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A rare niche game that I found on PSN and got running on PPSSPP is the giant robot programming game Carnage Heart EXA. In the future, war is fought by giant automated robots called Overkill Engines (OKEs), and programming them is serious business. A large chunk of the game is taken up by a somewhat story-driven tutorial that teaches you how to program the OKEs, so even if you don't have a background in programming it's pretty easy to pick up, but tricky to master.  OKEs are programmed in a flowchart fashion using various 'chips' that function as program flow commands (for example in the picture, the highlighted chip will branch program flow if there is an enemy OKE within an arc 60m to 200m out in front), action commands (such as the melee action directly above the highlighted chip) and other things. In the original Carnage Heart game for the PSX, the robots could not be programmed to be controlled directly, but in Carnage Heart EXA you can program it to respond to user controls. Most of the time the OKEs will be running via your programmed AI, though, as battles often involve more than a single OKE operating at once.    Not only are there different CPUs with different chip capacities, execution speeds, and EMP/heat resistances.. but there are multiple OKE frames with different strengths and weaknesses. Two-legged OKEs are agile all-rounders; four-legged OKEs are a little heavier but still capable of jumping; vehicle OKEs are tracked behemoths that are slow and can't really dodge for poo poo, but can carry heavier weapons and armor; and flying OKEs are very agile and difficult to hit, but also fragile. Multiple weapon types and other loadout options make for a customization dream! I really recommend this game to technically-inclined folks who like programming or people who like giant robots.
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