Publisher: Bandai
Developer: Bandai
Release Date: 12/17/1998
Date Played: 5/5/2018
Region: Japan
Time Played: 30 minutes
What’d you think?: Mobile Suit Gundam – Char’s Counterattack is a fighting game! And one I really enjoyed playing, despite not being a fan of gundams or fighting games. It’s set in space, so you seemed to have full 360 degree movement on one axis, as well as being able to move up or down. I feel like they may have faked this freedom of movement in some way, but if so, they did it well. You have melee and gun attacks, and the latter have cooldowns after you expend all your ammo. I never quite figured out what I was doing, but I won a few fights in the arcade mode and the story mode. The story mode had lots of anime cut scenes, presumably from the movie this game was based on, as well as fights that were different from just mech vs mech like you get in the arcade/vs mode. I really loved this damn thing.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ougY6cE9-DA
