{"id":10051,"date":"2013-07-12T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2013-07-11T01:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:11:38","slug":"project-x-zone-team-namco-bandai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/project-x-zone-team-namco-bandai\/","title":{"rendered":"Project X-Zone: Team Namco Bandai"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"valkyrieicon\"<\/a>Project X-Zone is a new action strategy RPG for the 3DS. It\u2019s actually pronounced Project \u201cCross\u201d Zone, though. Anyway, the gameplay isn\u2019t too much to write about, but the strength of this title comes from all the crossover characters from three different gaming companies working together to fight evil. Favorite characters from Namco Bandai, Capcom, and SEGA are featured in this game, so my next three big blogs are going to focus on the characters in Project X-Zone from each respective company. Since Namco Bandai published the game, we\u2019ll take a look at their characters first.<\/p>\n

Project X-Zone is actually a sequel to a Japan only PS2 game called Namco X Capcom. It never came to the US, so I\u2019m actually a little surprised the 3DS sequel did. When Namco X Capcom was new, I REALLY wanted to play it and hoped it would come out in the US. But after I played a friend\u2019s import copy, I can understand why it didn\u2019t. While it is pretty awesome at first to see all your favorite characters in one game, the charm wore off once the repetitive gameplay set in. I kind of liked the character roster in Namco X Capcom better, though, because it featured more \u2018cute\u2019 characters like Klonoa and more classic game ones like Dig Dug, Bravoman, Wonder Momo, and more! Namco X Capcom also had really great music (so does X-Zone, too), and the Namco X Capcom animated intro is one of my favorite video game intros of all time. You can check it out here:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Team Pairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, in Project X-Zone, some units consist of two characters acting as a team. So we\u2019ll look at the pairs first.<\/p>\n

Yuri & Estelle (Tales of Vesperia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Namco X Capcom, the Tales heroes represented were from Tales of Destiny, the second game in the series. For this one, they went with a more modern one, Vesperia for 360. Yuri is the main character and has long purple hair. Only cool thing about Estelle is that she has pink hair. No love for my favorite Tales game: Tales of Legendia. It\u2019s considered the black sheep of the series, but it\u2019s my favorite one, mainly for the music, which was done by my favorite video game music composer: Go Shiina.<\/p>\n

Jin Kazama & Ling Xiaoyu (Tekken)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know as much about Tekken characters. I think Jin is the main character and Ling is a Chinese girl fighter. I don\u2019t really have a favorite Tekken character. The bear and kangaroo are neat, and human characters like Asuka and Julia are also cool, but that\u2019s all I know. Maybe one of you can pick out a favorite for me.<\/p>\n

Kite & BlackRose (.hack)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah I don\u2019t really know much about .hack at all. I know that\u2019s from the Bandai side of Namco\u2019s merger. I tried to review a PS2 .hack game a long time ago, but that was a mistake because I had no idea what was going on. I don\u2019t know if it would\u2019ve mattered anyway, because when the .hack franchise was introduced to the US, they showed the .hack anime and I watched the first episode of it and still had no idea what was going on.<\/p>\n

KOS-MOS & T-elos (Xenosaga)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Never played a Xenosaga game. Mainly because its spiritual predecessor, Xenogears, was one of the most boring and depressing games I\u2019ve ever played. I guess KOS-MOS is kind of cool because she\u2019s a robot lady with blue hair. When I played Namco X Capcom at a friend\u2019s house a long time ago, we were kind of mean to KOS-MOS because we\u2019d never let her fight. We\u2019d just send her over in a corner somewhere! I don\u2019t know who T-elos is; maybe she\u2019s an evil KOS-MOS?<\/p>\n

Soma & Alisa (Gods Eater Burst)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A good friend of mine did a bunch of cool reviews and impressions on this game. I hear Gods Eater Burst is Namco\u2019s answer to Capcom\u2019s Monster Hunter. I\u2019d like to try it so I can see what all the fuss is about, plus I hear Go Shiina did the music.<\/p>\n

