Mecha Wars... Super Robot Wars!
After repeatedly confirming those two keywords, Cheng Tian came to that conclusion, his body trembling slightly.
Of course, it was not fear. He was excited—excited as never before!
Since ancient times, people had delighted in matchups like Guan Yu fighting Qin Qiong. In gaming, the premise of placing similar units from different eras together to determine a winner was nothing new.
The King of Fighters '97 MUGEN Cheng Tian had experienced before, which gathered fighting game characters from different games for a tournament, was the clearest example.
Super Robot Wars followed a similar framework, except it replaced "fighting" with the "robots" that Players like Cheng Tian absolutely loved.
And the scope of so-called robot-themed works might have been even broader than fighting games.
At first glance, it seemed like a purely technological genre, but robots appeared everywhere—from modern and contemporary settings to futuristic science fiction, magical dimensions, and even worlds built on mystical nonsense.
Perhaps "mecha" would have been a more fitting term than "robots"?
Bringing robots from different settings into a single world through relatively reasonable means, then staging a massive free-for-all between multiple factions and their mecha—that was the core element of Super Robot Wars, and what fascinated fans of the genre the most.
Although a work called Second Super Robot Wars had appeared on the NES as early as 1991, Cheng Tian had not gotten the chance to play it back then. His real introduction to the series came during the PSP era, with the Z generation—Super Robot Wars Z3: Jigoku-hen.
Even though the Z generation had this problem and that problem, it had still given Cheng Tian a pretty good first meal, successfully drawing him into the series until he could no longer stop.
Because of that interest, from the moment