Talk:Walking Fortress Balam

It states that "Balam is rather blatantly inspired by the Jaeger robots from Pacific Rim." in this article, but this is factually incorrect. 30 seconds to fact check shows that Pacific Rim came out 8 days after EDF 2025. Whoever wrote this clearly was going off their own gut, and didn't bother to check at all.

Balam is far more likely based on any of the number of other giant robots that have been a staple of Japanese Kaiju movies and television going back some 50 years or more before either this game or Pacific Rim came out - and in fact were the inspiration for Pacific Rim itself. Jet Jaguar, Ultraman, Golion/Voltron, Specterman, and many, many others are part of this lineage.


 * 31 seconds to fact check will lead to the revelation that Walking Fortress Balam is not in EDF 2025, only 4.1, which came out two years after Pacific Rim. What was that about going off your own gut? Evil Tim (talk) 18:54, 25 September 2021 (UTC)