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[[File:EndlessFrontier.jpg|framethumb|350px|In case you didn't notice, there are big melons in the Frontier.]]
'''''Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier''''' is an [[Eastern RPG]] for the [[Nintendo DS]]. While not taking place in the same universe as the ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'' games, it is nonetheless [[Continuity|tied to]] [[Gaiden Game|its story]].
 
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Haken and Kaguya are set to reappear, this time in ''[[Project X Zone]]'', a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Namco X Capcom]]''. Although there's no news on whether or not their allies will appear with them, [[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Sanger Zonvolt]] from the main ''Original Generation'' series will be in it.
 
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== Endless Frontier uses these tropes: ==
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Subverted and [[Played for Laughs]]: [[Disproportionate Retribution|Xiaomu makes a dumb joke and gets a spanking from Reiji]]. The only person to so much as blink is Kaguya.
** [[Too Kinky to Torture|Xiaomu likes it though]], so it's okay.
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* [[Another Dimension]]
* [[Armed Legs]]: Aschen, who has shotguns built into hers.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Dokugozu and Dokumezu were simply Saya's [[Elite Mook|Elite Mooks]]s in ''[[Namco X Capcom]]''. Here, they become support antagonists each with a distinct personality.
* [[Ass Kicks You]]: Xiaomu.
* [[Atlantis Is Boring]]: Aside from the Wilkurkind's ruins, you can't explore the aquatic realm of Varna Kanai.
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* [[BFS]]: Kaguya's Goshiki Zankantou.
* [[Battle Couple]]: In EXCEED, Axel and Alfimi are treated as a single unit during gameplay, meaning they always attack together.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The localization only translates the script; the voice-acting is left untouched, and there's no captions for them, so you either need a grasp of Japanese or dig into your [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fanboyism]]ism to understand the victory quotes and start-of-battle banter.
* [[Boss Rush]]: Because of scripted boss fights and a 100% flee rate from [[Mooks]], the games can potentially feel like this. Played straight and more properly in the first game while exploring Wilkurkind, and once again near the end.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]
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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]] / [[Loveable Sex Maniac]]: Haken, but it's hard to blame him considering just how ''ridiculous'' the boobage is.
* [[Clingy Costume]]: {{spoiler|Fighter Roar}} suffers this problem in EXCEED. Wouldn't be that bad if the main crew didn't decide to go [[Hot Springs Episode|relax in an onsen]].
* [[Combos]]: A key part of combat, which involves juggling (we don't mean ''[[Gainaxing|that]]'' kind...yet) and preventing [[Mook|mooksmook]]s and [[Boss Fight|bosses]] from scoring an evasion.
* [[Colon Cancer]]: Just to be precise, the sequel ''Exceed'' has '''four''' different qualifiers. Super Robot Wars; Original Generations Saga; Endless Frontier; and EXCEED.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In conjunction with [[I Knew It!]], the [[Bad Export for You|Japanese-only]] [[Audio Adaptation|drama tracks of the freebie CD]] bundled with the first game confirms Aschen's {{spoiler|part of [[Super Robot Wars Advance|Lemon Browning's]] W-Numbers series of [[Artificial Human|androids]]. W-00, the first in the series, was mentioned in the [[Video Game Remake]] of ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', and is identified here as Haken}}.
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{{quote|'''Neige''': "Daddy, can I have a new handbag?"}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] ("Maybe it's a [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacle]], molesting the planet itself.")
* [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]]s (Followed by triple and quadruple entendres, and sometimes just plain innuendo and flat-out propositioning. Any dialogue ''will'' feature one eventually)
* [[Dual-Wielding]] (KOS-MOS with her signature dual [[Gatling Good|gatling guns]] and Reiji with his [[Playing with Fire|fire-based]] and [[Shock and Awe|lightning-enhanced]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas]] ''and'' pistol and shotgun. Xiaomu also uses two pistols, and Haken will sometimes fire his [[Hand Cannon]] and assault rifle together)
** Subverted somewhat: despite having two katanas, Reiji will rarely use both of them at the same time (mostly because he carries his weapon rack in one hand). Saya has ''three'' katanas, but will never use two at any given moment, due to her style focusing on iaijutsu.
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* [[Everythings Cuter With Kittens]] (Koma's store/battle theme.)
