If you are wondering why such a gundam like the Tristan felt so weak: The Tristan is an Alex Gundam that's been repaired with parts from various generations of mobile suits, effectively making it a Frankenstein's monster of a mobile suit. Despite being especially modern for its time, the Alex is now an outdated frame. The Zaku III is a predecessor to the Geara Doga, designed in the first Neo Zeon War. It was a pretty beefy MS for its time. Plus, this particular Zaku III was intended for Char, an improvement on its own. Two Years Update: Hi, I was reminded of this fight and wanted to explain the differences between these suits further. The Tristan is a Late OYW-era MS refurbished with junk parts and some Gundam parts. Overall, it does seem to have improved in performance slightly, but the age and way of thinking within the original frame persist. An OYW Gundam now might be considered a light or medium-lightweight MS with below-average armor, average speed, and decent precision. The Zaku III Custom is a First Neo-Zeon era MS with above-average performance at best. It was built after the revelation of movable frame tech and likely has an inherent advantage in maneuverability, precision, and speed. The UC universe is interesting in how an MS built one year can be completely obsolete in the next year. Now, make that MS obsolete by 8 years. Even if it was cutting-edge back then, it would likely get curb-stomped by an average-value MS now. This is funny, too, because both Zaku III Custom and Tristan would be considered super weak suits in the era that they are fighting in, Late UC0096, a whole 8 years after the Zaku III was made and 16 years after the Alex was made. The unicorns were recently stomping around, stopping colony lasers and traversing time. The Jegan and Geara Zulu were average performance suits that dwarfed the OG RX-78-2 in ALL specifications.
@frankspick75442 жыл бұрын
problem with that while yes the base unit the alex is outdated most of it parts have bend replace with new ones from other newer suits are out right new stuff thus putting it on a more even footed with a suit that had no prop maintence for years. like we now tristan uses parts from the nu gundam with the beam rifle being a sign of it so its more likely that it due to the pilot danton who was a veterain pilot with a skills that can match char
@afroamasiaca2 жыл бұрын
Ay fuck the Alex - Kampfer fan
@ryananggoro493 Жыл бұрын
Sadly they didn't shown zaku3's hidden arms just like The O
@saikoyuy6891 Жыл бұрын
kinda poetic that mobile suits intended for Char and Amuro fought even though they’re dead and they never really used those MS
@erikdeusenberry5307 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for explaining this it always felt one sided.
@williambenedictalava26342 жыл бұрын
A suit that can go toe to toe with a gundam (depending on the pilot' training and experience) love the design of it.
@SlowpokeSpartan2 жыл бұрын
A proper successor for the zaku 2
@williambenedictalava26342 жыл бұрын
@@SlowpokeSpartan indeed
@t26e442 жыл бұрын
That Gundam was pretty out of date, the Tristan was an Alex with some parts that look like they are from the Gundam Mk II
@JosephJoboLicayan3 жыл бұрын
Zaku 3 needs alot more love ZZ didnt do it nearly enough justice and only Unicorn really gave it some love Twilight Axis was, sadly, the peak of Zaku 3 presence
@aetheraiuxhsjzususj8003 жыл бұрын
It appears in unicorn?
@KaiserStormTracking3 жыл бұрын
@@aetheraiuxhsjzususj800 Yes Theres a video out there that includes all mobile suits in the OVA
@noisyheretic2153 жыл бұрын
At least it had more of an impact than the Zaku IV.
@mar-mole-ade47973 жыл бұрын
@@noisyheretic215 wait wut, wuts a zaku 4
@voltiege45143 жыл бұрын
@@mar-mole-ade4797 that’s tells you all you need to know about the zaku 4
@Roaddbuster3 жыл бұрын
Twilight Axis looked like it had alot of potential, especially with the part where they find Sazabi. But I feel they kind of blew it by making it short and not expanding enough on the story. Kind of a waste cause I really do like these types of side stories. Now, I only wish we got the Zaku 3, Tristan and Byarlant in Master Grade 😭
@justforfun_ger71372 жыл бұрын
@Fikri Arieska that was an zaku 2 In the movie twilight axis it is an zaku 3 which was built by neo zeon after the one year war
Yeah. Here's kinda wishing that this spin-off was less about romance during war and more about MS-on-MS battles. But hey.
