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After New Super Robot War, Banpresto brings us the Super Robot Shooting. Well, you can almost figure out everything from the title of the game alone. You can choose from seven famous Japanese anime robots to fight through eight stages.
The game itself is, well, a 3-D shooting game. You would control the robot in the chase-view. Each robot has it's regular attack (auto fire), a special attack (varies fom robot to robot) of which you have to wait for a short while after each use, and a super move (attacks everything on screen, including enemy shots) of which you can only use three times per session. Sounds pretty standard, huh?
The game is pretty intense, that my thumb was sored for an hour after playing it for an hour. There are dozens of enemies to shoot at, and there are moving obstacles to avoid. But then, this is virtually the same thing for every stage: small fries all the way, moving obstacles, a mid boss(es), and then the big boss. Not innovative at all.
The biggest complaint I have about this game is the length. For this issue I think it is the same problem as most other 2-D scrolling shooters. It takes under one hour to finish it, and then I don't feel like to replay it (for the moment). And it doesn't have the option to change the difficulty so you can head for a bigger challenge; in fact it doesn't offer ANY options at all in the title screen.
Another thing it lacks for a shooting game is the upgrade items. There isn't any here. This can be understood for this is a Super Robot game. So the variety comes from that you can choose from seven robots: you can choose a different robot in every stage. However, the robots are not that different (if any) in terms of attack and defence power. The difference lies mainly in the way how they do the special attack. Neo Gundam has homing missiles, Combattler V (sp?) has its Yo-Yo attack, Flying Fist of Mazinger Z, etc. But in fact, for myself I ended up choosing the most useful one for the 8 stages (Mazinger Z being my favorite).
There is a stage specific for the enemy for each robot, and the the final stage is the final boss. Before each stage there is a short FMV for the corresponding robot, which is pretty nice and well done (but short). The in-game graphics is average, not very impressive, but also not bad either. The music pieces are obtained from the original animes, so no matter you think they sound good or not, they are just honest to the original. =)
For wrapping up, I would say this is a game aimed for anime fans. If you are a big fans of those robots, you might be satisfied (but not particularly impressed) by it. Otherwise, it is just another 3-D shooting game with a short life.