🤖 Super Robot Spirits Review - The N64 Japanese Eye
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Super Robot Spirits review of this import N64 game. This is a 3D versus fighting game for the Nintendo 64, based within the Super Robot Wars line of games. It was released only in Japan in 1998 and is a sister game to super robot wars which was the more popular strategy game.
The N64 Japanese eye is the series where we take a look at japanese exclusive n64 games, cast our eyes over them and try to answer the simple questions - can it be played, and enjoyed by someone who doesn't speak or read Japanese.
Been looking forward to a new N64 Japanese Eye since your return to frequent uploads! I remember the final boss of the story in this game being so hard.
yeah that last boss is stupidly tough
For all of it's apparent flaws, I probably would have really enjoyed playing this if it was released in the West. Giant fighting mecha robots are always a big win with me lol
;play it and let me know what you think, would be interested to hear your views
Harmony Gold: *I'm gonna stop you right there*
@@Guilherme-130 they have no power here, but they are the likely reason why _SDF Macross_ basically disappeared from _Super Robot Wars_ post- _Alpha 3_
Love watching your videos. I get nothing but hits of nostalgia.
thank you so much ipee fr.....hang on a second I see what you did there
The opening text at 1:28 is the story to Mobile Fighter G Gundam. Makes sense as this game features Shining Gundam from that series. Here's what it says:
宇宙に浮かぶネオジャパンコロニーで
ライゾウ=カッシュ博士は
自己再生·自己増殖·自己進化
この三大理論を具現化した究極の機動兵器
アルティメットガンダムの開発に成功した。
だが、一人の男によって
その恐るべきガンダムは奪われてしまう。
さらに大気圏突入時のプログラム異常で
アルティメットガンダムはデビルガンダムへ
と変貌し、あらゆゅる物をDG細胞によって
Which roughly translates to:
In the Neo Japan colony floating in space Dr. Raizo Kasshu succeeded in developing Ultimate Gundam, the ultimate mobile weapon that embodies these three major theories:
Self-renewal / self-proliferation / self-evolution
But the terrifying Gundam will be robbed by a single man. Furthermore, due to a program abnormality when entering the atmosphere Ultimate Gundam transforms into Devil Gundam after exposure to DG cells.
The character you play, Domon Kasshu, is the one who pilots the Shining Gundam. He is trying to defeat his brother, Kyoji Kasshu (brown hair guy with jacket) who developed but later stole the Ultimate Gundam and fled to Earth. When Kyoji stole Ultimate Gundam his mother died and his father was put into cryogenic storage as punishment. The Neo-Japanese government tells Domon if he can defeat him they will release his father.
The guy who gave Domon this offer, Ulube Ishikawa, later ends up salvaging the remains of the first Devil Gundam after Domon beats it. He finds research that says a woman is the best pilot so he kidnaps Rain and makes her the new Devil Gundam. Ulube Ishikawa goes on to pilot the DG infected Grand Master Gundam until it was destroyed by the Shuffle Alliance led by Domon.
After Domon defeats Ishikawa he discovers the new Devil Gundam is Rain Mikamura. Domon confesses his feelings for her and the Devil Gundam releases Rain. He then defeats it with the Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken technique.
good thanks for the help! the community appreciates this kinda stuff
The best Friday night when Glenn uploads! Added bonus it's the return of the N64 Japanese Eye 😁
friday nights, Monday nights, Wednesday night....:)
@@n64glennplant *whenever Glenn uploads* I'm unwell right now so watching your videos is therapeutic.
0:11 shout-out to those who know it was Taka Michinoku's theme in the intro
the man the myth the legend
@@n64glennplant indeeeeed
Ohhh, I had no idea you reviewed this recently! A bit of a problem though, Super Robot Wars isn't an anime, so it doesnt have a show. It simply uses characters from different animes, and crosses them over :x Thats why there is a gundam. This is also why it's so cool, because you get to see all your favorite mechs from all different shows. This particular game uses mechs from Chouki Taisen SRX, Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V, Super Beast Machine God Dancouga
The Unchallengeable Daitarn 3, Combat Mecha Xabungle, Aura Battler Dunbine, and Mobile Fighter G Gundam :3
Removes floor and background completely... still exhibits tons of slowdown. Crazy.
I know right!
Great to see you posting so much after such a long dry spell! 😁👍
More to come!
My favorite series is back! I was looking at my collection of Japanese N64 games the other day and realized that nearly all of them came at your recommendation LOL
haha hope thats a good thing
The Tanaka intro music🔥🔥🔥🔥
never let that legacy stop!
Ah yes, the N64 Japanese Eye. The reason I own as many Japanese N64 games as I do! I won’t be adding to them after watching this, unfortunately, but I look forward to future episodes and any other Japanese gems I may have missed. Thanks again for all the recent N64 videos Glenn!
Glenn back with a vengeance.
