Oh, and I'm playing Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 again, and it's still awesome. I am pretty lukewarm towards the animes in general, but in the context of a Dynasty Warriors game kicking ass with mobile suits is a ****ing blast. And with the ability to upgrade the stats of your mobile suits and give them special abilities, the gameplay actually has more depth than your average DW, even if the actual game is just as gloriously repetitive.
There's also far more replay value, since you can have different characters pilot different mobile suits -- so you can have Amuro Ray pilot Heero Yui's Wing Gundam -- but you have to unlock both the characters and the suits separately. You can also gather "plans" for your mobile suits during battles which allow you to build versions with better stats. There's just so much more to do than in any of the other DW series, and if you're a fan of these games it's like crack.
My current fav mobile suit is Duo's Deathscythe. It's a monster at close range combat, and with the right upgrades it can clear entire bases in less than a minute, or even a single attack if you're lucky. Enemy aces (the actual named characters) die like sheep even on hard (though if they get you you still lose half your health in two seconds), and if you land a musou attack on a stage boss it's a guaranteed one-hit kill (of course Duo's stats are maxed out and my current Deathscythe is nearly maxed out itself). The glowing green laser scythe is also just amazingly badass, and the gundam's design is ridiculous but black and lowkey enough to still be totally awesome. I might actually go and watch Gundam Wing at some point on the off chance that's it's good enough that I can fangasm all over Duo and his suit.
But the real thing that got me back into the game is that playing a DW game while baked off your ass is like magic. The bright, arcade-style neon colors, the hypnotically repetitive gameplay, and the overall feeling of being a golden god are just intoxicating after a good bowl. Got me half a dimebag and the day off tomorrow, so I'm gonna get ripped tonight and crack out on Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3. Might even turn off the sound and play some loud as **** Arkangel and Demolition Hammer while playing. I've done that sober and it's ****ing awesome.