Aww, did the remove the theme songs from the anime?

[Pankek]

In Breaker 3 at least, I remember that the theme songs from the Gundam anime would play if activate both the Awakening and the gunpla's "exclusive special ability" (NT-D, EXAM, HADES, Trans-Am, SUPER DRAGOON, etc). It was such a cool feature too, your melee weapon would change into a pure red beam, you can do animation cancels and immediately start new combos. As a bonus, the theme songs would persist for as long as you can keep the Awakening gauge topped up.

Examples: Unicorn would play if you activate Awakening + NT-D, the Blue Destiny theme plays if you use Awakening + EXAM, TRANS-AM RAISER plays when Awakening + Trans-Am are used in tandem, so on so forth.

Does Breaker 4 not have this feature? I tried using both the Awakening and NT-D, but the game just plays the generic Breaker 3 awakening theme.

[Punished Fumoposter]

Yeah I noticed that too. Absolutely disappointing.

[SuperStormDroid]

Originally posted by Punished Fumoposter:

Yeah I noticed that too. Absolutely disappointing.

That totally sucks. I wanted to hear "The Witch From Mercury" whenever the permet score lights activated.

[Shirakani]

I have a sickening feeling they will be DLC...

[KyzoBCM]

Originally posted by Shirakani:

I have a sickening feeling they will be DLC...

Wouldn't surprise me since they put the "radio" builder part in GB3 via DLC. Will probably do the same thing here.

[Outsider]

It's a common thing for western Gundam games releases.
Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn also had music cut from NA and EU versions.
Probably because of licensing.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Outsider:

Probably because of licensing.

Very likely. It's also why you rarely ever see SRW get foreign releases.

[Legion Grimclaw]

yeah its a licensing thing, western releases often have all jp tracks entirely stripped out. it happens in other franchises too, you just get a dumbed down instrumental track

[Houseki Yarisuke]

I hadn't considered that there would be licensing hurdles, but looking back on Gundam games' history in the west, that checks out.

Does that mean that the Japanese version of GB4 has these songs intact? If so, it would be really easy to mod the functionality back into the western skew, especially if the songs are still in the files.

[Moridin]

DBZ kakarot has some removed tracks that they licenced later via dlc.
Super Robot Wars 30 has almost all of them removed and need like £30 dlc to pay for them so the company can afford the licencing.
Digimon cybersleuth changed the name of a record company in game due to lacking the licence outside japan.
Yeah lots of them have removed music or seperate licence deals that get added as paid dlc.

[Pankek]

Originally posted by Moridin:

Super Robot Wars 30 has almost all of them removed and need like £30 dlc to pay for them so the company can afford the licencing.

CMIIW, I have SRW30 myself but haven't touched the game in a while, but wasn't the DLC for vocal tracks only? I didn't download the Premium Sound DLC myself, but I think the base game had all the typical "instrumental" versions of the OSTs from each respective anime.

[Moridin]

I'm not 100% sure on that. not sure on the graphics so been waiting on a big enough sale to try the game.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Emerald Lance:

Does that mean that the Japanese version of GB4 has these songs intact?

It does not, if it was licensing issues, they probably just didn't bother at all because of the Western release being a thing planned from the beginning, as opposed to with 1-3 where they didn't need to worry about that.

Originally posted by Moridin:

Super Robot Wars 30 has almost all of them removed and need like £30 dlc to pay for them so the company can afford the licencing.

Don't know about for the foreign version to be fair, but in the case of SRW the DLC was just for "original" versions as in the versions used in the shows (i.e. vocal versions generally) or a few other bonuses (like the original SRW 4 version of Time to Come alongside the OGs arrange)

[Raio]

Even if its a licensing thing the very least they could've done IMO was enable custom BGMs. They allowed it in Battle Alliance.

Having no control over the awakening track is ridiculous,it overrides every song and you can keep that mode up almost indefinitely come late game.