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The famed Super Robot Taisen Role-Playing Game (RPG) franchise comes to DS. Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier is a unique single player sci-fi, fantasy RPG that takes place in the "Endless Frontier," where different worlds are separated with barrier-like "dimensional walls." With a mixture of traditional JRPG (Japanese RPG) gameplay elements and fast paced, action-packed combat not unlike the very best fighting games, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier manages to deliver the kind of grand RPG experience fans of the series have come to expect, while offering a multitude of new and exciting gameplay mechanics that are sure to appeal to franchise newcomers.
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier is set across a variety of worlds, ranging from an apocalyptic wasteland covered with the hulks of downed spaceships to a fantastical place of fairy tales and dark magic. Join Haken Browning: gunslinger, professional bounty hunter, and amateur ladies' man, along with his motley crew of robots, were-beasts, secret agents, and busty princesses as they delve deep into the mysteries of how their worlds came to be and face a threat that imperils the multiverse. Battle While engaged in combat in Endless Frontier players utilize every character available, but only four characters will be acting as front-line fighters. Use the formation option to rearrange your party, where characters in the front will be the ones getting up-close and personal with enemies, and characters in the back will be available to provide support for attacks. During a battle each character will make use of HP, SP and COM. HP is the character's health. When it is down to zero the character is knocked out and can't be used in battle until revived. If all four characters in front are knocked out, you've lost the battle and the game is over. SP is used for skills and spirit commands. These provide a variety of useful effects like healing or special attacks that deal status effects to enemies. COM is what allows you to perform attacks each turn. Each attack a character makes has an associated COM cost. More damaging attacks require more COM and if a character doesn't have enough COM to continue her/his attack sequence, the turn ends. Each character regains some COM every turn, and some items or spirit commands will refresh a character's COM as well. Hit Count and Combos Every time you strike an enemy, that enemy will be lifted off the ground slightly. As long as the enemy is in the air each successive hit will add to the hit count. The higher the hit count, the more damage you'll do in a series of attacks. In addition, your chance of getting critical hits increases in direct proportion to the current length of the combo. Critical hits deal a lot of damage. To keep your hit count high, use careful timing to chain your characters' attacks together into an unstoppable tidal wave of pain. These tricks will keep you fighting at the top of your game. Chain Attacks While one of your characters is attacking, if the next characters to attack is another one of your characters, you can begin the second character's turn before the first has completely finished his attacks. This might seem wasteful, but it lets the second character jump right into combat and begin attacking while the enemy is still being juggled from the attacks of the first character, further increasing the hit count and dealing more damage through critical hits. You'll also get a boost to the frontier gauge, making it even easier to use overdrive attack more often. Support Attacks Characters in the back row can still help you out, even if they're not part of the fighting force. Call upon those members of the party to use support attacks, during which they will quickly jump into battle, deal a few hits, then leap away again. This takes place while your party members are attacking, so you can continue attacking on your own. Let the assisting characters attack, or use this opportunity to chain in more characters to extend the combo even further. Key Features |
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Giant Robots + Boobs = Fun
This is one of those games that, despite it's flaws, is worth playing for what it is. And it's a halfway decent JRPG with a somewhat interesting fight mechanic and awesome character design... which is basically Trigun-meets-Mobile-Suit-Gundam-meets-Girls-on-Trampolines.
The humor and overall vibe of the game is something that is distinctly Japanese, and the developer didn't change a thing. So the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense, everything is over-the-top, the dialogue is in Japanese, and yes - the heroines of the game have bouncy Anime boobs. But it was meant to be more funny than anything and blessedly - the game never takes itself too seriously.
I've never played any of the other titles in the series, and I bought this b/c I was looking for a new DS game and the trailer looked fun. And the game is fun. Atlus delivers a unique experience that is certainly worth your time and money.
The gameplay is simple and the battles are fun. The sprite actions and animations are nifty, silly and often times full of boobs. The only downside is that they are repetitive...but then again - it's an RPG, so...uh...yeah.
If you've seen the trailer for this, and thought to yourself "Hmmm...that actually looks like it might be worth playing." I can tell you that it is.
Is it going to blow your mind because it's the best game ever?
Nah. But the point is - it doesn't need to. It just needs to be fun. And it is.
I almost missed this one.