* [[Exposed to the Elements]] (Subverted: in EXCEED, two areas are frozen over and the [[Stripperiffic]] girls (namely, Kaguya and Neige) immediately start complaining about the cold)
* [[Expy]] (Three of four [[Original Generation|original characters]], all five [[Mecha]], both guest characters from [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Namco x Capcom]], multiple enemy [[Mook|mooksmook]]s and [[Elite Mook|elites]], the [[Final Boss]] and half the soundtrack are all derived from elements of the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' franchise)
** Dr. Marion Sumii's basically a sexy elf [[Hot Scientist]] version of Marion Radom from the main series.
** Katze Kotolnos: expy of Katz Folneus? Who knows...
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** Newcomer Aledy's too blatant enough to be Folka's long-lost brother. The new mecha are a Fairlion-type and an Ialdabaoth-type
*** So wait: an expy (Aledy) of an expy (Folka) of an expy ([[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]]) of the original ([[Bruce Lee]])? Gentlemen, we have reached critical mass.
** Both [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s of each game also qualify: the first game's [[Big Bad]] is based off of Alfimi's Persoenlichkeit: its first form is without the arms and the second is with. EXCEED's villain manages to be {{spoiler|W05, the predecessor of Wodan Ymir from ''Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2''. When he goes [[One-Winged Angel]], he basically becomes Wodan's [[Humongous Mecha]] Thrudgelmir}}.
* [[Extremity Extremist]] (Katze)
* [[Fan Service]], [[Fetish Fuel]] (Unleaded on both accounts. This series is pretty much making up for the lowered amount of both in the more recent SRW games. Also lampshaded mercilessly)
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* [[Hand Cannon]] (Haken's Longtomb Special)
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] (You'll be hearing a lot from [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]], [[Yukana]], [[Kaori Shimizu]], [[Mamiko Noto]], [[Kazuhiko Inoue]], [[Omi Minami]], [[Ryotaro Okiayu]], [[Tetsu Inada]], [[Sayaka Ohara]] and [[Ai Orikasa]])
** EXCEED brings us [[Tomokazu Seki]] and [[Nana Mizuki]] as the new characters. Basically, [[G Gundam|Domon Kasshu]] and [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Fate Testarossa]] are teaming up
*** [[Tales of Symphonia|Colette Brunel]] and [[Tales of Destiny|Stahn Aileron]] team up, go! ''Sono mina no moto, kono kegareta tamashii- '' '''SATSUGEKI-''' ''-ni sabaki no hikari o furasetamae!'' '''BUKOUKEN!!!''' ''JUDGMENT!!'' '''ORENENENENENENENENENENENENENENENENE!!!! ORRDYAA!!!''' .... ''Huh?''
** Throw in [[Nobutoshi Canna|Gu]][[Berserk|ts]] and [[Yuko Mizutani|So]][[Digimon Adventure|ra]] for EXCEED.
** For EXCEED villains, we have [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Ragna]] [[Tomokazu Sugita|The Bloodedge]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Ter]][[Yuuichi Nakamura|umi]] and [[Miyuki Sawashiro|Carl Clover]]. [[Relationship Voice Actor|Yet another place where the two Tomokazus duke it out]]. And like Terumi, Rig and Peter knows how to brainwash his share of artificial women.
* [[Heroic BSOD]] (Averted: Haken's upset when he learns he's {{spoiler|W00}}, but he knows screaming about it won't help)
* [[Hot Scientist]] (Marion and Dorothy)
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] (Shuten and Suzuka)
* [[Humongous Mecha]] (Partially subverted; the [[Mecha]] present are actually 2-32–3 meters tall, around 1/10 of their actual size. The cast even remarks they'd be crushed by a 20-meter [[Super Robot]], not that they're aware most of those regularly clear double that height)
* [[Hurricane of Puns]] (The characters make lots them)
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] (How does Dorothy ''fit'' all those bombs under that dress of hers?)
* [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You]] (Kyon's prone to doing this)
* [[Improbably-Fundamentally Female Cast]] (The team consists of 2 guys and 5 girls; no antagonist group is all-male oriented)
** EXCEED bucks the trend by adding more male characters to the main group (Aledy, Katze, Ezel, Axel and {{spoiler|Fighter Roar}}). Still, by the end of the game, the girls outnumber the guys in the main group (if we can even count [[Camp Gay|Katze]] as a guy, anyhow).
