Voltron (the game): demo gameplay vid 720 HD

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Certainly did not envision this game to have SHMUP elements. The lions are supposed to be big. You lose that perspective when top down and zoomed out. I am disappointed.
 
For a $10 game, I think it does the job just fine - it isn't the greatest or exactly what I envisioned for a Voltron game but it's still pretty cool.
 
So is it all a twin-stick shooter as the lions or do you also get to play as Voltron in combined form too at some point?
 
I posted in the other more OT looking thread too but this review seems spot on to me: http://gamersxtreme.org/2011/11/30/voltron-defender-of-the-universe-review-psnxbla/

"During the boss battles, players will realize the gameplay has completely changed into a turn-based battle system"

There is a QTE event to put Voltron together. It seems like a decent easy game for very young kids and then the parent can lull them into a trap of their nostalgic shows later like Silverhawks and Thundercats and He-Man. 90% of it is twin stick shooter.
 
I saw this on PSN earlier today. It looks disappointing, especially considering how much I love Voltron. Basically a generic arcade-y shooter with a Voltron skin. Meh :-(
 
I must say, I have to commend them for using the show intro and cutscene when everyone rides to their lions. And the pause screen is fantastic. I wish the demo at least gave a taste of the other modes because the twin stick part is rather bland. But boy did it give me some good nostalgia seeing that intro and hearing the narrator VA.
 
I have to admit it: if someone will make a game like Voltron but with Grendizer, Mazinger or other Go Nagai robots, I will buy immediately!
 
Correctomundo said:
If I'm getting younger, sure.
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Voltron was a ripoff/response to the Super Sentai series of the '70s, which were immensely popular in Japan, and still are. The "five team members with different colors piloting mechs who combine into a super robot" trope comes from Sentai, which is the series later cannibalized to make the Power Rangers in the US nearly 20 years later.

So yes, Voltron (GoLion) is a Power Rangers (Super Sentai) ripoff.
 
MattKeil said:
Voltron was a ripoff/response to the Super Sentai series of the '70s, which were immensely popular in Japan, and still are. The "five team members with different colors piloting mechs who combine into a super robot" trope comes from Sentai, which is the series later cannibalized to make the Power Rangers in the US nearly 20 years later.

So yes, Voltron (GoLion) is a Power Rangers (Super Sentai) ripoff.
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Super Sentai didn't have a combining robot until whatever the series was that came out in 1981 or so. Go Lion also came out at the same time. I don't think either series is a "ripoff" of the other.
 
MattKeil said:
Voltron was a ripoff/response to the Super Sentai series of the '70s, which were immensely popular in Japan, and still are. The "five team members with different colors piloting mechs who combine into a super robot" trope comes from Sentai, which is the series later cannibalized to make the Power Rangers in the US nearly 20 years later.

So yes, Voltron (GoLion) is a Power Rangers (Super Sentai) ripoff.
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The Power Rangers didn't come into existence until 1993. No matter what the influence Super Sentai had on MMPR - even the use of footage - it's still enough of it's own franchise to not be any kind of Voltron inspiration.

It's like saying Mass Effect was the inspiration for Star Wars because they both draw on tropes from the sci-fi serials of the 1950s.
 
MattKeil said:
The "five team members with different colors piloting mechs who combine into a super robot" trope comes from Sentai,
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No it doesn't. Combattler V and Voltes V set this Super Robot trope long before Sentai even got the idea. And of course Getter was the very first combining robot ever.
 
squall23 said:
No it doesn't. Combattler V and Voltes V set this Super Robot trope long before Sentai even got the idea. And of course Getter was the very first combining robot ever.
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The first Sentai to have a combining robot was after Combattler yeah, but the original Sentai itself predates Combattler.

The point though, ultimately, is that all of these (including the animated Getter adaptation) were produced by Toei, so none of them were rip offs so much as they were a mutual evolution of ideas under the one company. My original post was facetious.
 
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