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Ye Olde Super Robot Discotheque 1) Macross Frontier 
2) Gundam SEED Destiny 
3) Fafner in the Azure 
4) Banpresto Originals 
5) HEROMAN 
6) Gundam 00: A wakening of the Trailblazer 
7) Roar of the Machine God Demonbane 
8) Ninja Warrior Tobikage 
9) Linebarrels of Iron 
10) SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors 
11) Mazinkaiser SKL 
12) Beast Machine Armor Dancouga Nova 
13) Wings of Rean 
14) Cyber Troopers Virtual-On – Fei-Yen HD 
15) Aura Battler Dunbine 
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 Gather at the beginning...    SRW UX - ObeliskWe open up at the Frontier Fleet, where Sheryl Nome, the Galactic Fairy, has just kicked off her concert. Ranka (with the green hair), standing in the crowd, is so very excited, but Alto and Michel (glasses) are hard at work. They got hired to perform some flying acrobatics and Michel tells him to make it good – screw up, and being tagged as amateurs will be the least of their problems. Alto is insulted he even considered that a possibility. Ranka spots the two of them flying up top and silently wishes her friends good luck as they begin their routine.   Outside, though, things are a lot worse: the Frontier’s New UN Spacy (NUNS) soldiers have been engaged and are getting wrecked by creatures IDed as Vajra. Howard Glass, president of the Frontier Fleet, was apparently expecting this to happen eventually.  Still, this attack, so soon after Sheryl’s arrival, doesn’t strike Howard as a coincidence. His aide, and totally not a bad guy, Leon Mishima, asks if he suspects foul play from the Galaxy Fleet. Indeed, and Howard figures they should carry on with their investigation on both the Vajra and them as well.  Back inside, the crowd and Ranka are loving the acrobatics. Sheryl is decently impressed and decides to make things a bit more interesting – by jumping right off her flying stage. It falls on Alto to blast on over and catches her before she splatters against the ground. Ranka’s blown away, but Alto is less than chipper: what the hell was Sheryl thinking?! “Can’t you tell? It’s called entertainment,” she quips. And what would have happened if he didn’t make it in time?! Not only would she be a red smear on the ground, she’d probably have fallen onto some of her audience as well! Why, but wasn’t he the one who, at rehearsal, told her not to sell him and his crew short? Sheryl wanted to see for herself how well he could actually fly. Oh, and by the by, she had a Gas Jet Cluster (read: jetpack) hidden under her outfit the whole time. She wasn’t about to put her life in the hands of an amateur, of course! Alto lies stunned and Sheryl prepares for her next act…  Or maybe not: an explosion rocks the Island and the PA starts yelling, telling all civilians to get to the nearest shelter immediately. Sheryl’s not amused – her show’s JUST started – but them’s the breaks. As Alto wonders what the hell is going on, Michel tells Luca that the SMS has just sent an order for emergency scramble. Alto’s not in on the take, though, and looks on in confusion as his two schoolmates run off.   Outside again, the NUNS are getting trounced and the Frontier’s final defense perimeter has just been breached. Thankfully, the SMS Squadron is on the scene: Ozma Lee, the flight lead, tells the NUNS to break off and let them handle the enemy. Canaria (headband) tags the enemy as Code Victor and is surprised at their appearance – still, they must find a way to stop the things here and now.  Klan Klang’s on hand as well, and not about to let these monsters get any of their claws on the Frontier Fleet. Time to go, then, as Ozma calls for Formation Seventh Moon!   “Code Victor… I won’t let that tragedy repeat itself…!”  The battle’s growing worse by the second, and Alto is about to grab Sheryl and take her to a shelter, when she stops him. “I hear something… Whose voice is that?” Sheryl wonders. Alto yells at her to quit daydreaming and come with him quick – can’t he hear this voice? What voice?! “Gather… at the beginning…?” Gather at the beginning...  *Tweeep.*  : …?! What was that I just felt…?! (Kazuki) : Hrm! We’ve been found…?! (Makabe) : General alert. All islanders are to evacuate to your assigned shelters.  : (Huh? What’s going on…?) (Mamoru) : Did it just tell us to evacuate…? (Sakura) : This… isn’t a drill…? (Koyo) Location: ALVIS – 1st CDC  : All systems online. Target is growing. (Yumiko) : Give me an exact measure of its mass. Sound the red alert and switch us to level 3 battle stations! (Kozo) : All hands, switch to level 3 battle stations! (Kaname) : The Festum show themselves at long last…! (Cagalli): I am so very sorry, Rep. Athha. None of us expected this to happen precisely on the day of your inspection…: Pay it no mind, Cmdr. Minashiro. We’ve known for the past 30 years that the Festum would reappear eventually.: Was it not precisely in preparation for this day that we’ve our Mobile Suits and the Arcadian Project?: But your nation of Orb is…: We may have a policy of permanent neutrality, but that does not mean we’ll sit by when enemies of all mankind start attacking.: Alex, are Shinn and Lunamaria ready? : Yes. They’re good to go on your order.: Ready to deploy the Welle Shield. Disabling mirror camouflage!: We’ll deploy our MSs as the camouflage goes down. Is that fine with you, Cmdr.?: Yes, and I thank you for the assistance!: Target is in visual range. The Festum’s materializing!  : … : ?! Th-That’s… a Festum! (Soushi): A Sphinx type…!: It’s so pretty…: Indeed, but beauty does not mean it is a friend to mankind. : Destiny, Impulse! Launch and engage! SRW UX - Life Goes On : … Psh, so much for a walk around paradise. ( : We’re not here on tourism, you know. We’re supposed to be escorting the Representative during her inspection, remember? (Lunamaria): Fine, fine! We just need to drop that thing, right? I’m going in, Luna!    : I missed…! Did it anticipate my attack?!: … there?: ?! Wh-What voice was that?: Are you there…?: It’s speaking…?! Th-This is…!: Don’t answer! It’ll destroy your mind!: Wh-What…?!: Shinn, Lunamaria! The enemy can read your thoughts! Be careful before you attack or you’ll just be wearing yourselves down!: Hrm… Fine, no more holding anything back!    : Back me up, Luna!: O-Okay! Take out the Sphinx A-Type, don’t lose anyone. Nice and easy, though, as Cagalli said, the Festum are actually rather dodgy and accurate due to their mind-reading abilities – even with Focus and SEED running, Shinn’ll be getting less-than-impressive numbers!  Destiny Gundam (Shinn Asuka) Pilot Skills: SEED - +10% damage dealt, +20% to dodge and hit rates. Activates at 130 morale. Support Attack (援護攻撃) L1 – when an ally starts an attack adjacent to a unit with this skill, that unit can join in with a follow-up attack (range and ammo/EN limitations apply), with more accuracy but with less attack power. Support Defense (援護防御) L1 – same, but the adjacent unit will come in and take the incoming enemy hit for the original target. Spirit Commands: Focus (集中) - +30% to hit and evasion rates for one turn. Fighting Spirit (闘志) – the next attack is guaranteed to be a critical hit Mech Features: Sword Gun Beam Shield – when shield defense triggers, further reduce the damage of Beam attacks. Variable Phase Shift (VPS) Armor – all damage, except from Beam weapons, reduced by 2000. Costs 10 EN per activation. Hyper Deuterion Engine – restores 10% max EN at the start of every player phase High Speed Evasion - upwards of 45% chance to outright dodge an incoming attack, determined by difference between pilot and enemy’s Skill stat. Activates over 130 morale. Squad Bonus: Crit +10, Mobility +5 (Crit +20, Mobility +20, S rank in Space) Voice Actor: Kenichi Suzumura (other roles: Demyx in KH, Eiji in Gravion, Cayenne in Aquarion EVOL, and a ton more.) Shinn, as always, is quite the reliable unit. He’s got good stats where it matters and the Destiny’s pretty dang good (even if it cannot use its best trick right now); a bit EN hungry as you go for bigger moves, but that’s somewhat offset by its EN regen. With the Destiny’s good firepower, survivability from all its abilities, and Shinn’s SEED-boosted piloting, you’ll be very well served for the entire game. He’ll even get better as we go along, so there’s objectively no major reason not to use him unless you simply don’t WANT to. And FYI, the Squad Bonus is like that because I’m playing on NG++ (only way to get all secrets in a single run as secrets obtained in a previous game keep their flags raised in NG+). Unlike in L, where you only got two boosts to your bonus at 50% and 100% unit upgrade, UX allows for 3 boosts by upgrading to 50/100% and/or when the pilot has 100 and 200 kills. Thus, even with the Destiny’s at baseline upgrades, my Shinn’s at 380 kills, so he’s already at the tier 3 Squad Bonus. More power for me!  Force Impulse Gundam (Lunamaria Hawke) Pilot Skills: Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Gain (努力) – doubles the exp earned from the next battle Invincible (不屈) – damage taken from next attack reduced to 10. Mech Features: Sword Gun Anti-Beam Shield VPS Armor Squad Bonus: Mobility and Accuracy +5 (Mobility and accuracy +20, movement +2, A rank in Space) Voice Actress: Maaya Sakamoto (other roles: Jeanne in Fate/GO, Lightning in FFXIII, Lal’c in Diebuster and so much more) Same as Shinn and the Destiny, only worse in every way - the Impulse WAS Shinn’s old unit. Luna’s notoriously low accuracy seems to be absent in this game, as her stats are actually decent enough. She’s worse than Shinn on all accounts, but she can hold her own well enough (especially with the Squad Bonus boosting her mobility and accuracy). Like the Destiny, the Impulse’s built as a jack-of-all-trades and despite the Minerva’s absence (Talia and Rey are long dead in this game), it can still use the Cerberus and Excalibur attacks just fine. As with Shinn, Luna’ll get better as the game goes along, but she’s certainly a lot closer to the bench than that one is. Still, this might just be Luna’s strongest appearance and you can certainly deploy her if you’d like.  