I’ve been wanting to play this for literally decades, sometime after I found the intro movie on the early days of YouTube, but I waited and waited until it became increasingly obvious the game was never going to be localised. Then its two sequels, the Project X Zone games, came out! … on the 3DS, which I didn’t own until just a couple of years ago (and so admittedly I watched a commentary-less play through of both soon after they were released…) Basically I’ve wanted to actually play this trilogy forever and now I have the means to play the X Zone games I also found out about the rough but nonetheless complete fan translation of Namco X Capcom, so I can actually play the whole trilogy! So let’s take a look at Namco X Capcom and see what happened when the Super Robot Wars team made essentially a SRW game but with a tonne of non-mech franchises from two of the biggest gaming companies in the world…

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