Why didn't Robopon take off like Pokémon did?
It didn't have the same support and advertising. Pokemon was pushed really hard, especially with merchandizing.
Did it have an anime to pull it?
>>12517936poké > robo
it got 4 games on three systems, and you didn't play any of them
>>12517959I played the GB and GBA games. The GBA games were really annoying end-game. Evolving your robopons sent them back to level one. Too much grind.
>>12517946It had a very expansive manga.
>>12517936No back sprites. Pokemon makes it like you the player are behind your pokemon and watching it battle. Robopon just splats two characters on screen.
>>12517936mogged by medabots
>>12517936You only care because of the massive tits bot.
>>12517936I bought a used copy at eb games, but the mechanics were just too complicated for me at the time to bother to understand.
>>12517936pokemon's anime airing at the same time the games released was 100% the smartest move ever.splitting red/blue and forcing kids to trade to complete the game was also genius.robopon never got an anime and while they did the same game split gimmick in japan, we only got sun here. (japan launched with sun/star. later got moon and bombom special.)robopon's manga is a 10/10 giant boob shonen manga but that's all it got to boost the games.robopon tried a bunch of really cool shit for gameboy. sure its a pokemon clone but it did day/night before gen 2 pokemon.as a whole though, the campaign for gbc isn't super good. robopon shines on gba and became it's own thing.gbc- meh pokemon clone but crazy experimental featuresn64-kinda shit in every way but unlocks content on gbcgba- really entertaining monster collecting time travel rpgmanga- the breast manga ever
>>12518374The manga looks absolutely fucking grotesque kek. What the fuck were they thinking?
>>12518456"I like boobs so I'm going to draw boobs"
>>12517936Only appeals to boys. What girl likes robots?
>>12518456the art is maximum soul+boobs.every chapter the boobs get bigger and the artist really tested the limit of the bombom magazine.the mahjong manga saki is doing something similar.
>>12518515>What girl likes robots?Didn't you hear the news?
>>12518505>i like boobsI like them too, but not like this. The proportions are exaggerated to the point of them looking more like tumors than actual tits. >>12518530>art is maximum soulIt genuinely looks like everything I hated about anime/manga as a kid. Like the artist deliberately attempted to make something that I could never like.
>>12517936>Pokemon-like but with Armored Core customization but also the NPCs have insanely massive breasts to the point it puts M-rated fanservice games and even porn games to shame.If I knew about this when was I was a kid I would have played every game because this appeals to me perfectly. It just seems like it was too far ahead of its time, Gacha players would have liked it. It's kind of surprising no other creature game has girls like this, SMT and Digimon have a few fan service-mons but its nowhere near the same. There's definitely a lot of money on the table for a game like that.
>>12519440Well the massive bazongas are a bit of a retcon. The original games didn't have them, but after the manga they did a special edition with some redesigns, and that also carried over to the GBA.
>>12517936I started this but it's a really ugly and garish game. Zero soul compared to Pokemon
>>12519521Is there a way to play the comic version in english? Wouldn't mind trying it out.
>check out Robopon 2>font is literally lifted straight from Soul Blazer/Terranigma/Illusion of Gaia, but with none of the cool gradient effectsWell then.
>>12517936Because if anyone played that game they wouldn't want another. That game seriously blows. I remember liking it as a kid. I loved building up your tower and exploring the new rooms, but it's so slow and tedious compared to Pokemon.
>>12519521>Snorks became trans
>>12519578The original apparently also ripped off and modified overworld sprites from Pokemon.
>>12519646Apebot is the trans joke, actually. Its Japanese name is Newhalf.
>>12519521>Peedo
>>12519521>no. 151 BuddyWtf, thats just cyborg kuro-chan.
Breaking news: the unreleased English version of Robopon: Star Edition has recently been patched to properly run on real hardware!https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/9565/
>>12519664Yeah he's here too.
>>12520112>take game with IR functionality>port to mapper with IR functionality>remove IR functionalitywhat
>>12517936>No marketing>Character designs were not very good>Those that played it openly complained about poor balance and item scarecity>Plenty of alternatives like Dragon Warrior Monsters that did the same idea better with ips people already knew about.
>>12518530I really need to get around to reading the manga.
>>12521898Has the entire manga even been translated into English? Mangadex lists the amount of English translated chapters as 29/46.
>>12517936Its soundtrack. Pokemon wouldn't have taken off like it did without Junichi Masuda's music.
Pokemon was already there, who was choosing this over pokemon unless you liked robots or your parents hated you?
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