On October 12, Bandai Namco held anew streamfor theSuper Robot Warsseries and while no new game was announced, we learned instead about a canceled game,Super Robot Wars OG Begins.The first part of the stream was the usual, with new additions toSRW Cross Omegabeing announced, most notablyBokurano. The second part of the stream was a talk show with Series Producer Takanobu Terada and Soichiro Morizumi: the main writer ofSRW Compact / Impact, SRW Advance, Real Robot Regiment, Namco x Capcomand its successors: SRW OG Mugen no FrontierandProject X Zone.
The talk show was over four hours and didn’t last six houras initially announced, however, Morizumi and Terada brought up tons of interesting subjects. In particular, Terada showed us the Powerpoint presentation for a canceledSuper Robot Wars OGgame, planned for a digital-only release on PS3 and PS Vita.
Note that the following contains spoilers forSuper Robot Wars Gaiden Masoukishin The Lord of Elemental.
Tentatively titledSuper Robot Wars OG Begins, the game would take place before the events ofSuper Robot Wars OGs / OG 1, and beforeMasoukishin The Lord of Elemental. The game was planned to be around 26 stages in total, with stages both on La Gias and on Earth.
What’s even more interesting is how the protagonist was supposed to be Ricardo Silveira, the Brazilian pilot of Zamzeed, the Earth Masoukishin, in the first part ofMasoukishin 1. As you already know if you’re reading this article in the first place, Ricardo sacrifices himself to protect Tyutti inMasoukishin 1, with Mio Sasuga later becoming the new pilot of Zamzeed. Since each Masoukishin pilot has their own specific Familiars,Super Robot Wars OG Beginswould have revealed Ricardo’s familiars as well: Amedeo, Mericur, and Joricurl.
Super Robot Wars OG Beginswould have also focused on Shu Shirakawa and his past, with his activities in the Volkruss cult, and how he developed the Granzon, explaining the black box inside of it (that was later explained in2nd Super Robot Wars OG).
Super Robot Wars OG Beginswould have also featured characters and mecha appearing in the OG game following it, which should beMoon Dwellers. It’s hard to say whenOG Beginswas planned because Terada didn’t give an actual date, and he doesn’t remember much himself. He only said he wrote the proposal for the game “Before F”, which I assume he meant beforeMasoukishin F. That would mean somewhere around 2012-2013, asMasoukishin Fwas released on July 23, 2025.
Terada also explained they ended up never doing the content that would have been in this game. What they show in2nd Super Robot Wars OGand inDark Prisonisn’t fromSuper Robot Wars OG Begins.
One of the reasons why the game was canceled is because it was tooMasoukishinseries focused. And theMasoukishinseries isn’t as popular as the mainSRW OGseries. That’s also why the name OG Begins was temporary. As it felt misleading seeing it was more aMasoukishingame than an regularOGgame.
You can watch theSuper Robot Wars OG Beginspart starting the 4:07:00 timestamp:
Stay tuned as we’ll soon publish a summary of the rest of the talk show in a separate article.
Super Robot Warswill celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2021, and it’s very likely we’ll get a new game onPS4,PS5,PCvia Steam, andSwitch.
In the past, Takanobu Terada already talked about anothercanceledSuper Robot Warsproject,featuring only Showa era mecha anime.
