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Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

, an installment of Banpresto's

Banpresto

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 Super Robot Wars

Super Robot Wars

is a series of tactical role-playing video games produced by Banpresto, which is now a Japanese division of Namco Bandai. The main feature of the franchise is having a story that crosses over several popular mecha anime, manga and video games, allowing characters and mecha from different titles to...

 franchise. It is the fourth game to appear on the Game Boy Advance system, preceded by Super Robot Wars A

Super Robot Wars Advance

is a video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, part of Banpresto's Super Robot Wars franchise and the first to appear on the Game Boy Advance handheld. It was ported onto mobile phones as part of the Super Robot Wars i collection in 2006 and released as an enhanced remake on the PlayStation...

, Super Robot Wars R

Super Robot Wars Reversal

is a video game for the Game Boy Advance and is part of the Super Robot Wars franchise. It is the second game for the handheld system, preceded by Super Robot Wars A...

and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation

is a tactical role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance, developed and published by Banpresto in Japan, and later localized by Atlus in North America....

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Series Featured

The series featured in Super Robot Wars Destiny is noted to be unique towards fans at the time as uncommonly used series appear in the main plot. Other than titles selection, some characters that was originally belong to antagonist side like Char Aznable (and his Neo Zeon counterparts), Zechs Merquise in OZ, stands on players' side till the end.

The title selection also unique especially in Getter Robo series which discarded TV and manga-based setting which used by all previous SRW production but using Getter Robo Armageddon, the sequel based on the radio drama. The Romantic Trilogy's regular three production are replaced by Future Robo Daltanius. The TV version of Gundam Wing and Victory Gundam which their appearance are shadowed by Endless Waltz and early Universal Century production got their uncommon appearance in the series.

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Plot & Characters

Super Robot Wars Destiny takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, prominently after the beginning of Getter Robo Armageddon, where a nuclear explosion wipes out the majority of humanity. While other factions are doing their own activities, they are shocked to discover the Earth is sealed, having disappeared from the face of the universe. The protagonist group must find out the reason behind the sealing and how to stop it. On the course of the journey, the player will engage against the antagonist Ruina, a destructive race bent on seeing the rest of the universe in ruins.

• Joshua Radcliff is the male protagonist of the game. A former member of the League Militaire, his father is a workaholic scientist and Joshua has mixed feelings on the topic of him, knowing he is both an intelligent man, but an immoral researcher, having used his adoptive sister as a lab experiment, uncaring of her physical and mental conditioning. He is shocked to discover it is his father who is partly responsible for bringing forth the Ruina from their underground habitat, and resolves to amend his father's wrongdoings. He is usually referred to as Josh.

• Cliana Rimskaya is the female protagonist of the game. The adoptive sister to Joshua, the apocalyptic event in Getter Robo Armageddon traumatizes her mind, leading her to develop a dual-personality: Chris, a soft-hearted, gentle girl, and Liana, a tough, stoic woman, who is the dominant personality, whenever Cliana is inside the cockpit of her machine. Usually addressed as Rim (in order to summarize the person in general, not the two personalities), she seems to have a weird sense of taste in food.

• Clifford Gygax is a non-playable character, who provides support and knowledge for both Joshua and Cliana. He used to work alongside Joshua's father in his research.

The game also includes two secret characters, former Ruina generals recruitable to the player's side. Both characters are exclusive to each routes, depending on which protagonist is picked. However, recruiting one of the secret character bars the possibility to have the other protagonist rejoin you.

• Glacies is the secret character for Joshua and Cliana's route, although only Joshua can recruit her. As her name suggests, she controls the element of ice (Glacies means ice in Latin).

• Ventos is the secret character for Cliana's route. Though not stated clearly, it is suggested he controls the element of wind. Unlike Glacies, Ventos does not appear in Joshua's route.

Original Robots

The player is able to choose between two real robot

Real Robot

is a genre of Japanese animation. The genre contains mecha robots that are powered by conventional power sources and weapons explainable by real world science, and that use ranged weapons and speed to survive battle situations....

s or two super robot

Super Robot

is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons, extreme resistance to damage unless the plot calls for it, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and/or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes,...

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• Aile Chavelier
  • Upgrades into Geant Chavelier; considered to be Joshua's canonical real robot

• Blanche Neige
  • Upgrades into Lea Blanche Neige; considered to be Cliana's canonical real robot

• Ganador
  • Considered to be Joshua's canonical super robot

• Strega
  • Considered to be Rim's canonical super robot

• Forte Gigas
  • The combined super robot, formed from the Ganador and the Strega

If the secret characters are acquired, they will arrive with their own units:

• Fabularis
  • Glacies' personal unit

• Stodium
  • Ventos' personal unit

Noteworthy

• The first Super Robot Wars to integrate the "Chain Attack" system, where enemy units lined up in a row can be simultaneously attacked with designated melee attacks.

• Noted to be biased towards real robots, instead of super robots. The defense rating for super robots is rendered insignificant, in that these units will take the same amount of damage as real robots, eliminating their advantage of tanking
  Tank (computer gaming)
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  by absorbing damage.

• A lot of units (only two of the Gundams V Gundam And Wing Gundam) have more then one animation to their sprites.