SD Gundam Battle Alliance Took One Hour To Turn Me Into A Gundam Fan
There’s only two things I know about Mobile Suit Gundam: the models are really hard to build, and one of them is called Grandpa, I think. Gundan just didn’t grab me when I was kid like so many of my peers. Transformers that can’t transform? That’s going to be a hard pass. I see now how naive I was thanks to SD Gundam Battle Alliance, a game I never expected would creep into my 2022 most anticipated list. I hope the Gundam community will accept my sincerest apologies.
SD Gundam Battle Alliance is not easily summarized. By way of genre it’s an action RPG that combines hack-and-slash combat with crunchy, stat-heavy character progression. It’s also a character collector that reimagines 25 generations of MSG in an adorable chibi art style, which admittedly is what drew me to the game despite having no little prior knowledge of the franchise (just those two things). Narratively, Battle Alliance is a retelling of every major storyline from the entirety of Gundam’s history - though the details have been changed in disastrous, time-breaking ways.
Battle Alliance takes place in the G: Universe, a dimension where all the big moments from Gundam’s past are happening again, but for some reason, are happening all wrong. Characters are appearing where they shouldn’t be, outcomes are changing dramatically, and history is being rewritten before your very eyes. Throughout each mission in Battle Alliance, your job is to intervene in these “Breaks” and resolve whatever deviation is occurring - typically by fighting other Gundams.
Related: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Shows That Open World Final Fantasy Is More Than Possible
While the history of Gundam and the significance of these events is entirely lost on me, the concept isn’t hard to
Read more on thegamer.com
