Today is one of the most exciting days ever! Super Robot Taisen is finally coming to the PS3 !!!!!!! you dont know how long I’ve been waiting for this (T_T) and what’s more, its gona be the sequel to Original Generations!!!!!! RaAAAGHHHH I feel enormous energy surging from my body as I type this! It must be over 9000!
This will be the biggest game in the world, seriously. The game is going to be the usual 2D but with high res graphics, drawing power from the mighty PS3! I can’t even begin to think how good this game is going to look. I’m getting goosebumps already…
OG – Yes – OGGG!!! you know what that means??? Alteisen, Rein Weibritter, Zenger, Cybaster, Valsione, SRX – TOO MANY TO NAME -> is going to be in High Res with all new attack animations!!! Damn! I am dying to play this game.
Release date not know yet, but will be this year sometime. That means we will get it within 6 months! Hooray!! Let the countdown begin! Life’s exciting when there’s a newSRW to look forward to =)
Currently up to stage 42 in SRWZ2. The cast is just too massive, I don’t even know who to deploy to battle because there’s just too many units I want to use. So I’m planning to stick to a certain squad for my 1st run and will switch to the other squad on my 2nd run.
My current squad consists of:
Gundam Exia
Gundam Dynames
Gundam Virtue
Gundam Kyrios
Gurren Lagann
Mazinger Z
Aphrodite A
Soul Gravion
Gran Trooper
Strike Freedom Gundam
Destiny Gundam
Final Dancouga
Dancouga Nova
My 2nd run squad will consist of:
Gundam Wing
Gundam Death Scythe
Gundam Heavy Arm
Gundam Sandrock
Shenlong Gundam
Nu Gundam
Turn A Gundam
Zeta Gundam
Eureka 7 Nirvash Spec-2
Super Dimension Century Orguss
Gundam Double X
Code Geass Lancelot Air Cavalry
Macross VF-25F
Big O
As you may have noticed I didn’t include any old school super robots such as Daitarn 3 and Dai-Guard (Mazinger Z is the only exception because he is awesome) simply because im not a big fan of the art and have not watched the anime. I believe my first squad is much more powerful than the 2nd squad as it has a good mixture of gundams and Super Robots.
Anyway, I had a bit of extra time today and managed to upload the remaining SRWZ OST. It is now complete. As usual, head over to the music section to check it out =)
It was such an eventful week I really don’t know where to start! SRWZ came out last thursday and I went to watch the much hyped Final Fantasy Distant Worlds Orchestra on the 15th.
I Have to begin with Final Fantasy (Sorry SRWZ!) because its not that it’s more awesome or anything, but SRWZ is still in progress I can elaborate that more in the future. Last friday I attended what could possibly be the best orchestra I’ll ever watch in my entire life. Final Fantasy finally came to sydney and performed at one of the most amazing halls in the world – The Sydney Opera House! Not only that but Nobuo Uematsu himself was there – That really made my day and as the music started playing I felt like I wanted to cry.
I really love the setlist as it began with my favourite song – To Zanarkand. Yeah no wonder I wanted to cry (but just to make it clear, I didn’t shed a single tear =)) Now I wouldn’t want blurry eyesight because I really can’t miss a second of all the exciting stuff happening on stage! As they played through each song, a large screen behind would display clips of various FMV’s and in-game clips. After Intermission a guest vocalist by the name of Kanon was called to stage to perform Suteki Da Ne. I didn’t know what to expect as I never heard of her before and in Japan there are alot of mediocre female vocalists, but as she sang the first few words she instantly won my heart. Her voice is soft/soothing and above all VERY powerful. So good that I thought she nailed Suteki Da Ne which is a really hard song to sing. I could go on and on about her voice but lets move on, there’s alot to cover and I have to play SRWZ right after writing this entry.
Another interesting song was the chocobo medley, this medley had the chocobo theme all the way from the first FF’s all the way to 14, very interesting to see the enhancements of graphics as it progressed through the different FF’s, I really enjoyed this song =). The last song for the ending credits was Terra’s theme and they took the 3D night scene from the intro to be used as the clip – I rekon Markuz wouldve gone crazy if he saw it…too bad he didnt get to go.
