It would seem that there’s going to be a huge line of Namco Bandai’s games at the game expo many avid game fans would love to get their hands on, including this one for the Gundam lovers called Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus.
Image copyrighted by SRW News Blog.
Looks mighty impressive. And if you look at its main page, you’ll see it’s just a huge advert page mentioning about its PSP game release by 3rd December 2009, currently retailing at 6279 Yen (USD $69).
I’ve heard a lot about the Super Robot Wars games lately. And after spending some time in Youtube, judging by the looks of countless Youtube videos being posted by so many mecha fans in relation to this title, there’s a clear suggestion that they were great games to play and I wished we had something like that in New Zealand shores.
Even if they are completely done in Japanese language, they should be still be sold in one of those selected niche parallel import markets where people like me living downunder can come over and get a taste of them. But sadly, no. Our market’s too small to be catered for this at the time.
My understanding that these games were made by a company Banpresto, a Japanese video game development company who has made the Super Robot Wars series franchise for the last 18 years in the business. The company, part of Namco Bandai’s division, has spawned numerious SRW titles on several video game platforms from Nintendo to Playstation during its tenure. The concept of the game is that they are RPG genre, which involves plenty of turn-based rounds with your favourite super robot characters. They get to level up, get experience points, learn new skills or attacks and they get to challenge tougher mechanical monsters just like your favourite characters from Final Fantasy games, Kingdom Hearts, etc. Players beat monsters when it’s their turn, monsters beat the crap out of players once it’s their turn next etc.
In those early times, not many super/real robots were brought into the games. There was only Mazinger Z, Getter Robo and a Gundam character, probably. The other robot series in the 80s and 90s were later added on other SRW titles.
Having check on this Japanese SRW blog page, I gazed upon its huge gallery of SRW titles and I wanted to find out what was the first SRW game title created. And I looked at this.
Super Robot Taisen F 1997 PS1
And I looked up this video link on Youtube that relates to the poster above.
Okay. I should have mentioned earlier this is not a Playstation game as you can see from the video.(apparently, they don’t have any Playstation video equivalent online -_-) Nevertheless, fundamentally it’s still the same title.
A number of familiar characters’ faces from the Mazinger Series and Getter Robo as you began the game and several dialogues emerged as you keep playing. This is very refreshing indeed.
I would like to get one of these. However, they don’t see anymore PS machines in our shores. :(
Been browsing on this chap’s link for quite some time now.
It’s a pretty good link on everything people want to discover the amazing world on super robot wars franchise, everything from music, models, games and picture covers.
I noticed that some of the pictures uploaded there are the sources of Hobby Japan Magazine, just like this 40th Anniversary cover I got (which I’m still in the process of finding the time to upload photos from the book!)
Hobby Japan Mag - 40th Anniversary Edition
And I’ve been meaning to make a humble request to have his blog as part of my blogroll. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have an email or other possible contacts to get in touch with. And I just added him to my blogroll anyway.
