Medarot 5

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Medarot 5: The Susutake Transfer Student
メダロット5: すすたけ村の転校生
Genre RPG
Platform Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
Developer Natsume
Publisher Imagineer
Release Date December 14, 2001


Medarot 5 was released in 2001 for the Game Boy Color. It was released on two versions: Kabuto and Kuwagata.

The game follows the adventures of Koishimaru Tensan, who has recently moved to the small town of Susutake. Koishimaru gets a new Medarotch and meets a boy named Yamato Shijimi, but his Medarotch breaks after he gets pushed into cow manure. He later finds an abandoned Medarotch and Medarot (Chrotojil (Kabuto) or Shinzan (Kuwagata)) inside of a tree and is forced to activate them in a sudden Robottle.

Selection of Medarots

Main article: Medarots in Medarot 5

Medarot 5 features a list of 158 all-new Medarots, with none returning from previous games.

New features

  • The game features a new "combo" system in battles, where choosing parts with the winning symbol (rock, paper, or scissors) awards you bonuses like increased accuracy.
  • Medals now have branching forms that the player can choose between.
  • Medaforce is now called Medaskill.
  • The graphics are much more vibrant and detailed.
  • A whole new cast of characters.
  • The graphics enhance and minor storyline events change when played on a Game Boy Advance.
  • The game's plot is broken into days, and events open up day by day.

Continuity and Placement

Both Medarot 5 and its sequel Medarot G take place significantly after Ikki's games and Medarot Navi. Enough to Ikki and his friends being already in their late teens, as seen in Medarot G.

Gallery

Box Art

  • Kabuto version
    Kabuto version
  • Kuwagata version
    Kuwagata version

Screen

  • Title Screen (Kabuto)
    Title Screen (Kabuto)
  • Title Screen (Kuwagata)
    Title Screen (Kuwagata)

Trivia

Medarot 5 is a return to form. If you compare it to Medarot 1 and Medarotter Rintarou!!, and the similarities in plot beats are surprising.

  • Medarot 5 has elements of the original game, sans the Roborobo gang; but Arakune Ito and the Ghosts, the Medal and Part thefts are similar.
  • Medarot 5 has a smaller scope (Susutake, is comparable to Hikaru's hometown), and no EX story after the credits (like Medarot 1), and Koishimaru finding Omeda/ Nekuu mirrors Hikaru and Bonaparte finding the Medals that'd be used in Metabee/Rokusho. Both Hikaru and Koishimaru are complete beginners at Medarotting too, but Koishimaru is similar to Rintarou in personality, while Hikaru was sarcastic, lazy and terse.
  • From Medarotter Rintarou, Medarot 5 clearly has a similar hot-booded and energetic youth (Koishimaru) joining and reforming a Medarot Club, much like Rintarou reforming the Damerot Club in Medarotter Rintarou. And, that same protag entering many tournaments, like both Medarot 1 and Medarotter Rintarou. Tsuguo stealing and trashing Hikoo's starter is very similar in spirit to Tonomi Angura buying up every KBT-2020 Model so Rintarou cannot fight him -- as both boys (Tsuguo, Tonomi) want to get over and not be weak, so they cheat and steal, but have differing reasons.
  • Like Medarotter Rintarou, with Ryou Kaiba using Mach Massive and counters Rintarou's Kantaros, the Rival, Hikoo uses a KWG type if the Player is playing the Kabuto version.

See also

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