This issue is minimally distracting during battle missions, but a large focus of the game is the creation, editing and coloring of your Gunpla, which is accomplished via a very complicated and unintuitive system of menus. In fact, I don’t know what I don’t know, if that makes any sense. This is exacerbated by the fact that the font used in the game is tiny, so entire lines of text and prompts could be missing, and players would never know. The only way to play New Gundam Breaker is with the video feed cut off on all sides. In fact, players actually have to leave the campaign completely and exit to the starting menu to reach an options screen, and after 10 minutes of disbelieving fiddling, I was forced to concede that there simply is no option in the game to adjust the image ratio. For a time, I was actually unable to pause the game at all. But I was stunned to find that there was no options menu in the pause screen. A simple trip to the options menu to adjust the image parameters typically clears things up. This is not unusual when starting a new game. The lines of text and UI bits around the borders of the image were severed, rendering many of the options and UI prompts incomprehensible. Attempting to muddle through the start of the single player campaign, I noticed that the edges of the screen were cut off. Right out of the gate, I could see that something was utterly wrong with New Gundam Breaker.

What is this game? Is it even a game at all? What is it supposed to be? How did a concept as awesome as “build robots and take them into battle against each other” go so horribly, dramatically wrong? Playing New Gundam Breaker, I simply cannot comprehend what I am looking at. It is rare that I am at a loss for words when it comes to describing a game.īut in its hollow emptiness, New Gundam Breaker has left my mind a void – an echo chamber of Japanese butt-pop, blinding but meaningless special effects, and 1998 demo-disc graphics.

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