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Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

The saxophone music owns, you take that back. :colbert:

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Davzz
Jul 31, 2008
It makes most of the scenes it's in sound like a porno.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Arashi no Hero is the best sax.

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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Either I'm crazy, or I just found a hidden stash of money on the map by moving onto its tile.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
The first time I heard Hathaway's music was in GGG and it's here too, and I really like it. I still don't get where it came from though. Same as the Crossbone music I guess, which I heard for the first time in Alpha 2.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i mean cross ange having a bunch of semi-useless tagalongs in a srw game makes sense considering its status as a weird followup to code geass

and just like the code geass crew, i will use all of the useless grunts

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
"They think they're so special just because they can use magic and manipulate physical laws! Ha!"

Never change, Ryoko.

Also Cross Ange is clearly not a happy happy anime....I thought as Ange was waving a knife around like a crazy person at her teammates who want her dead.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Feb 25, 2017

Nyeehg
Jul 14, 2013

Grimey Drawer
Does anyone know if V has cross save? Bought the vita version and all the DLC talk has reminded me what a pain in the rear end account switching is. Am now considering getting the ps4 version if/when it goes on sale to play the DLC if it's any good.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
"Everyone from the Founding Nations are crazy and the rest of the world doesn't want anything to do with them" seems as good a justification as any for why the Cross Ange system can exist in the 00/GSD/Nadesico world.

Levantine
Feb 14, 2005

GUNDAM!!!
Oh man I finally had a chance to sink a couple hours into this game and it's so much fun. I frequently stop and remind myself how loving awesome it is to play a licensed SRW in English. I'm abusing the poo poo out of custom soundtracks (Macross Delta stuff on a lot of my units) and I love how versatile it is to put a certain track on a certain attack and oh man I like this game so much.

I just beat maybe stage 4 or 5 and have all the SRs so far. Chitose is a killer right now, i ended up killing 9 enemies in a row with multiple action at one point. She has that totally broken ExC Laser or whatever that doubles point gain so she's unstoppable after a certain point.

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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My biggest problem with Cross Ange is that I'm absolutely certain Nine's bonus TacP for understanding people comes from interactions on the field, and twice in a row I've had her walk into the Cross Ange Locker Room and they all told her to gently caress off. The first time it happened, she was like, "I guess I haven't had a proper introduction," like it's somehow my fault that I didn't want to use a dozen useless maniacs.

Hell, if they didn't force deploy literally all of them on their introductory mission, they would rot at 0 kills forever. I was actually relieved when I thought they were all going to die.



edit: My one consolation is that for the last 10 missions, Ryoma and the Black Getter have been making a mess somewhere in the Cross Ange/Gundam SEED Destiny rear end in a top hat world.

Broken Loose fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Feb 25, 2017

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



It feels like it took forever, but I've finally got the Xi and Arbalest. And Tobia goes straight into the Xi, because he's better at literally everything than Hathaway except for fighting in water.

For the Arbalest, do the customizations I dump into it carry over to the Laevatein, or should I hold off on funneling literally all my cash into it?

Inferno-sama
Jun 5, 2015

You touch my burger, and I'll slap you so hard you won't even be able to understand how you fucked up.

ACES CURE PLANES posted:

It feels like it took forever, but I've finally got the Xi and Arbalest. And Tobia goes straight into the Xi, because he's better at literally everything than Hathaway except for fighting in water.

For the Arbalest, do the customizations I dump into it carry over to the Laevatein, or should I hold off on funneling literally all my cash into it?

The customisations carry over.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



Oh look suddenly my Arbalest has a Full Custom bonus how about that. :getin:

Inferno-sama
Jun 5, 2015

You touch my burger, and I'll slap you so hard you won't even be able to understand how you fucked up.
And that's the first playthrough completed. Overall, I'd say this game is an 8/10. Great and fun to play.

Brunom1
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about being the best dad ever.

Inferno-sama posted:

And that's the first playthrough completed. Overall, I'd say this game is an 8/10. Great and fun to play.

Which MC did you go with?

Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Feb 25, 2017

Ethiser
Dec 31, 2011

I've never noticed this in the other games but on the Mech Info screen it has each units official name. Most of them are just the same as the usual name but Eva Unit 1's is All-Purpose Humanoid Decisive Battle Weapon Artificial Human Evangelion Prototype Unit-01 which is amazing.

Inferno-sama
Jun 5, 2015

You touch my burger, and I'll slap you so hard you won't even be able to understand how you fucked up.

Brunom1 posted:

Which MC did you go with?

Souji. I flipped for it. Now time to play as Chitose and pick other routes.

Brunom1
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about being the best dad ever.

Inferno-sama posted:

Souji. I flipped for it. Now time to play as Chitose and pick other routes.

How'd you like his crossover with folks? I've heard mixed results compared to everyone pretty much really liking Chitose.

Inferno-sama
Jun 5, 2015

You touch my burger, and I'll slap you so hard you won't even be able to understand how you fucked up.

Brunom1 posted:

How'd you like his crossover with folks? I've heard mixed results compared to everyone pretty much really liking Chitose.

Souji more or less acts like Kurz, and his moments are more just him trying to seem cool and no one falling for it. It's funny, and he is a good guy, but he gets no luck with women. Hell, one level has them list his flaws.

Edit: He does have some good moments, like trying to help the Brave Express Corps even without Vangray.

Inferno-sama fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Feb 25, 2017

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

I really really am adoring how all-in they go to making crossover stuff happen. Some of it is batshit insane but that's a huge relief after how orthodox some recent SRW crossovers have been.*coughZ3-2cough*

But it's hard not to enjoy Oh hey turns out Coordinators were specifically created to gently caress over Embryo and also Getter Rays are absorbed by dragons which is why the upgraded Getter Robo that can surpass dragon-absorption is called Dragon. kind of stuff.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



MonsieurChoc posted:

The funniest thing is I got my copy of SD Gundam GGeneration Genesis I'd preordered at the same I got Super Robot Wars V.

SDGGG came out November 23.

Same, I didn't pay attention to the release dates and play asia will hold the shipment till everything in it is released.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Midjack posted:

Same, I didn't pay attention to the release dates and play asia will hold the shipment till everything in it is released.

They were on separate shipments.

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Samurai Sanders posted:

Also Cross Ange is clearly not a happy happy anime....I thought as Ange was waving a knife around like a crazy person at her teammates who want her dead.
It's super toned down compared to the original anime, believe it or not. Like in every way.

Levantine posted:

I'm abusing the poo poo out of custom soundtracks (Macross Delta stuff on a lot of my units)
I made sure to put Ikenai Borderline into my game but I haven't decided who I'll slap it onto yet.

Ethiser posted:

I've never noticed this in the other games but on the Mech Info screen it has each units official name. Most of them are just the same as the usual name but Eva Unit 1's is All-Purpose Humanoid Decisive Battle Weapon Artificial Human Evangelion Prototype Unit-01 which is amazing.
On a related note I think its interesting that actually refer to the movies as "Rebuild of Evangelion" when as far as I know this is a term never actually used in any official promotional materials by Studio Khara or Funimation as a title.

The GIG
Jun 28, 2011

Yeah, I say "Shit" a shit-ton of times. What of it, shithead?
I got bored and watched the demo reel attack showcase on youtube, and it's kinda charming how they used the localized titles for stuff when they could, even though they didn't need to. Special shout out though to them using the English translation of Daitarn 3's Italian name as the localization.

The GIG fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Feb 25, 2017

ZuljinRaynor
Apr 25, 2010

NERD LICENSE IMMUNITY
It's just been revoked!

Samurai Sanders posted:

The first time I heard Hathaway's music was in GGG and it's here too, and I really like it. I still don't get where it came from though. Same as the Crossbone music I guess, which I heard for the first time in Alpha 2.

All the Hathaway's Flash music is from SD Gundam games (I believe). They used them later in the Gundam VS games too.

