Your main four characters are pretty messed up individuals and for the first half of the game it is hard to separate them from the bad guys. The former is your super big boobed ditz and Suzuka is basically a dancing version of Nagha the Serpent from Slayers mixed with the Beastmen (in this case a woman) from Lunar: The Silver Star. As you travel through worlds, you end up teaming up with two princesses: Kaguya and Suzuka. You start off as a simple lecherous Bounty Hunter and his split personality android with a mysterious past shrouded in amnesia. However, now there are people who want power for various reasons, and your characters come in to play here.

There was a big war and now there is peace. Various worlds are seeded with a “Cross Gate” which lets you travel between them. Can these two popular development studios manage to make a Super Robot Wars game that manages to appeal to fans of the series and new gamers…even while it has very few robots in it?īoth the story and characters of Endless Frontier are pretty generic. Even the development of the game was a mash-up bring together Banpresto (who gave us the highly under-rated Tenchi Muyo! RPG and the previous SRT games) and Monolith Soft (who made Namco X Capcom, the Xenosaga games and the Baiten Katos series). Instead, SRTOF:EF brings us characters from Namco X Capcom, Xenosaga, and a few other lesser known games. Unlike the other Original Generation games, Endless Frontier still manages to mash things up, just not with famous robots. Now we have the third SRT to make it stateside, and the first for the DS. Sure American fans were disappointed that they weren’t going to get to have an Evangelion take on Big O, but the OG games were fun in their own right. Alas, these games lacked the familiar characters and instead featured generic characters and mechs. The series is very popular, but due to copyright laws and the rights for the characters within the series being divided up amongst American publishers, the only games we’ve ever gotten stateside from the series are Original Generation 1 & 2 for the Nintendo Game Boy. You could see say, Mazinger Z go up against a Gundam, for example. One of the best mash-ups in Japan is the Super Robot Taisen series, where the emphasis was not on video game crossovers, but robots and mechs from various anime and manga series. Of course there have also been bad mash-ups like Chaos Wars, but the less said about that one, the better. Capcom, and X Edge (which lacks Capcom in the title, but rest assured, there are Capcom characters in it). There have been great mash-ups, like Capcom Vs. Probably the best known of these games is the Super Smash Bros, although until SSBB, that series only used Nintendo characters.

Characters from different video games come together to kick butt and fill message boards. They are a video game fan boy’s wet dream.

Endless frontier characters