tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35066593241836407842024-03-05T13:56:22.932+08:00Gamer--freakzThe Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comBlogger1015125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-44013604007352764212017-07-26T03:23:00.000+08:002017-07-26T03:23:06.471+08:00Not The Best Strays Around (Bungo Stray Dogs review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Supernatural</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">An unfortunate day for anime indeed when we have to see something like "Bungo Stray Dogs" come to pass. Looking at the promotional art or cover for this show, I expected an action anime, or at least something remotely close to something RESEMBLING an action themed show. Yeah, sure, this show most definitely has guys fighting each other, but unfortunately for it, its surely one of the most confusing and uninteresting shows I've watched in awhile. The show does have a promising start and some great episodes down the line, but it ultimately ends up being tedious, confusing and overall very disappointing. This is one of those shows that got quite popular for reasons I didn't quite understand (probably because of all the hot guys), but oh well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">For a show that I didn't really like, "Bungo Stray Dogs" does have a sick opening theme. "TRASH CANDY" by GRANRODEO is the kind of opening song that I live for. Fast, furious, heavy and head bang worthy, its certainly a nice opening suited for an action based show. The ending theme is a lot less quick, but for an ending theme, it isn't bad. Its "Call Out The Name" by Luck Life. Its not exactly a slow song, and its more than serviceable than most other ending themes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Rating: 6/10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Okay, let's lay out some of the problems for "Bungo Stray Dogs". For one, outside of maybe the main character and Dazai (who is easily the only good character in the show other than the crazy doctor Akiko), everyone has very little character development or character side story to really explain their drive. There are some cool abilities here, but all in all its hindered by some characters being extremely bland or whiny. The story is completely out of wack. Outside of some pretty good minor arcs, the final moments of the story made less sense than something out of "Metal Gear Solid". I'd actually be alright with a confusing story, but "Bungo Stray Dogs" does the unbelievable: it jumbles the episodes all around. The final episodes spoiled the immersion and were overall very unsatisfying to watch, and it was surely a crappy way to end the series.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Atsushi Nakajima is your regular homeless kid that has no idea what the hell he's doing or what's going on. While going around homeless he is one day approached by an enigma of a man, Osamu Dazai, who appears to be quite interested in Atsushi and his predicament. Actually Atsushi found Dazai floating in the river, thinking he was a dead man...but that's not quite important. Anyway, Atsushi explains that nobody likes him because he is stalked by a powerful, supernatural white tiger, which is why he is shunned everywhere. Dazai helps him out, and it is soon discovered that Atsushi himself turns into the White Tiger at night. Dazai somehow manages to turn Atsushi back, but soon explains to him that he has a special power, like Dazai himself. Atsushi is then brought to the Arms Detective agency, where meets other individuals working there with insane special powers like himself...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Bungo Stray Dogs" is apparently popular enough to get itself a sequel and even an upcoming movie in 2018. Its a strange show to say the least, its certainly not the worst thing ever, but its not something I enjoyed, not at all. The troubling storytelling certainly spoiled any future interest in this show for me. Who knows, it may be something for the ladies instead.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-7540122569735727832017-07-18T04:41:00.001+08:002017-07-18T04:41:10.069+08:00Blazblue Cross Tag Battle Wishlist (HOLY SHIT)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The thumbnail you see above is no troll. This is f**king happening...ITS HAPPENING. MUGEN THE FIGHTING GAME!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">So "Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle" has been announced at EVO, and it seems like Arc System Works is simply not screwing around...they are bringing out ALL the big guns to make 2018 an amazing year for fighting game. "Dragon Ball FighterZ", Jubei in "BBCF" and now this?! Man these guys are really trying to BURY "Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite" at rate. I mean, "MVCI" looks alright at the moment, but with these 2 games coming out...things are looking REALLY bad right now. Arc System works has a massive library and right now I hope that they go all out with the roster for "Blazblue Cross Tag Battle", which looks like it has the potential to be absolutely insane.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">So in the initial trailer we got a look at Ragna and Jin from "Blazblue", Hyde from "UNIEL", Yu Narukami from "P4:A" and a small glimpse at Ruby Rose from "RWBY". Now I don't know how the f**k did Arc System Works do it, but they managed to throw Ruby Rose, from "RWBY", of all things, into their own crossover fighting game. Whoever was behind this, is a freaking genius, because I have always been a massive fan of RWBY, and the thought of a fighting game for the franchise is bloody amazing. Well, we get something even better, Ruby's fighting game debut will be alongside these amazing legacy characters from Arc's intense fighting game library.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Technically Arc has only worked on BB and P4:A within these 4 franchises. UNIEL was developed by French Bread but Arc brought it over stateside...while RWBY is totally just a net show from Rooster Teeth. I don't know what the f**k is happening here, but the possibilities for this game can be endless. I might just be wishing too hard on some of these potential picks, but at the moment, THE DOOR IS AS OPEN AS IT CAN BE. Here are some of the characters that I hope will appear in "Blazblue Cross Tag Battle".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now since "Blazblue" is in the game's title I think that most of the characters in this game will probably be from the franchise. No complaints here, since I DID invest most of my time into "Blazblue" out of these 3 fighting games. There are a ton of obvious choices here, but with "Central Fiction" already out there, the roster is huge, and who's going to be in here is kind of a big deal. I believe staple, important characters like Noel Vermillion and Rachel Alucard are going to be in for sure, but the rest is kind of up in the air. At the end of the day it all depends on how large the character roster is going to be...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">If we're going to go fan favorites, we'll probably have Tsubaki, Makoto and Hazama/Terumi (why not have both?) in there as well. I personally hope Relius and Saya make it in as well. Maybe toss in a Murakumo unit or two along with Hakumen while we're at it. For me though, I'd really just want Saya and Terumi, give me my bad boy and bad girl of the BB franchise...we're set to go after that. The rest is just fluff, honestly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Well since "P4A" is going to be in here let's state some obvious facts: this game has a shit ton of characters, both from the P3 and P4 side. I have no idea who they're going to throw in here, but if we're considering the possible roster size for the game, I doubt many of these characters are going to be in the base game. If we're going to have to choose, it'd probably be most of the P4 cast only, and maybe one or 2 from the P3 side, like Aigis or Elizabeth (I can dream). The likes of Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Kanji, Teddie and Naoto are almost already a shoe into the game, even then, some of them might not make it if we're considering the possibilities of other franchises being included into the base game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I personally had the MOST fun playing Akihiko in "P4:A", and he was my main in that game. Sho Minazuki was also extremely fun to play around with, with Magaret and Elizabeth not trailing far behind. For me though, I'd be content with just Naoto being in the base game, she is, and has always been, one of my top waifus in all of fictional history. A pity she wasn't too fun to play in "P4A", but hey, I won't complain. I won't really bet on Akihiko being in there, since he's probably not too high up there on the popularity list. Elizabeth or Magaret may have a shot, but its probably not set in stone either considering how many from the "P4" side looks favored to be included into the game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">An under-rated fighting game that's considered a niche, "Under Night"'s western console release might not have the most content, but for the most part, it was a fighting game that I enjoyed a whole lot when it came to the core fighting mechanics. The game is very aggressive and had a ton of edgy, anime-as-f**k characters that were very unique from one another. Most were a blast to play, and it was a lot of fun figuring the game out. The game itself isn't very large when it comes to its roster, so when it comes to character inclusions, I won't be expecting TOO much.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now this is a side where I won't be particularly too worried about, because my main, Linne, will most definitely be in the base roster along with Hyde. She is the secondary protagonist of that game, I highly doubt they'd exclude her. Other inclusions will probably include Orie, Seth, Vatista and possibly Carmine. Amnesia characters would be a good pick as well, especially Gordeau or Chaos. Since the character that I most want to play as will probably already be in, I'd be content with the likes of Gordeau and Carmine in the game, those 2 are badass and fun as f**k to play. If we were to include new characters from ST, Phonon would also make me really hard, but I think her chances are mediocre at best.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"> Ah, RWBY, now this is where things get interesting. I have a personal attachment to this franchise, having followed it since Monty Oum released the "Red" trailer WAY back in the day. I was captivated and followed it ever since, eventually leading up to its complete release. Now RWBY has grown into a VERY successful web series, spanning over 4 seasons with a 5th season on the way. Having Ruby in the game probably already means we'll be getting her team mates in the base game, which I am more than grateful to both Arc System works and Rooster Teeth for. I am more than 75% sure that Weiss, Blake and Yang will be in the base game as playable characters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now, the 4 main heroines will likely be in, but RWBY has a ton of interesting characters in its universe and I'd be VERY happy if we were to get some other forms of representation. Team JNPR has some potential good picks that would transition well into a fighting game, especially Pyrrha and Nora. Penny would also be swell, but the villains also have some nice possibilities, such as Cinder and Mercury. Dear god imagine the transition for Mercury into a fighting game character...that would be the sickest shit EVER.