Hmmm, a little further in SRW X and feeling like this game has a lot less budget than V did last year. Whereas V didn't have a huge amount of new series, at least the stuff that was new like F91/Crossbone/Yamato/Mazinger Zero looked really good and cool new stuff. Cross-Ange/Might Gaine looked ok. Plus all the touch-ups for stuff like FMP were very nice.
V's new stuff feels really underwhelming. Wataru/Buddy Complex/Nadia look ok. G-Reco has like 3 moves and it looks like they're not even animating the cool looking upgrade backpacks (wtf!) I've already seen reflector & the pink missile pack one just be map sprites for story events. Plus Aida's mech has 2 moves at starts at its upgrade and Klim doesn't even start with the team (I'm assuming he'll be in the game eventually). Between that and not following any of G-Reco's story or sillyness, just feels like no-effort G-Reco so far. There's no completely new series so far that look Crossbone/F91/Yamato/Mazinger Zero level yet.
On the plus side the touch-ups for the series that get them look good. Gundam Wing crew all looks damn good here thanks to a lot of animation cleanup from Z3 where the EW animations were a huge step down from Z2 GW TV. Also the Zeta units are still getting updated every game because whoever is animating them is crazy, so the little touchups look super nice.
But idk, when the most exciting sprites in the game in first 1/3rd are the touch-ups of Endless Waltz units...eh, game is not so exciting. Also the storyline still is dropping every anime plotline for the most part and just being a bunch of fights with not much plot. I really think it's like Wataru + Buddy Complex + OG and that's it. Just feels kinda low effort instead of trying to ingrate all the various on-going plotlines. But doing that would require more sprites for enemies along the way and stuff so everything just feels budget kinda like how the Z3 games did but in a different way (at least animation isn't crap here).
Last year I thought V was a breath of fresh air for the franchise and the best licensed SRW game since Z2. X so far is back to so-so. Kinda hoping in the middle it'll pick up and start giving lots of upgrade attacks/mechs with animations and that it's just a real slow start for some reason.