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LOL. Will Admiral Rick Hunter shame the Invid and Shadows in front of all the other races in the climatic battle, give them a thorough scolding and tell them to "Get the hell out of our galaxy?".

Not exactly robotech but the series making up robotech, (and I'm only half serious), but SD Cavalry Southern Cross -> Sterling daughter (Dana in Robotech) and guitar freak (Bowie Grant/Emerson) battle against brainwashed humans(in the Southern Cross version) under the control of ancient vaguely mystical space weirdos. Guitar freak romances a space weirdo girl (Musica). Macross 7 -> Guitar freak (Basara, taken to a ridiculous extreme) and a Jenius daughter (Mylene) battle against brainwashed humans under the control of ancient vaguely mystical space vampire weirdos. Guitar freak romances a space vampire weirdo girl (Sivil). Mospeada -> Purple haired female impersonator (Yellow Belmont/Lancer) and friends struggle to survive against the attacks of insect like hive-mind biomechanical space bugs. Green haired bug girl (Sera/Sorji) has the hots for him.It turns out that the bugs just have a misunderstanding of the human condition and the human apefaces in the expeditionary fleet are worse than the bugs and are the real enemy in the finale. Macross Frontier -> Purple haired female impersonator (Alto) and friends struggle to survive against the attacks of insect like hive-mind biomechanical space bugs. Green haired faux bug girl (Ranka) has the hots for him. It turns out that the bugs just have a misunderstanding of the human condition and the cyborg apefaces in Macross Galaxy are worse than the bugs and are the real enemy in the finale. Plus, also, Ishtar and the emulators is basically a more stripperific version of Musica and the Muses from Southern Cross. Also, the Red Vajra's similarity to the Invid Inorganic Scrimm (somewhere earlier in this thread), although I suppose there's only so many ways to draw a bug-like humanoid.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't strike me as a really good excuse. By that measure, Robotech can just freely cherry pick whatever they like from the Macross line just because "it's the only way it's going to be released" over in the US. Plaigarizing bits of story design and mecha design concepts is one thing (I actually believe both Macross and Robotech are guilty of doing this off each other), but that looks like a complete ripoff.

Nope, they're lasers. That's not the only place they tried to rip off DYRL either.

Yeah, it's been a long time since I read those books. The only Sentinels stuff I still have around is that old Palladium RPG sourcebook, and it's been just as long since it's been used. Erm, what? It ends with the Haydon Awareness merging with a Protoculture Matrix, heading into a black hole to become a god of a new universe and grabbing Rem and Minmei to be the Adam and Eve or something? By comparison, Basara's singing turning Gepernitti into a Buddha sounds downright plausible.

So maxing out relationships does give a character access to other character skills when used as support? Do relationship hearts have any other effects aside from this and the banter? Me, I've maxed out the the Zero mecha, the four Monsters, The Varuatan VFs, the Fire Valkyrie and the VF2SS so far. Who've have thought Kakizaki would actually be so useful?

"Legitimized bootleg" is sort of an oxymoron, don't you think? Does the poorly done Robotech hackjob lack any artistic merit beyond that of nolstagia for those watched it in the original run? Yes. Did HG actually have the legal right to do this poo? Unfortunately, yes. In light of this, and the RL shennigans that have gone down since, does BW have a right to never again let HG 100 feet 0f its IP? Hell yes. Mostly, I'm sore about the FASA (and now Catalyst)/HG issues about throwing accusations of "bootleg" around. I think HG would have been better off making a straight Mospeada II spinoff or Mospeada the Movie rather than try to tie it into the ridiculous continuity of the Sentinels timeline.

I think Robotech has enough faults of its own without making up fake ones to insult it. That's more the kind of stuff HG would do.

They're like, giant amazon women. Not giant as in Meltran, but as in big-boned. Who ride in protoculture powered chariots. I think Breetai hooks up with one before he bites it. Speaking of El Breetai...

It shouldn't be a hang. The game wants you to choose either the YF-19 or YF-21 as your prize on that screen. So choose one to continue, you'll get the other one later in the Plus campaign.

Well, they thought the two of them were the last humans on Earth... until they were awakened by the arrival of the SDF-1 the morning after.