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">How fitting for the name of this anime to be called "Hundred", seeing as one thing is true about it: There are about 100 other harems out there that do or accomplish the same thing as this one. That's not to say that "Hundred" is BAD....its just flat out standard stuff. This caliber of harem is something that you can easily find anywhere in the anime world, its certainly nothing to write home about. Considering the story, characters and setting here, its blatantly quite normal at this point of time. "Hundred" is simply another harem to add to the mediocrity pile. Its decent, but there is really no reason to pick this one over the many other GREAT harem shows out there. Seriously though, harem shows have recently been quite disappointing and generic of late, and "Hundred" falls into that group. However, if you know what you're getting yourself into and just want another harem to add to your collection (kinda like me when I watched this one), then you can go ahead, because "Hundred" isn't exactly horrible, its just a very standard affair that you've before time and time again...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It manages to be quite a safe show for me. I mean, for a harem, sure its something that I've seen before a million times, but its still not a BAD harem. There are definitely worse shows out there, and "Hundred" actually manages to not suck that much despite having one of the most cut and paste opening segments I have ever seen in a harem. Characters are not that well built up except for maybe the main 2 heroines because of how rushed the series tends to be, and the fan service scenes are very...safely done. Its usually cliche stuff that you've seen elsewhere, accidental heroines falling onto the protagonist, panty shots, so on and so forth, nothing really new here. The action scenes however, are not too bad. "Hundred"'s strongest point is the variety of different slayer types in the show, with decent action scenes to back them up. However as usual, it staggers towards the end to deliver a mediocre conclusion, but again, its not the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Kisaragi Hayato is one of many youths planning to attend the marine roaming ship island Little Garden and join their military academy to learn how to use Hundred, a weapon made to defeat Savage, monsters that have suddenly appeared all around the world. Being kind of a rising star prodigy with high hopes, he feels reluctant to enroll into the academy at first, and even skips out on his welcoming party. He runs into his childhood friend Emile Crossford, and they attend the opening ceremony together, with the Queen of the academy Claire Harvey making the opening speech. Claire is the strongest Slayer on board, which makes sense that she gets this privilege. The girls planning to throw Hayato a welcoming party are late to the ceremony as Hayato himself snuck away from them, and Claire decides to expel the girls. Hayato steps in, saying that expelling them is ridiculous. Claire, surprised that someone actually dares to step up to her, attempts to expel Hayato to, but it all turns into a duel between Claire and Hayato, with expulsions and pride on the line...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The feeling when you go up against the coolest kid in class and feel stupid for even THINKING about challenging him. That's pretty much "Sakamoto desu ga?" in a nutshell. It is a full blown comedy show all about a protagonist who acts so stupid to the point where he looks like an absolute genius. Basically, its so f**king stupid its good, something similar to that of "Baka Test" back in the day. However, if you're looking for a fulfilling experience with a story and growing characters, "Sakamoto desu ga?" doesn't quite provide that. Instead, its just a show filled to the brim with tons of little stories surrounding the various side characters and their quirky little experiences with our fabulous protagonist. In a way, the show doesn't really get anywhere, but what's here is entertaining if watched in small bursts, only because of how ridiculous it gets at times. If you just want some comedy and quirky fun, "Sakamoto" is the guy for you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">For what it is, its enjoyable while it lasts. You'll remember it for its ridiculousness, but honestly, its not really something that you'd recommend to everybody. Its good for the memes and it does have some really good episodes, but for what its worth, some of the jokes are easily hit or miss. Hell for the most part, its just about doing ridiculous things, and sometimes that just doesn't sync with everyone. There are also plenty of scenarios that stray away from the ridiculousness and just try to be serious...those don't do too well honestly. Also, since the main focus is on Sakamoto and nobody else, the entire show just ends up being nothing but mini comedy episodes one after another with no real character buildup, which I feel like the show really needs especially during some of the more "serious" moments. But when the show DOES go full retard, it excels in flying colors (the group mixer episode with Sakamoto singing a foreign song is still my favorite), and those are the moments where you should look forward to going forward into this show.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">High school student Sakamoto is the coolest kid in class. Nobody knows why, but he is. Everything he does is extremely showy and he simply oozes style in anything that he does. He is extremely popular with both the men and the ladies, though he also attracts a lot of unwanted attention because of that. Welcome to high school, where being targeted means getting attacked by thugs and gangsters, this is what Sakamoto has to deal with everyday. However, instead of fighting back, he acts in ways so ridiculous that even his opposition can do nothing but admit defeat, or even fall prey to his nonsensical ways and get sucked into the groove. Despite being cool, he is also very mysterious, and nobody knows anything about him...which is pretty much why almost every girl wants to get in his life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Sakamoto desu ga?" is a simple, ridiculous show that might not be for everyone, however for what it is, its a fun watch nonetheless. I strongly suggest giving this a go if you enjoyed the likes of "Baka Test", though expect no fan service in this one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(+) Pros: - Largest character roster yet, new characters are all great additions, - Plenty of modes to bleed you dry for a single player experience, - Deepest and longest story mode yet, most characters in the roster have 3 arcade mode endings, - New Exceed Accel and Active Flow mechanics make the game much more fast paced and aggressive, - Extensive tutorial mode and individual character challenges help you get good at the game quick, - Great online modes similar to that of "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator", - The OST.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(-) Cons: - Still re-uses the same HD sprites from old games (still look great, but they've been using these sprites for f**king 8 years now), - The story mode is long and comprehensive, but at this point, VN story-telling is getting outpaced by other fighting games.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Here it is. The final installment of "Blazblue", and easily the most anticipated expansion of the franchise. We've seriously come a very, very long way from the meager 12 characters we've had since "Calamity Trigger" back in 2008/2009 (man I feel old as f**k). Just look at the roster now, it makes many other fighting games look tiny (ahem, SF5) in comparison. Still, it IS technically the same game that it has always been, just polished and updated to a godlike state over the past years. After so many releases, we've come to expect more from "Arc System Works", and in more ways than one, they've delivered beautifully. "Blazblue: Central Fiction", as the final installment of the franchise (for now at least), is easily the most content rich and fun fighter when compared to other "Blazblue" games, making it stand tall in today's standards, competing nicely against many modern fighting games. Though its age is starting to show, "Blazblue: Central Fiction" still shows that its got some fight left in it, and is willing to go out guns blazing with its final game. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Following the adventures of Ragna The Bloodedge from the previous game, "Central Fiction" is a sequel to "Chrono Phantasma". For some reason, every single character in the BB universe gets sucked into an alternate reality known as the Embryo, which is actually a world created by Nine The Phantom after she was revealed at the end of the CP story. Everyone in the Embryo has had their memories altered, and the relationships that they forged over the past 3 games were mostly null and void. Only a few individuals possessed the power to retain their memories within the Embryo, but Ragna was not one of them. He awakes in a forest nearby Kagutsuchi, with no memory of anything whatsoever, and begins his journey to crush the library anew once again...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As a fighting game, there's one very important thing to look at when you jump into "BB:CF". That's right, the roster. For a long time coming now, the roster for "Blazblue" has been growing with every new expansion, and now with its final installment, "Central Fiction" has a grand total of 35 characters (2 DLC). As with most of the games in the franchise, "Central Fiction"'s characters play quite differently from one another, but don't expect the insane variety that you did from earlier games, as with this many characters, there would bound to be characters who play somewhat similarly to one another. Newcomer characters are all pretty fun to use and feel incredibly unique, especially boss characters like Nine (who fights by combining spells) or Saya (who has a flight mode that's incredibly fun to play around with). For the most part though, the newer additions to the roster are very easy to pick up and have fun with, except maybe Saya, who has quite an amount of technical depth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">A fighting game with the most amount of fighters total up to nothing if the game doesn't have the content to support it. Luckily, "Central Fiction" takes notes from its previous franchise installments, providing us with plenty of single player content to sink our teeth into. Not counting the story mode and regular arcades, we have the insane Grim Of The Abyss, Score Attack and Speed Star modes, which allow us to test the limits of our characters and just let loose to have fun. There's also the glossary that brings you up to speed with previous BB story and terms in case you are unfamiliar with the game's extremely confusing and convoluted lore. Of course, there' also the great gallery mode that lets you listen to BB tunes while looking at artwork and game CG, while also allowing you purchase alternate colors for your characters. In terms of unlockables, this game has plenty, PLENTY to keep you occupied for a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now let's talk the meat of the game for most of the casual audience: the story mode. "BB:CF"'s story is easily the longest out of all the games in the franchise. Despite streamlining it to a point where its very easy to unlock all the side stories and see all the gag reels, the amount of content here is ridiculous. However, most of it is the same deal as with previous games, mostly still images with moving mouths