There is a destination on the warp screen called The Neutral Zone, which means I'm not actually in the Neutral Zone, like I thought I was. So I hit the warp button. It's becoming less fun now. As soon as I arrive, we receive a distress signal from some planet that's being attacked. We warp over there, slickity-whip. I hail the green planet and the citizen tells me that the enemy are based on the moon. And guess what? We have to warp over there.
We finally reach the enemy ships. I can see one coming out from behind the moon. I hit L to lock on. It starts firing at me. Uh oh, I realise it's a freighter, but guess what? It's been customised with bigger guns. And there are two of them. This is not going to be easy. Because I don't know any better, I apply the same strategy as every other battle I've had so far in Star Trek Land.
Get close, shoot phasers. Tilt, swing by, side phasers. Turn, photon torpedo. Fly away, other side phasers as I retreat. Get the heck out of range while I recharge. I even over-clock my photon torpedo. Then repeat.
The problem with this strategy is that while I'm systematcially bruising one of the freighters, the other freighter is blasting me in the bum continuously with some kind of mega phaser. My shields are down pretty quickly. I've lost one of the ships tails, and I'm pretty sure I need that.
Now the rest of the ship is falling apart, beneath me. Mission Failed. Everything is dark. Darker than Space. Again.
That's the only life I've lost in this game world. So either it's random, which from what I know about Nintendo, is unlikely, or it's on some kind of timer. I spent about five minutes in training, three minutes foolishly wandering through Space. And I lasted two minutes in my first real battle. I probably was in Mech World for about ten minutes as well. I wish I knew how many game worlds there are, then I could calculate how long I have to live.
I'm a robot. Not inside a robot or a robotic suit like last time. I'm an actual robot. And the differences in the way my mind now operates are very confusing. For example, if I want to move any part of my body to my right, I move it to the right. It's the same with the left. As one might guess, this is normal.
But if I want to look up, I actually have to move my head down, and vice versa. This is very confusing and so it is also annoying. Walking is easy. Battling is not. The other robots are positioned all over the place, so this takes a lot of looking around and it's awkward. I do have radar. For this I am grateful, otherwise I would simply sit down and wait to die.
Except that I can't actually sit down. Or crouch. I can jump. But this is is also confusing...
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