IT'S ACTUALLY GETTING RELEASED WORLDWIDE !!!Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.imagineer.medabotssApp Store:https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id6784058691https://x.com/medabots_S/status/2095815201761452408
>>24006839I wonder if any of the old collabs will get re-ran for the global version. The ones for Digimon and Ghost In The Shell had pretty decent designs and would probably do well for pushing the gachashit in global.
Kabuto or Kuwagata?
Survivors was shit so it's good that we can get a real Medabots game.
>>24006870Rights issues will probably prevent that.
>>24006839surprised jp is alive at all. if they don’t run collabs then just play jp
>>24006870I hope they will, these are the best parts.
>>24006870>>24006897Yeah, the rights issues will probably prevent a bunch of older collabs from being rerun in the Global English version, but the big name ones that even casuals are familiar with will likely be retained. Digimon, Mega Man, and so on are high possibilities, I'd think... but properties like Mashin Hero Wataru is "literally who?" tier unknown outside of Japan.
that's going to be an interesting day 1, they have six years of events to get caught up on or something
>>24006889The main bot for S is both fused together
>>24007252They'll likely just start from wherever the Japanese release is and never bother with the past stuff.
>>24007798i'm not a gacha expert by any means but that means that many years of premium currency are just going to not be in circulation, right? i'd imagine that would be really bad for longevity
I don't play gacha trash
>>24006839How bad is the daily quests?
But can you date your bots?
>>24007892Typical for a mobile gacha game.
>>24007974Tell me if it's arduous. I know some gacha games' dailies can be done in 5 minutes.
Just found out that Medarot 9 recently got a new translation that's not menu-only. Has anyone tried it yet?
>>24006892This
>>24006839How aggressive is the monetization on a scale of Limbus Company (actually F2P) to Dragonball Legends (Take out a goddamn loan)
>>24008352i played for maybe the first year or so completely F2P without feeling like i missed anything, but i don't know how much extra stuff they've added since then. i do also recall having suspiciously good luck with the gachas that i did pull though. i remember that when you did pull, you had a chance to get either one part (head, l. arm, r. arm, legs) or an entire medarot, which was pretty shitty. i think there were also rumors about seeded accounts, that some accounts were literally programmed to get better rolls more often, but i never knew for sure if that was cope or not
>>24008361>you had a chance to get either one part (head, l. arm, r. arm, legs) or an entire medarot, which was pretty shittyOh fuck, the usually Medarot style of getting only one part from a defeated enemy does sound pretty shitty with the limited resources a gacha gives you
>>24008380i mean on paper it was really, really gay but i personally do not remember getting too horribly fucked over by that. i'm a bit of a gambling addict so i've dipped a toe into a lot of gacha games and medarot S does not stand out as a bad one in my mind
>>24006839Very great news.
>>24007988Maybe theyve added it since I last played but the only issue is there is no skip. You have to auto battle grind everything.If they added skipping I'd like to know though, would be worth getting back into
>>24008352I mean.. maybe I was just really lucky but I basically a majority of the bots when I had been playing without even needing pitty. Got all the digi collabs, megaman collabs, zoids, only time I missed stuff is when I'd be burnt out and just not play. As long as you play daily you're pretty much fine. Although as the game went on they did start putting gacha currency in less and less stuff but that was like really late into it. The game started out fairly generous
>>24007892BAD. Like porn gatcha bad
>>24011929That's worryingly bad. Eh, guess I'll check it up and see how it'll go.
>>24006839Cripes, I used to play this before Google closed cross-border payments. Caused any overseas players to be unable to enter the app.I don't think I want to start over.
>>24012484When I was forced to leave the game, PvP was part of the dailies. Some days you could not get matches.
>>24008013>Progress>Story (story/spt) - quality checked all story lines.>Battle (battle/spt) - tutorials 1 and 2 are quality checked. The other aren't used.>Help/Info (mdr/spt) - ~900 files. This seems to be the medawatch files which includes medaparts, memos, skill descriptions, 3 tutorials quality checked. >Translations don't break the game but look rather ugly until quality checked/formattedSo MTL and the github makes it sound janky as fuck. Also the project lead is ESL so that gives me even less confidence but better than nothing ig
https://xcancel.com/omechaunit_go/status/2098020449242460659#mHappy 25th Anniversary to navi.
