This game feels so much better on the PSP for one major reason, the god damn load times. I would've never beaten this shit if I had to reboot my PS2, go through the UI, wait for it all to load, then get instakilled because I forgot to equip floating legs. In this version, everything's snappy and instant, if I fuck up, it's a matter of seconds to restart.

Besides that, amazing game, it's been a long time since I've felt such a gratifying learning curve. Insane how this game nearly perfected the mecha experience despite all of its limitations, and built something deeper/rewarding than most games would even dream of going, especially within its genre of mecha action games, which is a smaller pool of (good) games than you'd think.