I'm playing Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 which I'll simply start off by saying that it is not a franchise I've ever cared for. If you like these types of games, good for you, but I just don't see the appeal.

My major gameplay gripe at the moment is how sometimes a mission can be a luck-based battle depending on who you get partnered up with, and who you are up against. In trying to do this one mission, I kept either getting stuck with minor characters with crappy mobile suits as partners who kept getting killed off if I wasn't constantly babysitting them or the enemy kept getting their top three aces from their team who loved to travel as a group and respawned after what felt like 10 seconds from when I took them down. Usually I got some combination of both leading to getting my ass handed to me if I wasn't using a character with an overpowered Mobile Suit like the Unicorn or Nu Gundam. The party choices are random too so I sometimes which the lineup was either set or I could choose.

My other gripe has more to do with nature of franchise fan-service titles in that the more popular series get uneven representation from less popular series. Kind of like how Record Keeper heavily favors FFIV, VI, VII, and X until very recently. You would almost think Gundam was just the first two series of the original Mobile Suit Gundam and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam as they have tons of characters from their series whereas the other series are lucky to get two representatives. I mean I understand that G Gundam was more popular in the West but this type of game is just a perfect fit for that series. It's massive cast of different Gundams would have been a blast to use in this game since they offered a bit of variety but, instead we only get two playable characters and a side character. Still better than poor Victory Gundam... not to mention 08th MS Team and 0080 War in the Pocket get zero representation.

The game also couldn't get a lot of voice actors to come back to reprise their roles so poor Domon sounds nothing like his original VA, and Heero Yui is comically being voiced by the same actor who plays his rival, making this an amusing moment of talking to yourself.