Sono na wa Mufti Nabiyu Erin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8gbzJa-uks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLW2eKPBZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDxFmzF8lAY

Assault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-bJQi5Svc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5hNKeypRiQ

Some other track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAWdZWxC8w

If they ever do decide to do some sort of animation outta HF, I sure hope they keep these tracks in it in some way.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
So who put this as Hathaway's theme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf1WT8VEZxk

Rascyc
Jan 23, 2008

Dissatisfied Puppy
I just can't understand what they were going for with Chitose's art style. It seems very random.

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

ZuljinRaynor posted:

If they ever do decide to do some sort of animation outta HF, I sure hope they keep these tracks in it in some way.
I'm betting we'll see a Hathaway's Flash manga well before we see an anime, since there's a Beltorchika's Children manga running right now.

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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Okay, so I'm 100% sure that there's a secret bonus TacP objective on every stage once Nine is introduced, and it functions like old SR points (do something plotty). I also got a Secret Scenario (Black Might Gaine, possibly a secret unit, too?) for doing the latest one (beating Hiryu using only Mightgaine).

Other oddities: If you take 0 damage, Persist doesn't wear off. The Recommended slots in the Factory are the primary source of Parts once it's unlocked, and parts that show up there usually aren't available in the main Factory menu.

Broken Loose fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Feb 25, 2017

Brunom1
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about being the best dad ever.

Broken Loose posted:

Okay, so I'm 100% sure that there's a secret bonus TacP objective on every stage once Nine is introduced, and it functions like old SR points (do something plotty). I also got a Secret Scenario (Black Might Gaine, possibly a secret unit, too?) for doing the latest one (beating Hiryu using only Mightgaine).

Are they shown somewhere in the game or is it the sort of thing you need to know from the anime/check online?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Brunom1 posted:

Are they shown somewhere in the game or is it the sort of thing you need to know from the anime/check online?

It's just like the bonuses in Z3 you'd get, right down to Nine also having special Ace dialogue for every character.

There ALSO seem to be hidden bonuses which make Nine trigger a free skill program. I can't tell if it is just a fancy way of having skill programs drop or if it's actually determined by doing things but I notice the seem to drop more often when you have plot characters kill plot bosses, but that may just be a coincidence.

ActionZero
Jan 22, 2011

I act once more in
imitation of light
God drat but the Yamato is absurd. I'm only up to stage 6 but I'm having to actively work to make sure Okita doesn't just fly through the map and eat every enemy in his path (fortunately his ridiculous command aura helps make my other units tear poo poo up).

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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YES I UNLOCKED BLACK MIGHTGAINE THROUGH THE POWER OF TONGUE TWISTERS

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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HOLY poo poo NINE JUST GAVE ME 300 POINTS FOR DOING THAT

Blockhouse
Sep 7, 2014

You Win!

Broken Loose posted:

HOLY poo poo NINE JUST GAVE ME 300 POINTS FOR DOING THAT

Boy I'm glad I haven't played the game since I got Nine yesterdayt

NotALizardman
Jun 5, 2011

Broken Loose posted:

HOLY poo poo NINE JUST GAVE ME 300 POINTS FOR DOING THAT

You just got her a new robofriend :unsmith:

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

Broken Loose posted:

Okay, so I'm 100% sure that there's a secret bonus TacP objective on every stage once Nine is introduced, and it functions like old SR points (do something plotty). I also got a Secret Scenario (Black Might Gaine, possibly a secret unit, too?) for doing the latest one (beating Hiryu using only Mightgaine).

Let me just set this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_cxT11KSA

Broken Loose
Dec 25, 2002

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The trick isn't nearly as hard as you think. If you think a character is gonna have a conversation with a boss, have that character attack the boss, then go to the Factory for the conversation. For what I just did, on Scenario 17, don't fight Joe the Ace with anybody except Mightgaine, and it'll give you a Tac conversation at the Factory that opens up the Black Mightgaine mission. You get 100 TacP for the conversation and another 300 if you visit the Factory after completing the mission.


edit: Also, when asked, go to the party

Broken Loose fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Feb 25, 2017

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NotALizardman
Jun 5, 2011



god i love shinn

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