Are BOOB jokes and bad dialogue more important than the story? This game seems to think so. Combat gets old fast, too

User Rating: 5 | Mugen no Frontier: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga DS
I had high expectations for this one. I loved the anime style, the cool fight sequences, the promise of an interesting story...

In reality, I'm finding it incredibly difficult to continue past my 7th hour into this game. I'm not sure HOW the Gamespot reviewer gushed about the combat system... it's grating. Sure, it's fun to spin combos and chain attacks... for the first couple of hours. But then you get into your obnoxious random battles every 10 steps formula and you start realizing how annoying it's starting to feel. You have to keep rhythm when attacking, and it gets really obnoxious when you're in the midst of exploring a dungeon and need to spend another minute on ANOTHER random battle. That's something the reviewer DOESN'T mention: the random battles take FOREVER! Since all of your attacks are flashy and lengthy, you end up spending too much time fighting the same generic enemies over and over!

And the enemies are HORRIBLY GENERIC. They look like something out of a flash engine on a website that's giving you a free game! ;-0

But the worst offense is the story. It's incomprehensible, just like GameSpot said. I can't understand what the hell is going on, or more importantly, why I should even care.

Instead of focusing on a good story, the game forces you through unending sexual innuendo. And not even clever ones - calling a large boobed girl "Honeydews" or mega melons or whatever... just lame. Maybe it's funny the first time... but the game makes fun of its characters so much that it's hard for you, the gamer, to take them seriously. Should I give a damn about a team comprised mostly of overexposed women who (despite their combat effectiveness) really serve as breast humor more than anything else.

I don't mind some satire and parody, but this game doesn't really have enough direction to be funny - it's not copying any game or parodying things specifically. The "tomb raider" reference mentioned in GameSpot's review? I didn't even notice it - the only thing I noticed was a couple of generic enemies named "tomb raider ____". That's not humor. That's not even a reference!

I'm a completionist. I finish all of my games. But this one? I'm falling asleep. I'm afraid that despite the shiny paint of its touted combat system, this game really has no substance and will easily be ignored after an initial play of 2 hours or less.

There are better games out there, and if Atlus keeps publishing such generic garbage with inane humor and dialogue, they're going to be in serious trouble.

If only they spent more time on the game itself, rather than the idiotic dialogue and boob "jokes"!