Metal Max is an extraordinarily rich JRPG to look at from a story and setting perspective. Its world and stories take inspiration from a multitude of science fiction and popular media, including films like Mad Max, Battle of the Bulge, On the Beach, and Damnation Alley. The novel Bill, The Galactic Hero was also acknowledged for its style of humor.
The games are unified by heavy vehicular combat themes and a dystopian ruined world going through desertification. Metal Max leans heavily into other popular aspects of apocalyptic science fiction with varying importance in the stories of the different games involving androids, biomutants, genetic engineering, and rogue artificial intelligence. Metal Max 1 may even be the first JRPG to feature an Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse; something to think about here in 2024.
In this video I explore Hiroshi Miyaoka's inspirations for Metal Max gleaned from translated interviews after his work on Metal Max 4 and Metal Max Xeno.
My other more historically oriented Metal Max video: • What Happened to the F...
Sources:
Shmpulations translated Roleplaying Gamerside #1 - shmuplations.com/metalmax/
Digitally Downloaded - www.digitallydownloaded.net/2...
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