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RealRobotGenre stories ''usually'' feature custom mechs for the protagonists, both to give them unique visual identity and to explain why they're beating the mass-produced ones. The average robot, in other words, is the mook mech you blow up through most of the game.
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RealRobotGenre stories \'\'usually\'\' feature custom mechs for the protagonists, both to give them unique visual identity and to explain why they\'re beating the mass-produced ones. The average robot, in other words, is the mook mech you blow up through most of the game.
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Similarly, most real robot stories don't bother explaining why they're doing it in giant mechs in anything but the liner notes. If anything, ''Sunrider'' is ''more'' realistic about it than the original ''Gundam'', which explained that the three-dimensional movement offered by a mech was superior to a traditional fighter, and then bowed to market pressures and put them in-atmosphere rather than in space, as originally conceived. And ''Gundam'' is very much an anomaly in this regard, with the vast majority of
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Similarly, most real robot stories don\'t bother explaining why they\'re doing it in giant mechs in anything but the liner notes. If anything, \'\'Sunrider\'\' is \'\'more\'\' realistic about it than the original \'\'Gundam\'\', which explained that the three-dimensional movement offered by a mech was superior to a traditional fighter in a spaceborne environment, and then bowed to market pressures and put them in-atmosphere rather than in space, as originally conceived. And \'\'Gundam\'\' is very much an anomaly in this regard, with the vast majority of \"real robot\" fiction \'\'also\'\' not featuring real explanations for any of those things.

So no, using mechs does not constitute hard sci-fi, but the genre doesn\'t usually constitute it either.

\'\'Sunrider\'\' features all sorts of things that characterize the RealRobotGenre. It does \'\'not\'\' feature: giant monsters and {{Ro Beast}}s, bizarre physics-defying nonsense, over-the-top superheroics, etc.

Again, \"real robot\" does not mean \"diamond hard sci-fi.\" Hell, if it did, then there\'d \'\'be\'\' no \"real robot\" genre at all. Claiming that it is in the SuperRobotGenre is ludicrous, akin to saying that every modern action movie must be a Western because it features gunfights instead of swordfights.
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RealRobotGenre stories ''usually'' feature custom mechs for the protagonists, both to give them unique visual identity and to explain why they're beating the mass-produced ones. The average robot, in other words, is the mook mech you blow up through most of the game.
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RealRobotGenre stories \'\'usually\'\' feature custom mechs for the protagonists, both to give them unique visual identity and to explain why they\'re beating the mass-produced ones. The average robot, in other words, is the mook mech you blow up through most of the game.
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Similarly, most real robot stories don't bother explaining why they're doing it in space in anything but the liner notes. If anything, ''Sunrider'' is ''more'' realistic about it than the original ''Gundam'', which explained that the three-dimensional movement offered by a mech was superior to a traditional fighter, and then bowed to market pressures and put them in-atmosphere rather than in space, as originally conceived. And ''Gundam'' is very much an anomaly in this regard, with the vast majority of
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Similarly, most real robot stories don\'t bother explaining why they\'re doing it in giant mechs in anything but the liner notes. If anything, \'\'Sunrider\'\' is \'\'more\'\' realistic about it than the original \'\'Gundam\'\', which explained that the three-dimensional movement offered by a mech was superior to a traditional fighter, and then bowed to market pressures and put them in-atmosphere rather than in space, as originally conceived. And \'\'Gundam\'\' is very much an anomaly in this regard, with the vast majority of \"real robot\" fiction \'\'also\'\' not featuring real explanations for any of those things.

So no, using mechs does not constitute hard sci-fi, but the genre doesn\'t usually constitute it either.

\'\'Sunrider\'\' features all sorts of things that characterize the RealRobotGenre. It does \'\'not\'\' feature: giant monsters and {{Ro Beast}}s, bizarre physics-defying nonsense, over-the-top superheroics, etc.

Again, \"real robot\" does not mean \"diamond hard sci-fi.\" Hell, if it did, then there\'d \'\'be\'\' no \"real robot\" genre at all. Claiming that it is in the SuperRobotGenre is ludicrous, akin to saying that every modern action movie must be a Western because it features gunfights instead of swordfights.
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