@rileyboy103 жыл бұрын
I feel that way about pretty much every main line Gundam series. Like hey, lets focus more on the cool MS battles and less on teenage emotions, romance and the power of friendship. And hell if you're gonna have romance then at least do it like the 8th MS team and have badass fights being the center focus.
@diciannove11003 жыл бұрын
This whole series was fanservice who read the novels. This isnt about what you want sadly.
@pizhhhout3 жыл бұрын
How is this romance in any way?
@protocetus4992 жыл бұрын
@@rileyboy10 watch the thunderbolt one 👍
@Gay_Priest2 жыл бұрын
That misses the whole anti-war message of Gundam, at least UC gundam. Give 08th team a try
0:30 Man could have landed a clean headshot right there and shifted the saber slightly downwards to disable the Tristans right arm. 0:40 Here he had an opportunity to use the saber to take out any of the Tristans limbs without killing the pilot . But if I’m remembering things correctly this was the Zaku pilots first real fight so its understandable that he might not have his head set on the the details of non lethal ms combat techniques.
@SteelWulf3 жыл бұрын
The problem with Danton, the pilot, is that he is unwilling to kill people. He never got deployed to real combat because he refused to kill.
@YaowBucketHEAD3 жыл бұрын
@@SteelWulf and that's what saves his life. His mercy (even if it was unintended) was returned in kind when he was pretty much dead to rights in the Bylarant's sights.
@nisshoku10363 жыл бұрын
Btw the Tristan had the perfect opportunity to use those vulcans on the eye. But this is Gundam. They rarely use that sort of thing
@ballislife28352 жыл бұрын
@@nisshoku1036 Banshee, GP02, OG RX-78-2, MK-II, Silver Bullet, Jegan, GM Ground Type, Gundam Ground Type, Unicorn, Gundam Exia, Gundam Heavyarms, Wing Zero, Deathscythe, Gundam Astray and Strike, Duel Gundam, Gundam EZ8, Gundam F91, Nu Gundam, ReGZ, ReZEL, Hyaku Shiki, Zeta Gundam, and GM-II the list goes on. Theres multiple reasons he didn't use them but the two most obvious is that Zaku III Custom was heavily armored so they would likely only damage the main camera which would do nothing since linear seat cockpit MS and most pre-end of war MS before that had extra cameras with that possibility in mind. The second is that he has never fought someone and has no intention of killing. I don't think he knows where its cockpit is either so its possible that he believed it acted like the Rick Dias and had one in the head. Notnonly that but in the heat of the moment neither did anything that would make sense to someone on the outside looking in, as most pilots would be more focused on what their enemy is doing than what they could do.
@dysfunctional_hands2 жыл бұрын
@@ballislife2835 damn i forgot that ReZELs had built in vulcans
@ginger-ham48003 жыл бұрын
That's it. That's the entire budget of the short right there.
@悪者松3 жыл бұрын
魔改造されているとはいえ数世代先のMSとも普通に戦えるNT-1はやっぱりすごいんだなぁ...
@周直衛3 жыл бұрын
普通に負けてるけど
@悪者松3 жыл бұрын
@@周直衛 戦える(勝っているとは言ってないw)
@多田野山男2 жыл бұрын
@@周直衛 第一世代最後期だとはいえ、流石に第二世代後期のMSに勝てたらヤバイよ
@park-sy2ov2 жыл бұрын
パイロットがカス過ぎる ほとんど棒立ちやんか 本当にテストパイロットかこいつクリスの方が動いてたぞ
@睾裏筋コウウラキン2 жыл бұрын
トワイライトアクシズは他の宇宙世紀に比べて msの説明が殆どないからやりたい放題出来るよ
@しょっぱい味噌汁生成マニア3 жыл бұрын
これを機にトリスタンとザクIII改を新規金型で出せば良かったのに…
@wpwpdpmpw2 жыл бұрын
トリスタン以外全部プレバン…
@JTruong3rd3 жыл бұрын
The zaku iii was just plain strong for a mass production unit. Should of made more of them in the axis war for cca.
@6gredlite9073 жыл бұрын
So many weapons in the Zaku III arsenal. If the fights were more realistic people would not want to have a beam sword clash battle with it because it have a waist beam and a face beam.
@Fujiwara8193 жыл бұрын
@@6gredlite907 That is regular Zaku 3. In this clip is Custom model
@Gamedsheep3 жыл бұрын
@@6gredlite907 Beam face isn't on custom, pilot of the custom was a test pilot and couldn't bring himself to shoot a gun, shooting beams could have caused civilian fatalities.
