Stage 1 – The Million Dollar Man

第１話：１００万Gの男
Stage 1: The Million Dollar Man

Our poor man Crow has had better days.  He’s broke, unemployed, and his father has recently died, leaving him with a 1,000,00 G debt to pay off.  He’s seeing a debt collector when the lab he happens to be next to is attacked by terrorists.

Crow contacts the lab’s chief, Troia Scott, and asks if they have any machines he can use to fend off the terrorists.  She agrees to lend him the Blastia, one of their test mechas.

Crow spawns in the north east side of the map, with 3 enemies (Terrorists) south of his starting position.

The only thing you can pretty much do on your first turn is move towards the closest guy and attack him.  You get your choice of Bunker Break melee attack or EAGLE shot.  I opt for the Bunker Break for my first attack.

These terrorists only have 2800 health, so I get a 1 hit kill on the guy and a nice dynamic kill which brings the end to my turn.

In the enemy phase the closest enemy moves in and attacks.  This time I pick EAGLE shot.

It also ends up being a 1 hit kill, also with a dynamic kill scene where he does some fancy flying around with more shooting.  In my turn I proceed to destroy the final enemy as well.

After defeating the initial 3 terrorists, 2 dimensional alien things appear near the center of the map, and 2 to the south.  Crow moves automatically to the centre of map.  There’s a short conversation between Crow and Tria where she reveals the Blasta was created to fight these beasts.  She mentions she unlocked the limiter so Crow can use the ultimate attack, ACP Faiz.

Out of nowhere, Wufei appears in Shenlong Gundam to help out.  He appears at the south, conveniently next to the 2 aliens.

Anyway, time to get to work for that SR Point.  Since it’s still the enemy phase we can test this new attack out…

Geez this guy is loaded with dynamic kills or what?

Since Wufei is a pussy, he can’t one shot these guys like Crow.

Now it’s turn 3 and we still need to kill 3 enemies by the end of the enemy turn to get the SR point.  Crow can kill the one closest to him in 1 hit using his new attack.  Now we use Wufei to attack the undamaged enemy so that he can counterattack and destroy them both in the enemy turn.

SR Point get!

I’m mashing circle as fast as I can to bypass the pre-stage sequence, since I can’t read Kanji, as I’m doing so I accidentally pick the top option when it comes to a dialogue choice.  Basically you now get to choose whether Crow’s specialises in shooting (top choice) or melee (bottom choice).  Since my mashing ended up picking me shooting, I’ll stick with it.

Tria also buys over Crow’s 1,000,000G debt, but in return, he must test pilot the Blastia and collect data for her.  As a start, Crow pays off 1G and mentions that he just shaved off 1 digit off his debt 😛

As for Crow’s first mission, she tells him to go to the AEU mech reveal/demonstration and destroy it :O

Intermission time and on to Stage 2…

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