Bringing back all the videos.
keeping busy :)
Vividly recalling this game being listed in the import ad listings of an n64 magazine, circa 1997. There weren't many western games yet released and I was always curious about this one, although I never got to play it myself. Thanks for the video mate!
maybe check it out, if its something that's peaked your interest
Always wanted to play many games like these and never got the chance, a Japanese Eye should be a separate-linked channel, a kind of Max Everingham tribute 😁
or maybe get max on for an interview as a bare minimum :)
@@n64glennplant if you can do that it deserves a separate channel
This game reminds me Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
I don't know that one so maybe ill have to look it up
So I wanted to give this a shot. I threw it on my Everdrive and found it to be incredibly shallow. I literally beat the entire game by triggering the turbo function on my retro fighters controller and just held down the B Button. I even got a couple of perfect fights doing that.
Fighting games are infinitely more enjoyable when playing against a real person of equal or greater skill level. It's an unfortunate flaw of the genre itself.
Super Robot Spirits reminds me of that One Must Fall game from Epic Games.
Fighting Games are easy to play even if you don't understand the language.
When it comes to story mode, I just make up my own version of the storyline based on the images shown and background music.
thats a good point, I could understand something little in the intro about some guy being frozen so I kinda made up some Han Solo storyline lol
@@n64glennplant The interesting thing about making up your own storyline if you are playing a Japanese Import is that you often base it on storylines you have experienced in other mediums.
For example, I was playing a Japanese Import PSP game that was a visual novel,
It involved a boy secret agent who had to infiltrate an all girls school to find out who the possible victim and the possible murderer was.
In one ending, he gets found out and the game ends half way through the story if you fail.
And all I had to go from was from the vague understanding of Japanese that I got from watching Anime as well as knowing about how the trap/reverse-trap genre worked in Anime storylines.
As well as a little bit of James Bond/Austin Powers in regards to the dating sim elements that involve secret agent spies storylines.
I was able to get through one of the heroines storylines with a good ending, but all the others the other heroines died simply because of the choices I made that were in all Japanese text and simply didn't understand what I was choosing.
But it was a good game and just happy enough to play it even if I mostly got bad endings.
Love the content as a new subscriber. Will you be reviewing Majora's Mask in the future?
Yes eventually, maybe before year end
Love taki wwf music 🎶 takes me back that does . Hope all is well Glenn
hes so funny I always loved kai en tai
Soon it will be time for Castlevania Legacy of Darkness review
I hope so
haha maybe in October for Halloween month
I can't wait!
The music in the game reflects the various anime openings the mechs are from. If it sounds all over the place it's because it's taking anime from the 70's, 80's, and 90's and smashing them together.
Cool to know that!
@@n64glennplant Using the openings fits a lot better in a strategy rpg like mainline SRW titles then it does in a fighting game. Playing 20-30 seconds of an opening is pretty standard for when a Robot does their big finishing move to beat the bad guy (which the strategy rpgs replicate). How they should have done it in Spirits is have original fighting game appropriate battle themes, then if you use like a level 3 super then it plays the theme song.
Friday and a new video but woooooooo Japanese Eye is back, yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh😱😍🎉
not just gotta get the beta project back up and running
I love this channel so much.
thank you as always mate
Idk why but I like the beginning part of the video with the eye.
Newer played this. I still think Fighters Destiny is one of the bset fighters on the N64.
Wish there was another fighter entry in Super Robot Wars.
This game is for fans only. Hell, the WHOLE super robot wars games is veeeery niche (and also hard as fuck!) too bad this is the only fighting game in the franchise.
im pretty sure that will be bang on, seems very tailored to fans of the series
With a few exceptions almost every japanese N64 game shows a deep gap between graphics technologies from occidental developers back in that time. It seems that every competent studio from Japan (Square, Konami, Capcom, SNK, Tecmo, Enix, Namco, etc.) was making advanced games for Playstation or whatsoever. Obviously Sega was busy with Saturn and Dreamcast too. Nintendo was a bit isolated in Japan and only could count with itself and other few mostly western dev houses to show the N64 power.
I don't disagree entirely but Konami did make a lot of games for the system.
@Dark Japan They certainly did. But I think when you compare the top Konami games in that period (Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania Symphony of the Night just to name a few), which were all on Playstation, with their support for the N64 it is a no match not matter how good Goemon, Legacy of Darkness and ISS64 are.
@@frankcampos8929 Yes I can't argue with you there!
That intro made me check that I didn't click on a Manhunt 2 video lol
haha welcome, you must be new here :)
@@n64glennplant or you took 2 years off...
Great stuff Glenn
I want to see another episode of The Beta Project.