The wounded Byalant be like "Tis but a scratch!" and Tristan just "Shut it or I'll take the other arm."
@heavyarms553 жыл бұрын
My issue with this... Movie? OVA? Was that it was too short. I felt like the whole thing was super rushed and there was no chance to really know any of the cast or to care about the story. I can't help but think it was intended to be an actual series, and for some reason they refused to do that, and instead crammed it into the short we got.
@JosephJoboLicayan3 жыл бұрын
The Twilight Axis ONA was basically just an ad to buy and read the books. A VERY expensive ad, mind you. And yeah, wouldve love to see a proper adaptation rather than just snippets.
@vacuumcarexpo3 жыл бұрын
The director said that Twilight AXIS had started at first as a project to make a compilation of short films with a small budget like GUNDAM EVOLVE series. But the staff's passion enabled the project to become larger and larger enough to make a longer film with a larger budget. For such reasons, this film could not be more than mediocre. If this project would have started to make a movie or an OVA from the very first, it could be a better one.
@briansilva37653 жыл бұрын
@@vacuumcarexpo From what I remember the original ONA release was a bad joke, bunch of seemingly unrelated scenes played without context, did the later release fix this to be at least watchable?
@vacuumcarexpo3 жыл бұрын
@@briansilva3765 Thanks for your reply. I don't know about the details how it was going behind. I guess the ONA's form to be released shred by shred is probably a trace that they formerly intended to make GUNDAM-EVOLVE-like, one-shot short films. Afterwards, these shreds were merged into a movie called "Twilight AXIS: Red Trace" and hit the theater as a double-feature movie accompanied by "GUNDAM THUNDERBOLT BANDIT FLOWER" but I have no idea whether the theatrical release was previously scheduled or not.
@briansilva37653 жыл бұрын
@@vacuumcarexpo Didn't know it was actually released in theaters, in that case I guess it's fixed enough, will try to watch that at some point. And I feel for who went to watch that double feature, Bandit Flower isn't bad but compared to December Sky it was lackluster and incomplete, despite the masterpiece soundtrack and visuals, watching it for the first time leaves you feeling kinda unfilled.
@fishpop3 жыл бұрын
Soon enough this fight can be recreated in GBO2 since the normal Zaku 3 Custom used by Mashymere was apparently leaked as an upcoming release. The Tristan is already in the game and is surprisingly good. The Byarlant Isolde however may have to wait until a proper analogue; the Byarlant Custom, is added.
@bowserfireballs81773 жыл бұрын
The Tristan is really awful what are you talking about dude it's one of the worst 600 native gens
@fishpop3 жыл бұрын
@@bowserfireballs8177 Really? o_O? It seemed to be just as good as the Mk 2 but with arm gatlings and a Sturm Faust.
@william04713 жыл бұрын
Well....... The bylarent custom just got released
@fishpop3 жыл бұрын
@@william0471 Now we wait for the Isolde which is basically the ByarCus but with a new head.
@kaijuninja82512 жыл бұрын
@@fishpop funny, that's the weekly MS of June 9th of 2022
@Stormy_Boi3 жыл бұрын
I got this suit in Mobile suit Gundam battle operations and my God it was amazing to use
if Char pilots the thing during the earlier events of Char's Counterattack would that give him a handicap? say against Amuro's Re-GZ?
@Bobert20203 жыл бұрын
Char probably would have died considering the beating that the re-gz gave to both the Jadg Doha and Sazabi
@DrForrester873 жыл бұрын
@@Bobert2020 Its really clear Char wasn't trying to kill Amuro because he wanted to fight him in the Nu Gundam. Gyunei on the other hand...well, he was. But then again, Gyunei was kind of a try hard. Personally, I think Char would have probably been able to hold his own in the Zaku III, after all, one of this type fought off a bunch of Doven Wolves and took a couple with it. But I don't think he'd have the edge to beat the Re-GZ.
@gerogyzurkov22593 жыл бұрын
@@DrForrester87 nah personally less impressive than the Sazabi so would of endanger him even. Remember Amuro almost always in a fight try to go all (and was much better than Char that stage) and go all out to beat out Char so giving him a performance degrade, in that it doesn't even have funnels in it. Would make him worse off against Regz.
