Addendum

You will of course be watching somebody else play Super Robot Wars. That's how things are done these days.

Ideas for a Super Robot Wars Launch Party

1. Play Super Robot Wars
2. Run a fun Super Robot Wars quiz show
3. Balloons
4. Serve treats based on Super Robot Wars items such as the ones you get each battle from ace bonuses
5. Come across an experimental mech and save the world (don't worry if it blows up a couple times; that's normal)
6. Watch party!

To Celebrate the Imminent Release of Super Robot Wars Y

Should we change the term "flash fiction" to "alert fiction?" That's a little SRW humor for you. I'm waiting for DLC and sales, but that's no reason not to participate in the launch-window goodwill.

Thoughts on SD Gundam G Generation Eternal

By the time you finish reading the title, your AP will be full again. Truly Eternal/10.

Addendum

Unfortunately it starts with a Y, and that all but disqualifies it according to Super Robot Wars roster rules.

Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh

If Yu-Gi-Oh got into Super Robot Wars Y, it wouldn't be the biggest stretch in the series.

Defeated by the Pros Again

Here we are trying to think of evocative titles such as Dragon Ambition or Ambition of Chaotic Inheritors, and then they just bust out GQuuuuuux like it's nothing. By "we" of course I mean people coming up with names for Yu-Gi-Oh sets.

Negative Howling, for Example

Many think that just because their characters are fighting with tanks or spaceships that they can't have named special attacks. They couldn't be more wrong.

Ranking of Weapons Appropriate for Your Science Fiction Main Character

1. Mech
2. Spaceship
3. Spaceship (fighter)
4. Psionic powers

That is all.

How to Integrate Mechs Into Your Setting

Do it on page one.

Activating Intelligent Armor That Sounds Like Your Parents

If in a science fiction setting, there's a good chance the main character will need to do some cat's cradle to get it working. To prevent your main character from looking like someone who plays cat's cradle, supply him with an assistant of some sort, whether a sibling or a straitlaced military officer who will delight by the contrast.

Necessity Is the Pretense for Invention

Professor D'Aramitz struggled to suppress his regret as he examined the diagnostics, an impossible task. Conceding for once to his feelings, he tilted back in his chair and looked at nothing in particular.
"I have finally constructed a robot capable of conquering our planet which is in such need of a masterful hand." Finally he looked at something: A titan of steel in its dock, a hundred cables affixed to it, bearing an attitude, it seemed to him, of the champion athlete eager to put the physical examination behind him and return to competition. "But it is not quite ethical, is it, to bring civilians into it, and that, my poor creation soon to be neglected, would be an inevitability. Without an excuse to deploy you, the world will never know your matchless power."
The professor wandered about his hidden facilities for a time, picking up this readout before throwing it down and settling down at that terminal, staring at the screen, and rising again. There was nothing to do, he convinced himself, but surrender the rest of the day to idleness, unless he was willing to begin the decommission process. He returned aboveground and abandoned his attention to the TV.
". . . Confirmation is coming in now that the destruction is in fact caused by alien invaders . . ."
The TV turned off again. Professor D'Aramitz stood. He stretched both arms, leaned back a little, and yelled, "Hurrah for unending strife!"
Finis

Nomenclature Gap

All mech properties know you need to call your mechs something different, whether mobile suits, arm slaves, or cataphracts. The rest of us are falling behind. Shouldn't your knights be dragon breakers and your wizards be elemsplays? No, but you see what I'm getting at. At what I am getting.

Adaptable Material

Everybody's seen Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game: The Chronicles, right? If not, here it is. That's all well and good, but I hear people saying the Albax story would be great to adapt. They're wrong. As much as it may tickle you to see a new card and realize the latest evil clown is actually this jerk from another card, that doesn't mean anything in a TV show. Think about the actual plot and you'll realize it's just a whole series of, "And these guys show up, and these guys show up, and these guys turn into these guys, and these guys show up . . ." Not only is Albaz not the best Yu-Gi-Oh! card set to adapt, it probably isn't even in the top five. Wait, probably? We can check easily enough.
1) Vendread
2) Gold Pride
3) S-Force
4) Rescue-ACE
5) Shiranui
Yup, not even in the top 5.

Burning Science Fiction Concern

Do the space mechs work on land, or do you need different ones? This is crucial to your setting.

Rules of Drama

"If a sphinx is presented in the first act, it must activate its death laser by the third." - Antoine Checksum

Addendum

You might think the mecha genre is about mechs, but it's actually defined by opponents yelling at each other during the battle.

Possibly Available for a Very Short Time Only

Make sure to play the new Gundam U.C. Engage mobile game. I hear the cool thing to do is pick the S Gundam and Roux, but quite frankly, I don't believe it matters.

Addendum

Upon reflection, since he fights the Green Knight early, Gawain is probably the Red Knight. That clears that up, but I wish it hadn't been canceled. We never even got to see the invincible robot King Orknaurer.

Addendum

Actually those all lead to mechs. Pranked!