Project Coming Soon: Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 Lightning Round

This wouldn't be a lightning round blog without a Japanese translation of some sort and I've started working on a project which will hopefully expand to other games as well.

Currently, I'm working on doing a complete playthrough of the Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 with translations (Literal translation from Japanese is 3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha). It's one of many Japanese games that will probably never see a North American release especially due to licensing issues of the various robot anime in the game. (TmT)

At the moment, I've only recorded the opening CG animation and a little of the first stage which I ended up getting a gameover. I've put up the CG animation on youtube for now for everyone's viewing pleasure but will be redoing the first stage to clear it and get to the first intermission.

The only issue I see is how I'll play the game. As the game progresses, the battle animations can get very repetitive and make the gameplay videos that much more longer. Most stages can take more than an hour or two to clear sometimes if I watch all battle animations. There is a skip battle animation feature in the game but I think I'll keep the animations. You see, the whole charm of Super Robot Wars in my opinion is it's awesome, over the top, crazy battle animations for a lot of the characters. Of course, I may change my mind as I progress further into the game.

The event conversation before and after the stage will completely be on Auto mode as well as any event scenes within the stage. It's a neat little feature in the game that automatically forwards text or conversations without my input.

I'm planning on dividing the gameplay video into 3 parts when uploading to youtube. The event conversation before the stage (Stage Prologue), the actual stage, and then the event conversation at the end of the stage (Stage Epilogue). I'm still deciding on whether I want to include the gameplay video of what I do during the intermission but at the moment I'll probably leave it out.

For those of you who don't know, the game lets you choose between 4 different main characters. Of the 4, I am choosing my least favourite of them all. Her name is Selena Recital. Her mech Assault Scouter (AS) Soleares. Why did I go with a character I don't like? It's because of the new game+ feature in this game. The more rounds I play, the more powerful I can make my characters on the next round. I want to use my least favourite character first and work my way to my most favourite character which should be able to dominate everything easily by the 3rd round of new game+. Whether or not I'll do lightning rounds of those new game+ is still in the air. We'll just have to see how this project goes first.