Medarot Navi - Kabuto

Game Boy Advance · 2001 · JP

Also known as: Medarot Navi : Kabuto (JP)

Publisher: Imagineer · Developer: Natsume · Genre: Role-playing (RPG)

Medarot Navi is the first game in the Medarot series released for the Game Boy Advance system. It was released in two versions: Kabuto Version (represented by Granbeetle) and Kuwagata Version (represented by Sonic Stag). This game features a different protagonist from previous entries in the series: Kasumi Asano, a bespectacled boy who discovers an alien Medarot, Mistral, underneath the auditorium of an abandoned school. A field trip to the Cluster space station goes awry with the "exile" of the class to the various modules and the reveal of the Space Robos! Unlike the other entries in the series with their charge/cooldown "relay race" cycles, Medarot Navi features a tiled 9x9 map that more closely resembles Fire Emblem and an initiative system similar to Final Fantasy Tactics. Movement and Part Actions are carried out using "Action Points" that are distributed at the beginning of the turn and expended when a Medarot acts.