The Hind End of Space

Random thoughts about SRW

• Every game Dragonar has been in (A, GC, MX) has gotten a port of some kind (A Portable, XO, and MX Portable)
• Endless Waltz has been in more games than Wing TV and it needs to FUCKING STOP BECAUSE ENDLESS WALTZ ADDS NOTHING TO THE SUBSTANCE OF A GAME FUCK.
• Seriously, Wing TV is actually really awesome in SRW, especially when used properly
• I’m pretty sure First Gundam is barely in SRW these days because Ikeda and Furuya can’t really do young Char and Amuro anymore
• Turn A Gundam and Xabungle have never been in a game without Gundam X. The only game Gundam X has been in without those two is SRW R.
• SRW MX using no UC Gundam enemies and instead using DRAGONAR enemies was the coolest idea ever.
• Grendizer needs to be in more games.
• Neo Getter Robo hasn’t been in a game with fully-animated 2D sprites
• What was the logic of putting the EVA movies in a game after only two of them had been released?
• DOUGRAM NEEDS TO BE IN A GAME.
• So do Braves other than GaoGaiGar.
• Can we have Gundam F91 and Victory back PLEASE? How about we put them in a game together? Without any other UC? That’d be cool.
• on that note, STOP USING SEED IN PLACE OF UC. IT. DOES. NOT. WORK. 
• I really like how the Z series handles Gundam: each “Universe” only gets one production: Wing, SEED Destiny, Zeta Movies, Turn A, X. Yeah, it has Nu Gundam, but without it, Amuro kinda gets fucked over.
• Compact 3 is cursed. I’m pretty sure everything that made its debut in that game hasn’t been in a game since.
• Kinda tired of Dancouga being in SRW. Not because I don’t like it… it’s just that it never gets used properly. Usually it’s just Shapiro, the Dancouga team, and MAYBE Alan.
• I like that Ideon and Gunbuster are seldom used. It keeps them special.
• I’d like to see some more obscure Gundam characters in SRW. Johnny and Shin please?
• WHY IS G-GUNDAM SO BAD IN THESE GAMES. “Hey let’s make super robots with the hit points and armor of Gundams. THIS IS A GREAT IDEA.”

I’ve blathered on too much… that’s all I can think of for now.

I’ve been dealing with a lot of stupid arguments about robots lately. I wanna make one thing clear here.

Some people like robots with a bit of a realistic flair.

Some people like their robots REALLY realistic.

Some people love robots that are more traditional.

Some people love robots that aren’t humanoid.

Some love robots that aren’t very big.

Some people love robots that think and act on their own.

And some people love robots that aren’t even mechanical.

But at the end of the day, all robots are wonderful, and there’s one place where they can all come and play:

Super Robot Wars.

(unless you’re Transformers because ha ha, international legal issues.)

I have decided that I will no longer refer to the Combattler and Voltes team members by their proper names.

Instead I will just call them by their archetypes: “Main Character”, “Tall Skinny Guy”, “Fat Guy”, “Kid”, and “Girl”.

It’s much easier that way.

Also, you know what I’m tired of seeing in SRW? Endless Waltz.

I love seeing Gundam Wing in SRW, but fuck, I’m sick of Endless Waltz. Endless Waltz has been in more games than the TV series, and in some cases, it was okay. Alpha covered Wing TV’s storyline, so the EW Gundams were there towards the end to give the boys better units. Alpha Gaiden covered EW’s story, and in Alpha 2 and 3 they were already established so there was no reason not to have them.

But whenever Endless Waltz appears in a game alone (namely, handheld games), it just feels like, “Yeah, we want the Wing boys in our game… but we don’t want to go through the effort of including all the enemies and the storyline”. There almost always just… there, for the sake of being there. That only really works on Amuro/Char, and usually, they just have their CCA units to give them something better than the Dijeh and Hyaku Shiki. Plus, Amuro and Char are kinda more… important characters, in the grand scheme of things…

okay so here’s my awesome idea for an SRW 

It would be known as Re:SRW

It’d be a trilogy of 3 games: Revival, Redemption, Retribution.

Over the course of the series, we’d see the following productions:

• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
• After War Gundam X
• Shin Mazinger: Z-Hen
• Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• End of Evangelion
• Genesis Climber Mospeada
• The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar
• The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar FINAL
• Brave Police J-Decker
• Transformers: The Headmasters
• Super-God Masterforce
• Transformers Victory
• Metal Armor Dragonar
• Space Runaway Ideon
• Combat Armor Dougram

Key story points:

• One Year war has already happened, but in the time following, strange alien forces have started appearing on Earth (ie, Angels, EI-01)
• Humans have colonized further into space, planets like Solo and Deloyer
• Autobots also settled on Solo, searching for some kind of artifact
• Humans and Autobots work together in secret thanks to the work of Metalhawk, who had been living on Earth disguised as a human
• Metalhawk helped create the technology needed to perfect the Brave Robot Army and the Brave Police
• AEUG is formed as a knee-jerk reaction to the Titans’ rising power
• Events of Dougram and Gundam X occur on Deloyer
• Second game, Char betrays, goes CCA on everyone’s asses. He knows there is something dangerous lying within Earth and he wants to destroy it.
• Zeon civil war between Char and Haman breaks out (player would choose which side they would want to align with)
• Giganos Empire members are essentially the “Lunar Zeon”
• Final boss of the third game is UNICRON, and the thing lying within the Earth is Adam/Lilith
• Aliens are coming towards Earth to harness the power of Lilith or destroy it
• Zonderians and Primevals from GaoGaiGar are basically Unicron’s heralds and are working in tangent with the Decepticons
• Forces like the Invid came to Earth because Unicron ate their world, Galeon and Mamoru were the last-ditch efforts of the Green Planet before Unicron ate that too
• Dinosaur Empire and Doctor Hell are up to their typical shenanigans
• Basically, all sorts of insanity would ensue

…I need to really flesh out this idea. Or find people who can hack games and have ‘em make it with me. It’d be awesome.

You know why I want an SRW game with Transformers in it?

The last boss of the game

would be UNICRON.

How awesome would that be?!