Two things to note when fighting Festum and they’re both related to their abilities. The first one, that Cagalli warned us about, is Mind Read: it goes up to L4 and what it does is correct the final hit/evasion numbers by X% depending on the skill level. L1 is 30%, L2 is 40%, then 50% and 80% at L4. This Sphinx, our very first enemy? It has L4. Luna is NOT going to hit this guy without some major save scumming or luck. Secondly, and even more important, all Festum have the Assimilation skill. Have you played with Basara and the Vajra in the Z series? It works like that. If a Festum tags you with anything, the target’s morale will be reduced; and if that pushes it below a threshold, the Festum will assimilate that unit, restoring its HP and EN and taking the target off the field. The threshold changes with the skill level, too: L1 is 90, L2 is 100, L3 is 120 (!). Be very careful when engaging Festum with your Super Robots, especially early in battles when they haven’t had a chance to build up morale. Oh, and it also regens HP and EN at 20%, so have fun with that.  For those unfamiliar, the unit menu’s options are, in order: move unit, attack, land/fly/submerge (when applicable), spirit commands (spell that you cast for various effects, consuming a portion of your total SP), status. Other options may appear as we progress, such as combine with another spot, retreat a unit, exchange squad members, etc.  After you’re done moving, you’ll usually on have two options available: attack, or stand by (in that order. Now, for reasons you’ll see in a few turns, we’ll want to start wearing down the Sphinx ASAP. Since Luna’s not doing much with this one, it falls on Shinn to bust out his big move and get to work. SRW UX - Life Goes On: What the hell kind of enemy is this?! How can it read my mind…?!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzA3B6RYXUw I actually lucked out and triggered his High Speed Evasion. Very nice. The RNG is on my side on the enemy phase, as while the Festum manages to connect (Luna support defends), Shinn get another good hit in. The next turn over, however…  : Hrgh…! : Mobile Suits and the Burg #3 are under fire! The hangar’s been damaged!: Things aren’t looking good… Those may be aces from the Second Alliance-PLANTs War, but a Festum is no ordinary enemy…: Awakening the giant may be the only way we’ll survive this…!: You don’t mean the Fafner?! But piloting that thing—: I’m well aware of what one boarding the Fafner means, representative.: Cmdr. Minashiro…!: Father, I’ll do it! I’ll deploy the Fafner!: Soushi… you already have a job to do, no? Something no one else can.: ?! The Siegfried System…?!: Are you ready for it, Soushi…?: …Yes, sir!: Recent analysis has deemed Kazuki Makabe as the one most suited to receive the Fafner… it’s your son, Fumihiko. May we proceed…?: …: Ready the Fafner. Stand by for activation!: …: Alex, I need you to contact them…: ?! Cagalli, are you…!: We don’t have any other choice if we want to get through this one…: But are you sure? If word gets out that you contacted them neither the Federation nor the Big Three nations will take it sitting down.: That doesn’t matter. Order UX-E9… commissioned by Cagalli Yula Athha. : Understood…! Back outside, we’re still trading blows with the Festum. By the end of its turn, the thing’s on its last legs, which is perfect.  Location: ALVIS – Fafner’s Burg : That’s…!: The Fafner.: “Fafner”…?: In legends, it was a giant who turned into a dragon to guard his treasure. Its name was now inherited by the machine we built to face the Festum.: Piloting it is the only way to fight without them reading your mind. And we want you to protect this island with it.: …?! What are you, crazy?! I can’t do something like that!: Yes, you can! Your body can merge with the Fafner… and I’m sure you realize that!: …! : I’d do it myself if I could, but…!: …: You…: Hm…?: You really think I can do this…?: … Yes. Trust me.: Okay… SRW UX - Shangri-LaI really like Angela… : Kazuki, are you standing by? I’m engaging the Nibelung.  : Nibelung…?*Stabbed everywhere!* : GWAAAAARGH! Wh-What’re these plugs?!: They’re what give you a direct link to the Fafner. Nibelung activation confirmed engaged…: Siegfried System, connected!*Soushi materializes next to Kazuki.* : Huh…?! Soushi, what’re you doing here…?! : Our visual and auditory cortexes have been crossed. While you’re inside the Fafner and I’m in the Siegfried System, our neurons are directly interlinked. Now try opening your eyes.: My eyes…?: Right. The Fafner’s eyes are your eyes. I want you to focus only on merging yourself together with the Fafner. : Hmm… I-I can see!: Let’s get going, then…! Open the 11th Gate of Neidhöhle! Fafner Mark Elf, launching! : That’s…!: The Fafner… the giant christened with a name of legend! : Wh… Just what is going on?! (Shouko) : We can think about it later! Come on! We gotta get to the shelter! (Maya): R-Right…*Kazuki moves forward.* : The Fafner Mark Elf has reached the surface!: Wait, is it unarmed?! Why isn’t it equipped with any weapons?!*Beep*  : This is Burg #3 speaking. The enemy’s bombardment struck the container storing its weapons! (Tamotsu): We can’t get the hatch to open without someone controlling it manually!: Understood. I’ll go and deploy the weapons! Fumihiko, take care of things here!*Runs off.* : H-Hey! Kozo!: Urgh! My… my body isn’t moving the way I want…!: What the hell is that guy doing?!: Kazuki, watch out! The Festum’s incoming!*The Sphinx gets right on the Fafner’s face!* : ?! U-UWAAAAAAAAH!