I did handle to complete the sport this week. I’ll write a bit in regards to the recreation after which do the introductions of the opposite collection.
I made a decision in some unspecified time in the future to cease making an attempt to catch up the low degree characters for 2 causes — first off, it was making the levels take too lengthy as a result of even the grunt enemies needed to be whittled down. Second, you attain the purpose the place you might have such an enormous set of characters that you haven’t any hope of really getting all of them to a good degree with out doing a bunch of coaching exterior of the levels.
So I began utilizing primarily the principle robots of every collection and placing most of my cash into them. This turned out to work properly, for essentially the most half. The sport will usually require you to make use of among the characters you haven’t levelled, however in virtually each case they permit you to select sufficient of your personal preferences that you simply don’t should depend on the dangerous models to succeed.
The exception to that is the final two levels, the place you go to the moon to confront Granddark. First off, they throw a grimy trick at you in not letting you save between the final two levels. One situation with this recreation that I didn’t point out earlier than is which you can solely save between levels, which suggests you typically should do pretty lengthy sequences of story and a number of battles with out having the ability to cease enjoying. It is a downside that the majority critiques I’ve seen point out, though in case you are enjoying on emulator it’s not so dangerous.
However after stage 47 you don’t get to spend any cash; I had some cash saved up that I used to be going to spend on upgrades and objects earlier than the final battle however I used to be unable to make use of it except I needed to do stage 47 once more. However which means it’s important to struggle eight battles over two chapters with none probability to save lots of your recreation, which to me is an unforgivable error in recreation design.
Because it seems the ultimate boss will not be that tough so I might have used much more of my objects earlier within the course of (the second to final boss is way harder than the precise last boss). In chapter 47 it’s important to cut up your workforce into 4 or 5 completely different teams to tackle completely different models — that is the one time within the recreation when it actually is useful to have a few of your backburner models levelled. I nonetheless managed to win the levels, however in a number of of them I needed to load states to be able to do it.
Finally this recreation isn’t all that good, particularly in case you are not already a fan of the Courageous collection anime. The plots are skinny and never properly developed within the recreation (a variety of them get ignored in favor of the Baan Gaan storyline, which itself is fairly simplistic). The battles are fairly repetitive and infrequently contain something greater than a really primary technique (nor does the sport itself provide the potential to make use of greater than very primary technique).
There’s a Courageous Saga 2 that got here out in Could of 2000 so we’ll see this recreation once more; hopefully they’ve addressed among the situation on this recreation (however given the quick time between video games I one way or the other doubt it).
The Courageous Specific Would possibly Gaine
The principle character here’s a teenage billionaire who fights crime syndicates; a bit completely different from the opposite collection. I suppose as a result of it takes place in a fictional model of Tokyo, this recreation has Would possibly Gaine be a fictional collection throughout the recreation. Everybody is aware of about it from motion pictures and such, however then by some hand-waving stuff they permit Would possibly Gaine to get sucked into the “actual” world. This collection has proven up in Tremendous Robotic Wars as properly.
Courageous Police J-Decker
This returns to the extra kid-friendly concepts of the sooner collection, and because the title suggests, is police themed. It has an identical “robotic/human friendship” concept that the unique collection had.
The Courageous of Gold Goldran
Apparently this collection is a bit sillier than the others. It’s just like Da-garn in that it has 8 energy stones that the heroes have to trace down.
Courageous Command Dagwon
This collection pits teenage college students towards aliens who’ve escaped from an area jail. In line with Wikipedia, the principle characters had been of the “bishounen” archetype and this collection was extra fashionable amongst women.
