Two-Minute Game Reviews: Revived!

[VySaika]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 6/10

Best feature/element: Hmm, cast interaction, yeah. Also BIG STOMPY ROBOTS.
Worst feature/element: Not really sure. I seem to have some inability to play more then one map in a sitting, no matter how interested in the game I am. So yeah, call it that.

Best character: Kyosuke. Excellen is cool, but wouldn't work nearly so well without Kyosuke to play off of.
Worst character: Ummm...Latooni? Sure, she's kinda boreing.

Best PC in-game: Kyosuke. He wrecks shit solo and with Excellen the wreckage gets insane.
Worst PC in-game: Pass. Too many people I never bothered using to really say.

Favorite moment: Kyosuke and Excellen banter. Pick any time they do it, really.
Least favorite moment:

KYOSUKE I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING NOW SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED

works, sure.

[Xeroma]

SRWOG - 6/10. 7-8/10 for OGs, but I wouldn't count that score.

Best feature: Well paced gameplay with a lot of stuff you can do. Character interaction is also good.
Worst feature: Plot is really lame-ass and not mockably funny like later SRW titles. Also has sorta lame-duck maps compared to OG2.

Best character: Kyosuke, because he's cool, has great interactions with Excellen and some other PCs, and he has my favorite moment in the game.
Worst character: Erm.... Katina? At least Russel gets one moment of awesome by bitchslapping her.

Best PC in-game: Kyosuke or Excellen. Pick one.
Worst PC: Giado, easily.

Favorite moment: When Kyosuke breaks the anime cliche of waiting for the villain to finish an evil transformation and punches the Rivale in the face.
Least favorite: Ryusei's early stuff. Any of it.

[AAA]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 6/10

Best feature/element: When it works, it works well.
Worst feature/element: Gets really fucking boring

Best character: Kyosuke
Worst character: Pick a villain

Best PC in-game: Excellen
Worst PC in-game:  Giado

Favorite moment: Kyosuke punching the Rivale, sure.
Least favorite moment: Pffft get away from me human girls HOLY SWEET JESUS FUCK FEMALE ROBOT UNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

[Taishyr]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 7.0

Best feature/element: Interesting gameplay...
Worst feature/element: ...lack of damage projection.

Best character: Excellen.
Worst character: Ryusei. Sanger as close second.

Best PC in-game: ...Kyosuke. Is around longer than Sanger. Excellen gets close but lacks the damage and range isn't as vital in this game.
Worst PC in-game: Giado. Russel and Katina both have slightly more use than him? I never found a good setup for Giado. Katina -is- a close second, tho.

Favorite moment: Final few fights were challenging enough. Go with those.
Least favorite moment: Anything with Ryusei or Sanger in it, really.

[Nitori]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 7.5/10

Best feature/element: They did the gameplay well at least and branching paths are fun~. I may well also say sceneskip since reading villain dialogue is not good for the brain.
Worst feature/element: Kind of boring to play long in one sitting and plot is something you type in caps.

Best character: Excellen~. Russel is a close second since he is awesome.
Worst character: Sanger. Go away~. Ryusei can be amusing~

Best PC in-game: Kyosuke~
Worst PC in-game: Giado~

Favorite moment: Anytime there is cast interaction with Excellen.
Least favorite moment: KYOSUKE I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING NOW SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED. - seconded so very much.

[Talaysen]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 9/10 - I played the game 3.5 times.  Not including OGs.  Yeah, definitely loved it, but there's something that keeps it from a 10, and I'm not sure what it is.

Best feature/element: Customization.  I had more fun outside of battles than in battles because of it.  Not that battles themselves weren't fun!  Moreso than most SRPGs, easily.  Character interaction and Battle Masteries get honorable mentions.
Worst feature/element: Uh sure lack of damage projection.  Never had a problem with it, but it is something that should be there.

Best character: Excellen?  Sure.  For all that I liked Leona as well.
Worst character: Katina.  DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE

Best PC in-game: Latooni.  Able to do anything and do it well.  Except tank, but that's what evade hax is for.
Worst PC in-game: Katina, if only for the mission where she goes on retard NPC mode.  Other than that?  Giado.

Favorite moment: Russel pimpslaps Katina.
Least favorite moment: Katina being a retard.  Okay, that's several moments.  Actually more of a timespan.  Of the whole fucking game.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Rating: 6/10? Sure. Need to lower its rating in my post about those a bit.

Best feature/element: SRW gameplay, sure. It's what drew me into the game anyway.
Worst feature/element: Being too fucking easy works for me, too. hinode once mentioned the enemies in this game failed harder than FE8's. And he was right. The game isn't easy even because of SRW's typical sorting algorithm of broken, it's just because enemies are impossibly incompetent. OG2, though. That one gets victimized by the sorting algorithm of broken. >_>

Best character: Excellen, by a landslide. Kyosuke works partly because Excellen is there, and the competition otherwise is... yeah.
Worst character: Ryusei. Is. A. Fucking. Retard.