Haken Browning & Kaguya Nanbu (Endless Frontier)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now I have never even HEARD of a game called \u201cEndless Frontier!\u201d Haken Browning looks like a regular anime dude, but Kaguya Nanbu is a slightly fanservice-y, very pretty lady. Kind of silly, too, so I like her.<\/p>\n

Reiji & Xiaomu (Namco X Capcom)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main characters of Namco X Capcom was a guy with half black and half white hair, and a lady with weird blonde hair and a ninja girl outfit. Both used guns and swords. The game says they\u2019re originally from Namco X Capcom, but I swear I\u2019ve seen them in some of the Super Robot Wars games, of which Namco X Capcom is kind of a spinoff of (they both play similarly). I just figured that they put them in Namco X Capcom as kind of a homage to the Super Robot Wars games, but maybe I\u2019m wrong.<\/p>\n

Single Team Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are some characters who fight solo, but you equip them to a team pair for a quick attack burst if you have enough points to use them. So here are the Namco Bandai ones.<\/p>\n

Flynn Scifo (Tales of Vesperia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man I don\u2019t even remember this guy from Vesperia. But then, the characters in that game were not as memorable to me. I know there was a kid that carried around a big man-purse, a girl who wore goggles, and a pretty lady with blue hair (I think her name was Judith). And that\u2019s all I remember about that game!<\/p>\n

Alisa Bosconovich (Tekken)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh I forgot about her! She\u2019s a pink haired robot lady, so she\u2019s kind of cool, too. Except in the \u2018adventure mode\u2019 of Tekken 6, she\u2019s one of the last bosses and I could never defeat her. And I worked so hard to unlock outfits for her and Asuka to wear and look like tacky tourists, too!<\/p>\n

Heiachi (Tekken)<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s an old guy who looks like Dr.Wily after eating a can of spinach. Except in this game he\u2019s younger. They explain why in the story, but I won\u2019t spoil it for anyone here.<\/p>\n

Sanger (Super Robot Wars)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never played a Super Robot Wars game, so I don\u2019t know who this is. I do know that this game, Namco X Capcom, and Super Robot Wars are made by the same people, and they play very similarly, too. Some Super Robot Wars games even use licensed characters from anime TV shows and movies. We got one of the Super Robot Wars games in the US on the GBA, but it was one that didn\u2019t have any licenses.<\/p>\n

Lindow (Gods Eater Burst)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah I don\u2019t know who this is either since I\u2019ve never played Gods Eater Burst.<\/p>\n

Valkyrie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yay! One of my favorites. Valkyrie is from an old Namco Famicom game, and later a really fun arcade sequel called Legend of Valkyrie. It was like a cross between Legend of Zelda and Ikari Warriors, and you could play it on Namco Museum vol. 5. Valkyrie wears a cool helmet with wings. And I like her theme song. Valkyrie has appeared in lots of other games, too. Some examples include many of the Tales RPGs, and Cassandra can dress as Valkyrie in one of her alternate outfits in Soul Calibur games.<\/p>\n

Saya (Namco X Capcom)<\/strong><\/p>\n

She was the bad guy in Namco X Capcom, but I guess at some point here she can work with the good guys. She tries to dress all fanservice-y, but she ends up looking ridiculous. I have to wonder if these characters look in the mirror after getting dressed in the morning.<\/p>\n

Naneko (Yumeria)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know much about this character except that she\u2019s a little girl from a weird Japanese RPG. I think.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all the characters you can play as. Many of the game\u2019s enemies are from the three publishers as well, but I didn\u2019t recognize too much from the Namco Bandai side. So we\u2019ll look at more enemies when I do my Capcom and SEGA blogs. I haven\u2019t played Project X-Zone enough to write a full review of it yet, but I will say it plays almost exactly like Namco X Capcom. And it may be a good strategy RPGs for beginners because they walk you through the basics in the first few chapters of the game, and it doesn\u2019t seem so hard after that. But that\u2019s OK; beginners deserve good games, too!<\/p>\n

In the comments section, let me know which Namco Bandai characters in Project X-Zone are your favorites. And which Namco Bandai characters would you have liked to have seen in the game? Can you guess my favorites? Let me know in the comments section. Next time, we\u2019ll look at the Capcom characters in Project X-Zone. Later! –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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