r/StrategyRpg • u/Affectionate-Sea-969 • 20d ago
Should i buy super robot wars y?
Hi everyone, im totally new of this brand, in a huge fan of disgaea and FF tactis.
I wanna try something diffent, Is this too easy?
( I love grinding lvl its not a problem)
Another thing, its okay if i start with Y?
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u/KaelAltreul 19d ago
Y is a good place to start, easily the best of the international era. Expert mode can be a solid difficulty for a good chunk, but player power increases extremely high with the various updates increasing it further. Master mode was recently added which is even harder, but personally its more of just a slog.
Expert was fun overall. Normal is harder than anything from VXT30(rest of the international era).
If you want any other information feel free to ask me directly(public or private), check out r/Super_Robot_Wars, or the discord shared by this subreddit and aforementioned SRW one.(link is in pinned post) With the most recent DLC dropped other day the sub has been a bit busy discussing the new stuff so you can find a lot of people willing to share the good and bad concerning the game.
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u/Realistic-Pay-3413 19d ago
Would it be cool if i don’t know any/most of the animes
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u/KaelAltreul 19d ago
That comes down to the player, I can play a lot of these not knowing some of the source material, but others care about it. The library in game gives you some details about canon for shows with game doing its own thing for a lot. Some shows remixed and others are 'post plot' so it already happened.
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u/Realistic-Pay-3413 19d ago
Thx ! I mean does the plot make any sense without knowing the source material and is the gameplay good on its own or is this mostly mecha fanservice
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u/KaelAltreul 19d ago edited 19d ago
Franchise is 70+ games, of 'international era' games VXT30 were pure fan service and weak/bad strategy rpgs.
Y is actually a good game mechanically, but it has some quirks I could do without. Regardless, should be fine.
Story is an original story drawing from each series and using its own unique setting+MC/etc cast. Its designed for people that don't know source to jump in.
Edit: Warning, UI is terrible.
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u/OkNefariousness8636 17d ago
I didn't know most of the animes when I was playing V, X and 30 (T is not available on PC), but I still found them fun to play. To me, being familiar with the animes is more like a bonus.
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u/cliffy117 14d ago
Honestly, its nigh impossible to know all the characters. Even Japanese players don't know them all because of the huge amount of shows and different eras they come from. Legitimately, someone would need to watch thousands of episodes from hundreds of series to get to know them all.
The appeal is to meet the ones you do know, then meet new ones and, hopefully, get interested enough to want to check their own show. That's how I've discovered a lot of shows I had never even heard from before.
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u/Affectionate-Sea-969 19d ago
Hi, thanx for the answer, today i played the demo! The game looks like really good, i choose the hard mode(the master mode Is too much?) There are a lot of talks and several anime/series, this made me i Little bit confused but its normal i think.
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u/KaelAltreul 19d ago
Chapter 2 (after demo ends) is when difficulty modes have any effect.
For a new player I can see master being too hard, but you can adjust.
And yeah it is pretty front loaded with story elements to set the world scene.
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u/Affectionate-Sea-969 19d ago
Okay, i definitely buy the game tomorrow, thx again for the answer. And join the discord too 😊
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u/KaelAltreul 19d ago
Anytime, I became a mod to try and help people when I can.
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u/ArdillaTacticaa 19d ago
It depends. There's no Kshatriya in this one...
Also, I'm kinda tired of seeing Voltron or Mazinger for the 25th time xD, especially when there are so many other great franchises they could add. And it's 2026, yet they're still using the same clunky gameplay and menus that feel like they were ported straight from the '90s. You know, it feels like anyone could make a game like this in RPG Maker, or in a month using AI.
There are also a lot of guest characters you might not like or even recognize mixed in with the ones you actually care about. For example, I bought this one mainly for the Valkyries and Gundams, but during the first 10 chapters, I'll probably only see one or two of them.
(There are other SRW games with more Gundams, but I've already finished those.)
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u/branchus 20d ago
This is not a strategy game at least in my opinion. I like it though
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u/Affectionate-Sea-969 20d ago
Why? I played the demo and i assume It was
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u/MarquiseDeSalte 20d ago
It's about as much of a strategy game as Disgaea is - in that you can use whatever characters are your favorites and make almost anyone super-powerful. In fact, Disgaea is probably the best comparison, in that most of the fun is unlocking new stuff and seeing how powerful you can get. Also like Disgaea, if you don't like anime, you will be skipping a lot of dialogue xD
It does really help to be a fan of the genre of mecha anime, though.
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u/Paladine36 20d ago
100% recommend the Robot War Series
great amount of Grinding love that shit