Over in Japan this week, Namco Bandai Games took the veils off Masou Kishin: The Lord of Elemental, the latest game in their sprawling Super Robot Taisen series of anime-inspired robot sims. The game is due out for the Nintendo DS May 27 in Japan for the retail price of 6090 yen.
The Lord of Elemental is more than just another SRT Original Generation title -- it's the one that kicked off the whole series, sort of. Originally released in 1996 for the Super NES in Japan, the game marks the debut of hot-blooded robot pilot Masaki Ando and his elementally-powered craft Cybaster, popular enough that they starred in a 26-episode TV anime in 1999. Once a normal Japanese kid, Masaki gets his mecha career kick-started in this game when he's summoned to La Gias, a world housed under the Earth's crust, and asked to pilot one of the four elemental robots built by the kingdom of Languran to stave off a prophesied disaster.
"We've never dug into the backbone of Masaki and Cybaster, even though they both appear regularly in the SRTOG series," producer Takanobu Terada told Famitsu magazine this week. "The Lord of Elemental answers the question of where those characters came from."
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