@DrForrester873 жыл бұрын
@@gerogyzurkov2259 The argument that Amuro was "much better" than Char at being a pilot never holds water when you removed two things: Newtype abilities and technological edge. Amuro and Char as pure pilots are fairly even in their abilities. Though Char does seem to be a bit stiff in his approach by this point. Amuro's edge has always been in being a stronger and more developed Newtype and in having a more advanced mobile suit. However, with the Re-GZ, only the Newtype issue really comes into play. The Re-GZ is by no means a bad machine...but it's not going to give Amuro what he needs to defeat Char for good in a Zaku III Custom. Especially one that was specifically fine-tuned to play to Char's strengths. A fight between them in those machines would likely end more like their fights through most of the OYW which saw both of them reaching a point where they are forced by direct combat or circumstance to withdraw. Though, ultimately, considering this Zaku was meant for Char's use by Haman there is little chance Char would want to use it if only because of his disgust for Haman.
@gerogyzurkov22593 жыл бұрын
@@DrForrester87 zaku 3 is a high performance prototype of the 1st Neo Zeon era. Regz is an attempt of MP Zeta gundam of which performance is from Gyps war era. Sazabi is better than Zaku 3 more so by that logic Char would of had harder. Sazabi is a much later custom made better machine than the Zaku 3. Amuro in his Regz is able to fight Char with Sazabi head on. While Char won't kill Amuro until his Nu gundam. The same cannot be said of Amuro towards Char. So by this way Zaku 3 custom with Char would of been much harder for Char to fight in and likely even more worse off for Char.
@絵図-r5y2 жыл бұрын
再生速度を1.5倍ぐらいにするとちょっと迫力ある風に見える
@claresaprama4992 жыл бұрын
How the Tristan and Zaku III looked at each other feels like they are alive.
@swordimpulse073 жыл бұрын
Who wants an MG Tristan based on the Alex 2.0?
@sn00dmasterK3 жыл бұрын
This should've gotten a full length OVA over Narrative
@Robocopnik3 жыл бұрын
Nah, Narrative is great.
@sn00dmasterK3 жыл бұрын
@@Robocopnik outside of the Sinanju Stein I respectfully disagree, but just my opinion. Glad you are a big fan, and more UC is always welcome
@osakanone3 жыл бұрын
@@Robocopnik Its really not...
@TheKusa53 жыл бұрын
@@Robocopnik Narrative is the first Gundam related project I couldent finish It was just way too dull to me.
It's kinda annoying that this red Zaku 3 Custom and the Byarlant Isolde were P-Bandai kits... The Tristan got a retail release but it was a lackluster retool of the old HGUC Alex.
The Zaku 3 is one of those MS i would like to see a revive Model Kit of
@N1GHTSTRIKER-45 Жыл бұрын
And The Incredibly Bulky Zaku-3 -Some Wise KZbinr Probably
@TheOneZytel3 жыл бұрын
Zaku 3 Custom being a specialized model (just like the regular Zaku 3) instead of a general purpose mass produced grunt. If only Neo Zeon mass produced it...
0:36 I am now confused as to how beams from sabers work
@holypriest10543 жыл бұрын
From what I gathered... or theorize is that the Beam Sabers have their own I-Fields. Which explains how the beam is able to hold it's shape. This also encourages the pilot to go for a stabbing attack but I also think the pilots can adjust the Field if they want to. So... the beam rifle is only being held by the Zaku III beam sabers I-Field. Sorry I don't know if that make any sense... it's difficult for me explain because English is my second language.
@Iwantgloryroman11 ай бұрын
2:10 浮いてる時の音が違うの好き
@超ハルート推し鬼さんこちら3 жыл бұрын
これ元々はシャア用に調整してたけど日の目を見なかったんだっけ
@iwatchyoutube41793 жыл бұрын
It's my dream to see gundam fight with some glorious soundtrack like this
@farhanidris64423 жыл бұрын
Zaku3 looks awesome
@Gnardstingler3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful animation
@pjcc24192 жыл бұрын
They did dirty on Zaku 3 from Mashymere but hey big explosion. This is so far the best looking zaku 3 I've seen next to the gouf ignited from the gouf line. The leg parts of the zaku 3 reminds me of that psycho zaku bursting to it
Oh man the Zaku 3 looked glorious but kind of underwhelm d by the performance of byarlant isolde
@タヌタヌビーバー4 ай бұрын
どうのこうの言ってる人いますけど、 私はこれはこれで好きですね。
@justsomerandomfishwithmap4185 Жыл бұрын
No one gonna mention the gundam unicorn reference? The reference is that in unicorn the zaku 3 arm gut cut off by an jaegan. In this gundam byarlant cuts zaku 3 arm too.
