Super Robot Wars T producers detail the writing process, decisions behind who they've included, results of fan polls, and more

This week's Famitsu has a feature on Super Robot Wars T. Along with new screens, producers Takanobu Terada and Shouhei Mogami discussed a number of topics pertaining to the title. Check out the details below.

- Super Robot Wars T is coming to Switch because it’s a very popular console and allows for home/portable play
- a lot of the series included in T are series many fans wanted, both in and outside Japan
- the team put more consideration towards fan’s answers in recent polls asking which series they'd like to see
- G Gundam and GaoGaiGar are included due to their long-time absense, and due to their popularity outsideJapan
- Getter Robo: Armageddon, Might Gaine, Top wo Nerae!, Gun x Sword and Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness are among the most requested series in polls by non-Japanese fans
- surveys show that the majority of Super Robot Wars players are men
- the team hopes that Rayearth’s female fans will play Super Robot Wars T
- the team would like more women to play Super Robot Wars in general
- the devs are trying to appeal to multiple generations with Super Robot Wars T
- Captain Harlock is for long-time anime fans
- this is why Rayearth, Cowboy Bebop, and Expelled from Paradise are included as well
- the stories of the series included will be rewritten to fit together
- this is especially the case with some series', where Earth is currently in ruins
- Super Robot Wars X was set in another world, so for T, they decided to go back to the how things are usually
- when writing, they decide on how the story will go overall, pick the series, and then write the story in detail
- sometimes they pick most of the series' and then write everything later, which is what they did for this installment
- there will be some new gameplay systems that will be revealed later
- fans greatly appreciated the “movie cut-ins” in Super Robot Wars X, so they included even more cut-ins like that in T
- these are the cut-ins you often find in X’s strongest attacks
- these animations go beyond the animated portraits of the pilots, and are similar to anime
- many of the strongest attacks in T will have cut-ins like that
- the animation team struggled a lot to create satisfying animations
- the game will have some “what if” stories that are only possible in Super Robot Wars
- they put in a Gespesnst as a “special guest unit”
- Gespenst is one of the first Original mecha they created for the series
- Gespenst in T will be piloted by a brand new original character