History YMMV / SDGundamGGeneration

* TearJerker: Putting characters from other series in [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam God Gundam]] and having them use Erupting God Finger is usually a funny moment. With [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDCE73Stargazer Sven Cal Bayang]], however…

** Some western fans are fond of Florence Kirishima for trying to speak like an {{Ojou}} but failing as her real personality comes through, going from being AxCrazy [[https://youtu.be/2Y6SutIIe4k to being ultra polite and formal back and forth, sometimes in the same sentence]]. She's the type of person who'll scream '''"I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR PIECE OF SCRAP MOBILE SUIT LIMB FROM LIMB!"''' and then follow that with ''"[[{{Keigo}} and have a cup of tea afterwards, de gozaimasu]]"''.

-->'''Sven:''' "[[UsedToBeASweetKid Back then, I used to watch anime like this on the sly…]] It's all far in the past for me now."

* TierInducedScrappy: Basically any unit with limited operational environments. In the games, all units and warships have a set of environments that they can operate in. For example, the Trilobite can only operate in water while most warships are limited to either space or land use. This renders them extremely situational due to their limited versatility with most players opting for more multi-terrain capable vehicles instead.

** ''G Generation Genesis'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOcRVgG4y8 "Cradle of Eternity"]] as its opening theme song and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVk6qbTqyIQ "Remains"]] as its ending theme song, both by Yuko Suzuhana, a lead vocalist of Music/WagakkiBand.

** Multi hitting physical attack in Spirits and Wars. Normally the damage scaling of an attack is proportional to the attacker attack and target defense stat. If your attack stat is twice as high as your opponent defense, you'll do double the expected damage and so on. This result in diminishing returns in the late game as the opponent defense rise and each attack point you get net you less damage. However, physical attacks instead have a flat 100 point of damage * the number of hits added instead which result in a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill absurd amount of damage]] if you keep leveling your attack stat, to the point that some people considered using Acguy because it had such an attack.
* GameMod: The community sparsely ventured into modifying the games, limited to texture packs for the post-''Wars'' games or minor code edits to the handheld ones... Until ''Cross Rays'' came to the PC, its success boosting the interest in including custom content such as recoloring the MSs or adding new pilots through replacement.

*** Speaking of, the ELS Qan[T] in ''CrossRays'' is this for those who haven't had any experience with its appearances in the Asia-Exclusive Arcade and Mobile Gundam-related/featured games since Gundam 00's 10th Anniversary campaign. Before that time, the unit had only been featured in the card-based ''Try Age'' Arcade game, but carrying over its regular counterpart's GN Sword V and Sword Bits, and only recently have its weaponry and fighting capabilities been expanded on.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Sisquiede in ''Cross Rays'', both the preorder bonus and the free DLC version. It looks cool, is extremely cheap given its stats, has a long range attack that partially ignores defense, has an I-field that drastically reduces damage from incoming ranged beam attacks for free, and is by far the most powerful unit you will be able to make at the start of the game. However, it is crippled by its extremely high energy usage that is only partially mitigated by putting it in a raid group (which gives innate energy regeneration) and said long range attack is the only one the MS has with more than 1 range until you raise its pilot's morale to "super high" (and it's a beam attack, making it useless in any stage with beam-resistant enemies such as the ''Iron-Blooded Orphans'' stages). It also is the only unit until the release of the (much more useful) DLC units that you cannot develop into something else, which gives players less incentive to use it over units that will develop into something more powerful. By the time you have and/or have trained pilots to fully utilize the Sisquiede's odd attacks, there will be suits that are far more flexible and outright better to use.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Sisquiede in ''Cross Rays'', both the preorder bonus and the free DLC version. It looks cool, is extremely cheap given its stats, has a long range attack that partially ignores defense, drastically reduces ranged beam attacks for free, and is by far the most powerful unit you will be able to make at the start of the game. However, it is crippled by its extremely high energy usage that is only partially mitigated by putting it in a raid group (which gives innate energy regeneration) and has only one attack with more than 1 range until you get into "super high" tension (and it's a beam attack, making it useless in any stage with beam-resistant enemies such as the ''Iron-Blooded Orphans'' stages). It also is the only unit until the release of the (much more useful) DLC units that you cannot develop into something else, which gives players less incentive to use it over units that will develop into something more powerful. By the time you have and/or have trained pilots to fully utilize the Sisquiede's odd attacks, there will be suits that are far more flexible and outright better to use.

