Chou Super Robot Wars M

Chou Super Robot Wars M (超ちょう スーパーロボット 大たい 戦せん Ｍエム) is a crossover mecha tactical role-playing/fighting game developed by B.B. Studio and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 that was released in Japan on April 20, 2021 and in North America and Europe on October 1, 2021 as part of Super Robot Wars’ 30th anniversary. The game is a sequel and updated edition of Chou Super Robot Wars Æ that was released the previous year. It is also the fourth game in the Super Robot Wars series to be released in North America after Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier and the first to be released on Europe.

With an extensive budget of ¥2,000,000,000 ($18,260,000), both games in the Chou Super Robot Wars brand were a commercial and critical success, having shipped 800,000 units in the first month of Japanese release and sold a combined 9 million by the end of the year, being two of the highest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars franchise.

The "M" in the title stands for Millennium or Multiverse and the game's catchphrase is “Transform the multiverse for a new millennium.” (新あ たな 千年紀Millennium のために 多元世界Multiverse を 変身Transform する.)

Production
Main article: Chou Super Robot Wars AE/Production

Gameplay
Unlike its Nintendo Switch counterpart, Chou Super Robot Wars M marks a departure to the traditional gameplay that persists across the entire series as this is the first game in the series to come with multiple modes aside from the standard story RPG mode, composed of a total of 15 modes out of 18 menu select choices:
 * Story Mode - The game mode where the traditional Super Robot Wars gameplay takes into effect, where the player can progress through chapters of the canonical events of the game.
 * Single Play
 * Co-op
 * Campaign Mode -
 * Arcade Mode -
 * Versus Battle -
 * Tag Battle -
 * Elimination Match -
 * Battlefield Mode -
 * Robot Warfare -
 * Time Attack -
 * Survival Mode -
 * Tournament Mode -
 * Spectator Mode -
 * Mini-Games -
 * Online Mode -
 * Practice Mode -
 * Upgrades -
 * Gallery -
 * Options -

Plot
Main article: Chou Super Robot Wars AE/Plot

Characters
(*) - Unlockable, playable later on in Story Mode (**) - Unlockable, unplayable in Story Mode (***) - Playable only in Story Mode, unplayable in other modes (****) - Unplayable

Music
Opening Theme: Ending Theme:
 * TRANSFORMERS EVO.
 * Performed by: JAM Project
 * Composed by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Lyrics by: Hironobu Kageyama
 * Arranged by: Daisuke Kikuta
 * Chōdenji ~We are Brothers 2021~
 * Performed by: Super Robot Music All Stars
 * Composed by: AYANO (of FULL AHEAD)
 * Lyrics by: Shoko Fujibayashi
 * Arranged by: Daisuke Kikuta

Trivia

 * Not counting the mobile game Super Robot Wars X-Ω, Chou Super Robot Wars Æ and M surpass 3rd Super Robot Wars Z as the game with the largest playable cast in the series.
 * As a side-story to Project X Zone 3, characters, villains and plot elements from the game are also present here. Many other characters only appear in cameos in cutscenes.
 * References from Project X Zone 3 are also made in various points of the game.
 * The last chapters of the game also take place at the same time and place as PXZ3's final events.
 * To celebrate the 55th anniversary of Ultraman, the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider and the 45th anniversary of Super Sentai, characters from these respective franchises appear in this game. This also marks the first appearance of a character(s) from the Ultra and Kamen Rider series in a Super Robot Wars game.