Another Century's Episode is the collaboration of Banpresto, best known for their Super Robot Wars franchise, and From Software, the makers behind the Armored Core series. The game is a fast-paced action title featuring characters, mecha and story elements from nine famous Japanese anime. However, while Super Robot Wars is known for combining super robots, like Mazinger Z, and real robots, like Mobile Suit Gundam, A.C.E. exclusively focuses on real robots (later games, however, have include 1-2 Super Robot series in their casts).
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I forgot to put this here after beating it a while ago. Janky but fun. Did not do any of the post game so maybe that says something about it's quality.
mechaaaaaaaaaa weeeeeeeeb
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This was going to be a 3.5 but then I got to the shuttle mission and the the main theme starting playing.
God I love mecha.
God I love mecha.
Pretty neat game. FromSoft puts their mecha action game expertise to good use by working with Banpresto to make their first anime crossover mecha title in the vein of SRW. You can definitely feel the first entry clunkiness in this, but it has a cool atmosphere and the documentary-style delivery of the story is fairly well done. Interesting design choice for the playable pilots to get no portraits and completely minimal dialogue, with supporting characters like Noin from Wing and Torres from Zeta getting basically all of the voiced lines instead. A decent start to the series for sure.