Shinseiden Megaseed Rebirth Chapter (神聖伝メガシード 復活編), launched 7/4/1997, developed by Banpresto

This recreation was a joint manufacturing of Sunrise and Banpresto, and it was an try and make a recreation that might resemble the varied tokusatsu hero collection and tremendous robotic anime. As the addition of the subtitle exhibits, this was conceived as probably being a big franchise happening in a number of time durations over numerous video games, anime, and so on But this presumably relied on the gross sales of this recreation — since no different media ever got here out on this franchise, it should not have bought effectively. (There was a “creation chapter” single manga quantity that got here out a couple of months earlier than the sport that coated the backstory that’s narrated in some unspecified time in the future on this recreation).

The storyline does really feel just like the style they had been making an attempt for, and the visuals are comparatively good (with each the particular assaults and the photographs within the story sequences). Unfortunately the gameplay is missing — I’ll cowl this primary after which do the story afterwards.

The recreation is made up of 14 “scenes”. Each scene has story after which a primary battle. After this battle comes the one probability to enhance your characters, spending roughly 3000 “guts points” to boost stats. It prices the variety of GP as the worth you need to increase the stat to — that’s, if DEF is 100 and also you need to increase it to 101, it prices 101 factors. Each stat will be upgraded max 5 occasions. As far as I can inform, the GP it’s important to spend is a set worth (I believe 3000, though you additionally save no matter you didn’t spend final time). Since there aren’t any objects or cash, that implies that defeating the enemies within the battle has no objective apart from to finish the stage objective. If the objective is to defeat the boss, you’ll achieve nothing by beating any enemies apart from the boss.

You have anyplace from 2 to six characters within the battle. All strikes besides primary assaults price BP, and for the 2 “biofighter” characters, they lose some BP every spherical. The biofighter characters start in human kind, and it takes a flip to rework them. The predominant character has a number of kinds, however to modify kinds it’s important to first take a flip going again to human kind, then select the brand new kind (a complete of two turns). Switching kinds is basically ineffective due to this. If the Biofighters run out of BP they revert again to human kind.

The deadly flaw of the sport is how tough it’s to recuperate BP. The solely method it may be performed is to go to an armored car that’s round on some (not all) phases. The car can’t transfer. It takes a number of turns to recuperate the BP after which as soon as you allow the car you might be in human kind. Because of the restricted variety of models in every stage, recovering within the car principally is just not an possibility except you might be at some extent within the stage the place you may win with none additional assaults by the character within the car. Otherwise, the enemies will merely encompass the car and destroy it earlier than you may recuperate sufficient to battle once more (if the car will get destroyed with somebody in it, that particular person dies). This implies that in each stage, you might be primarily restricted by the BP of every character, and to a sure extent the HP though there’s one unit that may do a restricted quantity of therapeutic.

Because of this, I discovered that primarily the one possibility on most phases is to go instantly for the boss when the objective is to beat the boss (which is most phases). You merely can’t afford the BP it takes to beat the grunts, and there’s no objective to doing so since you don’t get any XP, cash, or something like that. If both Biofighter dies you get recreation over, however the different characters merely depart for that battle.

So the gameplay is principally crap, I believe. It had some good concepts however they only botched the execution so badly that it’s perhaps not a shock that there was by no means a followup recreation. I truly give up on the ultimate stage as a result of I couldn’t beat the primary a part of the map and didn’t care to attempt anymore — one other C grade recreation in what’s shaping as much as be an total poor 12 months for SRPGs. Fortunately we nonetheless have Langrisser IV and Shining Force 3, no less than. Anyway, now for the story.

The story is just not dangerous, apart from the principle character who’s an unbearable dick. Yuuki is the principle character, who begins strolling house from faculty with good friend Miyu. There’s an explosion and a few alien enemies come to kidnap Yuuki’s sister Ruma, who they appear to be searching for. Yuuki tries to guard her however will get killed. A bit robotic named Eddy seems and sees that Yuuki has the Megaseed capacity, and revives him by turning him right into a Biofighter — that is apparently solely the second time this has succeeded. Yuuki has now remodeled right into a beast, and assaults the enemies making an attempt to save lots of Ruma.

But Ruma will get taken anyway. After the battle he goes again to being human, however when extra enemies seem, he goes again to Biofighter once more by Eddy’s interference (he doesn’t need to flip into such a beast once more). He additionally features a brand new transformation, to a water Biofighter that may take care of the boss within the water.