and blinking eyes while reading and listening to tons and tons dialogue. Sure, this game is without an English dub at launch (while I usually use the japanese dub, it REALLY sucks to see it absent, I already miss Patrick Seitz and Cristina Vee as Ragna and Noel), but the Japanese dub is great and the story can be fun. If you read fast, you can probably get through the entire thing in about 15-20 hours, which is a F**K load of text and dialogue, even for a VN. Of course, there are fights scattered in between, but those last only seconds compared to how much reading you have to do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Alright, let's get down to the mechanics of the game. If you're still unfamiliar with "Blazblue", its a simple 2D fighting game that borrows lots of mechanics from other fighting games from Arc System Works. Complete with push blocks, barrier usage, air dashing and roman cancels, "Blazblue" is a very flashy fighting game that's quite easy to learn, but very hard to master. While most of the roster is fairly simple, some characters are extremely complex and are very difficult to use. As for changes in "Central Fiction"...things are certainly a lot more aggressive this time around. Gone are the days of saving double bursts for the final match to have 2 "get out of jail free" cards. Instead of bursting, Overdrives are now highly recommended for how rewarding they are, especially with the new Exceed Accel and Active Flow mechanics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Exceed Accel is a brand new distortion drive attack that can only be used in Overdrive mode. Simply pressing all 4 attack buttons in Overdrive mode will activate it, and holding all 4 attack buttons while in default mode will have your character immediately enter Overdrive mode and use their Exceed Accel. Exceed Accel immediately ends your character's Overdrive mode, but the simplicity and its sudden burst damage can really make or break a match. Then there's Active Flow, a hidden counter that builds up as your character moves around towards your opponent or when your character attacks your opponent. When maxed out, your Overdrive mode lasts longer and your Exceed Accel does significantly more damage. This allows for a more aggressive playing field between both players, which makes for faster, tighter and more intense fights.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Once you've learnt the basics its time to take your skills elsewhere. The game's arcade mode has tons of replayability. Not only do you have 35 characters to go crazy on, most characters have 3 arcade mode endings, split into different acts, each taking place at a different time of the "BB:CF" story mode. There is A WHOLE LOT of story here to lose yourself in, on top of the regular story mode that the game already packs. Of course, there are also the other modes mentioned above to lose yourself in....or you can take your chances online. The game re-uses the lobby system similar to the one in "BBCP" and to some extent, "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator". Its a really cool way to interact with players as you run around with your little avatar and challenge other players to matches in a variety of ways, ranging from solo 1v1 matches to team battles and tournament formats. Netcode seems to be stable enough, but then again, a lot depends on your connection.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">And here we go with the game's few problems, they're quite obvious actually. For one, the game looks really dated at this point. While the 2D sprites were absolutely beautiful when they first introduced it back then....its been nearly 8 years since they've used it, and compared to many other fighters out there, "Blazblue"'s 2D sprites really can't compare to the amazing graphics from other fighters like "Tekken", "MK" or even Arc System Work's other fighter, "GG Xrd". The story mode as well, its a lot of reading and very little interaction. We're staring at stills most of the time, which is getting a little stale at this point. Once again, other fighting game stories do it a lot better, once again, taking a nod at "GG Xrd", which pretty much has us watch a badass anime movie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">At the end of the day, "BBCF" closes out the "Blazblue" franchise nicely. This is the last "Blazblue" game we're going to be getting in awhile, and while its not confirmed that the franchise is finished for sure, this is what we're going to have to be satisfied with for a long time, and I can safely say that its a nice sendoff to an otherwise great fighting game franchise. Arc System Works have a lot of weight to carry, especially with updating "GG Xrd" and working on that new "Dragonball" fighting game that looks sick as hell. I only hope that when "Blazblue" does eventually make a return, it'll be with the 3D engine for much sicker experience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Another day another round of fairy tales and out fair share of snow whites. "Akagami No Shirayuki-Hime" is a romance show that I probably would have no business watching, but here I am anyway. The romance, medieval feel and pretty boys make their triumph return, in a second season that furthers the relationship between Shirayuki and Zen....except this time around, the focus isn't really there from the get go. Instead of building up the relationship between our two main characters, season 2 brings in more interesting and unique characters that get their fair share of relevance, making it a much more diverse experience this time around. Fans of the series should expect more of what we got in season 1, though if you're looking for a more conclusive act to the buildup between Zen and Shirayuki, you might be slightly disappointed. So fasten your seat belts and get ready for some anime romance tropes!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The opening and ending theme of season 2 are relatively similar to those in season 1. The opening theme is "Your Voice Becomes A Map" by Saori Hayami, the seiyuu of the main character, Shirayuki. Its a simple and soothing opening theme that surely fits the show. The ending theme is "Page~The Story I Weave with You" by eyelis, which is a slow ballad that is quite easy to lose yourself into.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The first half of season 2 is honestly pretty good compared to its second half. The story picks off after that of season 1, where our main heroine is forced to go into her old kingdom to mingle with the Prince Raji. The style and story progression here is very similar to that of season 1, much to the point where its almost easy to see what's coming. The characters here are yet again, a strong point of the series, with newcomers and old characters both having great dialogue paired with great character development (especially Raji). The story also takes a more serious turn for the season's 1st half which I enjoy a whole lot. The show takes a lot of bold step forward without taking too much risks, which is why the 2nd half of the season pales a bit in comparison to that of the stronger first half. Still, its fun to see these characters grow, though the show never really takes that extra step to solidifying the relationship between Shirayuki and Zen (if you're looking for that here, then I apologize).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Following the events of season 1, Shirayuki continues to stay in the castle as an apprentice herbal biologist whilst seeing prince Zen and his closest confidents daily. The 2 still hold their feelings for one another strongly, but because of Prince Izana's presence and the fact that Zen has lots of work piled up, the time they spend with one another has decreased greatly. While the 2 still obviously love each other, a rift has started to form. This is further amplified when Shirayuki is to return to her old kingdom to seek an audience with prince Raji, and that she can only bring one attendant to accompany her. Instead of Zen going, he sends Obi, since he can't leave the kingdom of Wistaria at the moment. And thus Shirayuki returns to her own kingdom to meet the very man that sent her out of it in the first place...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">While the show concludes nicely, it still lacks a firm relationship confirmation between Shirayuki and Zen, which is honestly slightly disheartening. Its still a fine follow-up to the second season. I doubt we will be seeing a 3rd season of "Akagami no Shirayuki-Hime", even if we do, if won't be anytime soon, which is a shame.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Widely regarded as one of the best shows of 2016, "Erased" certainly had a lot of hype to live up to when I was about to give it a go. While I'm mostly the type of guy that prefers action themed shows, "Erased" was one of the fewer shows that I watched despite it being...fairly slow to get going. It's surely a show that starts off strong and goes on a slower pace for the rest of its run time, its not something that you can take on in a single viewing. Still, for a show that centralizes itself around character development and character building, its certainly a very well done experience that few other shows can compete with. For that purpose alone, if you're looking for a show that's more about someone fixing their past mistakes and trying to make everything was wrong, right again, "Erased" is a perfect show for that feel. Just make sure to get comfortable, and prepare yourself for a slower paced experience (that not everyone might take a liking to).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">There are a lot of people praising this show, and I can see why. For me, it surely sits up there as one of the better few animes that I have watched, solely for its story and character building. However, I could really see this one doing a lot better as a movie, no? Stretching it out to be 12 episodes is a little much, especially if there isn't a lot exciting going on for a good portion of the show. Progression and pacing are really the only things that drag "Erased" down in my opinion, because the show feels kind of slow at times. The concept of having our adult protagonist go through his younger days as a kid again is pretty endearing and captivating, especially having to see a mere child think like an adult to really change things up. It's little moments where our hero tries to accomplish things that no child could do that make the show fun to watch. Seeing how the relationship between Satoru and Hinazuki deepen is so enriching and satisfying, so much so that everything else does seem trivial. Most importantly though: the show does have a proper conclusion, which I can appreciate wholeheartedly.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Fujinuma Satoru is a 29 year old man who's working as a part timer at a fast food restaurant while also drawing manga during his spare time. In other words, he's pretty much a failure of a man without a full time job ever since his manga didn't properly take off as he intended. He settled for his life of simplicity while having a very special power: one which allows his non-conscious inner self to turn back time for a short amount of time to solve something that he just couldn't sit with. Usually, this power only triggered for very small, meager occurrences, until one fateful day when his mother comes to visit him. The mother and son combo go shopping together until the mother spots something that seems like a child getting taken away by a kidnapper. While she takes note of the man, she also seemed to be noticed by him. Later that day, she is killed in Satoru's apartment with Satoru being deemed as the suspect. It is then his power to turn back time kicks in, only this time, instead of being sent back a few measly minutes, he is sent back to when he was a kid, 18 years ago....