The censored cover caused me to nearly miss this. I mean, they don't even show Kaguya's cleavage like they should.
Anyway, I'll keep this short and to the point. Super Robot Wars is an ongoing anime series, and this game is a distant offshoot. It has characters from Xenosaga in it, and is an attempt to cross worlds for a common goal. I won't spoil things, but everyone has a purpose here.
Previous games on GBA were strategy RPG's; this one is a traditional RPG, 2D, with brief animations. You control Haken, a playboy-type character who uses guns and swords interchangeably, and dresses like a cowboy. You are accompanied by Aschen, an android with a rather unrealistic body who you've known for years. Neither of you remembers how you found each other or why you've stayed together, but you are bounty hunters looking in ancient ships and ruins. You eventually will stumble across your other characters, who all have stories that revolve around the main storyline.
To bullet this out....
** PROS **
- The game is easy to get into. There are no complex or touch controls; everything is controlled with the various buttons. There's even a brief tutorial if you need to know how to do something.
- The combat engine is quite engaging. If you're good enough, and have enough characters, you can unleash combos that reach into the double or even triple digits, juggling opponents in the air for extended periods.
- The character development is moderate. It's not as strong as other games such as Chrono Trigger, but each character has enough of a story that you won't ever get confused why certain characters are there.
- New Game Plus, when you defeat the game. You don't keep levels though, only your cash and the majority of your items.
- The dialogue. It's a throwback to the glory days of Working Delays...err, Designs. A lot of cornball humor, with some not-quite-suitable-for-kids humor. One character gets constant jokes about her massive breasts. Another gets infrequent quips about her flat chest and tummy. There are others, but you get the idea.
- The graphics. They're simple, but effective. They didn't go overboard and try to make a 3D engine or anything; kept it as simple as possible.
** THE CONS **
- This game should have been on PS2. Period. There was so much potential for other things like anime cutscenes and full voice overs.
- The game is actually easy, but the bosses for some reason are ridiculously overpowered. I don't mean the damage they do to you, I mean the damage they take from you. You'll unleash combos dealing massive damage in the 6 figures, yet it's barely a scratch to their HP bar. All after you got done destroying regular enemies in the same dungeon/castle. You could be level 99 halfway through the game, yet a single combo won't kill some bosses. It just doesn't make sense.
- The relationship between Haken and Kaguya is almost forced. There's no real development up to it - Kaguya expressing her feelings to Aschen, or something. It just happens near the end of the game (can't spoil it).
- It's never clear that everyone needs Haken. In fact he's treated as though they don't really want him there, with the exception of Ksguya. Even Aschen throws the occasional insult, and she's supposed to be essentially a family member.
- It's way too easy for the enemy to do "Forced Evasion", which is a counter opening. As you juggle the opponent, if they touch the ground, they can cancel your combo midstream and then counter attack. The problem is three fold - one, you can't do Forced Evasion when you're getting juggled. Two, the enemy can do it all the time, breaking your combos too easily. Three, sometimes the computer can do it without touching the ground. Really frustrating.
- Discontinuity with characters. You'll encounter characters that you have to fight that then help you. Later, you're back fighting them again. Then they're helping you again. It's really dizzying.
All in all though, good game. I just wish it were a full console game.
A very stylish JRPG
Super Robot Taisen is a very fun game. The battle system lets you set up combos with each character, where pressing the 'A' button executes an attack. Pressing it again will cycle through a list of up to five different attacks, and with the right timing, they can all be chained together. Each character has their own unique set of attacks, and each character's list can be customized however you want. The different characters also learn Spirits (the game's version of spells) that can be cast each turn before attack, and a set of Special Attacks, which can be used instead of attacking. Your characters and the enemy are all very well drawn and animated, and a number of attacks actually have special hand-drawn animations for each character.
There's only one complaint I have about this game: breasts. I mean, I like them and all, but they're absolutely everywhere in this game. Nobody's nude, either; there are just lots and lots of anime girls with almost disturbingly well-drawn chests. The special animations during battle for the well-endowed women are just as well-drawn as the rest, but their boobs are center-frame, bouncing everywhere. I get the feeling it's parodying cartoons and games where "sexy ladies" are a selling point, and it does this very well. Just don't let anyone look over your shoulder at the wrong time and get the wrong idea.
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