I guess this shows that if Neo Zeon fought the Titans, then Neo Zeon would have come out on top. The Zaku III was beating the Byarlant.
@Gamedsheep3 жыл бұрын
First off, difference in pilot skill is important. Second, the zaku III custom is a specialized ace unit and the byarlant was going to be mass produced. Also the zaku III was created far after the byarlant, only the time of like a year, but people also managed to go from the original zaku II to the Zeong in one year.
@NotEnoughSound2 жыл бұрын
The Byarlant pilot is kinda shit tbh, I man come on, charging in with a beam saber? the RX-160's lighter frame should be outmaneuvering the Zaku III in speed. just look at how insane the Byarlant is in Unicorn with a good pilot.
@aceu.c.veteran5167 Жыл бұрын
@@NotEnoughSoundI guess that is why it was defeated during the grypse war, ring a bell?
@nt249-hoa-ong9 Жыл бұрын
@@NotEnoughSoundnot really the byarlant in uc have a ex ace titan pilot now mechanic and it have the advantage of flight under gravity while other does not
@slideways_sideways180311 ай бұрын
@@nt249-hoa-ong9if we’re talking the custom the most impressive thing it did was take down two Zee Zulu’s but overall seeing how it was probably shot down I’d say it’s pilot survived due to fans liking the suit as his battle was pretty much in his favor.
@erathymc.87653 жыл бұрын
The way the Gundam's beam Rifle is so quiet and subdued :(
@nikoladedic66233 жыл бұрын
So how many people agree Twilight Axis was a let down?
@fishpop3 жыл бұрын
It was but the art style and music were good.
@diciannove11003 жыл бұрын
It was meant for those who read the books so stop crying like you paid to watch this.
GBO2 devs need to fix the sound of Zaku and other monoeye MS start up. Sounds like I'm starting up my car, not a menacing and powerful ms. Even in the crappy parodies they have the proper deep ping start up noise. Ain't no reason for them to sound like an old ass S10 struggling to come to life.
@ハンサム女狐2 жыл бұрын
この作品は同人誌って、感じが個人的にする
@bigqandlil Жыл бұрын
トワアクって何がしたかったんだろう結局
@satoshikatsumoto9007 Жыл бұрын
If only the kits were just as good.
@あにまる-i4t2 жыл бұрын
ザクの意志を継ぎし者!!
@天秤座のトトロ Жыл бұрын
0:37なんでビームなのに浮いてるんですかねぇ...
@超ハルート推し鬼さんこちら10 ай бұрын
宇宙世紀のビームサーベルはIフィールドで固定したメガ粒子だから高熱の実体剣みたいなもんだよ
@jaypeterman97213 жыл бұрын
The “Not” Gelgoog
@Athanase480672 жыл бұрын
crazy how you got away with uploading an entire episodes length of TA content
@Kagarin053 жыл бұрын
This felt like a fight from DBZ more-so than Gundam lol
1:15 read the movement and would have fired it right into that zaku.
@浮気性で愛に溢れた良い奴2 жыл бұрын
ザクIII...だと!?
@Yukikaze_Mk-III2 жыл бұрын
漫画版より活躍増えてる?(曖昧な記憶)
@haruhibouEX02 жыл бұрын
コンセプト的に仕方ないとは言え、劇場版Zの時の違和感みたいなのがある
@SINIGAMIYUI2 жыл бұрын
機動兵器に乗ってるのに全く動いてないの草
@oiran-over2 жыл бұрын
バイアランイゾルデ・・・私設軍隊がわざわざ生産数の少ない時代遅れの試作機を改造してまで使う意味よ
@primusvsunicron13 жыл бұрын
Can you do Char’s Zaku I, Char’s Zaku II, Char’s Z’Gok, Char’s Gelgoog, Char’s Zeong, Quattro’s Rick Dias, Hyaku Shiki, Char’s Sazabi, Full Frontal’s Sinanju and Full Frontal’s Neo Zeong please