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Class: Highlander</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Traits: Very high burst damage, Elemental damage follow-up, Some support abilities</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">For the most part of EOU's story run, you are really going to be relying quite hard on your protagonist to do the brunt of the damage. While the main story has 3 potentially powerful main damage dealers, the Highlander is easily your hardest hitter, and can be considered the main carry of the team for most of the game. Being a newly introduced class, the Highlander is capable of many things, but there's only one thing bringing him down: most of his abilities eat away at his HP. Much like the Dark Knight from "Final Fantasy" games, this guy sacrifices some HP to do some nasty damage. Luckily, that isn't enough to wear him down, the Highlander is easily my favorite class among the story party.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The Highlander's kit stands out quite a fair bit. He does have some support abilities going on for him in the form of Black Sabbath to heal the party, or Battle Instinct to prevent ailments, which is a godsend. He can also increase the team's elemental defense and their ailment success rate, but these are only icing on the cake: if you really want to maximize the Highlander, you'll be solely focusing on his offensive abilities. His most devastating and high damaging combination would be the Delayed Charge+Cross Charge duo, which does an epic amount of damage, especially when charged with Limitless and buffed with Bloody Offense, both of which are abilities that he can learn. Repeated casts of these 2 abilities as Simon tops you up with heals can very quickly ensue a boss's doom. There's also Spear Assist, which has the Highlander follow-up a powerful elemental attack with a team mate's elemental attack, much like a Land's chasing skills. Considering Frederica and Arthur, this is also a very reliable form of damage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Class: Gunner</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Traits: Elemental damage, Binds, Minor Heals, Action Boost</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">While the Gunner isn't as OP in EOU, Frederica is still a decent damage dealer for the team. While being a very squishy character that dies a lot even in the back line, she pulls her weight quite well with proper set-up. While her damage is fairly pitiful in the early segments of the game, with points into the proper abilities, you'll start to see her damage take off, especially with Arthur's Dilution doing work. Frederica specializes in doing elemental damage...mostly. She can do some physical damage, but in all honesty, she's quite pathetic in that regard with the Gunner's poor physical offensive move set. However, being a gunner, she does have a couple of things going for her which makes her shine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">She won't be hitting as hard as Arthur, but her Charged elemental shots can put in some work. Realistically, those will be your best chances to do some decent damage with Frederica, but since her defense is reduced and she will always go last before she fires, she definitely needs protection from Raquna while putting in work. By right, that isn't enough, so to cover for it, she can assist with binds when needed, and while its quite pitiful, she can heal on the field (though it's too poor to be used in a fight). Her shining star ability is going to be Action Boost, which is a bread and butter ability to pass on to other classes, since its THAT good. Being able to move multiple times is a godsend, and if this does proc, she is going to be hitting for insane amounts. Then again, its all RNG, so she only really works if she wants to. Still, she's going to be a source of damage either way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Class: Medic</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Traits: Heals, Defensive Support</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Yeah, you're going to NEED Simon in this game. While his stats may not be perfect for being a Medic, you will still need his antics to survive. While the medic has remain mostly unchanged throughout the EO games, its still fairly apparent that you're going to need them to survive. Since he is pretty much our only source of healing in this game, Simon is a godsend. His role is pretty simple, he's here to keep the team on their feet. Healing, removing binds, status ailments....you name it. Sure, he can do some crazy stuff like poisoning or paralyzing enemies with low success rate, but most of the time, Simon will be too busy with making sure the team survives to even bother.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Class: Protector</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Shoot, they really gimped up the protector for EOU. I never was a fan of Protectors since they did absolutely no damage, but with high DPS on your team, you can afford to take them along. I felt that the team in EOU was SLIGHTLY underwhelming, but Raquna will really save the team multiple times. If you look at it properly, the lineup in EOU other than Raquna is REALLY lacking in the tankiness department, which spells doom against bosses on expert. Being the Protector, her job is well, to protect the team, and as usual, she's got the tools for the job.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As usual, the Protector has basic defensive abilities to cover for the team like the all-important Front and Rear guard. The damage reduction is a must to sustain against most things on expert, and its what she will be doing most of the time against powerful enemies. Defender increases defense for 3 turns, further increasing survivability, and her elemental walls are an absolute godsend against elemental AOE killers, which many enemies pack, especially against the 3 dragons. She can heal, albeit its going to be meager compared to Simon, but hey, she can use it on the field. Honestly, that's all she's going to be doing in a boss fight, but then against the big boys, she can bust out Bravery's Gift, which has her increase her max HP and take hits for the whole team. This. Is. Broken. Considering how high her defenses are, she can easily tank hits for the entire team when you place her in the back line, which has GOT to be a design flaw. When you reach the late game, having Raquna on the back line spamming Bravery's Gift is honestly a little broken. Of course, make sure her hands aren't bound.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Class: Alchemist</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Traits: Elemental damage</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Arthur and Frederica fill up the secondary DPS slot in the team. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd say Arthur does more damage....consistently, anyway. When Frederica procs Action Boost, she obviously hits harder, but when we're taking the RNG factor out of the way, Arthur has it down. The Alchemist has always been the primary elemental damage dealer in the early EO games, and Arthur does just that. Whether you need to take out a singular enemy of a group of them, Arthur's formulas have got you covered. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Don't expect much from Arthur in the early game, especially against regular mobs where his TP burns out WAY too fast. It's a little better against bosses where he can go all out, but there are many times in a normal expedition where you feel Arthur is dead weight because you don't want him wasting TP on small fry. Anyway, most bosses have elemental weaknesses, making Arthur worthwhile to have along. Especially against bosses with multiple parts, his AOE formulas tear through the enemies where the Highlander and Frederica are more of single target damage dealers. Especially when paired together with Analysis and Dilution, he is going to do some massive damage. Hell, Dilution even works great along with Frederica, seeing as she's primarily elemental damage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Honestly this show should just be "The wonders of Kawakami Mai", because she is one of the sexiest anime girls I have seen in awhile. Anyway, one of the most popular shows of 2016, "Musaigen No Phantom World" (or for the sake on convenience for this post, just "Musaigen") is a simple action/comedy/harem combination that does its job well with a cast of likable characters, fan service and well, monsters. It's also made by Kyoto Animation, which is probably why so many people even gave a damn about "Musaigen" in the first place. The visuals are great, and are most definitely the show's selling point. But since the overall show itself is mostly about typical fan service anime harem tropes and little of anything that's really original, the only thing that REALLY stands out is basically KyotoAni's visuals, everything else is simply icing on the cake. Compared to many of KyotoAni's other works, "Musaigen" certainly isn't anything special. But for us harem fans, its still one of the better ones over the past few years, given the amount of detail and character put into it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The opening theme is "Naked Dive" by Screen Mode, and honestly, I didn't expect such a kickass song from a band with a male singer to be used for such a fan serivce-y...happy go lucky show like "Musaigen". The song is high on energy levels and is surprisingly rocking some amazing beats, its surely an opening theme to get someone hyped up. The ending theme is "Innocence Always" by Azusa Tadokoro, the seiyuu for Ruru. Its a cute-sy song, and its a catchy one that fits for the ending theme. Otherwise, its rather generic and similar songs are always used for ending themes for typical harems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Its certainly one of the higher quality harems out there nowadays, which I can certainly appreciate. This is a more lighthearted series than most magic high school type harems, which I am completely fine with, though I do appreciate the more serious ones (Mahouka, Rakudai Kishi, Asterisk War) at times. "Musaigen" is a very simple minded show about a group of teens that hunt down phantoms, or simply put, monsters. Its a premise that's been done to death and I'm sure people expect something new, I'll tell you this: don't. "Musaigen" doesn't really do anything new, in fact, it hits most anime harem cliches and has some cheesy (but well done) fan service. Still, there's nothing wrong with playing it completely safe. While everything is average, ranging from the action, the story and its individual arcs, the characters are likable enough and KyotoAni's visuals certainly manage to pull the show up to more than serviceable standards. There's really none of the main cast that's not likable, everyone has their own level of charm, and that's pretty good in a show like this that depends heavily on its characters to sell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">In a world where phantoms inhabit every nook and cranny, its kind of difficult to not see these otherworldly creatures wandering around everywhere. Phantoms are created through the imaginative cognition of the human society, which caused them to multiply too much. Society for the most part has sort of come into acceptance of these phantoms, but every now and then, there are rogue phantoms that go crazy and try to do bad shit to the human realm. In comes the special people who can fight phantoms, and in this group of people is our hero Haruhiko Ichijo, a plain young man whose combat powers are minimal, but has the support of his senpai, Mai Kawakami, who is powerful at fighting these phantoms up front. The two belong to a school where students battling against phantoms are commonplace, and its there where the pair are considered one of the weakest phantom wrecking teams. Its up to Haruhiko to gather up comrades and brush up his skill to make the world a better place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Musaigen" ended off pretty well and even did well enough to spawn some OVA and special episodes. Its a good series that got the recognition it deserves, and I wouldn't mind a second season to expand further on its universe. Here's hoping that this is not the last we see of Haruhiko and his girls.