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFicOGSo5Y Soushi: “Remember the way you felt just now, Kazuki!” : …!: Haah… haah… it moved…!: Yes, very good. Feel the Fafner itself! Make it part of you! : What…?!: Grendel types…?! Did the Fafner’s activation attract them?!: Wh-What should I…?: Calm down, Kazuki! The Grendel types by themselves shouldn’t be all that powerful!: Work together with the MSs and take them down one by one. Can you do that?!: Y-Yeah, got it! I’ll get it done! Fafner Mark Elf (Kazuki Makabe) Pilot Skills: Synergetic Code (シナジェティック・コード) L3 – increases hit and evasion %. Support Attack L1 Support Defense L1 Spirit Commands: Focus Sense (直感) – casts Strike and Alert once (respectively, 100% hit rate for one turn, and 100% chance to dodge the next attack) Mech Features: Gun Siegfried System – sets Soushi as a subpilot for all Fafner units with this (current spirit list: Accelerate (加速), Alert (ひらめき), Strike (必中)) Squad Bonus: Mobility +5, Crit rate +10 (mobility +20, crit +20, movement +2) Kazuki’s Voice Actor: Makoto Ishii (other roles: Crash Bandicoot (!), Masumi in Future Diary and a few others) Soushi’s Voice Actor: Kohei Kiyasu (Kaoru in Prince of Tennis, Ippo in Hajime no Ippo and some others) Shinn’s twin brother is, as a protagonist, a great unit who’ll only get better and better as the game progresses. The Mark Elf doesn’t have a lot going right now but it’ll get there. And Kazuki’s stats good enough all around, and having Soushi provide all those nice spirits will certainly make him able to take care of himself, which is great news because Kazuki’s kill count is tied to two whole secrets. But that’s not all you have to do, of course: Secret Alert Fafner Secret #1 - 1st Step: have Kazuki shoot down the Sphinx Festum (this has to be done by turn 5) Did you think L had too few secrets? Someone at BP obviously did because UX has a ton of them, and we’ll be getting them all (just shoot me now). This first one is simple enough, provided you knew it was coming and made sure Shinn got the Festum all nice and weakened. The Mark Elf, at most, will do around 2300 damage on the thing with its best weapon, so get to work. NG++ means I never need to worry about cash, so we’ll just use Shinn and Luna to drop a couple of Grendels and move to kill the Sphinx before it has a chance to regen. : It’ll be alright, just stay calm…! This one’s gonna be a bull’s eye – and that’s a promise! Good work, Luna.  And that’s step one done!  SRW UX - The Gate of Neidhöhle OpensThe Mark Elf has a different battle BGM, but I’m so changing it to Shangri-La. : Can… Can I actually beat something like this?!: Yes, you’ll be fine. You… rather, we can beat them!: ! Soushi…!: Let’s go, Kazuki!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnicOstGyq0 Bam. *Wooommmm.* : I-It’s—!: drat, it wants to assimilate the Fafner!: Shinn, get that thing away from him!: I’m on it! Haaaaaaah!*Shinn blasts towards the Sphinx.* : Are you there…?: What…?!*Crick, crack.* : U-UWAAAAAAAAAH!: Shinn…?!: Th-The Destiny’s… breaking apart?!: Shinn! Hang in there!: drat it, what do I do now, Soushi?!*Beep!* : Kazuki, use the railgun!: ?! You’re Soushi’s dad!: I’m launching the weapon over to you! Time it right and take out the Festum with a single shot!  : Rrrgh…!: Father!: It’s in your hands… Kazuki… Soushi!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMoc_FfT9E  : Is it done…?!*Alarm* : No, target’s alive and still growing in mass!: What…?! : Are you there?: drat it, it’s not moving! What’s going on, Soushi?!: I don’t know! Your monitors just cut off! Retreat, Kazuki!: I-It’s not that easy…! GAAAAAAAAAH!: KAZUKIIII! : …?!: Wh-Who…?! SRW UX - Roaring Deathblow  : Target sighted. Beginning operation.   : What… What unit is that…?!  : We’ll end him in one fell swoop. Ready the Hell Stringer!: ?! But that’s…!: We’re dealing with a Festum here. You understand that, don’t you…?: … Roger that. Lepton Vectrers, synchro-overdrive engaged. (No, it’s not Lepton Vector. It’s written as ベクトラー, whereas Vector would be ベクター): Synchronization coefficient 97, 98… Pressure set, safety lock released! Eat this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgCoPQupz0 Captions are available. The OGs this time around are all about making Hissatsu Shigotonin references, and we already have three in here: Roaring Deathblow's a remix of the main theme, Richard's final line is one of the MC's most famous quotes, and Hell Stringer's a recreation of a move from the series. It should be noted, as you’ll see in this video, that while Citra can run the game just fine 90% of the time, it’s still not perfect. On occasion, we may see a slight slowdown for a split second at the start of the video (possibly while it loads all the dialogue). The rest plays well, though, so it didn’t seem enough reason to cut out videos altogether.  : Target’s destruction confirmed. Lepton Vectrers’ output is stable. Major…!: Haah… haah… I-I’m fine. And we shouldn’t stay any more than we need to…!: Y-Yes, sir. Retreating from the frontlines! : All targets have been destroyed…: What units were those…?!: (Right in the nick of time, Unknown Xtrikers…!) SRW UX - Prologue This BGM isn’t accessible on the sound selector, so I don’t think it has an official name. It’s still a pretty nice tune! : Hrgh…! Th-They saved us…?: Kazuki! Are you alright?! (Kazuki): …: Kazuki, hang in there! Life… It is doubt. It is joy. And it is confusion.  