Actual Robotic Battle Line (リアルロボット戦線), launched 8/12/1999, developed by Winkysoft, revealed by Banpresto
This can be a facet recreation within the lengthy operating Tremendous Robotic Taisen franchise, and is the final recreation that Winkysoft developed (till they rejoined to work on the later Masou Kishin video games within the 2010s). After I performed Battle Robotic Retsuden I mentioned on the time that I remembered folks speaking concerning the recreation, however I really suppose it’s this recreation that I used to be remembering. Not like BRR it’s very carefully based mostly on the Tremendous Robotic Taisen gameplay. This can be a good factor as a result of I usually just like the SRT gameplay whereas I discovered the BRR system boring due to its heavy reliance on auto battle.
The setting is principally the identical as BRR. Folks dwelling on Planet Urs have used machines known as “Duplicators”, which they unearthed from some previous civilization, to herald folks from alternate dimensions — on this case from Gundam (first by way of Char’s Counterattack), Dunbine, Xabungle, and L-Gaim. Ryuusei (SRX) additionally seems as a hidden character. The folks come into the world as good copies of their unique selves, and the indication is that every individual has been duplicated a number of occasions to battle within the wars between Azronia and Northern Brilliant. Not like within the earlier recreation, they don’t set it up so that each one the heroes are duplicated by one kingdom and all of the villains by one other, so that you usually end up with folks like Jerrid in your staff, whilst you battle towards Kamille and Shou.
One characteristic of the sport is the expansive situation chart. There are a complete of 125 phases within the recreation, only a few of that are simply variations of one another. A typical playthrough might be within the 25-30 stage vary, and there are no less than 5 totally different story routes that concentrate on numerous mechs or sequence. Whereas that is good for replayability, it comes with the drawback that your staff is continually altering, making it arduous to inform who you ought to be spending cash on or giving the XP to.
The stability is much like the outdated SRWs the place you might have just a few models which are your aces, after which a bunch of individuals that may barely hit something. A few of them have helpful seishin like Love (which nonetheless restores all HP of the complete group), however largely you depend on Amuro, Kamille, and many others. One uncommon facet is that I by no means received any good mech improve for the unique predominant character. I had her within the Hyakushiki for a lot of the recreation.
The principle character is Mujika Fareden, whose father is a excessive official in Northern Brilliant. At the start of the sport she’s performing some coaching when the place is attacked, and they’re pressured to make use of the close by Duplicator to create some dudes to assist — these develop into Gundam characters, together with Char. Though Mujika is a giant Char fan, duplicating Char has turn into unlawful as a result of the previous 3 occasions he was Duplicated, he fomented a rise up.
The one actual change from the usual SRW gameplay of this period is that dealing with issues, so that you need to assault folks from behind.
Mujika has a heat feeling (and pity) for the Branches (the duplicated folks), though it’s extra widespread to look down on them and deal with them as sacrificial grunts. This ultimately causes points with different folks in Northern Brilliant and is the reason for a number of of the story branches.
The storyline doesn’t contain the unique characters all that a lot — it’s largely concerning the battle between Northern Brilliant and Azronia, and the query of tips on how to deal with the Branches. The trail I took ended up with the Char’s Counterattack storyline, the place Char desires to drop one of many moons onto Earth in order that they should go into area and evolve as an alternative of counting on Branches a lot. The final battle is difficult and I had to make use of up most of my sources to beat Char.
When you beat any of the routes, you may wait till the credit, and then you definitely play 2 bonus phases to conclude the storyline and discover out the thriller of the Duplicators and the origin of the world. Sadly, the ultimate stage is admittedly tough. The primary of the 2 bonus phases will not be that unhealthy; the grunts are boss-class and there are two precise bosses however I used to be in a position to beat it with heavy use of Map weapons.
The second of the 2 battles, although, has extra grunts, the identical 2 bosses once more, plus one other Nightingale (Char’s unit), after which after these there’s one other boss that makes use of map assaults and may solely be attacked by just a few characters — though it’s going to lose its vitality after just a few rounds. The true issues aren’t simply the power of the enemies, however two massive modifications in the best way they act. First, all the enemies come at your characters from the start. This may really be enabled on all phases as a tough mode when you beat the sport. The second downside is that they may freely ignore your robust characters and exit of their technique to take out your weaker models, that means that your characters with the Love and Resupply seishin (and many others) might be rapidly killed. I attempted this stage 5 occasions and was barely even in a position to take out just a few enemies earlier than getting a recreation over.
To see what occurred, I put in a code for everybody to be at stage 99. At this stage, even folks like Fa had 100% likelihood to hit everybody and 0% likelihood to be hit. I feel to beat this stage you would need to do just a few issues:
- Just be sure you get any non-compulsory models which are good (I wasn’t ready to do that; there is no such thing as a walkthrough I can discover that has this element)
- Know upfront who might be within the remaining celebration on the route you’re going on — it is a downside as a result of models are always leaving and becoming a member of relying on the route splits.
- Just be sure you are spending the vast majority of your cash on the models you can be utilizing.
I assume in the event you do that proper you may beat the battle, however it appears tough even so.
I didn’t legitimately beat the sport, in different phrases. Apart from that remaining stage, the sport as an entire was pleasurable and I believed the story was respectable. The a number of routes give numerous replayability, and there are even secret phases which you can solely entry on a transparent file.
