Super Robot Wars Original Generations

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Super Robot Wars: Original Generations
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Developer(s) Banpresto
Publisher(s) Japan Banpresto
Platform(s) Sony Playstation 2
Release date Japan June 28, 2007
Genre(s) Tactical role-playing
Mode(s) Single Player
Rating(s) CERO: B (Ages 12 and up)
Media DVD-ROM

Super Robot Wars OG: Original Generations (スーパーロボット大戦OG オリジナルジェネレーションズ Sūpā Robotto Taisen Ōjī Orijinaru Jenerēshonzu?) is a tactical role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2. Original Generations is a remake of the two Original Generation games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and is intended to celebrate the Super Robot Wars series' 15th anniversary. It was released on June 28, 2007.

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[edit] Gameplay

Original Generations was developed by the team that produced Super Robot Wars MX, and uses high-energy, dynamic action for the in-game battle sequences. There are similarities in the user interface and battle screen to Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, though it could just be coincidence, as the producing team may have been influenced by the design of Alpha 3.

The game includes a new variation of the squad combat system of Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 and Alpha 3, called the Twin Battle System. It allows two adjacent units to combine into one squad, which can then attack simultaneously. The units can either focus their fire on a single target (with a damage penalty for one of the robots) or, when facing another squad, each target a different one of its members. Squads can also support-attack with other squads, allowing up to four attacks in a single action. As in the Alpha games, a single unit can also use an ALL attack to strike both members of an enemy squad at once. The game also features new ALLW Attacks, similar to the Double Attacks in MX, which can strike both members of a target squad and a single unit (or squad) directly next to it.

A small, but significant change in gameplay are the Spirit Commands. All characters retain their set of six Spirit Commands when fighting alone, but when placed into a squad, a seventh Spirit Command is available, known as the Twin Command. This Twin Command, unique to each character, takes SP (Spirit Points) from both characters in the squad, and is generally more powerful than the other Spirit Commands available to them normally. This makes Original Generations the first game in the franchise to break the six Spirit Command limit.


[edit] Changes And Additions

Original Generations is primarily a remake of the two previous Original Generation games. Since it is a remake, it replaces them in the official Original Generation timeline, thereby retconning the Game Boy Advance stories. Parts of the plot in the first Original Generation segment of Original Generations is derived from the animated Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars, so as to follow Original Generation continuity. The game also includes a fair amount of new content, mostly in terms of new mecha.

  • New mecha and characters from new series for the game include the following:
    • Compatible Kaiser, the giant robot from Banpresto's Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, The Great Battle IV (redesigned for the game by mechanical designer, Masami Obari), as well as one of its pilots, Warrior (the other three pilots, the V2 Gundam, Kamen Rider ZO and Ultraman Powered, are not included, due to licensing issues)
      • Roar's appearance in Original Generations is believed to be a direct continuation of the plot of The Great Battle IV, with Warrior Roar and the Compatible Kaiser being thrown into the universe of Original Generation. Roar has manifested itself inside a human, Kouta Azuma, who transforms into Fighter Roar, using the Roar Armor.
    • Raul Gureden, the male protagonist of Super Robot Wars Reversal for the Game Boy Advance
      • Raul appears along with his friends, Raji Montoya and Mizuho Saiki, and pilots the EXF-02 Excellence. Only the Striker, Cosmodriver, and Flyer frames appear in the game. In the Original Generation continuity, Fiona Gureden, Raul's female counterpart (also the other playable selectable protagonist) in Reversal, is actually his (slightly) younger twin sister, and a test pilot for the second Excellence unit. The Excellence units and both Raul and Fiona are playable in the Original Generation 2 part of the game. Despinoiz, Lalia and Tiz, the three homunculi of Duminuss, the main antagonist of Reversal, make an appearance in the bonus segment.
    • The bonus segment features the original characters from Super Robot Wars Compact 3

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