Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urdr Hunt Special Edition: Path of the Little Challenger

you can tell it's a bunch of mobile game cutscenes stitched together, but it's hard to call it a movie, if anything they really shouldn't have called it one it's mostly a bunch of "this happened, that happened" and the scene usually cuts right before you expect more since it probably was supposed to cut to gacha gameplay considering that the gacha isn't even accessible this is the only way you'd be able to view these scenes out of curiosity anyway they introduce a lot of characters that you're expected to care about in a matter of minutes, so it's a little hard to care for them butoverall everyone in the main crew is likeable by the end for what it's worth, it's not terrible when you get past the whiplash and just realize it's just a big recap, you can just enjoy the cute stuff and fighting since those are still well done, brings you back to the ibo style that hasn't been seen in a long time

If the real treasure is the friends we made along the way, how come we barely get to know them? If you're familiar with the campaign of Fate/Grand Order or Nikke: Goddess of Victory, this premise and story structure should sound very familiar. You have your base to build, a helpful advisor who gives you a tutorial, and spots on the map you have to tap to either dig for materials or fight other players. All the cutscenes or dialogue segments are built around getting you from one battle to the next, occasionally taking breaks to interact with your crew. So how do they make thatwork as a movie? The short answer: They don't. While Xhosa's narration at least makes for a coherent recap, it's of an anime season that never existed. Characters come and go minutes after they're introduced, plot points are told rather than shown, and battles amount to nothing more than their opening and finishing moves. Even with what seem like additional clips, the result is a video game story with all the gameplay removed. Full Review: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/mobile-suit-gundam/iron-blooded-orphans-ur-r-hunt-special-edition/anime-film/.233046

The movie plays as a glorified recap episode for a tv show we should've gotten instead, and its quite unfortunate that the majority of the story as well as character progression and building is removed due the majority of the animation is from a now defunct game. Because of this its really hard to care whats going on and happening to the characters or thier motivations for taking part in the Urdr hunt, leaving you with just the few moments characters and plot points from IBO show up The story itself and characters are quite intresting and would have made for a fun series leading youon a treasure hunt through the IBO universe. the animation was well done and their were some exciting action scenes, especially when the first mobile armor shows up. i wish we got more of what would be the series main antagonists, which thankfully isn't another char clone. some of the character reveals are interesting and i would have liked if they done more with it and would have made for a good several episode arc. the mobile suit designs are unique enough and stand out, with the main Gundam being well designed, though the movie skips how and why its upgraded along the way. overall its hard to recommend this movie unless you need more IBO content or want something gundam to put on. with its main sin being it should've been a fully fleshed out OVA or tv series instead of a condensed movie, leaving the end product to have extremely rushed pacing, with little to none character building, some decent fight scenes, and a taste of what would have been a decent Gundam show