* [[Inconsistent Dub]] (The aforementioned "Raymond" mistranslation. Also partially justified with Kaguya's Goshiki Zankantou, which would have been translated as "Type-5 Colossal Blade" if they hadn't chosen to leave everything from her dimension in its original Japanese)
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* [[Magic Skirt]] (Kaguya and Neige)
* [[Male Gaze]] (Neige notices where Aledy's looking at upon meeting Kaguya and proceeds to berate him)
* [[May-DecemberMay–December Romance]] (When Xiaomu learns Neige's 117 years-old and Aledy's 17, she teasingly consoles her that it'll somehow work out. Might also apply to Xiaomu and Reiji, if the wind blows that way)
* [[Military Mashup Machine]] (Zeit Krokodil and Giant Marquis)
* [[Meido]] (Neige wears the outfit, but ultimately averts it. Xiaomu plays it straight in her new Overdrive for EXCEED, effectively turning her into a [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]])
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* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Person]] (Suzuka takes this role until Reiji joins the party)
* [[Only Smart People May Pass]] (In Dorothy's fortress. Probably justified, since she's an [[Insufferable Genius]])
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] ([[Averted Trope|Averted]]: while a variety of elves come into play at various points, from random encounters featuring shotgun-toting elf chicks and elven [[Commissar|commissarscommissar]]s with [[Guns Akimbo|dual SMGs]] to [[Hot Scientist|Hot Scientists]]s Marion and Dorothy to EXCEED's female protagonist Neige, none of them are your typical Earth-attuned elitist variety)
** The Wild and Wood elves? Instead of "Earth-attuned," "Magical-attuned" would be more appropriate.
* [[Party in My Pocket]] (Haken seems to keep the group in a hyperspace arsenal. In EXCEED, Aschen for a short while and Aledy for the rest of the game invoke this)
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] (Suzuka and Xiaomu. Despite her look, Neige's bio indicates she's 117 years-old)
* [[Recurring Boss]] (Expect to fight most bosses at least twice throughout the game)
* [[Robot Girl]] (Aside from Aschen and KOS-MOS, [[Evil Counterpart|Evil Counterparts]]s Cardia and T-ELOS, respectively)
* [[Rocket Punch]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The series like [[Super Robot Wars]] runs on this.
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*** It's more likely she's just saying the name of her pistols, aptly ''named'' "Silver".
** In EXCEED:
{{quote|''Haken'': [[Darkstalkers|Let's]] [[Actor Allusion|Play]].<br />
''Aschen'': [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Revolver Knuckle!]] }}
** Neige Hausen may has the "Fairy Dancing" theme song and the Royal Heart Blaster [[Combination Attack]] with the Fee-Kleid, but she isn't the expy of Shine Hausen (and that's before considering how much [[Fetish Fuel]] Neige induces).
** In Formido Heim, Koma (re)introduces herself as "[[Shaft|The cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about]]!"
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** It's more of a cross between [[Human Sacrifice]] and [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]], otherwise {{spoiler|Kaguya's mother Ui wouldn't have been able to pull off the same thing her daughter was prevented from doing}}
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Haken's Longtomb Special, although played more straight in EXCEED, when Haken can use it to hit multiple enemies as part of the Phantom Hold'em Frontier MAX.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: This game's utterly laced with [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|ninjas, pirates, robots]], [[Anime]]/cultural [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]], [[Gag Boobs]], flat chested girls, familiar [[Expy|expies]], over-the-top [[Gainaxing]], loads of [[Fetish Fuel]]-inducing moments ([[Naughty Tentacles|"Maybe it's a giant tentacle, molesting the planet itself?"]]), [[Crowning Music of Awesome|DISCO music]] and massive amounts of [[Innocent Innuendo|Innocent Innuendos]]s and [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]]s in ''[[Up to Eleven|every]]'' conversation. Name one other game that contains as much as ''[['''Endless Frontier]]''''' does, ''without'' straying away from the seemingly incredible gameplay.
* [[Whip Sword]]: Kaguya's sword can extend like one.
* [[World of Badass]]: The [[The Goomba|very first mook]] you meet attacks with a [[Macross Missile Massacre]]. The shopkeepers moonlight as [[Hired Guns]]. Old crashed battleships that constantly spew forth monsters from other worlds are basically treated as ''tourist traps.''
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] with most of the female cast, though the award would likely go to Kaguya.
* [[Zonk]] ("Gamble" Spirit Command and Kaguya's "Tsukimizake" skill: what's worst isn't when she poisons/stuns/paralyzes herself, but when she casts "Mercy" (max damage per hit cannot be greater than 10))
** Also, these are games where low level [[Mook|Mooks]]s have several thousand HP a piece. Having "Mercy" on, you might as well be doing zero damage.
** On the other hand, allowing them to live long enough can be used to fill the [[Limit Break]] gauge.
 
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