What would you like to see as future /m/ collabs?
>>24014022eureka 7 and xabungle BUT i want them at the same time for no reason other than to see the spectacle
>>24012623The story isn't 100% translated--the stuff that couldn't be fed through MTL were left as-is, and when the translation is applied, the game crashes at certain points in the story, such as when the player character gets kidnapped. A lot of Medabot part descriptions are left untranslated as well for the same reason, being that MTL just doesn't touch some of them.
>>24014022Code Geass seems like an obvious crossover choice, and would probably perform well enough, but if I could pick any one series without paying attention to marketability, I'd kill to have a Dai-Guard or Godannar crossover.
>>24014022NG and VS Knight Lamune
>>24014022There's been so many collabs already that I don't really know what else could be done.A feature with Capcom's Armored Warriors/Cyberbots would be nice; Capcom could use the PR to release a new game for the IP (lol) and it could work well with Medarot, considering AW's gimmick was replacing parts of your giant robot on the go and the Cyberbots' roster is made up of different combinations.
>>24015536I'm sure they could milk Mega Man a bit more, and we might get a Classic series collab to celebrate Dual Override's release or something. Alternatively, if we're talking other Capcom IPs that are /m/-adjacent, a Gotcha Force collab would be truly bonkers.
>>24015517>I'd kill to have a Dai-Guard or Godannar crossoverBased, those would be pretty high on my list as well, alongside things like Big O, Fafner, and Demonbane
>>24006892I thought it was an okay Survivors clone at first but then I realized the only additional content was then trickling in one or two bots at a time.And the "events" to give you "freebies" literally required you to invest money into the game if you wanted get far enough in the event to get "free" unit. What a deranged system.
>>24021119Yeah, it was the egregious monetization that killed any interest in Survivors for me--from what I understand, Medabots S is way less greedy, and much more F2P friendly by comparison. If we establish a pattern and Medabots S released when the game's next anniversary occurs, then we're sure to have all the current content, same as JP.Well, disregarding old collab stuff, anyhow. Nonetheless, I'm hoping that Medabots S serves to give Imagineer a much more stable foothold in English speaking regions and lets them experiment a bit with localizing more previously JP-only Medabots stuff, like the card battle game and the Classics Plus collection for the Switch.
>>24021698God yeah that's what it really was for me. Survivors is ridiculously greedy, like more than a gacha game normally would be. It doesn't help that the base gameplay loop is incredibly tedious and boring with almost no enticing payout, which doesn't encourage players to keep playing.
>>24021767Yeah, Vampire Survivor clones and Idle RPGs are amongst the worst mobile games, as far as monetization goes--they will tempt you into busting out your wallet at every given opportunity, shove ads into your face when you want something for free, and give you fuck-all in terms of F2P rewards.
>>24022445not a medabot but drawn by the guy who does most of the art for medabot S, his handle on twitter is tyuga3 and he's a pretty nice guy to talk to. animagear are based btw
>>24011929>>24012533They changed dailies to just spend energy awhile ago. Now you just spend 400 energy and you get 10 shards and 1 gem.
https://twitter.com/medarot_S/status/2101234844852253044Medarot video.
As much as Survivors felt like a test case to see if localizing Medabots S was feasible, I kinda feel like this game getting localized is similarly going to be a springboard for Imagineer to localize some of their other stuff down the road--I'm not expecting to see the Card Robattle RB and Classics Plus collection get English releases within the North American region within a year or so, but I feel like Medabots S is almost definitely going to be their actual barometer to determine whether or not Medabots has a future in the west now that they finally won that court case against that one Spanish fuckwit who tried pulling a Harmony Gold on Imagineer over the Medabots name.
I dont dig gachas that much(only played Nikke for a while)BUT GODDAMN I LOVE MEDAROTS and the game looks like the classic one and the models are neat.
coopting this thread to post my fvorite medarot, rollstar. i've loved this guy ever since i got the transparent 2 inch figure when i was like six. the transparency meant it was special and powerful obviously
>>24027538For me, it's Gun Desperado. I'm a sucker for a robot that's just a giant gun.