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-61510130608203212992017-05-16T02:25:00.005+08:002017-05-16T02:25:56.617+08:00Where Everything Truly Matters (Grimgar Of Fantasy And Ash review) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The anime world has been blessed with its fair share of alternate world/reality shows for the recent years, and it doesn't look like its stopping anytime soon. "Grimgar Of Fantasy And Ash", or "Grimgar" for short, joins that collection as one its stronger contenders. Honestly, it may not look amazing at first glance, but after watching so many of these alternate world shows, "Grimgar" is probably the only one that strikes such a dark and serious undertone that really outshines the other ones. It may not be as cheesy as "SAO", it may not be as mind f**king as "No Game No Game", it may not be as insane as "Re-Zero", but when it comes to understanding the value of human life, I'm sure "Grimgar" takes the cake. It feels as though the characters go through REAL shit in this one, and that is what makes "Grimgar" feels quite authentic. It stands among its popular peers as a great alternate world type anime that still has even more potential within it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Both theme songs are performed by [K]NoW_NAME (which is a god awful name to type out), and both are pretty good. The opening theme is "Knew Day", which sounds intriguing and badass enough for an opening theme. It also showcases the main characters really nicely and stylishly. The ending theme is "Harvest", which has a pretty catchy start, but starts to trail of into something generic. Its still quite good as ending theme, I'll give it that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Rating: 8.0/10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I very much enjoyed "Grimgar" as a show. As I mentioned earlier, its feels like there's actually the risk of getting screwed out there. Our heroes are a ragtag group of rejects that simply can't catch a break. They're scared to leave the town to kill the weakest monsters, goblins, simply because they can't commit to murdering another life form, and of course, the goblins will hurt them as well. They DO have weapons on them. The characters coming into conflict with one another and struggling to figure out their ideals makes the whole show feel real. Also, the expression of pain, holy shit, you really get to see our heroes getting dragged around a lot. The show treats its characters differently, and since its very easy to get attached to the main cast due to some smart writing, every outing feels like it may be someone's last. The way "Grimgar" sets up its world is fantastic, and while I'll admit that the action scenes are average at best, its the world, writing and characters that ultimately set it up to be an enjoyable, bittersweet experience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Haruhiko is a young man that lives in the fantasy world of Grimgar, where everyone is an adventurer with a class, skills and weapons of their own. Thing is, Haruhiko has no idea how he got whisked away to this world, or where he was originally from, similarly to all the others that were brought to Grimgar along with him. The group of people eventually split themselves after arriving at Grimgar, with a majority of them following a strong leader figure, Renji, who only picked the strong looking ones for himself, leaving the rest to rot. Haruhiko was among this group, and together they banded together to form a party. Haruhiko the Thief, Ranta the Dark Knight, Yume the Archer, Shihoru the mage, Moguzo the warrior and Manato the priest, the 6 started life together as a washed up party of sorts. They struggle each day to earn their daily keep as they are unable to efficiently kill goblins, the weakest monsters on Grimgar, because of their moral issues. And thus begins the rough life of our 6 heroes as they work hard towards becoming a party that can survive the cruel world of Grimgar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">With the way the show ended, there was quite a lot that was left unexplored. The show itself is great, and it certainly ended well. Hopefully there's more "Grimgar" to come, because I'm interested to see how far our heroes can go. It'll probably be a rocky road, but I'm sure its going to be one worth following.</span><br />
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<br />The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-32367228654341683782017-05-08T03:15:00.001+08:002017-05-08T03:15:11.329+08:00Persona 5<span style="color: #f1c232;">Gamespot Score: 9.0 (Superb)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(+) Pros: - Brilliant story and cast of characters, -Extremely stylish and visually impressive, - Excellent world and real life sim mechanics, - Dungeon crawling is easily the best in the series so far, - Soundtrack is oozing with style and delight, - Addictive combat and persona management, - Confidants (Social Links) feel a lot more useful and rewarding now, - Tons of worthwhile content in the game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(-) Cons: - Very minor issues, basically nitpicking (mostly on the camera and controls during dungeons).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Game Play time: 110 hours and still going strong</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">No, I haven't kicked the bucket on this blog just yet. If you need an excuse for my absence, blame it on this game. Seriously ever since its release, I simply COULD NOT take my hands away from this game. The moment I get home from work, I release myself from the clutches of reality and simply delve myself into the wonders of "Persona 5". Despite having myself go at the game for hours and hours on end for the past few weeks, this game still has me HOOKED to no end. I'll be perfectly honest, I'm well on my 2nd playthrough and I still feel like I haven't had enough of this game, but I'll just put this up here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">This is now my favorite video game of all time, surpassing "The World Ends With You" and even "Final Fantasy VII". It's just THAT good, I'm seriously surprised that Atlus didn't disappoint with "Persona 5", and even managed to deliver FAR beyond everybody's expectations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">This game is RAVING right now, scoring minimum scores of 9 all over game critic sites. It simply improves from P3 and P4 on so many levels, making it an almost completely new, yet incredibly familiar game to play. "Persona 5" is most definitely a shining example on how to develop a sequel without completely ruining it. "Persona 5" is now the hallmark and perfect example on how to make a JRPG, there is simply no game in the genre right now that has it beat in my opinion. I usually wait on games before giving my opinion on them so that I can get to the older games on my list, but screw that, we simply HAVE to talk about this game RIGHT THE F**K NOW!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">In "Persona 5", you once again play as a high school student transferred into unfamiliar territory. The game starts you off in a prologue sequence where you play as a thief of sorts, code-named Joker, You seemingly escape from a casino with guards chasing you, and in the end, you are caught by the police and brought to an interrogation room. You are then interrogated by a prosecutor named Sae Niijima, who states that you were "Sold out" by one of your friends. You then recall all of the events prior to your capture, which starts in April of the same year, where you just arrived in Tokyo. You were transferred into Tokyo by the police form your hometown after you attained a criminal record for assaulting a man of sorts. Of course, its all corrupt bullshit, because you were helping a woman as she was being assaulted by a man. The man fell on his own and hurt himself, but sued you anyway, which got you your record as you were sent to Tokyo on probation under the guidance of a Cafe owner, Sojiro Sakura. And so begins your new life in Tokyo branded as a criminal, only there's a twist. Your main character is invited to the Velvet room one night, and is forced to form a contract with a certain long nosed man and his attendants...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Persona 5" does so many things right and builds upon the current "Persona" formula in so many ways, making it a massive step up above the previous games. As usual, the game is split into many phases and takes place over the course of the 1 year that your main character has when he is thrown into Tokyo. You progress through the days with a mixture of story scenes, free time, dungeon crawling...and deadlines, of course. Your team of super-powered teenagers have the ability to invade the meta-verse as special individuals known as the Phantom Thieves, which summon personas and use their insane strenght to plow through personas. Following the pattern of "Persona 4", your team goes to school in the morning, goes super power dunking in the afternoon after school, then retires to their homes during the night. It sounds simple, but of course, like previous games, there is a metric WEALTH of content that you can explore in "Persona 5".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Let's start with the daily life aspect. As usual, you are plunged into the world of modern day Tokyo as a high school student. You go to school in the morning, you get picked on by teachers in class to answer their questions, you peek at your cell phone during class to listen in and answer instant messages like a bad kid. Then during the afternoon after school, you get to choose between PLENTY of daily activities. As usual, your main character is presented with a grid of his statistics that he can build upon. This time (like "Persona 4"), your dude has 5 stats to build upon, Knowledge, Guts, Charm, Kindness and Proficiency. Same with the previous games, these affect a lot on your daily life, and you'll need to keep these as high as possible if you want to do certain things or hang out with certain people. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">So you can do the usual meat of the "Persona" game's free time sessions: hanging out with friends...or building up your social links. In "Persona 5", due to how Igor, your long nosed friend in the Velvet room names them, your friends are called "Confidants", and hoo boy, do they go all out on these guys. As with previous games, your confidants all have their own little story to tell that's completely outside of the game's main story lines, they are people with stories to tell and for yourself to get invested in. Spending time and deepening your bonds with your confidants grant you more powerful Personas when you fuse them in the Velvet room....that's how things would have worked before, but in "Persona 5", your confidants are A LOT more useful this time around. Instead of just simply power boosts for fusing Personas, your confidants now have extra bonuses everything you rank up their confidant level, these bonuses vary depending on the person in question.