* SoundtrackDissonance: This can be [[InvokedTrope invoked]] since you can assign any of the in-game music to a character for their attacks, but special mention goes to a version of [[Anime/GundamWing Quattre]] that's based on his [[spoiler: Zero-System influenced]] self. This version, at least in ''Cross Rays'', still uses the same theme as his other versions as default; it's jarring to hear optimistic and heroic music playing while this version of Quattre [[spoiler: rambles on about how he has to kill people and laughs like a maniac]].

* NightmareFuel: The banner for stage HELL-3 in ''Overworld'' has the Gundams of the heroes of each series featured in the game cloaked in crimson, staring down the viewer. Besides being the epitome of the dread instilled with what is known as the "Gundam rapeface" (see the general [[NightmareFuel/{{Gundam}} Nightmare Fuel page]] for the franchise as a whole), there's just something fundamentally ''wrong'' about the banner, mainly because those are the ''[=heroes'=]'' Gundams, ready to turn your team into scrap to destroy Earth, the direct antithesis to just about every single pilot of those suits. And unlike Balbadoro, which [[spoiler: was running towards the Earth because Amelias was trying to seize control of the planet for her own ends]], these Gundams are powered by the [[spoiler: old Generation System]] and are thus pure, unadulterated malevolence.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough to automatically capture it, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk, the screen flashes, and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map entirely, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and hence the implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply '''disintegrated''' around Kincaid/Tobia, Zabine, and ''especially' Berah's very bodies in a single instant in the middle of deep space...yeah, ouch.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough to automatically capture it, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk, the screen flashes, and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map entirely, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and hence the implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply '''disintegrated''' around their very bodies in a single instant...yeah, ouch.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough to automatically capture it, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and hence the implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply '''disintegrated''' around their very bodies in a single instant...yeah, ouch.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough to automatically capture it, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and hence the implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply '''disintegrated''' around their bodies in a single instant...ouch.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough to automatically capture it, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply disintegrated in a single instant because of it...ouch.

** In Stage 18 of ''DS'', if you have [[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Kincaid/Tobia and Zabine]] accidentally ''destroy'' the Turn A instead of just weakening it enough, its Moonlight Butterfly goes berserk and...the Crossbones simply ''vanish'' from the map, followed immediately by a Game Over. Given what exactly the "physics" of the Moonlight Butterfly are supposed to be, though, and implication that all of their technology (including their Mobile Suits and even their ''piloting suits'') simply disintegrated in a single instant because of it...ouch.

** ''Cross Rays'' features a total of five hidden units, none of them from the main four continuities in the game. [[spoiler:Four of them are Gunpla from the ''Build'' series', including [[Anime/GundamBuildFighters the Star Build Strike Gundam, the Gundam Fenice Rinascita]], [[Anime/GundamBuildDivers the Gundam 00 Sky and the Galbaldy Rebake]], though there is some precedence with those four considering both Meijin Kawaguchi III and the Hot Scramble Gundam were featured as DLC in ''Genesis'' prior, not to mention each of them have some connection to the main four continuities due to being based off of mechs from them. But the fifth? None other than '''''Knight Superior Dragon!!!''''' Not only does he have ''nothing'' to do with the main four continuities, but the last time any actual ''SD Gundam'' characters were featured in a ''G Generation'' game was the ''Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden'' characters in ''World'', which was close to a decade prior to ''Cross Rays''!]]

** Japanese fans are particularly fond of ''G Gen'' original Claire Heathrow, thanks to her penchant for ReferenceOverdosed attack calls]].

** ''G Generation Genesis'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOcRVgG4y8 "Cradle of Eternity"]] as its opening theme song and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVk6qbTqyIQ "Remains"]] as its ending theme song, both by Yuko Suzuhana.