>>24022445Most people consider these toys medarot-lite. Loved the bunny girls they did
>>24027514I played the Japanese release for a while, it's pretty close to the classic rpg gameplay for sure. You have up to three Medarots, the third can be swapped for a guest one from either your friends list or an NPC in the story event sometimes, and it does the sort of ATB thing with your Medarot running from your side to the center of the stage after being given an order, doing its action, the running back to your side for the next command. You can mix and match head/torso, legs, left arm, right arm, and medal and equip medafighters to each of your 3 Medabots for more bonuses, theres also an item you can use to allow for color changes on a Medabot so you have further options for making things feel a bit more unique. It was pretty alright for mobile gachashit.
I'm getting into this for the battle network crossover
>>24027538Nice, I came to love Ptolemy while playing navi, both very cute and good in a fight
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118521564
>>24027845Excellent tasteI know this is an ice-cold take, but it's wild how much less visually appealing Blazer-Multi is in a visual sense--like... the main Mobile Armor-looking form is cool, but then it loses all that aura once it purges its armor/Medachanges. It looks way less appealing by comparison, especially when you consider its much more iconic predecessor, Blazermate.I have to wonder, since Blazermate was retconned to now have a model number of BLZ00, if Blazer-Multi will similarly be retconned to have a model number of BLZ01, or if they'll rewrite history and give Blazermate a new "successor" model that actually has Aura, with or without a Medachange.
>>24027743Can't wait for the Digimon collab
https://medarot.meowcorp.us/wiki/Hirano_Kana's_Medarot_2_Production_NotesTranslated production notes from the main writer of Medarot 2
>getting a gacha instead of thisFuck this timeline
>>24027538I've always liked Belzelga from a design standpoint, but there's something kind of funny about how it punches so hard that it blows up its own arms and has to regenerate them.
>>24033105My bet is that Anime-onlys with zero taste would bitch about having to pay for a port of 2 Core and a bunch of other titles they've never played instead of waiting for it to show up in the GBA Virtual Console for free.
>>24033616How many people that maybe watched the anime a bit when they were kids would be likely to buy it in the first place though, is my question.
>>24037085Fair point.
>>24006839EOS announcement day of launch.
Medarots and Digimon combines so good they should make a crossover game some day.
Kinda looking forward to Medabots S releasing globally, especially if it means we're entering a new Medabots renaissance in both the east and west
>>24045869You know it'll putter along for a year or two before they announce EOS out of nowhere without getting to any of the crossover waves.
>>24006839when? is it soon™?
>>24047374There's assumptions that the Global release of Medabots S is due sometime in January 2027, likely to coincide with the JP version's 7th anniversary, and simplify logistic in the long run--no need to celebrate two separate anniversary events for different versions when you can celebrate both in the same month and be done with it. Given that they seem to have waited until Survivors had its first anniversary before dropping its Global version, the timing seems very deliberate.
>>24006839Mobile gachashit? Pass. Are any of you shilling for this self-hatred ritual actual adults, or just third worlders and zoomers?
>>24047568If this makes Natsume localize the rest of the Medarot games plus release new games in the West, I'll take it.
>>24047568Post hand with timestamp.
>>24052480This week Medarot Navi manga was translated into Spanish and the lore in the manga is cool as hell
>>24052765Also poor Metabee fucking DIED
>>24007196> didn't the PC Engine Wataru game get localized to become Keith Courage in Alpha Zones for TurboGrafx-16? If i remember correctly it was even the pack in game in the West.
>>24052765I know it's due to the game's art direction, but it's funny how Medarot NAVI looks so futuristic yet it takes place within Ikki's childhood (between 3 and 4 IIRC). You would think it takes place decades into the future, then Dr. Aki appears in one screen and characters from previous games keep popping up.
>>24052766As in Ikki's Metabee, specifically? Jesus.
>>24053616No, another Metabee.It gets a new medal but in the same dead body too.
>>24014022 i would like a medarot with a centered monoeye of some sort
>>24052766Rip.
>>24027538I know the figures youre talking about and occasionally I get flashbacks to when Walmart had a shitload of them on a bunch of pegs, like at least 12 pegs probably more. My brother and I had to find them at kb toys and Walmart to try and complete the set.
>>24027538And target*Miss those lil niggas..even the dice were based.
When is this coming out? I have it pre-registered for more than a month!
>>24058915Q1 2027
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