Super Robot Wars X: Keith Courage in Alpha Numbers

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Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

What is Super Robot Wars?
It's a long running tactical RPG series starring anime robots, which has about 40 games in it on almost every platform you can imagine. It's made by Banpresto, a division of Bandai-Namco that does pretty much just this. It's like your thirteen year old self's crazy ramblings about how Mazinger Z and Voltron would totally be awesome fighting evil alongside Gundams and Evangelions and Valkyries and stuff, except it's real and just as awesome as you think.

English?

What does it play like?
A lot like Fire Emblem (the first in both series appeared right around the same time), but with the difference is that each unit is a pilot and a robot each with their own stats, and can be switched around between each other to some extent. The games are linear, but often have branching storylines so you won't see all of the stages on one playthrough.

If there are over 40 games in the franchise how the hell are they organized?
There are three main branches to SRW: main line, Original Generations, and the others. The main line series have all the big name animes and an expansive story that covers four or five games per series. Original Generation has no anime but instead just Banpresto's original characters. The others are a grab bag of one-off games usually on portable consoles and usually of lower quality.

For info about each game, check this wiki in English or this wiki in Japanese

Okay, so which one should I start with?
Good timing! The latest released game, called Super Robot Wars V, is several months old and in English. It�s a one off game in a new world that you won't need to know about the history of the franchise to play. It has a bunch of famous series like Evangelion, ZZ Gundam, Nadesico and Space Battleship Yamato in it.

Soon we will see the release of Super Robot Wars X, which is detailed in the next post.

What else is this thread for?
Other SRW games of course, and also other anime robot games like Gundam Versus, and also SRW-like games like SD Gundam G Generation and Fantasy Maiden Wars for you Touhou fans.

Also Jam Project, the official band of SRW and anime robots in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPMRj0M0cpU

Do I have a steel soul of justice inside me?
If you can appreciate this song then probably!

Hit the gong; it's time to save the galaxy!

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Feb 11, 2018

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 07:28

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 02:56

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Broken Loose posted:

I was still hoping for "With this crabstick, I will translate Super Robot Wars"

For people like me who didn't get the reference

edit: some conversation about robot animes themselves will also be tolerated.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Aug 5, 2016

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 07:41

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

1st Stage Midboss posted:

Am I missing an option somewhere, or is there no way to turn off rumble in Moon Dwellers?

I didn't find one either so I turned it off for the PS4 in general. There are so few games where it's used for something meaningful anyway.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 10:39

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

ImpAtom posted:

Crabstick Ryusei provides literally the most accurate description of the Soulsaber.

It definitely sounds like something my ESL students would write into an essay.

edit: not the first sentence though; I would complement them on that one if they are writing at a level that would generate the last two sentences.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 5, 2016

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 22:46

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

By the way did anyone notice that at least in MD, Shine has an attack line like one of the old "I'm gonna do it like Ryusei" lines, except she says "I'm gonna do it like Latooni"? Poor Latooni...

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 23:16

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

AradoBalanga posted:

I'm amazed they got Debudedabide's name correct. I expected them to hilariously butcher it to death.

How else would one spell it? Anyway, I think they got the way he talks pretty down-pat.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 23:05

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

DIE GRANTEEEEEED is not in, but in its place we have "Busker Mode".

Granteed kills things via street performances now.

This is the best translation ever.

What was it supposed to be? I never knew.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 03:04

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Watching Eva 1.11 again for the purpose of comparison with Shin Evangelion, I am wondering, outside of Eva and SRWZ2's dimension beasts, are there any other media were rainbows are menacing?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 07:46

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I haven't seen all the robot anime ever but is there a banana themed robot more awesome than King Kitan? I hope not.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Aug 7, 2016

# ¿ Aug 7, 2016 11:58

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Gyra_Solune posted:

i have a question

what is this exactly supposed to be

http://www.suparobo.jp/popup/20160803.html

An Umasugi Wave original character called Moimoi I guess.

X Omega sure has turned into a dumping ground for all kinds of weird stuff. I heard Godzilla is going to be in it too.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 01:36

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Captain Rufus posted:

Is the TOTALLY NOT GAY HORSIE MODE COMBO ATTACK still in for this one? It was op as hell in the GBA games and funny as hell. Ok maybe not as rad as SRX and the gun combos but.. the Yaoi baiting made up for it in comedic value.

Man what kind of hosed up world would this be if they had gotten rid of that attack.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 22:53

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Caphi posted:

Does Sanger even know how to actually ride? Because Ratsel does since he names his robots after his horse.

I think his ultimate dream was always to become a horse.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 23:06

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Other than for the final stages of the game I just sort by level and grab all the lowest level pilots. It keeps things fresh.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 05:12

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

The Japanese Gunbuster bluray set finally got cheap enough that I bought it (the cheaper of the two anyway; I still don't understand what's different about the 30k yen one), so I don't have to watch the stupid movie version anymore.

I only watched this anime after finishing Alpha 1, so it makes me wonder, did I come to like the anime so much because it's favored in SRW, or is it favored in SRW for the same reasons that I like it so much?

