The gameplay loop itself is basic, but escalates further as you progress with deceptively easy battles at the forefront while many of its bigger encounters tend to reign in a little more malice near its end game. A variety of mechs carry integral weaponry that showcase the way your “nobody” character can demonstrate their string of combos. To keep the lore of the entire campaign narrow, you portray yourself – essentially a character with no consequences to actual Gundam lore surrounding you, while the entire story plays out. It can be somewhat jarring given I’ve actually watched the original series, and while certain throwaway pieces are missing, key moments to the franchise are all included to give the player an idea of what Gundam is all about. However, the great thing about streamlining the title this way, is including suits across multiple generations of Gundam, allowing you to customise your hero anyway you like.

The narrative doesn’t necessarily lock you into one specific generation of Gundam, allowing you to understand more of its pre-determined history. Flashbacks are sprinkled in to give players an idea of certain unrecalled events that have taken place within Gundam, but can be hard to follow if you have no idea who some of these characters are. But it’s enough to bring you a coherent campaign, and excite those that are new to the series regardless. While story elements will be a retelling of events, the campaign is actually set within the G-Universe, and alternate to Gundam’s timeline which has events misconstrued to the point where it’s up to our protagonist to keep events in order. The intention here is to revisit Gundam’s greatest events and keep order to them without change; a cool concept for those that love the idea of time travel or history manipulating itself without cognition.