Last but not least it was time for encore, and was there a song which i have yet to mention? that’s correct, they saved the best for last (tho not my favourite) – One Winged Angel. I thought the crowd just went mad when they announced it because Nobuo was on stage too at that time. Arnie Roth (conductor) asked Nobuo out to sing the chorus, Nobuo’s responce was like “yeah sure thing…..no as if dudeeeee” hehe really funny guy! It was just a really fantastic way to end the night, they used the cloud vs sephiroth fight from advent children for the entire song which was really epic. I just really wanna thank Arnie and the sydney symphony Orchestra for delivery such a great performance, pretty much flawless and also the one and only Nobuo Uematsu living legend for writing these amazing songs =)
This was also my 4 year anniversary gift to my Bhibi. We enjoyed every second of it ^^
Shot taken from our seats just before it started
Now onto Dai-2-Ji SRWZ – OMG!! its soooooooo good!!!! 100x better than the previous SRW games on the PSP. Because this one was actually made for the psp! not just a dodgey direct port or anything like that. OMG Gurren Lagaan Giga Drill Breakerrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! Just having Gurren Lagaan in the game makes this game one of my favourite SRW’s, he’s just so fun to use, so incredibly powerful and his moves just look soo good. I’m extremely impressed with the way they excecuted the Giga Drill Breaker, it looks very very similar to the anime, See below for a quick example..
Giga Drill breaker from the Anime
Giga Drill breaker from SRWZ (very crap video but best I could find)
So as you can see this is indeed a hell of a game! I think its time to get right back to it, keep you posted as I drill through all the enemies with my 500 ton drill.
Sorry I’ve been writing so much about SRW lately, but don’t blame me, I’ve caught the SRW fever and it can’t seem to stop! It really can’t get much more exciting than this, with just over a week left for the release of Dai-2-Ji Z for PSP, producer Takanobu Terada hinted that a new Super Robot Taisen title will be revealed after the release!!
Now this is really exciting news, we all know a SRW for ps3 has been a working title for a while, could this time finally be a PS3 release?? Lets not set our hopes too high as time and time again it turns out not to be the case, such as the announcement of SRW L for DS, then SRW Z for PSP. But NOW the spotlight could finally turn to the PS3! Again I’m just speculating here, though it’s highly possible, fingers crossed!
On another note, Banpresto and Bandai have apparently merged. Banpresto was the developer of the SRW series while Bandai did most of the gundam series. This could further hint that a PS3 SRW could very well be in production! And despite the merger, the SRW series will continue to carry the Banpresto label – which is awesome =), gota love that gundam visor logo!
Dissidia 012 (sequel to Dissida) is finally out, and I finally have my hands on it! Having high expectations (as the first game was so good) I was really dying to play the game, and now…what do I have to say about it? 4 words – It is amazingly good! exceeded my expectations and for good reasons. First Yuna from FF10 is re-modelled in todays CG technology and she looks so good… Then there’s Lightning from FF13, enough said, Lightning is in the game. Hard to describe how good this is, watch the opening/into and you may get a glimpse why:
I also recently got this amazing Dissidia 012 poster. This was before I got the game so you could probably imagine how excited I was. It looks amazing on my wall, its about 1.8m x 1.2m.
After all that I haven’t really talked about the game, I might leave that for another entry =)
As I was one who grew up playing Final Fantasy, this game just brings back so much great memories. Makes me really glad to be born in this generation.
And before I go, I’d just like to share this awesome Dissidia soundtrack with you. Its Epicness on a whole different level.
Wow, things are actually progressing in this blog, big pat on the back to myself for staying committed =). Another massive overhaul, but this time to the gallery pages, making it much more hierarchical and organised as well as some really great features! Some new features include the addition of ‘albums’ which act kind of like categories. Not so effective at this stage as I only have 1 album called ‘Super Robot Taisen’ but hopefully more will be added. Another great feature is the use of breadcrumbs allowing for really easy navigation. Gota love breadcrumbs!
Again, all of this is to make the site more user-friendly moving forward. No point having content when its hard to find and access!
Along with these changes is an additional Super Robot Taisen artbook – Secret Hanger. This one’s amazing I have to say, it features hand drawn illustrations of pretty much every single original generation robot! yes that includes my beloved Alteisen, Weiss Ritter, Cybaster and Valsione. It’s also got some character drawings which I must say are pretty below standard in todays world. However the robots look absolutely awesome and so does this picture of Lune Zoldark! (pilot of Valsione).
I'm Jaychan, a guy whose ultimate dream is to own a life size, fully functional gundam. I love robots, drawing, sport, Japan and I love my lovely Chibi.
