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Another Century's Episode R
Platform: PS3
Developer: FROM Software/SRW Productions
Publisher: Banpresto/Bandai Namco Games
Official website: www.ace-game.jp
Genre: Fucking awesome mecha mash-up manly awesomeness.
Release date:
- Japan: August 19th, 2010
- Asia: Yes Asia took down their listing, and it was never solicited anywhere else. It does not appear to exist.
- North America: Yeah... nope.
- Europe: You're kidding, right?
Where to buy ACE R:
www.ncsx.com
www.playasia.com
www.yesasia.com
www.amazon.co.jp (does not ship outside Japan)
Reviews
Weekly Famitsu: 9, 8, 9, 7 (33/40)
- Playing through one route takes 12 hours
- The graphics and feel of speed are first rate
- The game has good tempo
- You'll be able to enjoy a level of volume not seen in past entries
- The stages and missions are full of variation
- The game feels fast and refreshing
- The feel of the game changes based off the mech
- If you like robot anime, you'll definitely get sucked into the game
- Even if you're not a fan of the original works, you'll enjoy yourself
- Choosing the enemy you lock on to is difficult (from the person who gave the game a 7).
Dengeki:
65/70/85/90
Pros:
+High speed battle feel is great
+good story
+new systems are great
+you feel the love put into the robots
+there's tons of content
+nice to be able to start with any series
+BGM edit is a fun feature
Cons:
-Camera/Targeting is bad & stressful
-can't change difficulty mid-game
-unskippable cutscenes are annoying after retrying from deaths
-even with the tutorial the controls/systems are hard to understand
-unfortunate that each series intro missions are wildly different in difficulty and don't tell you beforehand how hard they are.
-occasionally keeping track of the enemy is difficult
-lack of unique combination attacks is disappointing
Awesome manly mecha info:
A new dynamic shooting mode called Chase Mode has been added to the game. This mode is similar to arcade shooters wherein the player's machine moves on rails and leaves the targeting weapons for the player to control. Six Axis motion controls can be used during Chase Mode. Each chase mode section precedes a boss battle; the examples released so far include the battle against the Behemoth from Full Metal Panic! and the battle against Nora Polyansky from Macross Zero. It is currently unknown if the player can change the unit which participates in chase mode.
It has been announced that in addition to charge attacks, a new ability called Burst Attack will be appearing in this installment. Burst attack is available to all units, and is a special charge attack that changes depending on what pilot the player currently have in your machine. There are currently no known examples of new attacks gained by switching pilots yet. On that note, this is the first title in the A.C.E. series that allows to swap pilots between machines.
Mecha series available:
* Super Dimension Century Orguss *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ Orguss (Pilot: Kei Katsuragi-voiced by Sho Hayami)
+ Orguss II (Pilot: Olson D. Verne-voiced by Kenyuu Horiuchi)
+ MBG-24C Nikick (Pilot: Athena Henderson-voiced by Masako Katsuki)
* Mobile Suit Z Gundam
o Playable Mecha
+ MSZ-006 Z Gundam (Default Pilot: Kamille Bidan-voiced by Nobuo Tobita)
+ MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki (Default Pilot: Quattro Bajeena-voiced by Shuichi Ikeda)
+ MSK-008 Dijeh (Default Pilot: Amuro Ray-voiced by Tohru Furuya)
+ MSZ-006-3 Z Gundam Unit 3 (White Unicorn custom) (Default Pilot: Unknown)
# Note: The Z Gundam Unit 3 (White Unicorn custom) is a unit from Green Divers, and pre-ordering the game lets you use this machine from the beginning instead of unlocking it later. It should be noted that you need to have a Japanese PlayStation Network account to attain the Z Gundam Unit 3 early.
