Medarot G

Medarot G メダロットＧ
Genre	Action
Platform	Game Boy Advance
Developer	Natsume
Publisher	Imagineer
Release Date	JP: July 19, 2002

Medarot G is a 2D action game released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance. It was the first Medarot action game to be released in Japan.

Following tradition, it was released in Kabuto (rhinoceros beetle) and Kuwagata (stag beetle) versions, where the player starts with Dichotom and Adolphin respectively. The game mainly features characters and Medarots from Medarot 5, but some major characters from Medarot 2 also make an appearance.

The gameplay and battle system were also used in Medabots AX, which was released in North America a month earlier.

Plot

The story is that Densuke Tamayasu, the mayor of Susutake, has opened a Robottle theme park called "Densuke Land" which is hosting a Robottle tournament. Koishimaru and his friends have made their way to the park to take part in the tournament. Koishimaru's Medarotch is not working properly, but he receives a brand new prototype Medarot (Dichotom or Adolphin) from Shigeyuki to use during the tournament instead.

After the Tounament, Koishimaru must contend with Team Revo-Revo, who steal Hardness Ten's parts, and are revealed to be testing Koishimaru, being familliar faces.

He also encounters Ikki Tenryou and his friends, and like Kasumi, deals with the Screws.

Continuity and Placement

The game is set shortly after the events of Medarot 5. Considering that Medarot 2 cast are teenagers, it can be inferred that the game also takes place some time after Medarot Navi but years before Medarot DS/7.

Gameplay

Unlike previous games, Medarot G has the player control their Medarot directly in real-time battles on a 2D field. The battles are 2 vs. 2, with one Medarot per team designated as the "leader" and the other as the "partner". The player's partner Medarot is AI-controlled. The gameplay is similar to other platform fighting games such as Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers and Digimon Battle Spirit.

The player controls their leader Medarot's movement with the D-pad, and can jump with A and attack with B. Pressing B on its own uses the right arm attack, down + B uses the left arm attack, and up + B uses the head. Similar to the RPG games, each part has a designated cooldown time that has to elapse before the part can be used again. Pressing L makes the Medarot block, and pressing Select uses their Medaforce (which is different depending on the Medal used).

Between battles and before each battle, the player can swap parts on their leader and partner Medarots. The player can also set each Medarot's "strategy panels", which change how the Medarot behaves in-battle. Panels can affect how the AI-controller partner Medarot behaves (for example by telling it to use certain parts or protect the leader) or simply power up the Medarot or make it more likely to hit certain parts. Each Medal has a different set of 30 possible panels, which it gains access to as it levels up. Each Medarot can bring up to 5 panels into a battle. Pressing R in battle switches between the available strategies for your partner.

A battle ends once a leader Medarot's head is destroyed, or after 3 minutes have elapsed. In battles that end with time running out, the team with more parts remaining is considered the winner.

Selection of Medarots

Main article: Medarots in Medarot G

Medarot G contains 37 total Medarots, 7 of which were created specifically for the game. The other Medarots come from Medarot 1, 2, and 5. With the exception of the two new starting Medarots, all of the new Medarots added in Medarot G came from winners of a fan-made Medarot contest held in Comic BomBom called the "EX Project".

Manga series

Main article: Medarot G (manga)

A manga series by Horuma Rin ran in Comic BomBom from mid-2002 to mid-2003, and was later collected in two volumes released by Kodansha. It served as a direct sequel to Medarot 5, picking up directly after the end of the previous series with Koishimaru and Omeda as the main characters. Medarot G was the last Medarot manga to run in Comic BomBom, and the last manga penned by Horuma Rin until the series was revived in 2009 with Medarot DS.

Gallery

Box Art

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  Kabuto version

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  Kuwagata version

Screen

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  Title Screen (Kabuto)

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  Title Screen (Kuwagata)

See also

• Medabots AX

Medarot G links:   Medarots - Parts - Medals - Actions - Stats - Medaforces - Characters - Locations

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Main series / Parts Collections	Medarot 1 (PC / PC2) - Medarot 2 (PC) - Medarot R (PC) - Medarot 3 (PC) - Medarot 4 Medarot 5 - Medarot DS - Medarot 7 - Medarot 8 - Medarot 9
Side games	Medarot Navi - Shingata Medarot - Medarot S: Unlimited Nova
Remakes	Medarot Perfect Edition - Medarot 2 Core
Action games	Metabee Shot - Medarot G - Medabots AX - Medarot Brave - Medarot Dual - Medarot Girls Mission - Medarot Survivors
Collections	Medarot Classics - Medarot Classics Plus
Other games	Medarot Cardrobottle - Pocket Robottle - Robattle 3D - Medarotch