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Posted: Jan 16 2011 02:28 am

Bandai-Namco's Super Robot Wars series is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, so of course there's a new title in the works. In last week's Famitsu, the company announced Dainiji Super Robot Taisen Z. The "Dainiji" part means "the second," but carries a different sort of feel to it than the usual Roman numerals used by most game series. It's the same prefix used to denote the Second World War, for example. So, the new game's English title might be "The Second Super Robot War Z." That is, if this game ever had a Zippo lighter's chance in Hel of making it out of Japan. It's been made as a direct sequel to the PS2 title Super Robot Wars Z apparently.

Series respresented:
Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 (1977)
Invicible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (1978)
Trider G7 (1980)
Space Emperor God Sigma (1980)
Space Warrior Baldios (1980)
Hexademon Godmars (1981)
Blue Gale Xabungle (1982)
Armored Trooper Votoms (1983)
Armored Trooper Votoms - The Last Red Shoulder (1985)
Armored Trooper Votoms - Red Shoulder Document - Lutz' Ambition (1988)
Armored Trooper Votoms - Belzen Files (2007)
Super Dimension Century Orguss ((1983)
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
Gundam Wing (1995)
Gundam X (1996)
Turn A Gundam (1999)
Gundam SEED Destiny (2004)
Gundam 00 - 1st Season (2007)
Dancouga - Super Beast Machine God (1985)
Dancouga Nova (2007)
Getter Robo Armageddon (1998)
Shin Mazinger Impact Z (2009)
Dai-Guard (1999)
The Big O (1999)
Overman King Gainer (2002)
Gravion (2002)
Genesis of Aquarion (2005)
Code Geass (2006)
Gurren Lagann (2007)
Gurren Lagann - Childhood's End (2008)
Macross Frontier (2008)
Macross Frontier - The False Songstress
Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows

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Hooray! Dai-Guard, Eureka Seven, AND Char's counterattack!

Posted: Jan 16 2011 08:27 am

A friend is really into the series. However, he's not happy about TTGL's inclusion simply because of scale issues; what the heck do you use to team up with a planetary scale mecha?

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

They did this the other way around when they had tekkamen.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Jan 16 2011 11:05 pm

Holy shit! Gurren Laggan's in the game!? Sweet!!!

I'm sure that in terms of scale, they're gonna keep it up to Arc Gurren (Battleship sized), with maybe the Dai-Gurren and the infamous Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan for story events only.

And don't give me lip about there not being playable Battleship-sized mechs; for crying out loud, that's one of the things about the Macross series... (starting at 2:08 )

Still, looking forward for a SRW Giga Drill Breaker.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 04:19 pm

After almost 2 months of inactivity, you guys finally conjured up the right collection of syntax to bring me back from the near-dead.

1st PV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_edVET6Tb9o

I've always wanted to buy a PSP, but put it off. This was the straw that broke the camel's back.

About the cast, the series new to this game are Code Geass (season 1), Gurren Lagann (s1 + movie, which means Yoko gets that tank thing, bunch of other chars get their own mechs), Gundam 00 (s1) Dai-Guard, Shin Mazinger, VOTOMS, and the Macross Frontier and Eureka 7 movies so far. I myself find TTGL, Geass and 00 "it was totally gonna come, but great anyway" additions, and VOTOMS to be a nice surprise. The reason why only season 1 of some of these shows are in is because this game is the first of a two-parter, so we don't have to worry about stuff like TTGL's size just yet. Also, there are supposedly 4 more unannounced series. Some people I know are banking on two of those to be G Gundam and GaoGaiGar.

Also, I was bit worried that the cast might be a clusterfuck story-wise until I found out a good amount of the series here already had their plots finished in the first SRW Z and only 1 or 2 units will return from said completed series.

In other SRW news, however, J got translated, and I wanna make a topic about that one soon, along with an introduction for the uninitiated.

EDIT: Sath, the original Gundam isn't represented, but Zeta Gundam is (from Z1)

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

oh, it's the eureka Seven movie? That means all of the characters will suck. At least Holland will probably pilot his B303 Devilfish instead of the 909.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 07:54 pm

I can see it now

Kamina: "Borot, don't believe in yourself. Believe in the five thousand Borot fans around the world who believe in you!"

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I'm all disappointed i thought this would have been related to this:

Posted: Jan 18 2011 10:44 am

Alowishus wrote:

I'm all disappointed i thought this would have been related to this:

Ugh, that's one of the reasons they call it Super Robot Taisen over here.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Jan 19 2011 12:03 am

This move better be in the game, that's for sure...

Posted: Feb 15 2011 07:49 pm

Here's the trailer. God I wish I could understand and play this.

Posted: Mar 31 2011 04:10 am

The latest preview video is out (16 minutes!) and apparently the Data Install info on the back cover says it be 909 MB, which is more than the new Dissidia game's and that took a friend an hour to install on his PSP. The save file size itself is also going to be 1056KB each, which is just over 1MB. That may not seem like a lot, but the average PSP save file is only 256-512KB, which is less than half of that.

12:19 mark shows the new main character