Being a fan for gundam series, it is a surprise and excite me to see this arcade machine in Cheras Sentral, a refurbished Plaza Pheonix near Bukit Len Sen. Featuring original mobile suit from Universal Century timeline, the arcade seem to put you in the environment of a mobile suit pilot.
For first timer, the game will let you ride on TGM-79, a mobile suit for trainee. If you want a better suit, you have to buy the Banapassport to store your progress.
The sound and graphic is very cool although it is not as close as driving a real mobile suit but the experience is still worthwhile. The control will be bit tricky as it use dual joystick and foot pedal to accelerate and boosted jump. Lucky for you, each session will be give you 2 time gameplays. Hope you can master the control by the second battle.
To save your progress, you have to touch the terminal that located in between the P.O.D. (Panorama Optical Display) with your Banapassport. At terminal, you can customize your mobile suit and your pilot. But do be informed, the game is in Japanese. If you are not Japanese literate, just follow your guts and pick the right setting.
The price per session is RM5 and Banapassport is RM18. The Banapassport also can be used for Initial D game which also in the same arcade. The arcade is located at Level 9 in front of the TGV cinema. Do give it a try if you want a fan of Universal Century gundam.