When people become wise to all, they realize that the world has limits. That their powers are limited... That they must someday awaken from their dream.   : MWAHAHAHA! I have you now, Princess Romina! Now you get to die like the fool you are for opposing Emperor Annex! (Grathan)  : Gaaaaaah! E-Engine output dropping! We’re not gonna make it…! (Gameran) : Hrm…! drat you, The Boom Army! ((Ylbora.)I understand that Zaboom is also a widely used translation for the Tobikage baddies but, one, the JP Wiki has it written as The Boom, two, I saw a couple of English sites writing it like that as well, and, three, I really, REALLY want it to be The Boom. I’m going for it and you can’t stop me!  : We are left with no choice… Ylbora, ready a warp towards Earth! (Romina): Your Highness! Going through a warp hole in the middle of battle is insane! : And even if we successfully make it across, there’s no guarantee we’ll find the legendary ninja on Earth…: No… I believe in the words of my father, Ladorio VII!: Please, let us warp to Earth!: Very well, Your Highness… if you are that certain, then…: Gameran, give me full power on the engine!: B-But… the amount of kylhasium we’ve left is-!: Is irrelevant! Do it!: R-Roger that! : That light…! They’re actually going to try warping away?!: Kch, you’re not escaping! After them! We’ll hunt them to the rim of the galaxy and back if we have to!    : (?! Is that… a voice…?) Gather at the beginning...   : ?! The Dunbine?!  : Prepare yourself, Shot Weapon! (Marvel. And I swear that, yes, that’s the guy’s name.) : Guh…! B-Blast you…!: I-I did it! I got him…!: …?! That was… Musy?! No, it wasn’t… whose voice is that?!     : Marvel, are you alright?! (Shou): Shou… Was that voice…? Cham…? : What are you talking about?! I’m right here with him!: Marvel, you need to stay strong!: Hah…hahah… Jeez… You can’t even tell when someone just wants to be comforted…? : MARVEEEEEEL!!  : Ahahaha! There you are, Shou Zama!: Burn Bunnings!*Burn charges after Shou.* : What have you ever gained from wallowing in all that hate?!: Power and cunning! And with those, victory shall be mine…!: I will not kill another man! Rather, what I’ll kill is that hate…!  : Urgh…!: Shou…?! What was that voice…?! : Hrk…! Ci-Ciela Lapana…!: PURIFY US!! Gather at the beginning…   : Hah… I see. You two covet the heavens as well! (Cao Cao.) : Nay! It is only the will of the people who commands the heavens! (Liu Bei): The will of the people…? : Aye! The prayers of all those who desire peace! (Sun Quan): The will of those who call Mirisha their home compels even the very heavens!  : I acknowledge the strength and conviction you possess!: However, I shan’t bow before them! : We cannot allow him to prevail…! In the name…!: Of all life in Mirisha!  : RAAAAAAAAAARGH!! *Craaaash.*  If there is a tomorrow, what will it grant us?  For the sake of all who dwell in this universe…  Oh, possibilities, gather at the beginning that will lead to the future.  Act 1 – In the End of Wilds Brunom1 fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Dec 19, 2017 22:44
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Oh poo poo here we go. Brunom you crazy son of a bitch.
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Dec 19, 2017 23:03
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Brunom1 posted:
oh my god  Also it seriously took me until they actually started name dropping Fafner to realize that they weren't Gundam SEED characters I just forgot about.
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Dec 20, 2017 01:08
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Alacron posted:oh my god When we were discussing thread titles, one idea floated was Super Robot Wars UX: Half the cast is Hirai faces
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Dec 20, 2017 01:26
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IT BEGINS! I can't believe it has only been a few days and you've already started another LP. By all means, keep them coming. I groaned when it opened with Macross Frontier again but was relieved when it was Fafner instead. It's good to see Kagalli being competent once again and I like that she has Shinn and Luna as minions. Too bad about that BGM though. Did they HAVE to pick that, with all the good music to choose from in GSD? Speaking of Fafner, holy moly the festums do NOT gently caress around. I don't remember the ones from K being that tough, but maybe that was just K being broken. I might have to try this game and play along after all. And I can tell already that, as if the hiraiface spam wasn't bad enough, I'm going to have a hard time telling apart the SD Gundams by their portraits too. On another note, THE BOOM makes me smile.
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Dec 20, 2017 01:32
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GimmickMan posted:Too bad about that BGM though. Did they HAVE to pick that, with all the good music to choose from in GSD? I'll take Life Goes On over Zips and Ignited, thank you very much.  If it helps, they also have You Are Similar To Me - we just haven't gotten to it yet. quote:On another note, THE BOOM makes me smile. Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.