I have one in progress so maybe in a few weeks
Nice one glenn topboy for n64👍
thanks DDM
Nice intro! Now that I've had a chance to finish the video I'm actually amazed that I'd never heard of this game before. Just from the video footage it almost looks a clone of Dragon Ball GT Final Bout for the PSX. Like the same engine but reskinned and significantly refined. I don't have any proof of that since they're made by two completely different companies (that game the year earlier by Bandai). The way the characters move and fly in the air, the janky ranged attacks, the unresponsiveness of the controls that Glenn remarked about and more. It's almost a spiritual sequel of the PSX game, but looks a LOT better and reskinned for giant robots (which is cool in my book!). Shame the gameplay is still rubbish though lol.
maybe someone here can tell you more about any potential links as im clueless with this series
As a massive G Gundam fun, I'd probably still play it despite all the flaws
Banpresto. Weren't they the jokers that made Planet Joker on the Saturn? That game alone was enough to put me off other Banpresto stuff.
Koruo below speaks the truth :)
Good ole Michinoku theme.
the legend!
@@n64glennplant Indeed!
No doubt you've covered most N64 games, are you planning on starting to do more Gamecube games? There isn't really a channel like yours, that takes on Gamecube.
Maybe, a lot of requests for it but I wasn’t really into GameCube that much
@@n64glennplant That's fair, whatever path you take though. You and SnesDrunk are my favorite youtube reviewers, because you two are so much more fair and balanced than the AVGN styled reviewers.
I'll keep watching
What do you think of the online Switch 64 starting line up of games?
Intro was great Glenn! Is that taka wwf theme
Yes 👍
Omg they have a g gundam fighting game and it’s on the 64??? This is like discovering there was custom robo on the 64
2 custom robo games 😉
Who knew the 1st sight in the select screen was motherfuckin' Domon from G-Gundam
I didn’t because I don’t listen to K-POP
@@n64glennplant Lmao good one, but jokes aside, the Mobile Fighter G-Gundam is a pretty cool anime that is worth a gander. The Blu-Ray versions are worthwhile
@@angelriverasantana7755 glad you got the joke 😄
Funniest part is that G-Gundam is often compared to a fighting game with how its characters are presented and the general structure of it
Good thing this one stayed in Japan!
I think so too
1:40 Is this part of the gundam universe? because that is clearly a gundam.
Something the reviewer seemed to not know is that Super Robot Wars is a series of RPGs wich have a lot of mechs and pilots from different anime and manga and yeah that is Shining Gundam fron G Gundam
@@TheMcdjc1 oh ok. Thanks for clarifying I was very confused.
Wait was G gundam called something else outside of the US 🤔
no idea, not my scene sadly
Nope. This is a crossover game, so G Gundam just happens to be in it.
Dude did this team go work at capcom and make tech romancer? This looks so similar
not sure but maybe someone else can advise you
Takamichinoku theme !
the boss!
love this game, its a shame we did not get it in the west
Yay! Another Japanese Eye!
some more to come before end of the year I hope
The game looks alright.
try it and let me know what you make of it
I bought this game only to play as Shining Gundam
and then you returned it? :)
@@n64glennplant Nah. It only cost me $4. Should've used it to buy some chocolate bars instead.
THE JAPANESE EYE
formerly known ass.....
I have attempted to play this and same… 😅
good to know im not far off the mark then ha
@@n64glennplant it sucks that is the case I love most of the anime represented. I thought it was an emulation problem while playing it but nope 😅
Very nice
thanks Stewart
You're welcome glen
i would to see a good mecha figting game think srw meets blazblue
Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Clive Owen??
haha a few times
how to unlock VS. MODE?
I always liked the look of this game but was put off by the reviews. It could have been good!
maybe worth checking out then, the review would have been bumped if I was into fighting games and or giant robot battles
0:00
Taka Michinoku?
yes, never let that music stop!
@@n64glennplant INDEED!
Can you please review super robot wars 64
How can a fighting game work with an N64 pad?
It can't
some do....
sooo its gundam except tekken?
sorry I don't listen to hip hop
@@n64glennplant huh?
Why u speed Up the video?
Just play Bandai's Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel or Capcom's Tech Romancer
Endless duel is the best fighting game on the SNES in my opinion
have to check those out
To be fair this is a top 5 fighting game on the N64 for me......it wasn't a good genre for the system 😅
Having never before seen it... it seems extremely clunky.
yeah its defo not a game ill return to
just finish the game in very hard mode
Outright looks like an unfinished game. I don't really care for the giant robot / Gundam aesthetic, so this seems like it's the complete opposite of my tastes. I love seeing which Japan-only games I may have missed out on, so I really appreciate these types of reviews.
thank you - ill be sure to keep more coming
damn, the models look rough. looks bad even for n64 (honestly it looks more like an early years ps1 game)
I was thinking like a Saturn game
ouch. true though.
Looks terrible 🤣🤣
not one to go seeking out for most people :)
Seems very dull for a fighting game
yeah, really not my cup of tea this one
Seems Bad... Like Most Fighting Games on N64 unfortunately