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Your personal team mates will grow more attached to you and assist you in many ways in battle when you up their confidant ranks, these include baton-passes, following up your attacks in battle without eating up a turn, helping you recover from status ailments automatically, or even going as far as to take a fatal hit in your place during a fight. Those outside of your team benefit you differently, your doctor will sell you better meds that you can use in the Meta-verse for healing, your gun shop owner sells you better stuff for cheap, and even helps customize your weapons. Your teacher let's you skip classes, a former politician will give you better speech options when negotiating, a shogi player gives you more tactics options...so on and so forth. Your confidants feel so much more USEFUL now, being more than just simple power-ups when you're gathering Personas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Alrighty then! Now, the protagonist and his friends are faced with...some difficult situations in their lives, especially shitty since it concerns some really crappy adults. Since taking them down in real life would not only spell trouble when it comes to the law and their well beings, they have to do something in the other world...the Meta-verse. During the after school hours, you can take your friends to the Meta-Verse to attack the heart of a certain corrupt individual. Someone in the real world with a distorted heart (this usually means assholes) will have palace in the Meta-verse, which takes forms from their twisted desires. By stealing the treasure from each palace, the person in real life undergoes a change of heart, making them into a somewhat "good" person. Our heroes go into this world as phantom thieves to do so. Things aren't as easy as simply walking in to take a treasure though, each palace is filled to the brim with shadows and traps depending on the palace. A castle dungeon has you looking for books and running on castle walls. A museum dungeon has you leap into paintings, a bank has security cameras and guard dogs...each dungeon is SO unique unlike in previous games, giving each new palace a fresh experience for players to play through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Shadows now take the form of Personas, which is a much different take from before. Of course, the combat in "Persona 5" is similar to that of previous games and most games from the SMT franchise. You either attack normally, or attack an enemy with a Persona ability. Oh, they also managed to fit guns in this time around, another neat little aspect from other SMT games that finally manages to sneak its way into "Persona". Hitting enemies with abilities that they are weak to will put them into a downed state, decreasing their defenses and giving the attacker 1 more turn to act. Unlike before though, in "Persona 5" you get to do a baton pass during "1 more", allowing the user to pass his extra turn to another party member, giving them increased attack and recovery. This allows for more strategic battles and efficient weakness proc-ing on the enemy. Of course, when you manage to send all enemies into a downed state, you can trigger the new and improved, all-so orgasmic "All-Out Attack", which has your team decimate the enemies with a flurry of stylish strikes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Another new aspect in "Persona 5" that brings its combat up to par with that of many SMT games is the negotiation system. Now that your enemies are finally personas themselves, you can sucker them into joining your team, just like how your negotiate with demons in SMT games. After knocking all enemies down, before unleashing an "All-Out Attack", you'll go into "Hold Up", which is the segment where you can decide what to do with your now weakened enemies. You can either finish them off with AoA, or negotiate with them. As with most SMT games, your options are to either ask them to join you, extort money from them, or ask them for an item. You will then be presented with the classic choices and questions from personas (or demons) of many different personalities, in which you must answer correctly to gain their favor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As usual, as the end of all palaces lie a boss, which is usually the shadow version of the palace owner in real life. Bosses are again, a highlight in "Persona 5", all of which are fun, bring their own battle mechanics and sport a kickass battle team. Oh yes, Shoji Meguro killed it again, the music in "Persona 5" is f**king excellent. I don't know how he managed to do it, but he topped the music in both "Persona 3 & 4", making some of the best sounding themes in the franchise yet...hell, I'd go as far as to say it's some of the best in the JRPG market. Remember how I mentioned dead lines? As with previous games (once again), you are given a certain time frame to clear a palace before the game comes to an abrupt bad end, so do take note of that. Outside of palaces, there is also a random generated floor dungeon like Tartarus in the Mementos, which is basically the Tokyo Subway in the Meta-Verse that's filled with Shadows. You can go there during free time periods to take requests from the general public and purge the shadow version of small time crooks within the Mementos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I haven't even covered EVERYTHING about the game, there's just TOO freaking much in here! The menus are stylish as f**k, it almost feels like there's some anime explosion every time you click a freaking button. During dungeons, they've added some stealth cover mechanics to make the game more fitting towards the whole "Phantom Thief" theme. Getting spotted will raise an alarm meter, which makes the palace owner's awareness increase, having the meter go too high will automatically boot you out of the palace as the security is too high at that point. There are even fusion alternatives in here for the Velvet room! Besides just doing the 1 on 1 fusion and the multiple persona fusions, there are new features in the Velvet room like turning a persona into an item (which can net you FANTASTIC results), putting a Persona into lock down so that you can level it up WITHOUT actually using it, or even sacrificing a Persona to power up ANOTHER Persona. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">There are a wealth of activities during free time periods, including renting and watching DVDs, going batting in batting cages, working part time at various job locales, eating at the local burger joint to take their burger challenge, buying books to read during train rides, visiting maid cafes, going fishing, hitting the gym, doing your laundry, studying at the diner....dude, the list goes ON and ON. Since this IS Tokyo we're talking about, the free time possibilities do seem somewhat endless, its insane, really. You can invite your friends to various locales in Tokyo, you can play freaking video games in your video game! There's so much to do that I even missed out some of the activities in the game during my first play through.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now I gave this game a 10/10, but there are some issues in here, though they are very minor...and it's basically me nitpicking. For one, this game looks like it has been in development for a LONG time, so there are some assets that look somewhat out dated. The graphics and visuals are sometimes amazing, but if you look closely, some textures are pretty bad. Also, the dungeon's cover mechanics are really iffy, when you're trying to ambush a shadow from behind cover, you will need to shift yourself to a very specific angle before you can even strike them. You will fiddle yourself so much that you may very easily shift yourself out of cover, only to get yourself spotted. The game is also a little bit on the easy side, at least on Normal difficulty, which is surprising to me considering how much "Persona 4" used to kick my ass back in the day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Persona 5" is the pinnacle of JRPGs in this modern age. I honestly thought that the JRPG genre was starting to disappoint me as of late, which is very disheartening considering that it's my favorite genre. "Persona 5" just re-invigorated me to no end. After 2 runs I'm content to put this down so that I can pick it up again in the future. "Persona 5" is the best "Persona" game to date, and is currently favorite video game of all time. I eagerly await for the future of the series, and to be honest, I'm scared. How the hell is Atlus going to top "Persona 5" with future installments? I guess only time will tell. Now let us welcome the endless amount of spin-offs that "Persona 5" will spawn, considering it's overwhelming popularity, I can assure you, they're going to come.</span><br />
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<br />The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-79121976530919138522017-04-09T17:29:00.003+08:002017-04-09T17:29:38.694+08:00Let's Make A Game (Again...) (Girls Beyond The Wasteland review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice Of Life</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Motives and initiatives are extremely important to capture your audience when it comes to starting an anime off on the right foot. There are many ways to start a story, and most recently in comedy/slice of life shows, I've seen the game making theme quite a fair bit. Enough to not be so impressed by it anymore, to say the least. "Girls Beyond The Wasteland" is pretty much that, its a show about an upstart team of teenage miscreants that are off the make a video game. Its a premise that's been done over quite a few times and I don't see it dying off anytime as a fad. Despite having a solid cast of seiyuus, does "Girls Beyond The Wasteland" actually manage to be entertaining enough to compete with other similar shows in its genre? Let's not forget, its another semi-harem/romance type of show too, so we have to take that into account.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"WASTELANDERS" by Sayaka Sasaski is the opening theme to the anime, and its honestly pretty bland. Sure, its the normal, happy-go lucky, energetic theme that tries to start off the show, but it sounds rather generic and simple. Nothing much to see here. The ending theme is "Sekai wa Kyō mo Atarashii" by the 4 main seiyuus of the 4 heroines. It's your standard affair of a cute-sy ending theme with the main seiyuus of the show, nothing new or special here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Girls Beyond The Wasteland" is decent enough, but at the same time, its honestly nothing too amazing that really warrants me to issue any sort of recommendation to go and watch it. It's...very simple, you've seen these sorts of affairs before done much better, like "Saekano" that released in the recent years (a second season is even coming out as we speak). In that show we had better visuals, characters and an honestly more appealing story. "Girls Beyond The Wasteland" simply stars an odd set of stereotypical characters, some of which aren't very interesting, along with a story that provides some pretty half-assed motivations. The story here is average at best, and there isn't a lot of character building that's actually interesting. The show itself doesn't actually pick itself up until the end where a real threat is presented to our cast, otherwise, the rest of the show is rather average and sometimes even mediocre.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Hojou Buntaro is the typical nice guy in high school that likes to help everyone. He takes requests from friends all over the school, helping them out with club activities, part time jobs and whatever they need to, without ever wanting to do something himself. Buntaro is a roamer, doing things for others without any concern for himself. The problem is this, he himself, doesn't know what he wants to do, so he devotes himself into doing things for others. However, that all changes when he runs into this beautiful girl with black hair, Sayuki Kuroda. Kuroda senses the talent and drive within Buntaro to want to do something on his own accord, and it seems like she has similar interests as well. She wants to make a game, and with that in mind, she recruits Buntaro as her development team's script writer. She also tasks him with recruiting other suitable team members with respective members for the job, and thus he moves along to recruit 4 other members that will help finish the game, including a seiyuu, an artist and a programmer. With a team on hand, Buntaro hopes to make something worthwhile that will finally make him a happier person with a purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Girls Beyond The Wasteland" simply doesn't do much that's enough to kick it above the rest, putting it as simply a decent show at best in my opinion. Production values aren't that great for this one too. In my opinion, if you want a similar show, both"Saekano" and "Pet Girl Of Sakurako" do this better.</span><br />
