Gunparade March（PlayStation）
🗓️ Surviving Roughly 2 Months as a Student Soldier
This open-ended simulation puts you in the role of a student soldier in the 5121st Platoon, mobilized for the war against the Genjuu, living as both student and soldier for roughly 2 months. Its design allows you to do as you please as long as you survive, so learning the daily rhythm is the quickest way to improve. Understand its distinctive real-time flow and act deliberately rather than being swept along.
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Game time keeps flowing from morning homeroom through classes, lunch break, and free time after school. The player-controlled protagonist, Atsushi Hayami by default, continually chooses actions within that time. Time passes even if you do nothing, so deciding how to allocate your daily schedule is central to progression. Set a goal and act rather than standing still deliberating.
Game time keeps flowing from morning homeroom through classes, lunch break, and free time after school. The player-controlled protagonist, Atsushi Hayami by default, continually chooses actions within that time. Time passes even if you do nothing, so deciding how to allocate your daily schedule is central to progression. Set a goal and act rather than standing still deliberating.
- ▸ Each 1-day cycle proceeds through homeroom, classes, lunch break, and after-school free time
- ▸ Time generally flows without stopping, so choosing which actions to take matters
- ▸ Consider when to fit in classes, training, chores, and deployments
- ▸ When unsure, prioritize survival and avoid overextending
The game is set at a school near the wartime front line, but trying to do everything immediately can cause your plans to fall apart. Early on, build your foundations through classes and training while prioritizing a safe return from deployments and learning your role. Your NPC platoon mates also act independently, so simply observing them deepens your understanding. Patient groundwork now gives you more room to maneuver later.
- ▸ Improve your basic stats through classes and training early on
- ▸ On deployments, prioritize returning alive over defeating enemies
- ▸ Observe and learn from your independently acting NPC companions
- ▸ Do not try to do everything; first learn your role as a scout or pilot, described below
The game does not provide a single linear series of explicit objectives; what to pursue is up to you. Your use of time changes substantially depending on whether you want combat success, a closer relationship, or hidden events. Decide what you want early and allocate daily activities accordingly to use the limited period of roughly 2 months effectively. Trying to pursue too many goals can leave each only partially achieved.
- ▸ Change your daily time allocation depending on whether combat or relationships are your priority
- ▸ Choosing your goals early helps avoid wasting time
- ▸ Prioritize, since pursuing every feature in a single playthrough is difficult
- ▸ Survival underpins everything, so do not neglect your physical condition
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