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New Gundam Breaker (PS4) Status: Stopped playing - Something better came along I started playing this game on Sunday 5 July, 2020 // I stopped playing this game on: Monday 6 July, 2020
Current opinion of this game
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July 6, 2020 04:35:58 PM
I picked this game up in Japan thinking it was a Japan-only release (it isn't) and figured that since it was cheap and seemed accessible, why not? It's a hot, crazy mess in which you fight against other Gundam mecha - but, and here's the weird thing, you're all toy mecha! At least I think that's what is going on - it's all in Japanese which I neither read nor understand. There'a fair amount of reading, with characters you talk to, dialogue choices, and such. But the battles? Lots of different combos and a lot of chaotic fighting. Also, it seems like your continously losing parts from your mech (that get knocked off?) and you can knock bits off your opponent's mechs as well. In all, I'm really intrigued - I easily got S-rankings on the 3 missions I played, but to be honest I had no idea what I was supposed to do or what was going on. I guess my NPC companions were really good at the game! I'm curious to play the western version (as in, not in Japanese), but I saw the reviews were terrible so I'm not sure that knowing what to do will be much good? To be clear, I wasn't having fun - but I was curious.