The closest comparison for SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors: Shin Mirisha Taisen (a mouthful, innit?) is Tecmo Koei’s Warriors Orochi series series. Imagine if it was ported properly to the DS (gameplay is retained but graphics have been downgraded to accommodate the hardware) and given an SD Gundam theme.
The game follows the story of the TV anime and comes with over 40 playable characters, giving you the option to play 3 characters that you will switch between on every stage. As implied above, combat is similar to Tecmo Koei’s Warriors series, where you have a light and heavy attack, a jump, and a super (musou, brah.) attack that can be launched when a certain bar is filled.
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The visuals on this game are a bit disappointing – it’s in 3D but it doesn’t play well to the hardware’s strengths, so the game looks pixilated and the characters are too small to provide much detail. They could have made the characters bigger. It’s not like real estate is at a premium on the DS-it’s got two screens ffs. And they can’t use overcrowding as an excuse because there’s only 3 to 4 enemies and sparse environment in the early parts of the game. Frankly, it looks unfinished.
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Lastly, the worst part of Shin Mirisha Taisen is that it’s extremely text heavy even though it’s technically an action game, which could be a big problem for people who can’t understand Japanese. You can get by if you just want to beat down on the enemies, but anybody who’s played a game like this know that the combat is only half of the game-you have to deal with upgrading units, choosing characters, and managing equipment, all of which require you to go through dozens of menus and sub-menus. I mean, I’ll just leave you with the screen I had to go through before I even got to the tutorial:
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(hint: pick the square on the lower right side of the screen)
