theOtherGuy said:
How playable is this game for those who can't read Japanese (like...the ACTUAL SRW are still very playable)?
The language barrier here is quite big.
Having played the previous SRT games in Japanese will help somewhat; you'll recognise things like Dodge/Defend/Repair/Replen and nearly all of the seishins. Problem here is that the core gameplay is completely different; there's a reason it's called Super Robo Gakuen, and not Super Robot Taisen: Gakuen.
If you played SRT before, and if you're savvy enough to pick up some things through trial and error, it's
doable. There's five million text-heavy menus to traverse though, so you'll be spending your time playing it, yet not knowing what half the things you're doing are for.
I myself didn't like it.
Combat timing is (to me, at least) extremely tricky, and this game brings out the broken aspects of SRT in a most unpleasant way. I'm talking 'bout seishins of course.
Invincible, Alert, Strike, IronWall. You'll be seeing these four get spammed to hell and back, and it just kills the flow.
SRT was a bunch of mechs from different series going up against numerous enemies for the sake of whatever. Sure, you spammed seishins, making it an easy grindfest to victory, but there was a story, and gameplay went well with the mech-fighting eyecandy.
This is a bunch of kids playing pretend with mech figurines (?), spamming seishins that would piss anyone off. There's no fun to be had here. The graphics outside of mech battles are horrible, the story makes a man go WTF, and the gameplay is like two angry nerds slapping eachother on the nipples.
Next to not liking the setting, these character portraits make me want to spray people in the face with sulphuric acid.
No thanks, SR Gakuen, you won't be wasting my time.
