hit hard, but I was liberal with healing items and worked down the bosses enormous hp a bit at a time. I often had to recharge my energy points to attack or heal off damage (the boss was faster than me and could do 180 damage per attack easily enough, so I tried to heal whenever I thought I would fall below 250hp this turn) - and to rub salt in the wound the boss would also use healing moves to restore 100hp of it's 1500+. My attacks only did about 105 so it was frustrating to see the boss use this during my healing turns. Eventually though, I did whittle the boss down and finally saved the day. I followed up the ending by taking on the game's final challenge - a boss rush of all 4 dungeon bosses, the ultimate mech from the arena and the final boss in a row, and with that completed Biomotor Unitron.
Biomotor Unitron is an OK game, and I enjoyed it well enough, but it's far from a must play. It's a nice option on the NGPC for an RPG, especially as the system isn't realy known for them - but it's not a patch on the best the GBC has to offer, or even the Game Gear if you play the Japanese library. I'm glad I played it though.
Thats 5 games down for me this month so far (Stranded Kids, Great Greed, Crystal Warriors, Madou Monogatari I and Biomotor Unitron). I believe I have time for one more game this month, so I'm gonna go for it. My options are as follows, and I'm leaning toward one of the Game Gear games currently:
Defenders of Oasis (GG)
Shining Force: Final Conflict (GG)
Dragon Warrior Monsters (GBC)
Mario Golf (GBC)
Mario Tennis (GBC)
Pokemon Card GB 2 (GBC)
SNK vs Capcom: Cardfighters Clash (NGPC)
Cool Cool Jam (NGPC)