New Atlus RPGs

Super Robot Wars Original Generation 1&2... this is the best news I've heard all week, when this series is localized, it'll sure to stir up a big wave for Banpresto's strategy games in North America. 5 thumbs up for Atlus.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Duminas

Too bad that'd be licensing hell to even try--that is, localizing anything outside of the OG line. Were you referring to SRW in a whole, yangxu?

Na... I'm only referring to the original series from Banpresto. I know that several of the anime series such as Nadesico, Zeorymer, FMP, etc are not licensed by Bandai America, so it's rather hard for Atlus to localize the mainstream SRW series here without going through a hell of troubles trying to settle down the copyrighted problems with individual company that owns the different series. Furthermore, series like Voltes, original Getter Robo, Mazinger have yet to show their faces here, so it'd be even harder for people here to recognize the oldschool anime series...

But having said all that, if OG really did start a SRW wave here, and built an enormous fanbase, then perhaps the sales and popularity would attract attentions from these anime licensers to cooperate together and bring the other franchise of the series over... it all depends on how gamers anticipate this game. Atlus or Nintendo should focus on advertising this series a little to catch people's attentions, so the mistake of low sales number of Phoenix Wright won't be repeated again.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by DRAKO

btw, how much differs zoe: fist of mars (gba) with the srt gameplay?

Quite different actually, SRW is actually more or less similar to Fire Emblem in terms of game mechanisms... you choose which weapon to use, and with SRW characters, each of them has his/her own "senshin" or spirit skills that can be used in conjunction with the weapon (eg. attack x2, evasion 100%, etc). The battle cutscenes are of course, much better than Fire Emblem, especially in OG2; however, you can't control your machines in battle cutscenes like you do in ZoE.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.