The second link has most of the basic controls. As for specials, TRIANGLE+CIRCLE = Use your mecha's option pack SP attack if equipped, otherwise use your mecha specific SP attack. Select+D-PAD Down = Order your partner to use his mecha's option pack SP if equipped, otherwise use his mecha specific SP attack. Greyed out on select menu when partner has not enough SP (partner's gauge under HP bar). L-Trigger+TRIANGLE+CIRCLE = Do the SP attack simultaneously with your partner. Make sure both have enough SP available, or you will most likely end up doing the L-Trigger+TRIANGLE melee charge attack instead accidentally. CIRCLE+X = Activate the equipped active support skill of the character you put in support, which may have various effects. Some of them have unique skills only available to them normally. ed: I think using a support character with max hearts with another character also allows you access to the second character's unique skills? Shin, whom I mostly use, with maxed out relationship with nearly everyone has every auto skill and command skill available.

OMG, Frontier is teh ripoff!

Any tips to take out the Chronicle Mode AFOS fast enough to meet Objective 3 in order to get above A Rank? I can take out Nora and DD quickly without problems, but without the ranged special from the booster pack (you lose them between stages even if not purged), the booster pack missles, partner specials and support specials (chronicle mode), it's taking forever to wear down the Bird Human using lasers, rockets and the melee SP. Shin had it so easy on the show, lol ... On a side note, Sarah's support skill Song of Doom is a damn cheap move especially when used by the player, because of its relatively fast activation, and because you can chase down enemies while it's active (unlike the game controlled AFOS) it to get them into its area of effect, and the AI is too dumb to run away effectively.

He's just an expert on the neglected DYRL/Macross II alternate timeline. That just means he's a relatively reliable source of information about that one thing for anyone who cares. That mean talent doesn't elevate him above his peasantry and entitle him to serfs and poo, so there's no cause to feel threatened, Your Highness. Clearly, picking a fight with one so low is beneath your royal station.

Or how about the least convincing "15 year old" ever, Annie LaBelle, ever from Robotech the Next Generation, who not only has a gratitious bath scene, but is actively soliciting marriage for most of the series.

The Prometheus is shown to be a typically sized aircraft carrier, not an unusually sized one, before being retrofitted onto the SDF-1. Even from the animation alone, the fact that the arms make up about a third of the total length of the SDF-1 means there's no reasonable way the thing is 4km long

They will need to contest the Macross and UN Spacy trademarks, won't they? It was kind of a dick move registering those two trademarks, seeing how they've primarily branded their stuff as Robotech, Robotech the First Generation, and REF before, and Macross Island (as opposed to the Macross) doesn't have much to do with the original saga. And UN Spacy is just a fictional military service of the UN like Space Marines.

Is there any way to use the player pilots whom you didn't select at the start of the game? Also, exactly what are the titles you can buy in the shop for? Sort of like achievements?

LOL, I never noticed that until now. He even does the helmet cracking final charge powered up by the (living) spirits of the girls who loved him, doesn't he?

Nay, we await the return of the Anthromorphic Flying Ornithoform of Spaghetti, the blessed Sarah Nome, and the Jolly Roger Shin Kudo, who was touched by its noodly appendage and taken bodily into pirate heaven. Seriously, LOL, "excommunicated Robotech fans"? Who's the one taking this poo too seriously?

Really? Because it really doesn't seem that way from the character design of Tytania. Disappointing show BTW. Ah, well, they can't all be LOGH.

My personal crackpot theory to explain the blatant inconsistencies and revisionism is that Shadow Chronicles is an in-series propaganda "documentary" meant as damage control after the Symphonygate, to exonerate Admiral Rick Hunter of attempted genocidal war crimes ("I didn`t know it was a nunnery! I didn`t know neutron-s tactical crushing nukes could do that!") , and to sell the Earth public on the REF's next war against the next most powerful race in the Galaxy after we've finished kicking the asses of the Invid and the Masters on Tirol. Because, you know, they hate and fear our Protoculture. And because, like always, We Will Win.

Lynn Kaifun should so be a support character. He would be forever telling your character off no matter how you do and spouting off about the evils of the fascist military-industrial complex that is UN Spacy, mellowing into a sort of begrudging forbearance at 5 hearts. (Hey, it's better than the Gepernetti who doesn't do anything but sit around and looking like he's stoned out of his mind - seriously, I don't remember him looking _that_ kooky even when he was getting his socks rocked off in the finale).

No, that's Dune. (Actually, I think McKinney was trying to rip off that as well).