Tech Romancer is a 1998 3D fighting arcade game by Capcom that draws heavily from the various subgenres of mecha anime. It has been ported to the Dreamcast console. The player controls a giant robot which is used to fight another robot in one-on-one combat. Studio Nue (the animation studio responsible for the mechanical designs for many anime series including The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Gunbuster, and Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory) designed the robots in this game.
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This game gives absolutely no fucks at all when it comes to shamelessly ripping every single mecha anime cliche and trope wholesale and I'm all fucking for it. From the titular Kikaioh (oops i mean G-Kaiser which is literally the only name they localized for some reason) with the most classic of all super robot loadouts - rocket punches, chest beams, kicking, and a sword to finish it all off, to "Oh hey it's literally the RX-78 but with fin funnels" Dixen, to "my name is kawamori i will literally just put a vf in the game and call it a vf too" Rafaga, this game just gives. ZERO. SHITS. The story is cheesy as hell, as it should be, and every playable unit feels exactly like they should based on what hodgepodge of mecha cliches they're referencing. It's the kind of to the point where where 99.99% of it would just go over most peoples' heads unless they were already super huge into mecha, which is why I imagine this game's kind of gotten forgotten amongst all of Capcom's fighters throughout the years. Still though, fucking solid ass game that no /m/head should ever be caught not having played.