Later, he talks to Miyu once more and hears that enemies are attacking Shinrin Park; Yuuki hopes that he can discover Ruma there and heads out. A mysterious man exhibits up investigating as effectively. Enemies present up once more — Yuuki doesn’t need to rework however Eddie forces him to once more. It seems this mysterious man can also be a Biofighter.

One of the “Three Generals of Baidner”, Dr. Min, arrives and the opposite Biofighter leaves to battle him. Yuuki is left to battle the very quick Kreutzfeld, however he will get a brand new speedy transformation to beat him. Yuuki passes out and the opposite Biofighter takes him again to the bottom of the Jeen, an arm of the navy that’s devoted to preventing the Baidner. Yuuki reluctantly agrees to affix them, not as a result of he cares about saving the world, however he hopes that he’ll discover his sister (each chapter accommodates no less than one scene the place Yuuki sulks, blows up, yells at everybody, says he doesn’t care about something however his sister, and infrequently screws issues up by going off by himself. Even when he learns that different folks have had their entire household killed by Baidner he nonetheless simply pouts and yells and goes off by himself. Even when this ends in different folks getting killed, he continues to pout and yell and insult everybody and say he doesn’t care about something however his sister. I do know this can be a widespread anime trope however this story appears to take it to an excessive that leaves the principle character utterly unsympathetic.)

It seems that Yuuki is the one “perfect” Biofighter they’ve discovered. Sei, the opposite Biofighter, was created by Jeen and so is just not excellent. Dr. Min can management him in battle, seemingly due to this.

The different two members are Zek and Yui, regular people, however they get some bio armors after a couple of phases that permit them to battle. As the story continues we’re launched to different enemies (“Myu fighters”), and the opposite two generals of the enemy pressure. Also a creature referred to as Breth-O is available in a capsule from house; apparently this robotic factor was created to kill the Biofighters, however it doesn’t appear to work appropriately and so typically leaves the fights, assaults the opposite Myu Fighters, or is ineffective. Yuuki additionally continues to develop new kinds to battle the enemies.

Yuuki ultimately learns that the enemies are performing some form of experiments on Ruma, who is outwardly somebody they’ve been trying to find.

Stage 11 is unusual as a result of one of many generals Rigna revives all of the earlier bosses we’ve fought, however you solely must kill one (who’s within the water and is annoying to succeed in). I really feel like this was performed as a result of given the way in which the system works, there’s no method you can have killed all of the bosses earlier than working out of assets.

Eventually we study that Bres-O is working for the Dark God Meizas, who appears to be the pinnacle of the Baidner. Meizas was created by an historic tradition to guard the world, however now sees the Megaseed/Biofighters as a risk. It additionally seems that each particular person on this planet has some Machinery Mark of their DNA that comes from Meizas and permits the enemies to theoretically management everybody (that is how Rigna controls Sei). I used to be a little bit misplaced right here; I believe the thought is that this historic tradition was totally destroyed however that Meizas was in some way capable of protect life by creating people, who all have the Machinery Mark.

In Scene 13 we attain the Baidner base after defeating the three generals. Ruma is there, however she has been remodeled into Aruma, one other evil demon creature. But Ruma is ready to battle for management from Aruma, and after she is crushed, Ruma utterly rejects Aruma. The heroes then beat Meizas.

Unfortunately the Meizas they beat is only one terminal, and Meizas reappears and shoots a bolt of power, killing Ruma. This appears to make Yuuki lastly settle for that he must battle for the world, not only for Ruma. They must go to the moon to defeat Meizas for good — they will ship Eddy and Yuuki there within the capsule that Bres-O used to go to Earth.

Scene 14 (the ultimate one) is the place I gave up. You must defeat 5 Bres-O’s, with out Yuuki or Eddy. I attempted 5 occasions and I used to be unable to beat greater than three of them earlier than everybody died. Maybe I wanted to spend my stage up factors in another way, however I had no want to do that anymore. I checked out a evaluate that stated how the story concludes — Yuuki goes to the moon and defeats Meizas, however as he’s returning to earth they lose contact with the capsule, and the destiny of Yuuki and Eddy is left open as the sport ends.

So that is yet one more recreation that exhibits promise however is just not price taking part in. It barely qualifies as an SRPG and there’s simply not that a lot good about it.