looking for criminally underrated Anime Fighters or mecha RPG's

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Fill-in Cafe's Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force (1997) on PlayStation

More of a brawler, beat'em up style mecha game. A remake from the original X68000 which was also ported to FM Towns, PC Engine Arcade CD-ROM² and more recently dumped Mega Drive.

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Hudson Soft's Blood Gear (1994) on PC Engine Super CD-ROM²

Which is a criminally underrated mecha RPG that fits your description- although its on PC Engine CD. I've started playing this not too long ago. Since it was never localized, and currently no fan translation exists I'm using guides online.

 

[Evoluder]

Gonna throw in my recc for SRW OGs as well. It's the cream of the crop, and has so much content I still don't feel like I'm half done after 100+ hours. The animations and story make the modern games look like slop. Seriously, give it a go.

Hopefully Gaiden and 2nd OGs get a translation soon, and maybe a retranslation for Moon Dwellers.

Oof that would be the dream but I doubt it

Alpha 1's TL has been in WIP for more than a decade and it's still not done, and 2nd OG is even bigger
Gaiden does seem doable enough for the team that worked on the OGs TL

 

[DigitamaMun]

Oof that would be the dream but I doubt it

Alpha 1's TL has been in WIP for more than a decade and it's still not done, and 2nd OG is even bigger
Gaiden does seem doable enough for the team that worked on the OGs TL

The weird thing is there's a full translation of 2nd OGs is readily available, but no one has worked on actually implementing into the game.

2nd Super Robot Taisen OG (In English)

English Translations for each chapter in 2nd Super Robot Taisen OGs.

2ndsrwoge.com

I assume interfacing with it is significantly more complicated because of the hardware's architecture, and how niche it is in the West does not help.

A decent chunk of Gaiden is already in OGs itself so the job is partially done, I wonder why there's no news on it.

The only thing I think will never happen is Moon Dwellers getting a retranslation, as sucky as that is. At least it's basically a filler game.

Based name and icon btw.