I’m going to proceed doing completely different sorts of video games between SRPGs. First up was a random choice from my full record of video games.
The primary sport that got here up was a PSP sport known as Jikandia, developed by Concept Manufacturing facility. I used to be not capable of finding the Japanese model so I did the English as an alternative.
This can be a quite unusual sport that in the long run appears extra like a platform motion sport than an RPG, so I went to the following sport.
Subsequent up was Slayers Royal 2. I had initially put these video games on my SRPG record however I lined the primary sport in a quick earlier publish — this lacks the character improvement that I need from an RPG and is extra like a story-based sport with some simulation battles. A minimum of in SR2 they removed the AI-based gameplay of the primary one and simply made it a straight command battle system.
I believe that is nonetheless primarily a sport for Slayers followers quite than SRPG followers.
Lastly I rolled Medarot 3, so I made a decision to play the primary Medarot sport in its Wonderswan remake. This can be a long-running sequence that has been described as “robotic pokemon”; a few of the video games and anime within the franchise have been launched within the US below the identify Medabots, however not the primary sport.
The similarities to Pokemon are exhausting to overlook. It got here out a couple of yr after Pokemon for the Sport Boy, in two completely different variations (Kabuto and Kuwagata, two forms of stag beetle). Your essential character is a younger boy who brings robots out of his cellphone to battle different individuals who have their very own robots. There’s a “accumulate all of them” facet to the sport. Regardless of the similarities I believe it was in a position to forge its personal path; there have been 9 essential Medarot video games (as much as 2015), related media, and the latest (non-RPG?) sport got here out just some weeks in the past.
The principle character isn’t in to Medarot combating firstly however his dad is. However his canine unintentionally steals a medal from the enemy “boroboro group,” and he will get his first Medarot known as “Metabee.” The Medals are the core of the medarots; they’re what stage up they usually additionally decide the general power.
Past that you could equip 4 completely different components. They will have varied stats; some provide you with assaults, some are extra defensive oriented. You acquire the components in varied methods — defeated enemies will provide you with components, you should buy them, discover them in dungeons, and such.
The save display exhibits what number of components (out of 240) you’ve discovered thus far. I might assume as with Pokemon you must do hyperlink battles with somebody that has the opposite model to get all 240.
The battles are form of lengthy. You will have at most a 3 vs 3 battle, though all you must do is defeat the chief for the battle to finish. You select an assault after which it occurs — every half has its personal HP bar and if you destroy a component, the assault related to that half can not be used.
The size of the battles is form of a problem and it’s the most important downside I see individuals speak about with the sport.
At first the primary character is solely studying tips on how to use his new Medarot. He goes right down to a seaside cave the place first he has to battle a “shark” (who is definitely one of many enemy Boroboro Group bots), after which within the cave you could find a brand new Medal with the intention to create a second Medarot.
That is so far as I performed. From what I can inform wanting round at critiques, it looks like individuals suppose the primary sport was OK however that the sequence doesn’t actually hit its stride till the second sport. I by no means actually was in a position to get into Pokemon (I didn’t play it when it first got here out, and by some means by the point I did play it in my 20s it simply felt too simplistic), so I don’t know if would love any sport on this sequence higher.