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Dec 20, 2017 01:38
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I haven’t played this game or read your previous LPs, but from the thread title and first update alone, you have my support. Keep up the good work!
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Dec 20, 2017 01:39
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Sweet Jesus Yamato, already? You are a machine Brunom. And oh god the absolute first stage is Destiny and Fafner. That has to be intentional. Also, I like what I think was the original's attacks, but maybe I'm just a suck for Japanese text randomly showing up in attack animations. But Unknown Xtrikers? If you can't think of a good name for your original group, Bamco, you can just name the game differently... Hellioning fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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Dec 20, 2017 01:45
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Well drat, that's one way to get things going with a bang.
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Dec 20, 2017 01:48
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Listening to Seventh Moon while reading the events of Fafner's first episode creates a bizarre whiplash effect I was not prepared for. More importantly, I wasn't expecting you get this out fast, Brunom. Good luck with all the madness in this game.
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Dec 20, 2017 03:14
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This looks like a wild ride, I'm super pumped for this.
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Dec 20, 2017 03:54
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Alacron posted:Also it seriously took me until they actually started name dropping Fafner to realize that they weren't Gundam SEED characters I just forgot about. That makes two of us. I was entirely sure Kazuki was Shinn too, I feel the Hiraiface will be just overpowering in this game. Talking about Shinn, I was very surprised he just starts out with the Destiny, even if this is post-series. But I guess the Destiny just gets wrecked so that was a small taste of power, back into the Impulse he goes. And poor Lunamaria gets demoted to a Zaku from the very first chapter, I expect. And talking about wrecked, holy poo poo that Festum. If that's the boss of the prologue, I can't imagine what's coming. I expect them to be a gigantic pain in the rear end to fight against, especially since you compared them to Basara who was broken as poo poo in Z2-2 and never left my team. Being on the recieving side of that (with much less cool music) can't be fun. I have no idea what the hell happened beyond that because I don't know any of these series, but THE BOOM is a really good name for a villain team (I know Macross Frontier and SEED Destiny, that's as far as I go in the series that appeared in this chapter, so the sudden small moments for each were just really confusing but the SD Gundams seem pretty cool, seeing the series list, can't wait for Setsuna to meet them). Super looking forward to this LP, Brunom, and you're the true Super Robot here for getting another LP going so fast after the previous one. And daww, you mentioned me in the first post, I'm flattered. I will try to be in a much better mood for this one, since it has the actually good version of Linebarrels that I deeply love instead of the awful adaptation I have nothing but the greatest of hatreds for. Though I'm still far more interested in those 00/SD Gundam interactions. Will Setsuna learn of what being Gundam is truly all about? I must know. Also... Brunom1 posted:After you’re done moving, you’ll usually on have two options available: attack, or stand by (in that order. quote:
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Hoo boy. Strong first impressions. First off, I was following the SRW L LP so seeing you get cracking /immediately/ on another one was a surprise (well done again, btw). Then while reading the first post I was nodding my head going, "Ok, Gundam Seed Destiny, Dancouga Nova, Macross Frontier, yes, yes, that seems reasonable" and then "I've never heard of these. Wings of Rean? Ninja Warrior Tobikage?" and then "Wait, I have heard of these. SD Gundam? Mazinkaiser SKL? HEROMAN? What is this game even going to look like?" And after that, apparently the first map has a boss that has tech that puts your standard Focus spirit in the dumpster /and/ has an instantkill effect. I'm excited. I want to see this.
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booksnake posted:And after that, apparently the first map has a boss that has tech that puts your standard Focus spirit in the dumpster /and/ has an instantkill effect. I'm excited. I want to see this. The Festum are loving scary. They had those skills in K, too, and they were no less horrifying there. And something that Brunom might not have emphasized enough is that every single Festum unit has them.
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Herr Tog posted:stan lee? And since you're probably wondering "why didn't this get licensed for the US, since Stan Lee was part of the creative team?", well that's allegedly due to Heroman's merchandise tie-ins catastrophically bombing in Japan, so they felt that taking a risk on the US market was not worth the hassle.
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Wait is this the first non-OG SRW without Kouji in the cast?
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Raxivace posted:Wait is this the first non-OG SRW without Kouji in the cast? Yep. No Getter Robo or UC Gundam either means this game is the closest we've ever gotten to not having any of the three pillars in a SRW. SKL means we barely avoid that.
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Brunom you're a mad man. SRW games are supposed to take several years to LP and drain people enough that they need more than like a 5 day break before starting a new one! Anyway, this game's starting pretty fast. Moreso than I remember srw games usually do. Quick introductions to most (I think?) of the series involved and mysterious supernatural voice that everyone can hear despite probably being in different dimensions or something. It's quite an impression.
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Raxivace posted:Wait is this the first non-OG SRW without Kouji in the cast? Not only the first, the only non-OG SRW without Koji in the cast. BX brought SKL back but also had Shin Mazinger, here it's just Ryoma and Hayato piloting Edgier Mazinkaiser.