Best PC in-game: Hmmm, Excellen works. Kyosuke is also great, and Latooni worked very well for me.
Worst PC in-game: Giado. Is. Fucking. Useless.

Favorite moment: Excellen going damsel-in-distress and Kyosuke promptly nodding to shoot her because she'd never do that. What, it was kinda funny. >_>
Least favorite moment: OH SANGER I NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D TURN ON US WHY

[Ultradude]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 8/10

Best feature/element: My own mecha fanboyism? I'd say that counts.
Worst feature/element: Too easy. Enemies fail horribly.

Best character: Excellen. She makes the character interaction, especially with Kyosuke. Sanger falls into the previous complaints for like... 90% of the game at least? Otherwise he's not so bad >_>
Worst character: Uh.... blocked out most of the crap characters. Probably a villain, and I probably like a good 3/4 of the characters mentioned here. Ryusei is annoying but kinda amusing to me at times. Granted, I'm daft. So, uh, that alien chick. You know, whichever one fails the most.

Best PC in-game: Kyosuke, for all that... Latooni had the most kills for me the first time? Kyosuke dominates when you pick his route from the first level onward and is a part of Rampage Ghost though, so win.
Worst PC in-game: Giado. Russel is a decent support guy in Valsion Custom, Katina gets a ton of credit for early and cheap Valor on Kyosuke's route. Garnet had something I'm sure, and Tasuku was at least Defense god.

Favorite moment: Punching Rivale/Something with Excellen, pick a moment. Probably involving Kyosuke.
Least favorite moment: Sanger being annoying and worthless for 90% of the game. This is a moment in my mind.

[Nephrite]

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 7/10 - I like it, but it didn't age well in comparison to OG2.

Best feature/element: Gameplay? Music, maybe too.
Worst feature/element: Easiness could be used, I guess. OG2 fixes that for half the game, at least.

Best character: Allow me to answer that with a screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/Gilderoy/SRWOG/shoephones.png
Worst character: I guess I can see the Sanger arguments for this game. I hope we do OG2 too.

Best PC in-game: I liked Kyosuke a lot.
Worst PC in-game: Um... Giada, definitely.

Favorite moment: The stage where Kyosuke saves Excellen.
Least favorite moment: Pretty much anything with Ingram.

[Shale]

Update tomorrow.

[Scar]

If you want to debate FF4 rankings, feel free in another topic. This isn't the time or the place; I don't want to see this topic veer into an argumentitive derail.

~

I am prolly too late for this, but eh...

FF4 review

Rating: 10/10 (Biased? Sure. It's still my favorite game of all time. Nostalgia kicks in when I turn it on.)

Best feature/element: Nostalgia
Worst feature/element: Too easy.

Best character: Kain, as if you all don't already know.
Worst character: Oh...Baigon? I was kinda super happy when I was younger and the message of him joining me popped on the screen. I kinda just figured he would stand in front of everyone since I had a full party already. >_> (sue me.)

Best PC in-game: Cecil; Kain when he gets double jump and his uber spear. He is a better tank then Cecil, just lacks magic.
Worst PC in-game: Cid

Favorite moment: I enjoy getting Edge. That whole part of the game all the way to the fight with Rubicant was great.
Least favorite moment: No one dies. Seriously, Yang, the Twins, and Cid should have all stayed dead. Yang and Cid especiialy. What the fuck, their sacrifices were noteworthy, blowing themselves up for the greater good. Nope! Still alive. Lame.

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and now the up to date review!

Game: Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Rating: 7/10

Best feature/element: Characters were fun.
Worst feature/element: Too easy? Sure.

Best character: Gilliam
Worst character: Ingram

Best PC in-game: Kyosuke, pure awesomeness.
Worst PC in-game: Giada

Favorite moment: If I remember correctly there was a scene where Kyosuke and excellen are caught together with their clothes off. All I remember is Excellen yelling at Kyosuke about getting all his stuff back on. Made me laugh a little.
Least favorite moment: Anything involving Ingram post craziness.

[Dunefar]

I moderated Scar's post because I don't think anyone wants the two minute game review to spiral into a bitchy debate over FF4 ranks. See the edited post for details.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Was that really an argumentative post? I mean, yes, he makes points that are opinion (Cid and Yang staying dead, for example) but it doesn't seem to be argumentative in tone. As I recall, people ARE allowed to chip in on old games they didn't review.

[Grefter]

DL rankings has nothing to do with reviewing a game though.

[Dunefar]

Was that really an argumentative post? I mean, yes, he makes points that are opinion (Cid and Yang staying dead, for example) but it doesn't seem to be argumentative in tone. As I recall, people ARE allowed to chip in on old games they didn't review.

He went off on a profanity filled rant about Kain versus other characters. While interesting, it's not fitting for this topic. Scar's more than welcome to rehash it it's own topic; but as is it was inviting a giant derail.

To clarify, I mean rankings as in regard to this topic, not to DL rankings. Kain as largely held as the worst character in FF4 in this topic.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Haven't played any SRW unfortunately. Are there any other games left to review or is this topic dead now?

-Djinn