Image from VR prototype version of Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield
Mobile Suit Gundam is a major franchise in Japan, so huge that it has also spawned new video games every year. Last year saw the releases of Gundam Breaker 3 and SD Gundam G Generation Genesis, and in this year we have Gundam Versus which has been released worldwide on PS4.
In a recent issue of Dengeki PlayStation magazine, Dengeki has published a series of interviews with numerous Japanese game creators; one of them being Kotaro Usui, a producer from Bandai Namco who handled Gundam Breaker 3 and SD Gundam G Generation Genesis. This interview covers what he had done in 2017 and what to expect from him in 2018 and beyond. We have translated the interview, and if you’re a big fan of Gundam, you will definitely want to read this. Image from Gundam Breaker 3
Dengeki: Please tell us how you?re looking back at your own work and activity in 2017.
Usui: In the early half of 2017 we had released DLC for Gundam Breaker 3 and SD Gundam G Generation Genesis. Both of them are titles that were released in 2016, but as requests from customers that they ?want to play the games more? overlapped with our own feelings of ?wanting to have the games enjoyable for a long time?, we are able to publish post-release contents in a long term. Thank you for sticking together with us.
We started working on them after the game?s release, so the DLC for Gundam Breaker 3, in particular, took quite some time to release. But we were ...