Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny

About Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny

Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny is a trilogy of Sega Saturn video games set during the One Year War. The series made its debut on September 20, 1996 with an entry entitled Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story I: Blue Terror (戦慄のブルー‎, Senritsu no Burū ), on December 6, 1996 this game received a sequel entitled Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story II: Heir to the Blue (蒼を受け継ぐ者‎, Ao wo Uketsugu Mono ), the series' last entry, Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story III: The Condemned (裁かれし者‎, Sabakareshi Mono ), was released on March 7, 1997. Finally, later that year on August 29, Bandai released the compilation under its final title of Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny (機動戦士ガンダム外伝 THE BLUE DESTINY, Kidō senshi gandamu gaiden THE BLUE DESTINY ).

The MSGSS games are unique among Gundam games in and that rather than placing the player in a behind the shoulder third person view, they instead put the player in a first person view from the inside of the Mobile Suit's cockpit. They also make up the most significant entry in the "gaiden" Gundam games, those not based directly upon characters and events from the animated television series. The series and its heirs, such as Mobile Suit Gundam: Rise from the Ashes, are also known for gameplay that is grittier and more challenging than that of the Gundam games based on existing canon material. One of the primary reasons for this is that the protagonists are not Newtypes, but normal humans and they are forced to use mobile suits such as the RGM-79 GM, rather than the significantly more powerful Gundam.

The story of The Blue Destiny was adapted into a manga by author Mizuho Takayama and published in Haoh Magazine, under the same title as the compilation, Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story THE BLUE DESTINY, however the publisher folded before the story could be completed. Despite this, an English publisher Tokyopop released a translation of the manga in America, titled Mobile Suit Gundam Blue Destiny.

The manga adaption includes some minor story changes, including the introduction of new characters. While these elements are considered to be outside of The Blue Destiny's officiality, characters and Gundams from The Blue Desti