What’s the difference between starting areas in Super Robot Wars 30?

When you start Super Robot Wars 30, after you’ve chosen your Protagonist, you’ll be given a choice of two starting areas—Far East Region Ominato and L3 Colony Elion.

Depending on which area you choose will affect where your game starts, which units you encounter, and the overall tone of the start of the game.

For instance, if you choose Far East Region Ominato, your story will start on earth, in Japan. You’ll be following the Super Robot start of the story, which will introduce you first to Kabuto Koji and his Ichinana robot, and then give you the option to find the Combattler V team and Brave Police J-Decker. In this story line, you’ll find yourself fighting more AI opponents and Kaiju and less real people.

If you instead choose the L3 Colony, your story will start in space, at lagrange point 3, outside a space colony. You’ll be following the Real Robot start of the story. This will introduce you to Üso Ewin, pilot of the V Gundam, and then to robots from series such as the Majestic Prince franchise. You’ll find the tone grittier, and more opponents will be humans piloting robots and battle suits.

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Overall, the stories and openings eventually merge into the mainline story of Super Robot Wars 30. This means you shouldn’t be too worried about which starting point you choose.

And if you missed one of the starting points, you can always go back and play it through again.

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