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gently caress yeah ground floor on a SRW LP, and one of the few titles I haven't played for myself (though, I may have to look into Citra and remedy that...). You're doin' the lord's work, Brunom, but also, holy poo poo you LPed all of L before I even noticed. By the way, this is looking like another entry with unusual (in a good way) music choices, assuming the pattern in the first chapter holds true. I'm liking Life Goes On (though I will fight you on the matter of ZIPS, the only track to ever make me not hate using Shinn), and Obelisk is a welcome break from Triangular (I don't hate it, but it's my least-favorite of the usual music that comes with Frontier). Glad to see Shangri-La unlocked nice and early, too, it showed up way too late in K.
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UX has bar none the most unique and interesting overall cast in the series, in my books. And that was a ridiculously bizarre but hype prologue, even though it was tempered by starting off with Frontier and Destiny (I'm a big fan of Fafner but most probably wouldn't see it as helping the game immediately hook you). Kind of a shame that the visuals can be a little stiff and janky, and the audio quality is...bizarre, with ripped audio sometimes sounding like you put a microphone in the same room as the 3DS.
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Gyra_Solune posted:ripped audio sometimes sounding like you put a microphone in the same room as the 3DS. That's really how they are on file - I looked through several uploads of Gate of Neidhöle to make sure it WAS supposed to sound that muffled (you can see in the Mine Blade video that it's like that at the source). 
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Wow, I did not realize that you were going to start so soon Brunom. Like, how do you do it man? Not that I'm complaining of course, I've no doubt that this will be an excellent LP!!! Also I have absolutely no idea who any of these people are, sans the Destiny Folk and maaaaaaaaybe the Fafner cast (they all look the same to me), so this is going to be an experience with names like The Boom Army, Burn Burnings and whatever the tiny gundams names are. I'm seriously going: "What is going on!?" throughout the entire prologue.
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This, BX, and D are the SRWs I'm most interested in knowing more about, so I'm glad to see you doing this, Brunom. This is also one of my favorite series lists, with Fafner and Manga Linebarrel being some of the standouts. I look forward to seeing how Fafner interacts with the 00 Movie, because they have a lot of obvious similarities that one can spot but go in very different directions (and for my money Fafner handles things a lot more intelligently than Trailblazer in just about every way. Mind, I'd also say it it handles a lot of the same concepts as Evangelion better than Evangelion does, so I may just be massively biased in favor of Fafner.) I also like the experimentation they do with unlocks in this and BX, where here they have unlocks carry over between playthroughs and BX having every unlock with alternate requirements if you don't take the route they're associated with, meaning you can get everything on a single run. That said, yeah, the animations in this vary wildly between really good and rather janky, and the soundtrack can sound a bit weird (though the music choices themselves are all excellent). On the subject of the stuff you've actually covered, aside from the amazing visual gag of having Shinn and Kazuki debut on the same stage (which I refuse to believe was anything other than intentional), I really like how we're having the series interacting with each other really heavily from the word go, and I like that Cagalli is being well treated. I assume it will be explained why Athrun doing his best A CHAR impression again despite Destiny's plot apparently having already occured.
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I always love when anime and games and stuff have Sun Quan as Liu Bei's sidekick, when in real life Sun Quan probably disliked and distrusted Liu Bei more than Cao Cao. He at least seemed to have some respect for Cao Cao, he just straight up didn't trust Liu Bei as far as he could throw him. Also the order of heroism/decency among the three of them probably goes Cao Cao > Sun Quan >> Liu Bei. Cao Cao was pretty callous but at least even handed, Sun Quan wasn't much better or worse though he got really cruel and shortsighted in his old age, and Liu Bei, while not a monster or anything, was, yeah, really deceitful. Iunno the show those three are from, but hey, I know the real life history.
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Endorph posted:I always love when anime and games and stuff have Sun Quan as Liu Bei's sidekick, when in real life Sun Quan probably disliked and distrusted Liu Bei more than Cao Cao. He at least seemed to have some respect for Cao Cao, he just straight up didn't trust Liu Bei as far as he could throw him. Well, they're just following in the steps of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, which was biased towards Shu and against Wei. Could be worse; at least they acknowledge that Sun Quan exists as a ruler, as opposed to an accessory to his brother and father.
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Man. I really like the actual animated Fafner because it has a lot of stylized choices with the Hiraifaces, like using huge blush stickers and emphasising the hair and cheeks, but that does not come out at all in this game. So when do Shinn and Kazuki get a combination attack?
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GodofDiscord posted:Wow, I did not realize that you were going to start so soon Brunom. Like, how do you do it man? Not that I'm complaining of course, I've no doubt that this will be an excellent LP!!! Strap in because Dunbine has the highest density of weird Tomino names conceivable. (The prologue failed to illustrate that the redhead there is named Marvel Frozen.)
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Shot Weapon still holds my "favorite stupid Tomino name" title.
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Oh yeah, it's time for the Weird One. UX's cast list is basically pure schizophrenic nonsense and I love it unconditionally as a result just for having the least fucks to give outside of Cross Omega, which doesn't count and is also cheating.
