The Hardcore Retro God (Review #60 - ExoSquad)
Channel: The Hardcore Retro God
Date: 2019-07-18

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... TERRANS & NEOSAPIENS...(JK)

IT'S OFFICIAL - MY LATEST SEASON 5 FINALE REVIEW IS UP FOR EXHIBITION, entailing an underrated 3-in-1 rail-shooter / on-ground 'walk-&-gun' / head-to-head brawler hybrid of a Genesis game adaptation by the combined-yet-tragically-ill-fated efforts of Playmates Interactive Entertainment (Earthworm Jim) & Novotrade aka Appaloosa (Ecco the Dolphin), based on a short-lived animated series whose opening narrative should ring a bell even after more than 1/4 of a century:

"It was a golden age for all mankind. Using the incredible exoskeletons called E-frames, [they] had successfully terraformed Venus and Mars, and were now poised to move on to the Outer Planets.  Suddenly, it all ended.  [They] were pressed into a nightmarish war on a scale previously unimagined.  [They] were attacked by [their] own creations, the Neosapiens, a race of artificially created humans.  Led by Phaeton, they had seized control of Venus, Earth, and Mars.  This is Lt. J.T. Marsh, member of the Exofleet, leader of a small band of E-frame pilots dedicated to freeing humanity from Neosapien rule." 

THEY ARE, of course, THE EXO-SQUAD.

In this adaptation's case (not that I'm expecting anyone to give a 'You-Know-What'), by the way - the earlier-indicated Marsh, alongside Wolf Bronski & Sgt. Rita Torres are tasked with the investigation of an illegal time jump scanned by the planet’s local Time Police after being called away from their Triplanetary Summit on Earth.  During said illegal time jump, the Neosapiens have warped back 70 years in the past (precisely 2048) - thereby interfering with the time continnum (BTTF much?!), and now it's up to the Able Squad to turn the tables on the short-sighted yet fearless humanoid MFers.