The next Gundam game taps into the joy of Gunpla model building with decades of parts to mix and match

"Why not?"

That was the response Bandai Namco's Tatsuhiro Suzuki fired back when I asked a question that bordered on the perverse: Will Gundam Breaker 4 let you mix regular and SD Gundam parts when building your own mecha? To demonstrate, one of the developers selected the regular-sized head from our in-progress Gundam build and swapped it out for one of the chibi, or "super-deformed," Gundam head pieces, as if someone had surgically attached Clifford the Big Red Dog's head to a dachshund. To prove the point, he then tapped a button to make the head even bigger before we ...