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
o Playable Mecha
+ RX-93 ν Gundam (Default Pilot: Amuro Ray)
* Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ XM-X1 (F97) Crossbone Gundam X-1 Kai(Default Pilot: Kinkaid Nau/Seabook Arno-voiced by Koji Tsujitani)
+ XM-X3 (F97) Crossbone Gundam X-3 (Default Pilot: Tobia Arronax-voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi)
* Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam (Pilot: Shinn Asuka - voiced by Kenichi Suzumura)
+ ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam (Pilot: Kira Yamato - voiced by Soichiro Hoshi)
+ ZGMF-X19A Infinite Justice Gundam (Pilot: Athrun Zala - voiced by Akira Ishida)
* Full Metal Panic! *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ ARX-7 Arbalest (Pilot: Sousuke Sagara-voiced by Tomokazu Seki)
+ M9 (Pilot: Melissa Mao-voiced by Michiko Neya)
+ M9 (Pilot: Kurz Weber-voiced by Shinichiro Miki)
+ Bonta-Kun
# Note: Bonta-Kun is a unit from Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, as being a spoiler of the series, the press-release did not mention any data about its "pilot".
* Overman King Gainer
o Playable Mecha
+ King Gainer (Pilot: Gainer Sanga-voiced by Hirofumi Nojima)
+ Dominator (Pilot: Cynthia Lane-voiced by Rena Mizuki)
+ Xan (Pilot: Unknown)
* Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ Lancelot Conquista (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi-voiced by Takahiro Sakurai)
+ Lancelot Albion (Pilot: Suzaku Kururugi)
+ Guren Aerial-Type (Pilot: Kallen Stadtfeld-voiced by Ami Koshimizu)
+ Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. Eight Elements (Pilot: Kallen Stadtfeld)
+ Shinkirō (Pilot: Zero/Lelouch Lamperouge/Lelouch vi Britannia-voiced by Jun Fukuyama)
+ Akatsuki Command Model C.C. Custom (Pilot: C.C.-voiced by Yukana)
* Genesis of Aquarion *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ Solar Aquarion (Pilot: Apollo- voiced by Takuma Terashima)
+ Aquarion Mars (Pilot: Sirius de Alisia-voiced by Tomokazu Sugita)
+ Aquarion Luna (Pilot: Silvia de Alisia-voiced by Yumi Kakazu)
# Note: Hong Lihua, Pierre Viera, Rena Rune, Tsugumi Rosenmeier, and Jun Lee are also available as substitute pilots.
* Macross Zero *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ VF-0A Phoenix (Pilot: Shin Kudo-voiced by Kenichi Suzumura)
+ VF-0A + QF-2200A "Angel" Phoenix (Pilot: Shin Kudo)
* Macross Frontier *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ VF-25F Messiah Alto Custom (Pilot: Alto Saotome-voiced byYuichi Nakamura)
+ VF-25F + SPS-25S/MF25 Super Messiah Alto Custom (Pilot: Alto Saotome)
+ VF-25F + APS-25A/MF25 Armored Messiah Alto Custom (Pilot: Alto Saotome)
+ VF-25S Messiah Ozma Custom (Pilot: Ozma Lee-voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi)
+ VF-25S + SPS-25S/MF25 Super Messiah Ozma Custom (Pilot: Ozma Lee)
+ VF-25S + APS-25A/MF25 Armored Messiah Ozma Custom (Pilot: Ozma Lee)
+ VF-25G Messiah Mikhail Custom (Pilot: Mikhail Blanc-voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya)
+ VF-25G + SPS-25S/MF25 Sniper Messiah Mikhail Custom (Pilot: Mikhail Blanc)
+ RFV-25 Messiah Luca Custom (Pilot: Luca Angelloni-voiced by Jun Fukuyama)
+ RFV-25 + SPS-25S/MF25 Super Messiah Luca Custom (Pilot: Luca Angelloni)
+ Queadluun-Rea Klan Custom (Pilot: Klan Klang-voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi)
* Super Robot Wars Original Generations *NEW*
o Playable Mecha
+ Alt Eisen Reise (Pilot: Kyosuke Nanbu-voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa)
+ Cybuster (Pilot: Masaki Andoh-voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa)
+ ART-1 (Pilot: Ryusei Date-voiced by Shinichiro Miki)
* A.C.E. Originals
o Playable Mecha
+ Alpharto (Pilot: Autumn Fou-voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro)
Trophy List:
COMING SOON!
Gameplay videos:
Live streams:
http://fr.justin.tv/def_Ender#/w/322867136/2
http://ja.justin.tv/a/hhhmiruru/b/268514639
Screenshots: