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I have to say, this game is composed of some great highs, and pretty bad lows as far as gameplay experience is concerned. I'm not exactly a Grendizer fan, but I am a fan of super robot anime in general, and my exposure to UFO Robo Grendizer itself was mostly limited to what I got from SRW A Portable.
Let's start with the highs, the music has failed to become old for me, and have not really had any audio failures aside from a couple, but they stem from a low that I'll talk about latter. Combat isn't the most complicated thing, and honestly, I feel like this game is pretty easy even if you just button mash without knowing much about what you're doing. E.G. I managed to beat a boss that I apparently was not supposed to be able to defeat and got a <10% achievement for it. Still kinda bewildered about why it was so hard for other people to be honest, you've got a very strong health regeneration mechanic, and plenty of time to use it if you keep your eye out.
Movement, animations, attacks, almost everything about playing the game on foot just gives you this amazing powertrippy feeling of piloting a big, stompy, yet agile anime robot. I've actually enjoyed some of the time I spent looking for collectibles in the open-world-ish stages because of the feedback I get from jumping and sprinting. When you know what you are doing, even the harder mooks can be dealt with pretty easily, which I can't help but feel like also contributes to the feeling of being the protagonist of a super robot anime pretty well too. New enemies give you trouble, but once you know everyone's gimmicks, they're lambs for the slaughter.
Now I'll talk about the lows. The main, glaring issue I have found I have found with this game is that it has huge requirements for my GPU, for seemingly no reason. I've got a 2023 ROG Zephrus M16 and I've set the graphics to the minimum possible settings to play this game. With these settings, the game feels like it's using 14 GB of ram, and the GPU is struggling so hard that the game isn't exactly working as intended. The load times everywhere I go take multiple minutes, and are so long to the point that I read light novels on my phone to fill in the time. Worse, the game will semi-randomly freeze at any conceivable moment from within combat, to simply running around the field, just sort of leaving you and whatever tension you may be feeling at that moment hanging. Very uncomfortable feeling. I can't help but feel like I've spent a quarter of my playtime just waiting for the game to properly spin up. you get worse audio/loading issues if you tab out, so I wouldn't reccomend it. Should the game feel like delivering more than one audio line in a row during the time you tab out, when you tab in, they all end up playing at once. This game isn't particularly hard, especially if you are used to faster fighting games, so don't expect difficulty from the game unless you set your own challenges on what you should do. Even the minigames are very forgiving to you, right up to their final iteration.
A final note about the overall game is the spotty amount of polish this game has. There are some really awesome moments, like the cut-scenes that play whenever you finish a boss, and many animations do feel really great, even when I had set my graphics to potato. There are also some pretty terrible moments, like during the first time you enter the spazer, I swear I heard placeholder dialogue that may as well have been played by an AI or something like that, and it sounded terrible. Absolutely ruined that moment for me. Worse, that's not the only scene that has that terrible dialogue, though I can't remember them off the top of my head. The game itself isn't particularly long, at this point I've pretty much 100%ed the game, and that's not something I usually do to games. It's difficult to tell if this is because there's not enough content in this game for 100% or I've been enjoying the content so much that I was actually willing to 100% the game.
All in all, i would mostly recommend this game if you are a fan of giant robots and you have a very strong computer. It's not long, it's not the best and most polished, but some aspects of this game are too amazing to ignore. I really wish the game ran better and had better dubbing so I could reccomend it more. Shouting the names of your attacks in a super robot really needs that wonderful anime ham that you can only get from japanese dubbing. That being said, if you don't have a strong computer, or are completely unfamilar with the genre of the game and worse, the anime itself, I can't say the purchase would be worth it for you.