even as a sub <20 player discord fighter the gundam zoo reputation still applies. lol. bitching aside i've kinda cooled off on this from when i first played it....jumping from MBON to this it was rlly apparent how every suit got some kind of upgrade or toolkit adjustment, which is rlly impressive considering they're over 200 suits or smthn like that in this game--even more impressive is that they took some of the clones here and gave them rlly unique movesets. lacus' IJ as IJ's old moveset + permament duel gundam buster gundam assist mode with a fuckhuge gerobi spread. alot of stuff feels good--where i fall off is the balancing, unlike say MBON and FB there's a big gap between suits that are top of the class and middle of the pack, to the point where forcing damage or asserting you're gameplan feels rlly tough against some of the stronger suits in the game. im not even sure it's like a "this suit is too strong" situation either, its more like "i'm not sure the suit im using has tools to handle this situation" type of deal. ever since burst this game has been about forcing damage but its starting to get outrageous lmao. in general this is all expected for every one of these gundam entries but ig after a decade of playing these im just kinda fatigued on the formula. in legacy FGs such as this (most apt comparison point is Tekken and VF maybe) where the selling point is iteration and small-scale overhauls, having kits that feel under/overtuned stands out rlly apparently. because like, what else did they work on?? my dad is an atlanta hawks fan and everytime the hawks reveal their mediocrity he'll point out a role player and be like "you can tell he did not work on anything over the offseason". sometimes when im playing these VS series i wanna pull bandai namco aside and be like "be honest with me. yall didn't do shit in the offseason".

also probably for the best this doesn't have a console port idk if the quality of port that was MBON would fly in this era.