On the final public day of TGS, the SEGA booth was graced with a rare showing of one of the most important figures in mecha gaming; Juro Watari. Effectively the father of Virtual On, Watari has never been one for the limelight and as such hasn’t really been one to conduct many interviews, so seeing him on stage like that was really rather wonderful. He was also joined by Takanobu Terada, of Super Robot Wars fame, and many had thought that it was going to amount to a massive announcement regarding a new Virtual On themed Super Robot Wars game. Alas, nothing of the sort happened and they instead spent the time talking about how much they like robots and breasts. 4Gamer has some nice coverage of this too.
Talking about what really matters in life, I see.
Maybe they just hate TGS lol
A god among men.
Why should there be a Virtual On-themed SRW when one already had Hatter singing “Rolling Start” in it? Improving upon that would be a herculean task.
Now, implementing Watari dashes into a new installment of SRW somehow (something like Archon) would be divine.
I’d settle for a SRW fighting game with Virtual-On engine.