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So it's the first stage, and already we're punching holes in space-time so that things can be murdered without leaving a mess to clean up. This bodes well for future craziness. Now this is an interesting cast-list. Seed Destiny is back, but post-plot yet if the first stage is any indication, they won't just be along for the ride. Cagalli seemed to know about both the Festum, the cloaked island and its Fafners and have the originals on her cell-phone to call in favors. She's also in charge of Orb or at least pretty high up I feel, given that she's got two Gundams for an escort. Macross is Macross, not much to say about it right now. Heroman, Three Kingdoms Gundam, wings of Rean and manga Linebarrels are all complete unknowns to me. I once saw the first episode of Tobikage, but the terrible sub-quality (years of watching have taught me just enough Japanese to know when the subber is just making it all up. The complete lack of grammar was also a good hint.) kept me from going any further. I also saw a few episodes of Dunbine, but only till just after the titular bug-bot showed up so I'm practically blind as well. Fei-yen is....Hatsune Miku? Now this is possibly the most surprising inclusion in the list. I know Hatsune Miku as this character that's been getting non-stop figmas, figures and other merchandise for what feels like a decade now. I also think it's actually the mascot of a text-to-speech program...focusing on singing? Yeah, I've got nothing. I think I may have seen Demonbane, but I'm not sure. Will have to wait to see if a mad scientist with a guitar shows up before I can confirm. Mazinkaiser SKL is a short three-episode show but there isn't much story to it. There are hints here and there of the world and the past behind it, but mostly it is a vehicle to show violence and gore. So I expect its protagonists to show up and be little more than another unit to murder with. Gundam 00 is listed as the movie, so I don't expect too much in the way of plot to be placed in the game. Though I expect there will be a link made between 00's enemies and the Festum. Finally, Dancouga we already saw in L and I expect much the same plot-beats of it here. Now back to the first stage, or rather, the bit of people getting summoned by 'the voice'. Dunbine and the Gundams sounded as if they were pretty far into their own plot. In fact, the three gold-faced Gundams were enacting a scene that screams 'final battle'. This makes me wonder. Are they this blingy by default, or were we looking at their late-season super-modes? It will be interesting to see if they move on with their plot from the point they were when being summoned, or if the plot resets for the game.
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maninthesuit posted:Fei-yen is....Hatsune Miku? Now this is possibly the most surprising inclusion in the list. I know Hatsune Miku as this character that's been getting non-stop figmas, figures and other merchandise for what feels like a decade now. I also think it's actually the mascot of a text-to-speech program...focusing on singing? Yeah, I've got nothing. It gets much weirder than that. So, yeah, Hatsune Miku is the mascot of a line of programs called "Vocaloids" which are basically voice sample libraries designed to sing whatever kind of song you write, each library represented by a different anime person (the other Vocaloids tend not to appear so much in non-Vocaloid media). This became extremely popular, with a number of Vocaloid songwriters becoming actually kinda famous (seriously, just load up a station of Japanese EDM in Pandora and half of what you hear will be Vocaloid). This led to Hatsune Miku gaining an extremely devoted (and extremely weird) fandom, ultimately resulting in a series of rhythm games by Sega and even entire concerts where she's projected like that Tupac hologram from a few years back and "performs" for the audience like goddamn Sharon Apple (also [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQ6gJXtPvk]this). So, yeah, Hatsune Miku is kind of a thing in Japan. Oh, and because of the way she's licensed to anyone who buys the vocaloid software, her voice features in a number of video games that don't even involve Vocaloid (such as No More Heroes 2, where she's used as the vocals for the song that plays during the shooter minigame in Travis' living room). It's worth noting that each Vocaloid was built using samples taken from actual voice actors and singers, as Fei-Yen is voiced by the woman that provided the original samples for Miku (because song computers don't sound great when just talking).  I hate that I know all this, but now you know it, too, so at least I'm not alone. 
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Ridiculous robots and singing anime waifus, this thread is going places. Is Sanger going to show up? How does this series avoid copyright lawsuits? Is that not really a thing in Japan? Do they get permission?
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They pay the licenses. This is why you see a fuckton of Sunrise shows in SRW, since they both belong to Bandai Namco. Bad news for those expecting more Dunbine. That scene we saw? That's from the final episode. That means we all missed out on having Keen Kiss fight it out with Shot Weapon. Criminal, I tell you.
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Decoy Badger posted:Ridiculous robots and singing anime waifus, this thread is going places. Is Sanger going to show up? Sanger is not in this game, you want the Alpha series for him. Or anything Original Generation-related. Also, SRW is a crossover between mecha anime, Banpresto has to get the licenses for all for the games. This causes certain series to not appear despite being wanted, music to nearly always be lyric-less despite coming from series where music is very important (Macross), a focus on the series that are already owned by Namco-Bandai's subsidiaries in the first place (though that's...a lot of series, so it'd likely happen anyways), and it's theorized to be the reason why Macross has disappeared from the series since it started being released outside of Japan due to problems with international distribution.
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GimmickMan posted:They pay the licenses. This is why you see a fuckton of Sunrise shows in SRW, since they both belong to Bandai Namco.
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