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<br />The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-24799152554778644882017-03-28T03:00:00.004+08:002017-03-28T03:00:53.085+08:00Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair<span style="color: #f1c232;">Gamespot Score: 8.0 (Great)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(+) Pros: - Superb story telling and strong narrative, - Incredible cast of characters...Nagito is especially compelling, - Challenging, interesting murder cases and plenty of strong courtroom antics to back it up, - The resort island is huge, adding more variety during investigation segments, - Adds even more unique debate mechanics to mix things up, - Soundtrack is still top tier.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I'm actually convinced that the "Danganronpa" series has changed my life. Similar to how "Phoenix Wright" opened my eyes and exposed me to these kinds of games, it's the "Danganronpa" franchise that really took it to the next level. The original was one of the best games I've played and one of the strongest narrative experiences in gaming to me, it was so compelling that I had to play the game twice. Since I didn't have a Vita, I was kind of bummed that I wouldn't be able to play the sequel, "Super Danganronpa 2"...but then Steam came along and released it on PC. Thanks to them (and all who use Steam, seriously, keep buying games on Steam so that it stays relevant for future game releases), I had the chance to play this masterpiece on the PC, and I must say, like the original, this one is worth every penny. Every second I spent on this game was well spent, and I did not regret my purchase, not one bit. "Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair" is a worthy successor to an already amazing VN experience, evolving the series in many ways that make it a somehow even better game than the original.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Similar to how the original started, the story stars a group of students who belong to Hope's Peak Academy, elites who will eventually go to lead the world with their various talents and skills. 16 students were sent on a vacation to Jabberwock Island, a resort island that was built to cater to top class tourists. Among them is protagonist Hinata Hajime, who can't seem to remember his talent, where as all 15 other students that were suddenly sent to the island alongside him all know perfectly who they are. A classic case of amnesia, as one would say. A pink stuffed bear shows up, Monomi, who introduces herself as the student's instructor. All is well as Monomi asks them to get along and build friendship with one another, until suddenly out of nowhere, Monokuma appears on the island and destroys Monomi. He locks off all means of escape, and tells the 16 students that their vacation will no longer be about building friendships, but killing one another. When the students obviously refuse, he starts providing them with motives to begin to kill another! Once again, a new killing game is about to start...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Super Danganronpa 2" doesn't pull its punches. It tells a strong story through the eyes of Hinata Hajime, who is a lot different from Makoto, our previous protagonist. For that alone, we have a much different narrative style than before, and I must say that I very much prefer the way Hajime sees things. The writing and story telling is just great, despite many different arcs in the game itself, everything feels like one, cohesive tale that binds itself together. Similarly to the original, you'll be eager to press on, dying to find out what happens next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Of course, a strong story means absolutely nothing without strong characters. As usual, we are presented with 16 characters that are incredibly different from one another. We've got those who are a little bit more normal, like the gentle Mahiru , the playful Kazuichi or the pervertic Teruteru. Then we've got anti-socials like Peko and Kuzuryu...or crazies like Nekomaru and Akane. We also have enigmas like the delusional Gundahm or extremely apologetic Mikan. I'd dare say that the characters this time around are even more interesting than our previous cast (but by just a little bit) though in the end it all varies from person to person. Like before the game attempts to have you bond with them during free time for character specific events, though IMO the game's main story does more than enough to justify these guys. Even so, knowing that most of these superb characters will end of dieing is just a terrifying way to start off the game....I'll be honest with you, don't start pointing favorites when the game starts...it's going to hurt (my favorite died, obviously).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I'll split the game up into it's 3 main phases, which are the same as the previous game. Whenever a new episode starts, the game opens you up with some story scenes followed by free time, where you have Hajime wander around Jabberwock Island to either explore its intricate exhibits that are sometimes guarded by vicious mecha-monsters (yeah, I'm not kidding), or mingle around with his classmates. You earn friendship with them, with sufficient friendship with certain characters you get character cut-scenes. You can speed up friendship building by showering your friends with gifts, and maxing out a character's friendship will net you special abilities which you can use in class trials. After some f**king around Monokuma will announce a "motive" for the remaining students to try and kill one another, which usually works.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">When a body is found, somebody has been murdered (obviously), so thus begins phase 2, the investigation phase. Here, you go around the island, pricking around looking for clues about how the deceased was killed. You converse with classmates to find out about their alibis or certain testimonies that can help out with your investigation. You pick up items, examine bathrooms, theorize with some friends about how the murder was played out...in the end, its similar to how it was done in the original, but this time, with the massive amount of different locations in Jabberwock Island, this phase is both more challenging and more fun. Finally, when all is said and done, the game moves you to the famed courtroom phase, which is where the meat of the game is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now, with the courtroom phase, it's here where the game is at its best. Non-stop debate and it's accompanying minigames make their comeback, and they're better than ever. As usual, your job is to look for contradiction via highlighted words or statements from your classmates as they continue to banter about certain subjects in the courtroom. Counteract with your own argument that you've built up through clues and testimonies collected through the investigation phase that appear as bullets for you to shoot. Finding the right thing loophole in an argument has you proceed forward into the trial, which is littered with new mini-games like the Rebuttal Showdown (which is hard as shit, I just spam slashes until I get it right) and the Hajime Snowboard (Logic Dive, but come on, Hajime Snowboard sounds better). Both add new and more unique ways to tackle on the trials, which is more than welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">When you're nearing the end of the trial, you are once again tasked by routing the killer through the reworked M.T.B and Climax Logic, both of which are still extremely satisfying to pull off. Choosing the right words at the end of an M.T.B while completely destroying your opposition as you look at their despaired face is utterly priceless and very nice to see. The Climax Logic as well, fitting the pieces is still as fun as ever, as you unfold the events of the crime in perfect sequence, all while laying out the plans of the killer for everyone else to see. That ending cut where the killer is truly revealed too is, incredibly satisfying. All while backed up with a kickass soundtrack. To be fair, some tracks are re-used from the original, but hey, don't fix what ain't broken. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Because the game follows some sort of a similar pattern with its phase splitting throughout the episodes, its kind of easy to see it coming when someone is about to die. While it's still a big question mark to WHO is about to die, you can kind of guess when a murder is about to occur, especially when Monokuma is so trigger-happy about his motives, which honestly get kind of old, there really should be a way to trigger killing without those motives of his. Finally, we have to talk about the final trial. Without spoiling, I'll say that it's WAY too predictable and foreshadowed for it to be epic. I mean, I feel like the final trial really pales in comparison to the rest of the game, ESPECIALLY when compared to the final trial of the original. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">All in all "Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair" sets up the universe well enough for the franchise to go into the anime sequel, which I feel is quite...stupid (they said they could only do what they wanted in an anime and not a game...what a bunch of bull). Still, being the final game before the franchise jumps into a whole new setting with "NEW Danganronpa V3", it works well enough. With 2 amazing games in its name, I can't wait to see what else the franchise can bring in future installments to come.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Song: At Doom's Gate</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">What better way to kick off the pre-reckoning of some demonic ass kicking than this shit? Imagine this song in the perspective of enemies when they stare at this insane marine in power armor that's about to go ape shit and kill every single living thing in sight....it's terrifying. When this song starts to kick in you feel nothing more than a rush of adrenaline that gets you f**king PUMPED to shoot the hell out of some demons! Also, if this isn't badass enough for you, Little V's cover on YouTube still gives me eargasms.