Ah, I forgot that.  It's been a while since i played it.  It was my first NIS game.  You could capture the monsters though right?  I remember using them a lot...  also trying to kill that giant whale monster on purpose.

SRW Gaiden might make it out here... due to it completely staring the OG cast.

The problem is however the majority of the Super Robot Wars games involve popular Super Robots and Anime... it originally started off as a crossover series with a few extra originals thrown in just to tie things together... The bulk of there games are still like that. If I recall correctly their last two games were Super Robot Wars D2 and Super Robot Wars W on the DS. Super Robot Wars W having the debut of Voltron! (Or rather, Go Lion, as there was a big difference in the story and characters personalities.)

The problem is that liscensing all those super robots is pretty expensive making it more expensive to localize then your usual game. Or at least that's the "excuse" i've always heard for why they didn't translate games before the OGs out in the US.

It was the same excuse i've heard as to why there weren't too many Godzilla properties out in the US. It was just too expensive a liscense to get due to how big Godzilla was up until the Godzilla movies stopped dieing down.

I mean... the Gundam Liscenses alone must be pretty expensive. Then again they do use a lot of long dead anime and occasionally appearing in the Anime boosts their popularity.

If the made one in the US of the traditional variety i'd bet they'd pull a smash brothers and develop in with America in mind picking franchises that had US releases along with the Mazinger and Getter Robo.

Who knows it might be able to have the same effect it sometimes has in Japan boosting sales of the related animes. I know once i found online streaming anime one of the first things I did was look up some of my favorite characters who's anime I haven't seen.

Here is the huge list though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_series_featured_in_Super_Robot_Wars

They usually use about 10-15 series per game i'd say.  I'd guess it gets pretty expensive, then again it's not like the series sells like crazy and it still makes consistant money. 

Oh crap.  Disgaea DS is going to have Multiplayer?  It's over.  So many people are going to "waste" their lives grinding in that version to show off their characters.

Say speaking of NIS has anyone played Soul Nomad and The World Devourers?  That's one i've been meaning to pick up.

 I would think it's the local Ad Hoc mode.  There is no "WiFi" sign on the box like other games.

Yeah, what darconi said.

 Disgaea isn't harder, it just takes longer while you work that treadmill.

Yeah you could. It took me a while to learn that you could do the same in Disgaea oddly enough. The naming system for the monsters was fantastic too. It would take an adjective and put it either infront of or behind the monsters name. So you got things like Very Bear, Cool Bear, Mr. Bear, Bear!, etc. It really is an under-rated game. Aside from its nearly impossible to beat post game dungeons it was one of their best games to date. I wish it was more easily found, or remade at the very least. Other than forcing you to lose one of the best characters in the game there were very few design flaws. There were a healthy number of technical issues, but it was their first game.