Hi,
I just finally received my copy of the game last week, and thus far, I have enjoyed it greatly, tho' as others have said, campaign mode is easier in this version: was able to get through all stages of the Macross: DYRL arc in one play session with no "E"'s.
However, couple of questions have cropped up while playing:
First, did they drop the 'L' + 'O' combo (the one that allows you to super shoot the non-gun pod weapons) in Triangle, or is there a new combination of keys for it?
Second (and much more annoying), has anyone here run into the problem of, after playing 2-3 stages of an era arc with no apparent issues, the game "locks" you out of that era entirely: not letting you advance to the further stages nor letting you replay the stages you already passed? When I try to go to a stage when this happens, a message pops up that apparently says I can't do that, but I have no clue what it actually says (my ability to read written Japanese is non-existent, which will make going to 'school' reeaaallly interesting, but I digress). I'm able to navigate to other sections (other arcs I finished, tutorials, etc) and do those stages, but not the one I got locked out of, and what I end up doing is going back to the PSP home and dump the current file and restart the game from stratch. Which isn't really a problem if it does it in the first arc after a restart, but I had to do when the game locked me out of the Macross era arc after the 3rd or 4th stage, after I did the Mac: DYRL, Mac 7 Dynamite and Mac II arcs. Any ideas on this would be great.
So, thanks for the help on the above, and despite the above headache, I am enjoying the game.
Len