That gimmick is also fake too. It's all a lie. You won't loose your game if you die too many times. The deception is supposed to be part of the dimencia she has

I know this is a two year old reply but I got to see the show and you are on the mark with the Gundam showing up as a slasher villain.

More fun trivia, it was a "recon in force" Gundam. It has minimum armor, would hunt beyond enemy lines and just attack mobile suits.

Gundam is my favorite franchise and I am not looking forward to this.

But also, I don't believe a live action is real until it is actually out. I've heard this song and dance of a live action Mobile Suit Gundam too many times. They keep showing actors taking parts but no samples of the Gundam unit itself.

Now there is a live action Gundam movie that was a straight to TV thing that aired in Canada. Its called G-Savior. It wasn't the worst thing I have ever saw, but it wasn't very good. I chuckled when the movie reused props from Starship Troopers, mainly the security forces helmets and guns. I'll be fair and do praise that some parts of the script/story had some very Gundam-esque moments though.

The G Savior Gundam itself won't win points for design, I personally like the wide shoulders it got but the main suit doesn't have much unique features, maybe the energy shield but the Victory Gundam has that already. One great thing though is the bad guy suits!!!!! The villain mobile suits I think honestly look fantastic and feel they could of slipped into an Armored Core game as well. Maybe give G-Savior a try as a "so bad it's good" kind of thing. I had some decent entertainment with me.

Yeah. That guy was his friend too. Its very very bitter.

Yeah that's a unfortunate truth but it was also just that brief in the book as well. I absolutely love the brief carnage the Xi does and absolutely love seeing how much larger it is to other suits. The Xi G is one of the largest genuine GUNDAMS of the setting. There are suits that were bigger but they were either not Gundams or they were Mobile Armors which is a compeltly different platform.

Oh it definitely wasn't in the 1980s novel lol, you can tell by how different it looks. That fine though, gotta sell those model kits but it was still a good fight to watch filled with a good..and very very VERY bitter character moment.

As far as the dark path, it totally goes in with his mental state.

Spoiler!!!!

When he says he must be punished, it really stacks up to everything he is reflecting on himself. Even when he broke up with his girlfriend, probably the one stable thing he had left, I believe that he must feel punished for that too. He is destroying himself just so he can be the ideal "hero" all because he feels he has to punished for everything he has done big or small. I feel for him, I'm sure many of us have felt that at some point , and nothing good comes from destroying yourself.

Your emotions are going to be a casualty at the end of this sci-fi war story too.

Just saw the movie. Excellent piece of the original Gundam canon. Hathaway is going down a dark path that it seems like he can't walk away from.

I take a little pride in that I own all the DVDs or Blu-rays to the Universal Century (the prime continuity) Gundam shows.

Oh good! You'll be very blown away at how much Hathaway has matured sense that movie then.

First movie is on Netflix....or be friends with me on Discord because I own the theatrical release on Blu-ray :) . In Japan they sold a limited time blue ray in movie theaters and I got a copy. It even has English subtitles. Only Netflix has the dubbed version, which sucks because I want a copy of it. The dubb I think expresses the story a little better too.

Edit: more on the first movie..... It would be appropriate you also watch Mobile Suit Gundam: Chars Counterattack first because Hathaway is based on the events after that film. Hathaway isn't a major character in Chara Counterattack and he is a bit of turd in that movie, but despite that, the events of that movie mold him to be what he is in the Hathaway movies. I believe that movie is on Netflix too.

I am so hyped for this story.

Gundam Hathaway's Flash is written by the original Gundam creator back in the 1980s and it might be one of his best military thriller stories imo.

Hathaway is the child of the original Gundam characters, son of (now) Admiral Bright Noa, captain of the ship that launched the original Gundam.

Hathaway Noa himself has gone total anti-hero and is leading his own militia cell to assassinate Federation government officials. Many will say he's a terrorist but also at the same time, if you know the Gundam franchise you know these Federation officials have it coming.

The director of this movie has done some of my favorite works , director of Ergo Proxy and Genocidal Organ.

Many of the characters of this story I feel are flawed individuals, no one is clean or perfect in this story.

The RX-105 Xi Gundam is one of the largest Gundams of the franchise, I personally like it but I can respect others for not being a fan of its bulky design.

I forget how big real long swords are. They're called that for a reason.

Meanwhile most video games will just call just about any sword a "long sword".

So this game wanted to go for a realistic medieval times story, yet it still treats swords like light sabers and they can just cut through plate and chain mail by slashing?

Maybe I shouldn't nit pick because it's a common gaming trope but the game is setting itself up for this.

One of those all green screen movies. Like Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow.

Is there a basis to that statement?

It'd be one thing if you said Dark Souls, but GoT? I don't see it at all.

I'm gonna piggyback with this too. Also to note that Karou may have given Shinji the friendship and compassion he's always wanted but Karou is a Angel and used Shinji to break through NERV just like any other Angel would. Karou is a spy that used compassion to achieve his goals, a master manipulator at the end of the day.

And people actually pay to attended these classes?

Oh yes! I just saw bits of this too. Despite some more recent chop Ghost in the Shell has had, I will always be interested and willing to give GitS content a try. The movies and TV series were great and I think it's one of the most prime examples of good cyberpunk. I wasn't a big fan of ARISE but it was still high quality and interesting in parts.

I'd love to see this in action.

My perspective might be a bit contaminated. I knew about some of the back lore but it's not like I knew or memorized everything. I really enjoyed the movie as is and thought it was way more satisfying than the video game. I was extremely interested in what was going on. The later half picks up the pace by a huge margin and if you feel the first half was boring (I didn't think it was) I feel going through the second half is worth the wait.

Wow weird, looks like a actual group of people that you can call a team. Not a assortment of departments

Don't fuck with their trains and the gloves won't come off

I will never watch a Avatar movie again. I seen the first one twice, and I hate at how my father and aunt just nod in agreement with that movie's commentary about humanity. The blue alien people disgust me so much because there is no good nuance written about them, they're perfect and flawless and never war with each other, it's one of the most fake aliens I have seen in science fiction.

Sorry for the ramble.

Zero respect for a source material that hardly has any lore to it. I would say it's a lazy director but I think it's another Uve Bowell case. Just directing low hanging fruit video game IPs and making the movies bad with malice behind it.

It's amazing you call out so many darker skin characters in the game, yet it's the colonial white characters that arrive and give the effort to save the world. The rest just sit there thinking they're in "harmony" when in fact there is something wrong that the colonial foreigners come in to fix.

I'll be honest though, then characters in Wilds don't bother me. They're fun and silly and no one is really being punched down.

There's another book series (not Manga) that turned anime that I absolutely admire too and that's The Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It is a space epic of space epics! There are so many well written characters with such a well written history. I'm quite surprised at how well the author treats military characters, you got officers with good by the book conduct to military crayon eaters. It all feels like the author has done his research.

The scale of the fleet battles are wild too with fleets of tens-of-thousands ships engaging each other. There's plenty of cool sci-fi gizmos like power armor being so powerful that everyone has gone back to melee fighting. Yet despite all the tech lore in it, the driving factor is still the characters, some sci-fi focus too much on the "stuff and things" to be interesting.

If you just want to watch the anime series, there is a older 1980s series and 2020 series....I encourage them both! The 2020 series goes by events a little faster, which oddly goes into its favor, as the books didn't drag out events like the 1980s series did. The 1980s series though is also very well detailed. I personally favor the 2020 series more because of how it handled one specific event that makes it accurate to the books but that is major spoilers.