Scenario 1 – The Hope Called Taboo

As usual I start the game with the special 11/11 B birthday for Hibiki.

Some prologue stuff covering Z and Z2. I’m not going to bother.

Earth Orbit, UCW Dimension

Shinn
See that guys? We finally made it home!
Kira
We’ve been through a lot, havent we…
Kei
The “Destruction Incident” and the “Regeneration War”…a lot happened on the other world, but they’re all good memories now.
破界事変と再世戦争
向こうの世界でも色々とあったが
今となってはいい思い出だな
Shinn
Since the dimensional abyss closed up we can’t go back…
次元の穴のアビスは閉じてしますから、向こうの世界には当分行けないのか
Camille
Even so, I can’t say we’ve seen the last of Setsuna and Heero.
だからと言って、刹那とヒイロ達に二度と会えなくなったわかじゃない
Amuro
Correct. But for now, we’ve got things to handle in our own world.
その通りだ
俺達はこの世界で自分達のやるべき事をやっていこう
Kei
I guess so, there’s people here we haven’t seen in a while!
そうだな
まずは大切は人達の再会だ
Roger
Dorothy
What is it, Roger?
Roger
Returning to our day to day lives…Is that even possible?
平穏な日常への帰還。。。
それは果たされるだろうか
Kei
What’s that supposed to mean?
Roger
The stigma.
Kira
..!
Shinn
That’s what Aim Liared was talking about…
あのアイム 。リアルードが言っていた言葉
Roger
He said that, after we were branded by it, our fate would also be decided by someone else’s whims.
それを刻まれた我々は今後も運命をもてあそばれると奴は言っていた
Amuro
But the truth is, we don’t actually know anything about the Stigma.
しかし、そのスティグマの実態については
何もわかっていない
Camille
By Aim’s words, our Jump to the other world happened because we were branded by it…
アイムの言葉では、
それを刻まれた事で、
俺達は向こうの世界に跳ばされたよう

I guess you guys were onto something.

Kira
!
Shinn
Not another fucking space-time distortion!
Quattro
…!
Camille
What is it, Lieutentant?
Amuro
Char?!
Quattro
…Watch out! Something…Something huge is coming!
。。。気をつけろ!
何かが。。。これまでにない何かが起くるぞ!
Shinn
*sigh*…here we fucking go again.

And the mother of all quakes hit, combining the worlds of UCW (Z) and ADW (Hakai/Saisei)

After a new dimensional quake, the New Century Dimensional Quake, the worlds of UCW and ADW along with other parallel universes merged into one. People soon accepted the change and lived their lives in tranquility.

新多元世紀
New Multi Century Year 1 – 4th April

2nd Neo Tokyo Jindai High School

Basically Hibiki is the new guy in town, and Kaname offers to show him around. Meanwhile his sensei, Suzune is looking for him. She manages to catch him at the front gate of the school.

第1話 禁忌という名の希望
Scenario 1: A Hope Called Taboo

Suddenly some dimension quakes hit the area, spawning some enemies.

Poor Hibiki is sucked up into one of the quakes. At first he thinks he’s dead…

Hibiki
What…what is this place? Did I get caught up in the space-time quake?
Hibiki
Am I going to die here? Is there nothing I can do?
Hibiki
…No! I can’t stand this!
。。。嫌だ!俺は!

Hibiki
What…what is this?
Hibiki
My head…I can feel something flowing through?!
頭に。。。何かが流れ込んでくる?!
Suzune
Kamishiro-kun! Snap out of it Kamishiro-kun!
Hibiki
…!
Suzune
Thank goodness you’re okay! I thought you were a goner!
Hibiki
Sensei…please escape from here.
Suzune
Eh…?
Not-Hibki
It’s…coming!
Suzune
Kamishiro-kun?
Hibiki
I see…I see it now. It’s coming!
Hibiki
Right here, right now!
Hibiki
Let’s see what you’re made out of!

出る!ガァァァァァァァァンダムゥゥゥゥ!
RIIIIIISE SHINING GUNDAM

Hibki
…How nice. It even comes with a pilot suit.
。。。ご丁寧に乗込りんだら、
服まで着替えさせてくれるとはな。。。
Suzune
…A robot? Did it come from the space-time quake?
Suzune
Kamishiro-kun…it looks like he was sucked up into that robot.
カミシロ君。。。
あのロボットに吸い込まれたよう見えだけど
Hibki
From that darkness…something flowed into my head…
あの黒い塊から、俺の頭に流れ込んきた。。。
Hibki
I know…
It’s name…How to move it, how to fight with it!
わかるぞ。。。
こいつの名前か。。。
こいつの動かし方が、戦い方が!
Hibki
With this…I can fight!
Hibki
Let’s go! I don’t know exactly what you are, but you’ll be my strength nonetheless!
やるぞ!
お前が何物か知らないが、
俺の力になってもらう!
Hibki
Let’s go Genion! Show me your true power!

