Getter Robo Daisakusen (ゲッターロボ大作戦!), launched 9/9/1999, developed and revealed by Bandai Visible
Getter Robo is a traditional of the mech style, and a staple of just about each Tremendous Robotic Wars sport. It launched the idea of the combining and kind altering robotic that grew to become an ordinary component of many later sequence. I bear in mind studying someplace that by the Nineties, the “traditional” mech anime like Mazinger and Getter Robo had largely been forgotten, however that the success of Tremendous Robotic Wars revived curiosity within the previous sequence. This sport is a mix of all the present Getter Robo sequence plus some new variations (such because the “Getter Robo Zan” which might solely be piloted by girls). The storyline is basically a brand new creation though it builds on the present storylines from the anime.
The characters will also be freely put in any of the items (with some restrictions), and there may be additionally a major character that represents you. So you can also make no matter Getter workforce you need and aren’t restricted to protecting the items of their canonical mechs.
The storyline is advised via a mix of quick animated sequences, and dialogue each voiced and voiceless. It’s not a very nicely developed storyline — for those who haven’t seen the sequence it’s going to be tough to get a lot of an impression of a lot of the characters, and the enemy forces additionally don’t have a lot growth. The entire story has form of a “monster of the week” really feel to it (which I suppose mimics the supply anime). Alternatively, in case you are a giant Getter Robo fan it’s an opportunity to see plenty of the franchise’s mech and characters (a minimum of as much as 1999), even some extra obscure ones.
The battle animations are additionally nicely executed, though they’ll’t be skipped. This can be a enormous subject however sadly is simply the place Bandai was right now — the primary SRW sport to permit for skipping animations was Alpha, which remains to be a 12 months away. When attacking or being attacked, you possibly can select on a per assault foundation whether or not to dodge, counter, or defend. There are additionally sure “map” assaults that hit a number of squares — a few of these will activate a defend for the items, others received’t (I don’t have the instruction guide so I’m undecided what the deal is there).
Getter items will do the “open get!” once they dodge — I don’t know if this implies they really have the next dodge price than different items, however they could.
I’m additionally not 100% certain what the totally different Getter modes do. They’ve totally different assaults and transfer otherwise, and the ocean ones are simplest within the sea. However I don’t know whether or not the SRW type is being adopted the place you need to be attacking flying items with Getter 1.
One different annoying slowdown is the best way that the Getters all begin the map uncombined and it’s important to transfer them right into a linear place after which mix them, then everytime you need to change varieties it’s important to uncombine them and mix them once more (a minimum of this doesn’t use a flip). This contributes to the sensation of the entire sport being reasonably sluggish and plodding.
I feel the sport can also be poorly balanced in a manner that doesn’t make the sport essentially tough, simply tedious. Enemy assaults do plenty of injury, that means you could’t safely use any assault apart from these out of vary of the enemy, or map assaults. However the map assaults use a ton of power. Getters will mechanically get well their Getter Power, though you possibly can put them again in a ship to get well quicker. EN items need to be recovered within the ship or utilizing a restore unit. However what this implies is that it’s important to always be refueling your items or recovering them within the ship, and utilizing them on a rotation. There’s no manner I can inform to battle in an environment friendly manner that doesn’t require your unit to return to the ship after just a few assaults. That is an efficient technique however coupled with the fixed combining and recombining and unskippable animations, it makes the entire thing seem to be an train in persistence reasonably than talent.
Due to this, I stop after the primary 10 levels. The entire sport is just 21 levels lengthy and so wouldn’t take that lengthy to play however I simply didn’t suppose it was very enjoyable.
There’s additionally an fascinating “mixture check” mode the place you fly in an action-based system to mix with the opposite Getters. This raises the principle character’s rank, enabling them to be put within the varied Getter items. But it surely’s form of incomprehensible and I’m undecided if the instruction guide makes it any clearer. In any case, its solely function is to permit the principle character to be transferred to totally different mechs so you possibly can ignore it utterly.
The sport wiki entry on the sport appears to mainly agree with my evaluation, that it has plenty of content material that may make it interesting to Getter Robo followers however that as a sport in itself it’s not particularly good.
