Trivia / Dynasty Warriors: Gundam

• Acting for Two:
  • In the third game, Brian Drummond plays both Heero Yuy and Zechs Merquise/Milliardo Peacecraft. To Drummond's credit, the two sound almost nothing alike, although he very rarely tends to slip into Milliardo's gravelly voice while speaking as Heero, most often when saying Heero's Catchphrase. And it's not that he can't do it (he does so quite well, in fact), it's just the bizarreness of him playing Heero after spending the last decade playing Zechs in the Wing anime and various video games.
  • Brad Swaile as both Amuro Ray and Setsuna F. Seiei. Hilariously, these are the exact two pilots used for the tutorial missions, so players will hear Swaile's characters talking to each other right out of the gate.
  • Richard Ian Cox plays both Kai Shiden and Allelujah Haptism.
  • Samuel Vincent voices both Athrun Zala and Tieria Erde.
  • Scott McNeil plays both Duo Maxwell and Gym Ghingham, leading to a number of between-mission dialogues where Scott McNeil comments on what a psychopath Scott McNeil is^note He's right.
  • Michael Adamthwaite is Ribbons Almark as well as Seabook Arno.
  • In Japanese, Takehito Koyasu is both Gym Ghingham and Milliardo Peacecraft, while Tōru Furuya is both Amuro and Ribbons.
  • Also in Japanese, there is an invoked case with Shūichi Ikeda as Char Aznable and Full Frontal. However, this didn't carry over into the English dub version, even though Frontal is stated to have a voice that cannot be distinguished from Char's. The dub has Frontal voiced by Jonathan Love as opposed to Michael Kopsa.
    • It still is played straight with Johnathan Love also doing double duty and voicing Paptimas Scirocco.
  • Haman Karn and Nanai Miguel are both voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara in Japanese, and Nanai can be selected as an Operator in the third game.
• Bad Export for You: While both games on the next-gen consoles have been released overseas, the show tunes from various Gundam series (ex. "Anime Ja Nai," "Rhythm Emotion") are only available in the Japanese versions. Also, the export versions of the second game are not dual-audio like the first and third games. And the 4th game is download-only in the US.
  • Although this is justified since all these songs would require licensing fees and with all the shows in the game the fees wouldn't be cheap.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": Characters and suits from Victory Gundam, Gundam X, ∀ Gundam all made a localized debut in these games long before the series themselves were available in America.
• No Export for You: Dynasty Warriors: Gundam: Special/Gundam Musou Special for the PS2 which introduced Musha Gundam MK II was only released in Japan. Not really a loss in any way since unlike most of the entries on that page, pretty much every improvement and addition was shunted to 2, along with 2's base improvements.
  • What however is a no export for you is the Vita version for Gundam Reborn in the west as well as losing a disc-based release in the US (both won't get the Vita version but the disc-based version will be available in Europe).
• The Original Darrin: Matt Hill returned to voice Kira Yamato in the third game after being replaced in the second.
• The Other Darrin: The English versions of the games were unable to obtain the services of several voice actors who worked on the various Gundam anime series, and thus had to recast some of the roles.
  • Due to Domon's VA , Mark Gatha retiring from voice acting to become a doctor, the role was recast with Phil Fulton.
  • Heero Yuy was hit by this twice over, with Mark Hildreth being replaced by Louis Chrillo in the first two games, then Brian Drummond took over fopr the third. Apparently Hildreth wasn't even contacted to reprise the role.
  • Kamile Bidan was also hit with this, first with Travis Milne filing in for Jonathan Lachlan Stewart in the first two games, than Tim Hamaguchi taking over in the third game when Milne was tied up with Rookie Blue, which is a TV series based in Toronto.
  • Simon Hill replaced his uncle, Matt Hill, as the voice of Kira Yamato for the second game.
  • On that note, since the dubbing is done by voice actors mostly from Canada, series dubbed in America (Gundam 0083, Gundam F91, and Gundam Unicorn) had to be recast.
    • Steve Staley is replaced as Seabook Arno and Banagher Links by Michael Adamthwaite and Brendan Hunter respectively.
    • Laura Rushfeldt replaces Stephanie Sheh as Audrey Burne/Mineva Zabi
    • Anna Cummer replaces Michelle Ruff as Cecily Fairchild
    • Cheryl McMaster replaces Tara Platt as Marida Cruz
  • In-series example — Judau is voiced by Andrew Francis instead of Sean Broadhurst in the sequel
  • Another in-series example, only in Japanese: due to the death of Daisuke Gōri in between between the second and third games, Tesshō Genda is voicing Dozle Zabi in 3.
• Role Reprise: Yasunori Matsumoto reprise his role as the Knight Gundam from the SD Gundam OVAs.
• What Could Have Been: The last stage in Emma's story mission depicts what would happen if Quattro sided with Axis.
  • Kamille is often seen in Gyunei's Jagd Doga, possibly a Shout-Out to the persistent rumor that Gyunei was created as an Expy of Kamille after Tomino rejected the idea of Kamille showing up in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack fighting for Char after being put through some questionable brain surgery.

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