{"id":14731,"date":"2016-03-04T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2016-02-20T05:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T05:47:22","slug":"project-x-zone-2-team-bandai-namco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/project-x-zone-2-team-bandai-namco\/","title":{"rendered":"Project X-Zone 2: Team Bandai Namco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"namcocapcomicon\"<\/a>Project X-Zone 2 is a strategy RPG starring popular video game characters from Bandai Namco, SEGA, Capcom, and Nintendo. Last time on this blog series, we looked at the characters from SEGA and Nintendo.\u00a0 Today, we\u2019ll look at the ones from Bandai Namco.<\/p>\n

Bandai Namco is actually my favorite video game company. Well, the Namco part of it anyway. I\u2019m not too big on the Bandai side of the merger.\u00a0 But you do what you have to do to stay in business, right?\u00a0 Namco isn\u2019t my favorite game company for what they do now, per se, but they are my favorite for their arcade games from the early 80\u2019s, many of which I still enjoy today.\u00a0 Like Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and many more.\u00a0 I also felt Namco had a bit of a comeback in the mid to late 90\u2019s and extended into the 2000s on the PSOne and PS2, as they had some pretty rockin\u2019 games during that era as well (Klonoa, Ridge Racer, Point Blank, Namco Museums, to name a few).\u00a0 Bandai Namco actually published Project X-Zone 2 and its predecessors, and I was hoping they\u2019d have more classic games and cute characters from Namco\u2019s past represented.\u00a0 But they opted for more \u2018realistic\u2019 characters in this one.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t always the case, though; as the original Namco X Capcom had stars like Klonoa, Wonder Momo, Bravoman, and even Dig Dug!\u00a0 Oh well, here are the characters on the Namco Bandai side you can play as in Project X-Zone 2.<\/p>\n

Kite and Haseo (.hack)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an anime about an online game world that is very immersive. I tried to watch the anime a long time ago and had no idea what was going on.\u00a0 They also made quite a few video games based on this property back in the day, and I tried to review some of those as well and that was a big mistake.\u00a0 I had no idea what was going on in the games, too!\u00a0 So I can\u2019t really tell you much about these characters here, but they also have stages that you\u2019ll fight on in Project X-Zone 2.\u00a0 They were also in the first game on 3DS.<\/p>\n

Ciel Alencon, Nana Kouzuki, Alisa Amiella (God Eater)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know much about God Eater other than it\u2019s Namco\u2019s take on the Monster Hunter franchise. It was brought to the US on the PSP.\u00a0 The only thing that interests me about the game is that the music was done by my favorite video game music composer: Go Shiina (Mr. Driller, Tales of Legendia).\u00a0 But even that\u2019s not enough to get me to want to try the game.\u00a0 I kind of like the Alisa character, though. She seems cool.<\/p>\n

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

These two are kind of the \u2018stars\u2019 of the Namco X Capcom and Project X-Zone games. Or at least the central characters anyway.\u00a0 Reiji is a guy with half white and half black hair, and Xiaomu is a silly lady who has fox tail-like hair and always jokes around.\u00a0 And they both look very anime-ish.\u00a0 Even though they say they\u2019re from Namco X Capcom, I could\u2019ve sworn I\u2019ve seen them from another game.\u00a0 The developers of the Namco X Capcom series also worked on a series of games called Super Robot Wars, and both types of games play very similarly.\u00a0 We got one Super Robot Wars game on the GBA that I\u2019m aware of, but I think that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Anyway, I could\u2019ve sworn I\u2019ve seen these two in the Super Robot Wars games as well.<\/p>\n

Yuri, Flynn, Estellise (Tales of Vesperia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namco X Capcom and its sequel always had older Tales characters in them, but in this game they decided to go with some more modern ones. I played Tales of Vesperia but I never finished it because it got too long and meandering, a problem I have with most RPGs.\u00a0 Yuri and Flynn are kind of the main characters in the game, and Estellise is a pink-haired princess who fights alongside them.\u00a0 I guess she\u2019s kind of cool because she has pink hair, but my favorite Vesperia characters were Repede the dog and Judith.\u00a0 I wish they would\u2019ve used characters from Tales of Legendia.\u00a0 By the way, some of the healing items you can use in this game come from Tales titles, such as Apple Gels.<\/p>\n

Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, Heiachi Mishima, Ling Xiaoyu (Tekken)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tekken characters have always been well-represented in these Project X-Zone games, so here\u2019s the batch from this one. I\u2019m not too big on 3-D fighters, so I\u2019m not as familiar with Tekken characters as I am other Namco franchises.\u00a0 None of my favorite Tekken characters are in this lineup anyway.\u00a0 If you want to know who my favorite Tekken characters are, just ask (or try to guess) in the comments section.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see if anyone actually reads this far.<\/p>\n

Natsu (Soul Calibur)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Namco X Capcom and Project X-Zone, Taki was the one representing the Soul Calibur series, and she\u2019s also one of my favorite characters in that game. But in this one, they decided to go with Natsu from Soul Calibur V.\u00a0 Natsu is Taki\u2019s student and she\u2019s a young teenage brat of a ninja, so I don\u2019t like her that much at all. \u00a0I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why many didn\u2019t like SCV as much, as they replaced characters everyone liked with others that many didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I wonder if anyone will try and guess my other favorite Soul Calibur characters.<\/p>\n

Aty (Summon Knight)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think that Bandai Namco published the Summon Knight games, but I guess they do. Most of the Summon Knight games haven\u2019t made it to the US that I\u2019m aware of, and the first ones that did were spin-off games.\u00a0 I remember the first Summon Knight games we got in the US were on the GBA, but they were actually spin-off games in Japan.\u00a0 The Summon Knight games on the GBA were dungeon crawlers with 2-D Tales style battles and a fun weapons crafting system.\u00a0 They\u2019re actually pretty neat games and I enjoyed them quite a bit.\u00a0 I played another Summon Knight spin-off game at a friend\u2019s house, but this was an import game on the PS2.\u00a0 It played like a top down adventure similar to Secret of Mana.\u00a0 But from what I can tell, most of the other main Summon Knight games are strategy RPGs.\u00a0 Aty is just a regular anime gal who can turn into a fox lady when powered up.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all I know!<\/p>\n

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

This android lady has been in all the Namco X Capcom\/Project X-Zone games. When Namco X Capcom first came out on the PS2 in Japan, Xenosaga was still popular on the PS2 so KOS-MOS was a major player in that game.\u00a0 What\u2019s funny is that my friend and I hated her so we\u2019d never let her fight in battles.\u00a0 We\u2019d just move her to the corner of the playfield.\u00a0 So mean!\u00a0 But aside from her blue hair, she doesn\u2019t seem like an interesting character to me anyway. In Project X-Zone 2, she teams up with Fiora, a similar looking character from Xenoblade.\u00a0 I guess that makes sense because I think that Xenoblade and Xenosaga (and maybe even Xenogears) are all related somehow.\u00a0 Maybe one of you folks could fill me in on that.\u00a0 I\u2019m not an expert on those games.<\/p>\n

Valkyrie (Legend of Valkyrie)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think of all the Bandai Namco characters in this game, Valkyrie is my favorite on the Namco side because she\u2019s the most \u2018classic.\u2019 (and she\u2019s purdy) She\u2019s been in all the Namco X Capcom \/Project X-Zone games, too.\u00a0 She originally was in a Famicom game that I tried to play once and couldn\u2019t figure out. \u00a0She then starred in an arcade game called Legend of Valkyrie that is probably her most famous role.\u00a0 That arcade game never made it to the US, but you can play it on Namco Museum vol. 5 on the PSOne.\u00a0 It\u2019s a really fun game that plays like a cross between Ikari Warriors and Legend of Zelda.\u00a0 She\u2019s been in a few other console spin-offs, but most US gamers may recognize her in game cameos only.\u00a0 She\u2019s been in a few Tales games and her outfit is a common alternate costume for characters in Soul Calibur titles.\u00a0 In Project X-Zone 2, she summons the Player Two character from Legend of Valkyrie to help her fight (Player Two is a green glob looking guy that looks like of like Gumby).\u00a0 Oddly enough, she also summons the Solvalou spaceship from Xevious.\u00a0 Anyone who makes those kinds of classic Namco references is OK in my book!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all I have to say about the Bandai Namco characters in Project X-Zone 2! Next time, we\u2019ll conclude this blog series by going over all the Capcom characters!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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