Arguably my 3rd favourite fighting game behind UMVC3 and MBTL.The fast paced action and exciting gameplay make me come back to play this game almost everyday. While the controls are super simple, the mechanics are deep and intricate, making this game have a lot of depth and complex. It’s very hard, but once you get the hang of the controls, you feel like a god, even though you’re still getting trashed in online lobbies. I love this game so much, but I wish Bamco would release the newer versions globally

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Maxi Boost ON was my true introduction to the Gundam VS. series of games. It's a team based arena fighter, meaning it is on a fully 3D plane. The controls are extremely simple to understand allowing me, a newbie to the franchise, to be able to pick it up and play right off the bat. The netcode, for the most part, is very good. It allows you to see if you're playing against wired players or not which is always a plus. The roster is absolutely phenomenal with almost 200 playable mobile suits spanning the entire franchise, so you're almost guaranteed to find one you enjoy. The gameplay is simple, yet has a lot of depth. As such you may find yourself struggling to keep up with veterans. The community has made a plethora of resources for new and returning players. If you plan to 100% the Maxi Missions mode I highly recommend well versing yourself in these resources to hone your gameplay as some missions can become nail-bitingly hard on top of having to learn to fight all 190+ mobile suits. The nonexistence of DLC and Balance Patches is a shame, but understandable as it's an arcade port that's two updates out of date. Plus we got 3 suits backported from Extreme VS. 2 in the form of the Montero, Zaku Amazing and Barbatos Lupus Rex. Overall I highly recommend giving the game a try. The community is always growing and are very open to new players.

Definitley the most fun Gundam Versus game to date. Has a good balance of single and multiplayer content, and a butt load of suits that for the most part feel balanced and fun.

Sadly the series is still very niche despite the official international release.


Branch Mode was fine. Mission Mode was fun but getting S ranks on some missions is dumb. X Missions are impossible.

Adding the Extend Burst is a cool nice way to make support-only suits more viable. A lot of fun suits were added since Full Boost with much less of the dumb filler from Versus. Generally it feels the most balanced of all the VS games I've played so far.

00 Gundam Seven Sword is my new favorite suit. It basically made my old main Wing Zero EW not fun anymore lol. 00 Raiser has gotten a lot more fun as an aggressive beam spam suit. All 3 Lockon suits are now super fun. Noble, Shadow, and Rising are so much more fun than Domon/Master suits it's crazy. Wing Zero TV, Banshee, and X Divider are now potential options for variety of playstyles piloted by good characters.

nah you don't get it
if I see one more of you lame ass Toonami Boys coming on this game with your Wing suits
your G Gundam suits
or your IBO suits
im gonna murder your cat in front of you.
I hate ya'll so much.

I love fighting games with absurdly large rosters, especially ones that play well. Almost every mobile suit has something unique about it and even if the game's emphasis on movement and ranged combat makes mobile suits suits like Cucuruz Doan's Zaku kind of bad when compared to something like the Nu or Zeta Gundams, the overwhelming majority of available mobile suits are at least good enough to be viable.
My only real complaint is with a few specific omissions from the roster, but that's basically just the G Gundam fan in me being mad that Gundams Bolt and Maxter didn't make the cut while the Rising and Dragon Gundams did. It's also kind of odd how both Barbatos and Barbatos Lupus are in the game but Barbatos Lupus Rex isn't, but I'd need to look at when that actually first showed up in Iron-Blooded Orphans to see if it even could have been included in the game or not.

An incredible arena fighter that actually has a deep meta?! Say it ain't so! Fortunately it is so, MBON is like if devs actually wanted to make an arena fighter that actually feels good to play. With a ridiculous amount of unique mobile suits to play (200 as of XBoost, compared to the measly 90 in Smash Bros. Ultimate), as well as an easy to get but hard to master control scheme emphasizing movement tech and ranged combat, this neutral-heavy and competitively viable fighting game doesn't nearly get the attention it truly deserves.

Fundamentally I still love Gundam; it was my first FGC experience, the first thing in my life I chose and worked hard to get good at, and I did enjoy some of the validation I got when I started playing with, and even beating, some of the top players at this game. In this entry in particular, all the stops had been pulled out and yet there was a cohesive product still here; there were imbalances sure, but the gaps between suits was much smaller than say, Full Boost or Next+, and the dedication towards making sure all 190+ suits at least have something to them is really impressive. This still stands as the perfect-proof example that just because a fighting game has a big roster that imbalance should be expected, or that there's some eternal tradeoff between depth and variety. Plus there's just a lot of Gundam fanservice here that's endlessly entertaining.

However, I'm no longer enamored with Gundam as I used to be, mainly because:

1) dudes be bitch-made lol. because this is a netplay game and a cooperative game it's easy for the more easily frustrated among us to get titled and blame their partner for a loss; this can result in lobbies where one obviously new/less skilled player is just looking for anyone to partner with them and absolutely no one will, and it just breaks my heart to see this happen, especially cuz it's a problem the gundam community has been dealing with close to a decade at this point. Shuffle lobbies have this problem less, but you still get the occasional dope who behaves poorly. Because the community is so small, the asshole behavior can stick out more, and I really feel for new players who can feel alienated by it.

2) Bandai Scamco really did this whole 'porting' process dirty, MBON was legitimately 4 years old by the time it was finally released on PS4, which is fine and I'm grateful for, but also isn't it a kind of weird for a home fighting game to be 3 versions behind the current arcade versions? EXVS2 is different sure, but we aren't talking an Ultimate vs. Melee difference here. Like, am I the only weirded out by this? it's so odd that we're playing more or less a solved and outdated game from a competitive standpoint.