And just like that the guy is now equipped with a magical robot from another dimension. Let’s go fuck some shit up!

SR Point – Finish the stage within 3 turns.

Player Phase 1

Yay some fucking gameplay time!

The only thing you can do is move up and attack the closest enemy. I get lucky and one shot the mofo with a crit.

Keiko
What’s that robot?
Kaname
Looks like it came from the dimension quake?
Keiko
See, that’s what happens when you wish for something exciting to happen!
Kaname
Wait, so it’s my fault now?!

Player Phase 2


Turn 2. The enemies were out of range to attack.

I cast Concentrate and move Hibiki onto a building for some added evasion bonus.


Time to check out Accel Glaive! Another enemy gets one shotted, time to end the turn.

Enemy Phase

The last guy goes down in the counterattack…

SR POINT GET!


At this point more enemies show up on the east side of the map.

Shotaro who happens to be in a neighbouring school summons Tetsujin to assist. As does Mithril, who are secretly protecting Kaname.



It’s still the enemy turn though, so the guys have to weather through the grunts.

Player Phase 3


Edit: Will and GasT have rightly pointed out FMP Arm Slaves start out with ECS which grants them a once off Fighting Spirit (100% Crit), Alert (100% Evasion for 1 attack) and Assault (non MAP weapons become P)
Kurz has some really nice range on his M9. A 3-9 Post movement attack? Yes please!

Tetsujin gets one…

While Hibiki finishes off the last grunt, who drops a Repair Kit

Having dealt with the problem, Mithril cloak and dissappear, while Hibiki runs off. Leaving Shotaro wondering what the hell just happened.

???
That Deimon started up automatically…interesting indeed.
自動的に起動したデイモーンを追ったら、面白いものが見られたよ
???
The strength of this Zodiac…he’s really going to be a threat.
この星の戦力。。。
やはり、脅威というには足りんな
???
But for now you’re just a well behaved pet. We’ll have to wait and see how you turn out…
せいぜい安寧をむさぽるがいい、愛玩動物
貴様達に待っているのは。。。

Just who is this mystery lady?

Elsewhere Hibiki meets the a rather fruity robot who introduces himself as AG, a representative of DEM Corp.

Back to Let’s Play! Super Robot Wars Z3 Jigoku Hen

9 Comments

  1. Ben

    Holy $*&@! 3-9 post movement?! That’s amazing! I’m definitely maining some FMP guys this time round.

  2. Will

    It’s not actually post movement. Next time you’ll notice that (for some reason) he starts off with Assault already cast. You’ll also soon notice that in SRWZ3 5 SP Regen is now standard for everyone, but that is because your pilots now deploy with 50% of their SP.

  3. YJ

    @Will
    Ah right. Good pickup.

  4. GasT

    The Full Metal Panic units have a special system ECS

    Equipped on the Arbalest and M9 Gernsback. grants Fighting Spirit (100% Crit), Alert (100% Evasion for 1 attack) and Assault (non MAP weapons become P)

    Copied this from an erlier post on the blog, just corrected that is not a MAP comand but just grants those spirits at the start of the battle

  5. Kyle

    Oh so that’s why they start low. I was wondering about that!

    I rather like the look of the new custom. Hopefully he gets some better attacks though. xD Wait, what am I saying? Of course he is!

  6. Ben

    @GasT Aw… oh well, that’s still pretty handy.

  7. Ben

    @GasT

    Oh, I get the flavor now! It’s supposed to be that they use the ECS to move into position and surprise the enemy at the beginning of the map! Makes much more sense now.

  8. 3rdreconmedic

    dang it kurz! if you had that post-move sniper attack back in SRW J, things would’ve been easier for me…

    Anyway, yay for let’s play! will be looking forward to this from now on.

    PS: so that means z1 and z2 got merged into one universe huh?

  9. ZeroMiles

    I just recently noticed that the game starts at April 10th (If you don’t believe me, check some “Stage 1” You Tube videos). Of course, the game itself came out on April 10th.

    The ECS of the FMP! units has come quite handy a good number of times. The dev team thinks of everything indeed.

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