Super Robot Wars and the other series'

[OctalLord]

I'll tell you now that I have a question. But I want to put it in context.

I had been reading tvtropes(A dangerous pastime I know.) When I came across the "Super Robot Wars Trombe OVERIDE Ascended Glitch."

The exact details are spoilered here

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?In Super Robot Wars, all other music being overrid- TROMBE!
◦To explain this in greater detail, whenever Elzam Branstein would use an attack or do something that triggered his theme in the first game he appeared in, his theme would override anything that was playing in the background, even final boss music. The fandom found this hilarious, due in no small part to his theme being awesome, and Banpresto has deliberately included it in every SRW game where he appears since. It even overrides Komm, susser tod in the End of Evangelion route from Alpha 3.

After that I took a look into the game series and I found something that looks like the most awesome game series I've ever seen. It's also incredibly expansive. As such I was wondering which one I should get and I was hoping for something relatively new and I came across the Super Robot Taisen series. While that was intresting and I'm certainly considering it(Namely the Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier edition. Here's the trailer for those who don't know of it:

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But I'm not sure if THAT'S the one that I really want. So I figured I'd come here and ask you guys 'Which one would be a good one to begin with?' What do you say escapists? Have any ideas?

 

[OctalLord]

Bump because I just noticed I forgot to ask the actual question in my original post and have since editted it. That and it has been a few hours.

 

[syaoran728]

Unfortunately there are only three SRW games in english. However SRW Original Generation 1 and 2 are both excellent and a great place to start.

 

[OctalLord]

Is these the games you guys are talking about?

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1BG/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1317017396&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1CK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1317017315&sr=8-5

 

[OctalLord]

Is these the games you guys are talking about?

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1BG/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1317017396&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1CK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1317017315&sr=8-5

Indeed they are.

Awesome! Thanks for the help. I'll have these well and payed for soon enough.

This is why I love the Escapist!

 

[OctalLord]

Is these the games you guys are talking about?

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1BG/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1317017396&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Robot-Taisen-Game-Boy-Advance/dp/B000F8O1CK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1317017315&sr=8-5

Indeed they are.

Awesome! Thanks for the help. I'll have these well and payed for soon enough.

This is why I love the Escapist!

Oh, and for future reference, you should find and bookmark the GameFAQS pages for both of the games. They contain copious amounts of secret unlockables, and you can only face the real final bosses if you fulfill certain requirements that the games never tell you about.

That's a little cruel. But it's far too late to complan. I'll look those up!


Also I just did a search for the trailers of those games, but I found this had been uploaded a couple days ago. Figured I'd post it for the sake of discussion

 

[AdjectiveNoun]

as you probably know, the Super Robot Wars (or Taisen) franchise proper is a series of turn-based strategy RPGs, with titles reaching back to the SNES. What sets this series apart is that they feature characters from licensed mecha anime as playable characters (series like NGE, Gundam, Mazinger, Getter Robo and so on).

unfortunately, it is this very feature, with the veritable cluster**** of licensing issues involved, that has made it practically impossible to release outside of Japan.

SRW Original Generations for the GBA(with untranslated ports and sequels on both the PS2 and PSP respectively), however, is the exception, as the cast is made up entirely of Banpresto's own original characters and mecha. if you wanted to get in on it, I would suggest these titles.

there have been several full fan translations of SRW games in the past: SRW 3 for SNES, SRW alpha gaiden for PSX (SRW alpha, the prequel is still in the works), and SRW J for the GBA.

aquiring these games, however, would require pirating them and subsequently patching them with the english translation (a relatively simple process).

SRWOG Saga: Endless Frontier is a spinoff of the OG series, and a radically different game altogether. it is a straight-up JRPG whose main gimmick is a battle system based on chaining attacks together to "juggle" your opponents to inflict as much damage as possible. The main story is at best tangentially related to the OG series, set in an alternate reality and is essentially a stand-alone story save for a small number of plot-points that only make sense if you've played OG2.