Idle hands mech for the devil's work

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The most important thing to know about Bay 12: Mech Repair is that these are mechs of the MechWarrior or possibly Patlabor school – that is, basically WW2 tanks on hydraulic legs, with cockpits full of switches and wireframe displays. Their bodies are assemblages of pistons and reactors. They are not biomechs like the ones in Evangelion. An Evangelion Repair game would be… different. Less industrial, more Oedipal. You would dread removing the smallest piece of housing.

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Which isn't to say that Bay 12: Mech Repair represents life on Easy Street, exactly. There's a big war happening outside, its fortunes palpable in the minced leg joints and pocked torsos of the war-bots lowered into your hangar. You're also fed details about the lives of pilots when you accept a work order.…