SD Gundam Battle Alliance is a multi-platform action RPG video game featuring characters and SD mobile suits from the Gundam franchise. The main game was released on August 25, 2022, with additional content being purchasable as DLC.
Plot[]
The story revolves around the player (referred to purely as "Commander") assisting a programmer named Juno Astarte from the GR Corps who has detected anomalies within the G (Gundam) Universe. These anomalies causes "breaks" to occur, scrambling several units from different universes and placing them into battles and situations that could potentially alter another universe's history.
Now, with the help of the AI program named Sakura Slash, the members of the GR Corps must enter the various timelines to stop these breakages and to undercover the mastermind behind this new virus.
Gameplay[]
Similar to the Dynasty Warriors Gundam series, Battle Alliance's gameplay is hack 'n' slash action where the player must traverse a map in their mobile suit to complete tasks and defeat enemies for objectives. Each unit has a main weapon and a pair of sub weapons for their attacks which have an ammo count, as well as melee attacks which do not cost ammo. Additionally, hitting enemies or taking damage will also increase the player's special gauge, and they can unleash a powerful attack once the gauge is full. Each enemy, whether generic, aces or bosses, has its own level, with stronger leveled opponents having more health and damage. Aces and bosses also have the balance gauge, which is depleted whenever the player does damage to them and will be stunned once the gauge is emptied. Additionally, hitting enemies from behind will deal more damage and empty the balance gauge much faster. Encountering and defeating aces will also give the player MS data and blueprints, which can be used to unlock and develop more playable units.
The player may take two partners with them, but these partners cannot be the same name (e.g.: OYW Amuro and CCA Amuro). If one partner has their health depleted the player can attempt to revive them by using a repair kit, though this leaves them stationary and vulnerable. The same applies vice versa, if the player's health has been depleted, they can use a repair kit as long as their partners are alive. Each unit, however, only has a limited amount of usable kits. Each partner has a default unit though they can be assigned other units, and will also provide extra buffs to the player's stats. The player's friendship with these pilots will also affect these buffs as they will increase after victories together, but will decrease if the partner has been defeated in battle.
Initially, the player must enter altered battles where the distortions may either prevent key characters or events from normally appearing or swapping out characters from another timeline. To solve this, the player will be sent to "Break Missions," the source timeline of the characters causing the anomalies to obtain "Fragment Keys." Once enough have been obtained, the player may take the keys to clear the original battle in the way it was meant to be.
Each unit has 6 stats:
- HP
- Physical Damage Cut (Defense vs. Live Rounds and Physical Weapons)
- Beam Damage Cut (Defense vs. Beam-based weapons)
- Melee Damage
- Ranged Damage
- Boost
The player may also spend capital obtained from defeating enemies to improve either the HP, Boost, or Attack stats. These stats can be lowered to regain capital. Aside from these, the player can obtain parts from defeating enemy commanders which can provide more substantial boosts or short drawbacks. These parts can also be sold for more capital to upgrade with.
Characters Featured[]
Mecha Featured[]
All playable units are divided into 3 categories: that focus on ranged attacks
- Infighters - Units that focus on melee attacks
- All-Rounders - Units with a balanced move list
Unplayable Ace and Boss Units[]
Release[]
A demo for the game was also released on July 22, 2022, with transferrable save data to the main game on release.
Aside from the standard release, purchasing the Digital Limited Edition, Ultimate Edition or Deluxe Edition will reward players with an early unlock for the SDV-04 Command Gundam. Early purchase or pre-order bonuses include the SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden pack, MS research support: Start Dash Pack & an early unlock for the RX-78-2 Gundam, an early unlock for the Knight Gundam, and an early unlock for the Musha Gundam.
The first set of DLC was released on September 21 and it's known as "The Cursed Treasure", featuring Kio and the AGE-FX Gundam AGE-FX, and "Destination of Legend" featuring Jona and the RX-9 Narrative Gundam. A DLC music and sound pack was also revealed featuring 35 songs from Gundam series, and 15 songs from other Gundam games.
Gallery[]
Notes & Trivia[]
- Aside from reusing voice assets from previous SD Gundam games, the game also uses assets from the Gundam Extreme Vs. series such as having the archived grunts and dialogue of the late Koji Tsujitani and Keiji Fujiwara.
- Overseas releases of the game still refers to the God Gundam as Burning Gundam and the Devil Gundam as Dark Gundam. This is due too the previous controversy surrounding the naming despite the controversy dying down.
Translation Errors[]
- During Destination of Legend, Kamille's statement "The bird will show us the way" is incorrect and was more likely "The gate will show us the way".
- During Mikazuki's special partner intro with Akihiro, the script states that he was given a job by Akihiro rather than it supposed to say that they've got another job.