The nameless faceless protagonist and their friends are all extremely good and building Gunpla and operate them in virtual simulations like actual Mobile Suit pilots. The game places you in the shoes of a Gunpla Builder (Gunpla refers to the real-life toys that allow fans of the series to build their own Gundams from scratch with small parts and paint them). Much to my surprise, New Gundam Breaker actually manages to circumvent this issue and have a pretty serviceable, somewhat entertaining story. This is why sometimes you end up with Setsuna fighting Aznable in an arena that neither of them have any reason to be inside. The main problem with the Gundam games so far have always been stories, because most of them try to incorporate Mobile Suits from different entries in the series within the same narrative, resulting in stories that can only be described as jumbled messes. Despite offering an intermittently entertaining story and a very robust customization system, New Gundam Breaker fails at crafting an engaging game out of its many disparate elements. New Gundam Breaker, however, is far from great.

The Gundam games are quite saturated - more so than you think - and have had an impressive string of successes lately. If a JRPG is a nerdy stat spreadsheet draped over evocative fantasy settings, mecha games are those same spreadsheets applied to a game of cold, hard maths, and New Gundam Breaker is exactly that kind of game.īehind the anime veneer and the visual novel style narrative, New Gundam Breaker is as traditional as mech games can get, just with the added style that comes with the Gundam license.

The whole point is to build an awesome robot, equip it with the best parts for the way you want it to function, then take it to battle and punch other awesome robots with it.

The best part of mech games is always in the min-maxing they eventually come down to.

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