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Aug 9, 2016

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 14:32

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Which Super Robot Spirits live album is the best? I have the 1999 and 2003 just because they were what was at the used CD store.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2016 10:45

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

I bought Gundam EXFB for the hell of it. I haven't owned one of these since Gundam vs. Z-Gundam like ten years ago. There sure are a lot more MSs now. Turn A sure is weird, with double hammers as its main ranged weapons and the beam rifle as a sub weapon. Gyan's shield can release air mines! That's all for now.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 10:18

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

There were so many loose ends in the original story of the Z series it's nuts. It's like they were planning for like two more games.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 12:17

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

Beach Dwellers is a terrifying thing.

Did it only ever come with the physical version of the game, or if I bought it digitially is there some way to download it that I don't understand? I don't know if I want to though...

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 00:09

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

Kin of the Kyocho is a very, very odd way of translating "Heir to the Huckebein".

Kyocho (凶鳥) is what at least Ing calls the Huckbein series.

edit: it refers to a phoenix rising from its own ashes, I guess.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Aug 20, 2016

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 02:58

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Also gameplay-wise it means Supers won't have equippable weapons since they are completely full of baked in weapon systems.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 03:29

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Gyra_Solune posted:

so

what the heck are the Lamalice anyway

Something that should have been a gimmick in like one, maybe two stages tops, but instead were in like fifteen stages straight.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 06:03

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Sakura Wars has robots so I am declaring that it is close enough to SRW to talk about in this thread so uhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxC6wXR9aYQ

The latest game in a series about the glorious Japanese empire...only in Korean. I don't even know what to do with all this irony.

(Android only, of course)

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Aug 23, 2016

# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 23:08

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Speaking of fan games, in the end was there no word from Sanbondo about FMW4 from Comiket? I was just listening to the soundtrack to 3 again for the bazillionth time and thinking about that. Also, I still want to buy the out of print soundtrack to 2...

I lost interest in my Reimu run through the older games. Marisa's side is just more interesting, plus, as others have said, the first game is hard to go back to after the others.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Sep 1, 2016

# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 10:09

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

Seriously, what the hell happened to Bandai Namco to make them change their tune? A decade of "lol gently caress you" turned into "LET'S GIVE THEM EVERY GAME!"

Maybe some intractable bastard somewhere high up in Bamco finally retired or died or something?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 04:11

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

As far as I know, yeah.

The developers went on record to say that OG MD was full on 3rd OGs and not just another Gaiden, but drat if it doesn't feel like one.

Yeah it's definitely just to fill the gap before the Alpha 3 storyline starts. I don't know why they wouldn't acknowledge that since it's plenty good as it is.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 13:04

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Regarding SRW gameplay it commits the cardinal sin of having a million options of how to fight but 99% of the time the difficulty isn't high enough to have any reason to pick one or the other other than that one of them looks cooler than the other. But I am not a priest and this is not confessional and there are giant robots that need wrecking and anime words that need yelling.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 09:37

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

It is also why I like FMW so much.

And for those curious, no, there is still no word as to FMW4's release date.

Yeah I'm more excited about that than any real SRW game.

Also I can't stop listening to its music like holy poo poo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9mdLsPoZk

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 23:26

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Yeah everything was going relatively ok until 3 when they just decided to throw in all their unused story concepts all at once for some reason.

Except the coming and going of the Insalaum people between Z2-1 and Z2-2, that was really confusing.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 01:52

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

If only 3 was just about Asakim collecting all the zodiac powers and becoming a mad god, and maybe the shinka stuff too, everything would have been fine.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 01:58

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Brunom1 posted:

Hey, now, let's not go crazy here.

Yeah, nothing else in games including SRWZ ever comes close to the "wait, who am I fighting and why?" feeling of especially the second Xenosaga game.

Edit: despite beginning to descend into chaos, Z2-2 is my favorite of the series.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 02:13

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

As a Leo I immediately...chose Setsuko first in 1 since I usually chose reals first anyway.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 02:39

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Policenaut posted:

The next Gundam Versus is for PlayStation 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5QaPe6YDFo

Are they dropping the EX Plus Alpha parts and getting back to basics on the title?

edit: I suppose more importantly, is the PS4 going to be the primary platform and not arcades? Are arcades finally dead in Japan?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 09:51

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Yeah when I first played Alpha 1 about twelve years ago now (the Dreamcast version...) I only knew Evangelion and Macross Plus. I had seen a lot of anime but not robot anime, for some reason I didn't think of it as my thing. It became my thing.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 23:20

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Son Ryo posted:

I liked Brain Powerd and Tekkaman Blade quite a bit, it's Macross Frontier and Dancouga Nova I really hated.

I didn't like Frontier either; what are my chances of liking Delta?

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 02:10

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

BlitzBlast posted:

Delta has a great first 13 episodes and then it all goes crashing down.

It's so dramatic a change that there are rumors that the second cour was completely unplanned.

I had to look up "cour" I guess it's a French term used in Japanese TV to refer to half of a season? Weird.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 03:46

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Light Gun Man posted:

Off topic, but paging Samurai Sanders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y5s769KXF0

That opening makes me think they're gonna fly some KFC loaded airplanes into important buildings in Tokyo.

Anyway they had great success here, and in China. And the chicken is just better than in the US.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2016 22:40

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Senerio posted:

Beginner mode gives you a free Grungust, so I picked it for my first runthrough, in case I had someone who needed that.

Turns out I did, because I had nobody to pair Katina with.

Is that the red Grungust 1?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 02:45