Project X Zone: SEGA, Capcom, and Namco co-production.

Burning Rangers and Ecco when?

Panzer Dragoon when??

GOLDEN AXE WHEN????

edited 3rd Mar '16 11:39:18 AM by SCDifference

Call me crazy, but I'd like to see Haken and Kaguya again.

Or how about a Haken / Aledy and Kaguya / Neige pair. Though the latter might be an overload of boobs.

@Malco Actually, if they were to ever put in a Square rep, the Pair Unit they'd have to put in would be Fei Fong Wong and Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten, just so they can have a full Xeno Series crossover. They'd need to bring in Shino to pair with KOS-MOS and Shulk to pair with Fiora as well to make it complete.

edited 3rd Mar '16 12:43:01 PM by Emperordaein

Mine

Capcom: Asura and Yasha (Enemy Unit/ Possible final boss: Chakravartin)

Are they REALLY hinting on a sequel?

x6 Bayonetta is owned by Sega, and was on a Nintendo system, so I would be disappoint if Hideki Kamiya doesn't let her in.

x5 Hahaha Burning Rangers. Screw you Segata Sanshiro, made me look what that was about. <3

x4 Oh yeah! Well I never played SRW or Endless Frontier but they were an interesting pair back in X Zone 1.

x3 Sounds good as well. Full Xeno crossover. X Zone's combo system is similar to Xenogears' combos too.

Though should Square be invited, they will probably force in FF 7 because they need to promote it when the potential third game is out.

x2 I almost want to retract my Dragon's Dogma suggestion. <3

Though in this case I still wanna make Valkyrie a pair unit, maybe with Asura this time.

Actually, yes. Just head to the last question in the below interview.

Source: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/02/interview_learning_more_about_the_ultimate_crossover_rpg_project_x_zone_2_from_its_creators

edited 3rd Mar '16 11:07:19 PM by Malco

My innate Battle Network and Starforce bias makes me want to see a .EXE and Geo pair. Though, I can see either of them working as just a solo unit. Or make Geo and Omega-Xis into a pair.

All the other wanted characters I can identify would sound pretty hella to have, though.

edited 3rd Mar '16 11:10:27 PM by Rivux

I'm up for that too, but I would prefer Geo/Sonia <3

(RIP Luna Platz and Lan Hikari)

How about for the 3rd game, they do mix-and-match teams, choosing who you can have as a partner.

Also, bringing back characters from the first game (and maybe NXC as well), adding some new ones (including the likes of Bayonetta and some more Nintendo reps), and adding some more mechanics to further the combat (like counter-attacks and cancels).

Also, since I have a feeling the next game is probably gonna come to the NX, that could lead to some beautiful spritework and animations.

(Linked from Smash thread.)

For the benefit of people who are curious about PXZ 2's speed, let me count the ways it is faster than PXZ 1:

• Most maps have a limit of 10 pairs of your choice. So yes you can actually pick favorites now and ignore some teams.
• Only have 3 attacks max instead of 5. (You can increase it, but there's a cost and is ultimately unnecessary.)
• You can use the same attack repeatedly. There is a bonus for using a variety, but...
• Customization system lets you power up a single attack to make using it repeatedly more than viable.
• Attacks deal more damage overall.
• As a result of the above bullet points, certain teams can defeat most bosses in one go from 100% life, with the right setup. (Strider/Shinobi team is the easiest to do it with.)
• All pairs have their own pool of mana, now called SP
• Revised counterattacks and SP system speed up the game a lot
  • You can attack three times just like a normal attack.
  • There are skills that allow you to add adjacent teams to a counter attack.
  • It cost 50SP to counter (formerly 50XP - XP being everyone's "overall" super meter)
  • Defeating an enemy with a super increases that pair's pool of SP by 100. So yeah one team can counter a lot, allow Fire Emblem-style slaughters during enemy phase.
  • Using MAP attacks regenerates SP by 20 per kill.
  • There are ways to convert SP to XP, meaning more supers. (SP regenerates about 30 per turn per team.)

edited 4th Mar '16 9:19:40 AM by Malco

"Defeating an enemy with a super increases that pair's pool of SP by 100. So yeah one team can counter a lot, allow Fire Emblem-style slaughters during enemy phase."

WHAT

edited 4th Mar '16 1:55:10 PM by SCDifference

Yeah, you counter enemies with a pair's SP, so if a pair starts at 100 SP and the XP bar is about full, you can counter two grunts (assuming they're in range and they don't have anti-counter skills), supering the second, and the pair gets 100 SP back, then they can counter two more guys. If they have +Combo XP regained, they can easily reach 100 XP again in those two counters, so they can super another enemy to regain SP as long as the enemy dies.

edited 4th Mar '16 10:49:40 PM by Malco

Oh! right. that's fine, even if I never noticed. What I thought you meant was that anybody could raise their SP cap by doing this, which would make using the late-game skills a lot easier.

I'm bitter because I specifically put Segata on Ogami & Erica's team so I could use his "Burn in Winter!" skill to bring them up to speed in the movement department on the final stage, only to realise that they didn't have enough bloody SP to use it.

Well you raise SP cap using equipment so just equip something with +20 at least and yer ready to do. You can just always restart and re-equip since you probably noticed it on the first turn.

Also Pai + Swift Qigong or Segata + Burn in Winter is better teamed up with Ryu/Ken and Akira/Kage since those guys don't have innate move speed up. Ogami can speed up himself anyway.

edited 5th Mar '16 2:25:00 AM by Malco

They really should invite other companies like Falcom in making the next game. Id love to see Adol and Dogi and Estelle and Joshua join in the fun

But Estelle is in the game!

@Malco: I didn't notice until halfway through so I just kept going It didn't matter since Dante's team and Sakura's team brought down the final boss on their own. It really should have had enough HP to take multiple super attacks.

also, my guys were still learning new skills on the final stage. How the hell are you meant to get them to that level beforehand? is this something you're only supposed to do in advanced mode or something?

x4 I'd like to see Arc System Works reps the most, so we can have Sol/Ky and Ragna/Noel Teams (Jin being a Solo Unit) I-No, Hazama/Terumi and Nu-13 would be Enemy Units.

I ain't that far yet, but in PXZ 1, the difficulty was Diablo-style, in the sense that you unlock a hard mode where you continue the game with all the stuff you have and the enemies are harder relative to your level. I believe this game will have a postgame too, if not a "master quest", "second loop" or anything.

It's actually stupider than that. "Advanced Mode" makes the enemies harder, but you don't unlock it until you clear the game once, and it apparently doesn't come into effect unless you have it on when you start the next playthrough, so you have to beat it twice.

"SP Advanced Mode" also offers more gold and cp, but that mode is paid DLC.

edited 6th Mar '16 4:49:41 AM by SCDifference

Huwaaaaat?

Well I'm less than a handful of missions away from the ending. Gotta see for myself how silly that advanced mode is... (yep I see it in the options menu obviously I can't access it)

edited 8th Mar '16 1:02:21 AM by Malco

Is the combat anything like Endless Frontier? I wanted to love that game, but I just didn't enjoy the combat in the slightest.

augghh, finally managed to beat challenge stage 1. That was a harrowing experience.

To anyone else who has beaten it, do you get extra rewards for beating it before dawn arrives? cuz I didn't manage that.

I'll get back to you later when I get back to this game. I got sidetracked by Pokemon!

If anything, I had a WMG that they're going to combine Sakura Wars historical figure with Sengoku Basara. Ranmaru makes mention of Nobunaga. I think it could work better if this Nobunaga is SB!Nobunaga.