Mafty wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:50 am
Was part of the reason the "Original Generation" made, because of licensing? If Banpresto made their own units and characters then they would have the ownership over them. This is probably why the anime and OVA's focus only on their own characters and story(which themselves are quite well done).
Well, that and also they thought they have enough original robots to have its own title.
The problem is, they don't, especially in the first instalment.
The Gespenst rangers really isn't fun in a SRW. You have very limited choice of robots and even if you are a fan of the series, and I actually like Gespenst, I still think moving a bunch of different coloured Gespenst around with similar moves is boring.
The list of robot types in your team of the 1st OG is just barely the number of titles a regular SRW title has, considering each anime title usually give you at least 3 models(whether you use them or not), you have something about 1/3 of robots you can choose from. Also, anime title robots are usually more popular and famous, while the SRW originals are basically sideline mechs in the SRW games like the sidekick units and not the main hero.
There are exceptions, like Cybuster, but yeah, even if you count Cybuster, Granzon, Huckebein, Gespenst, R-1, Alteisen, Weissritter, Valsione, Grungust, and maybe be lenient and let you count Huckebein Mk-I(no, it doesn't even have Mk-III) as separate main hero units, the list is still falling way short.
A good analogue maybe saying that you try to make a SRW game with just anime OYW Gundam MS. Yes, you get RX-78-2, NT-1, etc. but in the beginning you have to use exclusively RX-79[G]s and GMs with virtually no difference in weapons.
It works for anime, but not in a SRW game.
I guess that is why it was first just a GBA title, since people can accept simpler gaming on a portable device.
The fun thing is, Cybuster's own game is fine because as the title suggests, you expects to only see robots from that series and it is not a story you've seen over and over for a lot of times in previous SRW and they don't have something like the Gespenst Rangers that looks completely like they just did a palette swap.