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SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays – The latest game in the SD Gundam G Generation series – a name that so far has a long history of nearly 23 years (since its first appearance in 1998).
Although the same strategy game and under the same name of Bandai Namco, unlike Super Robot Wars, which often creates its own separate story, the world of SD Gundam G Generation focuses more on exploiting events, manga revolves around the world of animation and comic books about Gundam.
And not out of the “traditional” SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays owns more than 31 different Gundam movies/stories, ranging from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing to Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans …
So with the huge number of titles and the experience from their predecessors, can SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays be able to outdo their seniors?
The answer will be in the following article.
SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays is not the only game based on the Gundam theme the giant fighting robots from Japan have been the inspiration for many different titles from pure action / fight like Gundam VS series, craft / simulate like Gundam Breaker, fight like Gundam Versus …
And while being replaced by many other names, more “less boring” genres, but the classic strategy game series about Gundam still has a place for itself.
But despite being in the same tactical genre, Super Robot Wars forces you to “try hard” to death with an extremely confusing set of strategies, SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays is a lot easier to breathe.
The first thing that will make you overwhelmed when you first enter the world of SD Gundam G Generation is the enormous amount of characters in the series.
We are talking about “characters”, not Gundam, each character has stats, skills, and hundreds of different things that are suitable for each different task and that’s not to mention the fact that You can create your new characters and when completing story missions, you can even recruit characters from that series/story to your team.
Character creation feature, though not so much as you can move each of the character’s eyebrows, just stop at choosing the available character models.
But the choices in character creation such as date of birth, blood type, habit … will affect the character’s stats and skills, sometimes you will create a super warrior by random drawing.
And although it sounds simple the stats of a character are quite confused.
In general, we can divide into two groups which are the indicators affecting Warship including Auxiliary, Communication, Navigation, Maintenance, Charisma.
The second group of indicators affects Gundam including Command, Ranged, Melee, Defense, Reaction, Awaken.
In addition to the “classic” way of leveling up, you can change your character’s stats by spending CAP (in-game currency), usually, this will cost you a lot.
Scout characters will often own their special attributes, these personal attributes will significantly affect the stats or vehicles that the character uses.
And what if you think character building gave you a headache? Optimizing a Gundam will help you rethink that.
Although no Gundam is crafting and coordinating function like Break, with more than 31 publications included in the game, SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays also own several Gundam, military weapons, ships … up to thousand.
Each Gundam has its unique characteristics, when leveling up, you will receive some points to increase the stats of the Gundam.
Once the required level is reached, you can transform Gundam to other models or upgrade them (Develop). You can also decompose Gundam into entry-level models, combine different types to create new Gundam drawings …
When you fail in battle, you will still keep the pilot, but the Gundam will be destroyed, you can buy them back using CAP in the Produce section.
Gundam, warships, or military weapons … can be “customized” with special items (modify), depending on the level that these items can be worth the same as a high-end Gundam.
Your team will be divided into two types, squadron and single squad, a total of 4 groups in total.
The group of warships will have the “privilege” of adding a mother ship to attack, the mother ship will possess special skills and can support the squad with buffs or extra damage.
The single group has the advantage of independent combat, the characters in the single squad can freely combine attacks (as long as they are within the attack range).
Single squads also possess a special skill called Raid Link, which can attack multiple targets at the same time (the number of targets is based on the number of members, and the more targets selected the more damage decreases).
Both types of squads have different advantages and disadvantages, for example, the weakness of the warships group is that the members have to rely heavily on the mother ship and cannot combine attack/defense without the skills power and weapons are similar.
However, members can sacrifice 1 hit to return to the ship to restore health and energy as well as benefit from the buffs from the mother ship.
Meanwhile, the single party has great difficulty if it cannot do enough damage to hit and run if you stand too far from the other members of the team or miscalculate the remaining energy of your teammates. the cost will probably be your expensive Gundam.
When members of a single party stand close to each other, they will restore a certain amount of health, but in return, will affect the regeneration energy.
Characters can freely “switch work” depending on the tactics you want to use.
The levels are also divided into different difficulty levels including Normal, Hard, and Extra.
Different levels of difficulty will have different rewards, when defeating bosses or sub-bosses in the game screen, you will receive the passive skills of that character, in case the NPCs take down the boss or you do not want to receive skills, it will be put into stock, you have to spend CAP to redeem those skills.
Building a complete passive skill board for a character will take up a lot of your brainpower, usually try to take all of the first and give the character you want to kill off the boss.
Skills of the same type can be stacked together (eg marksmanship lv.1, marksmanship lv.2…) but the same name cannot (you cannot learn marksmanship lv.1 twice).
Of course, you will not have to be the central character in the game but will be like a mercenary team supporting the main characters, this will help the plot not be diluted or changed.
The main characters will appear as NPCs and although possessing more power than a normal character, if you let them die, you must play the scene again.
The Dispatch feature is also particularly important, with this feature, you can … plug in the machine for the character to training himself, which helps a lot if you do not have enough time to training day and night.
There will be a variety of rewards in Dispatch except for experience and CAP with Modify items, Gundam, passive skills, weapons …
Despite knowing it is a sibling, the interface of SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays is no different from Super Robot Wars T.
And of course, not only the interface, even the context, cut-scenes, character models … of Super Robot Wars T are also given to their half-brother.
The plot of the game also has a problem (which certainly can not be fixed) that the plot is compressed to speed through the battle screen, what the movie takes 5 episodes to solve, the game converts into a chapter and a bunch of words runs for 30 minutes.
For example, the writer loves the way the film builds the scene of CGS teenagers dying in Mobile suit Gundam: Iron-blooded orphans, especially the part where the teammate mourns for Danji’s sacrifice, in the game it only prompted for… 5 seconds and an expressionless line.
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SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS (English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean Subs) for Nintendo Switch: Buy it now
SD Gundam G Generations Crossrays (English) for PlayStation 4: Buy it now
PS VITA SD Gundam G Generation Genesis (English Subs) for PlayStation VITA: Buy it now
SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays [Japan Import]: Buy it now