I haven't really played it much - I only bought it because it was dirt cheap, and after not being able to get it to work very well on my SFC I sold it to a friend. From what little I saw of it though you're not too far off the mark... when in the top-down view you only control one unit, in realtime, but once you enter battle it becomes this sort of turn-based strategy thing. I wasn't very impressed by it, it seemed pretty average for an SFC game based on an anime license. But if that sort of stuff is up your ally (and/or you really dig Patlabor) I suppose you might like it. The guy I sold it to is a huge nut for anything giant robots, and he seemed to love it.
