Choujikuu Yousai Macross
Though it’s no masterpiece, Macross was certainly a higher quality Arcadia release than Gundam.
Though it’s no masterpiece, Macross was certainly a higher quality Arcadia release than Gundam.
Since the game sprites don’t actually resemble their Gundam series counterparts after the head on title screen, many believe that this was a slight re-skinning of a previous Arcadia title.
This version is essentially identical to the original Playstation 3 version in terms of how it looks, plays and sounds…However since it was released after the English localization was done, it includes the option to toggle between the original Japanese voices and the English ones.
I would strongly urge Gundam fans who have already decided this sort of game isn’t for them to actually give it a try: You may actually enjoy its simplistic and sometimes challenging gameplay.
Akira Toriyama himself actually played this game with his wife over the course of two days. He commented in an issue of Weekly Shounen Jump that “It was pretty rough dying immediately from a game over, but it was faithful to my source material and I was very excited about the differences. They weren’t all that far removed from it, and I really liked Konpei”.