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Song: Rip & Tear</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Ah, the classic. I say its classic because this is probably one of the most memorable songs in the game despite being used in one of the game's early stages, because of how BADASS it feels to kill some f**kers with this playing in the background! The dramatic buildup to the eventual metal that ensues is almost a sanctuary to my ears, and the flourishes go so well with gunfire and the death screams of enemies on screen. Even those subtle breaks in the music make the following drops even more satisfying, as you smile and grin to find out that the music isn't over yet. Also, come on, its "Rip & Tear".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Song: Flesh & Metal</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">This is one of songs that starts out with a huge bang. I very rarely value techno metal over heavy metal, but I'll take it nicely this time, because "Flesh & Metal" sounds absolutely heavenly. Killing demons to the soundtrack of "Doom" is so easy, and its all the more made easier when "Flesh & Metal" starts playing. While the song itself has some slower moments, the drops, flourishes in the song and guitar make the whole thing an incredibly satisfactory experience. Just try not headbanging to this while you kill demons, its tough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Song: Burning Hells</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">More than anything, this literally sounds like a slow, maddening descent to hell. This starts of menacing and incredibly tense, before slowly bringing us to the all so glorious drop. While this one might not sound as blood rushing or adrenaline inducing as other songs on this post, its still a very strong contender for making me head bang like a maniac as we traverse through hell like a boss.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The best song in the game, for the best gun in the game, holy Jesus. The BFG is, without a doubt, a freaking powerhouse of a gun, and it deserves ever bit of this theme to back it up. Not only is the track 9 minutes long, but it manages to stay entertaining throughout. The song builds up slowly, as it then proceeds to hammer us with insane techno metal beats that could very well shake the very core of the player as they hold this amazing piece of machinery in their hands. Honestly though, a single shot from this thing ends the battle instantly...so this song being 9 minutes long is nothing more than candy.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-67184770273225390342017-03-10T04:32:00.005+08:002017-03-10T04:32:51.155+08:00Rigged Play (Dimension W review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Episodes: 12</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We all have shows like these, don't we? "Dimension W" is yet another show set in a sci-fi world starring an anti-hero protagonist that lives to do things his way, even if its not considered "just". How many times have we seen this setting being re-used? Anyway, if Sci-fi isn't your thing, hop out now, as "Dimension W" brings a lot of things that can be extremely confusing, especially if you're not exactly interesting in learning a new fictional world's complex lore (which "Dimension W" certainly bears). Its certainly not something everybody can enjoy...that much I'll say right off the bat. The animation and visuals are certainly impressive, the characters...some of them can be endearing, but the most disappointing thing here is "Dimension W"'s plot. There's surely immense potential here, but the show is squandered by uneven pacing and an ultimately unsatisfying ending. If you're looking for a sci-fi story featuring androids, there are better alternatives out there, but if you insist on this one...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Ah, one good thing about "Dimension W" is, for sure, its opening theme. Now THIS is some catchy stuff! The opening theme is "Genesis" by STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION, and for an opening theme, its amazing. It's electro...the good kind, it really fits for a show like "Dimension W". Plus, the song itself is incredibly catchy, the opening animations are great too. The ending theme is "Contrast" by Fo'xTails. It certainly pales in comparison to the opening theme, but for an ending theme, it isn't bad. It's certainly rather upbeat, but not to the levels of "Genesis".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Rating: 7.0/10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Dimension W" tells the story of a washed up, demented, veteran man who has already lost everything dear to him. It is in this light of things and the perspective of this protagonist that makes the show a very unique one at the beginning. However, the show never truly makes proper grasps of inspiration to make it truly different from many other shows out there right now, and the story ends up going nowhere really. For such a character driven show, almost every other character with the exception of Mabuchi and maybe Loser is...poorly fleshed out. For f**k's sake the villain of the series is pretty shitty, in my opinion. The pacing of the show is also incredibly uneven, with some segments, especially towards the end, breaking the immersion with some boring, lengthy explanation bits. Otherwise, the show itself isn't bad. Our two central characters, Mabuchi and Mira are a nice combination, the action scenes are well directed, and the show itself is visually impressive. Animation is consistently good, though it gets a lot less impressive towards the end....the production values are really nice here.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Ah, but its hard to call you rubbish looking like that.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">In a world where technology has taken a second step forward, things truly have changed. Coils have been invented, which are a new source of power within the world, making things that have previously been impossible seem like nothing but a minor fleeting problem of the past. This was all made possible by professor Yurisaki, a revolutionary scientist who pioneered the Coil technology. However, he was betrayed by the government and defected, going into hiding. He made an android that was capable of human emotion named Mira, and often sent her out to collecting coils. Then there's Mabuchi Kyoma, an retired army veteran who, due to an old incident, refuses to use coils in his daily life. He is an expert in his field, being an anti-tech mercenary that can hunt down any mark without the use of any coil related technology. It is on one fateful day during a job where he runs into Mira, and the 2 find themselves intertwined with one another.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Dimension W", at least to me, was one of the more disappointing titles of 2016. Where it showed bursts of inspiration, the show fails to deliver and chooses to take safe, generic approaches to the story. Unless you're a huge fan of the sci-fi genre, this one might not appeal to you.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-78661754276935110482017-03-01T02:12:00.002+08:002017-03-01T02:12:12.842+08:00Sweets And Fan Service (Dagashi Kashi review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Opening Songs</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">OP 1 - Checkmate! (MICHI)<br /><br />Ending Songs</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">ED 1 - Hey! Calorie Queen (Ayana Taketatsu)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Comedy</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Every now and then comes a show like "Dagashi Kashi", a show that you know, will go absolutely nowhere the moment you lay your eyes on its very first episode. If you're looking for a compelling romantic comedy series with top notch character development and interactions, this is not the place. Instead, we get another light hearted, enjoyable little cupcake of a show that's pretty much just here for you to crack a chuckle at while you ogle at some boobs. In a way, just like the very theme of the show itself, "Dagashi Kashi" is very much like a fun little snack, it doesn't last very long and its not really packing in volume or lasting impression, but for its run time, its sweet...it's fun. It's probably not difficult to forget about this one, but at the end of the day, it's just another simple comedy show that's fun while it lasts, It's filled with fan service, stupidity and tons of charm; I am okay with that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As a simplistic, happy-go-lucky little series, the songs that "Dagashi Kashi" pack are pretty much self-explanatory. "Checkmate" by MICHI is an energetic opening theme that captures the spirit of the show well. The ending theme is "Hey! Calorie Queen"by Ayana Taketatsu, who is also the seiyuu for Hotaru, the main heroine of the show. It certainly fits perfectly with her singing the ending theme here, it's full of quirk and charm, though it sounds a little bit too cute-sy for my tastes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Rating: 7.5/10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Dagashi Kashi" is simple, good fun, nothing more, nothing less. Every episode is split into 2 halves, with each half having its own little bit of a story (minus maybe the opening episode and the fnal episode). The entire show delves into the history of dagashi, or simple put, Japanese sweets. Every episode has a little piece of dagashi put into the center as our characters attempt to do silly stuff as they indulge themselves in the sweets. Its a formula that's pretty much overused for the entire show, though they do try to keep it fresh as the cast does some pretty ridiculous things for simply "eating along" for some candy. Oh, and sprinkle in some fan service here and there, since our main heroine does have a pretty amazing rack. There isn't really a full, coherent story here, you're meant to watch the show in small bursts and enjoy the varied episodes about dagashi history. Also, the character cast is rather small, but what's here is pretty amusing, as our characters tend to be quite....colorful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Kokonotsu is an aspiring young man who aims to be a manga artist. Unfortunately for him, his dad, Yo, is an owner of a dagashi shop. It's a shop that mainly sells sweets and cheap candy...not something that you can necessarily make a living out of nowadays...well, at least. Yo wants his son to take over his shop, but Kokonotsu doesn't ever want to, as he's after all, aiming to be a manga artist. One day, a girl of his dreams enters his life; this girl is named Shidare Hotaru. The Shidare company is a very successful group that thrive on sweets, and they want to recruit Yo into their team. However, Yo won't leave his shop unless Kokonotsu takes over. Without much of a choice left, Hotaru chooses to stay behind in the countryside town, spending her days educating Kokonotsu and persuading him into taking over the family business. When Kokonotsu's crush and childhood friend Saya finds out about this girls, things just start to become a whole lot more wacky.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Dagashi Kashi" is not a show that'll swoop you off your feet, but instead, it's one that'll gradually capture you with its quirky charm from start to finish. Because of its simplistic nature, almost anybody can enjoy it, but its fan service might not appeal to everyone. It's one of the more popular shows of 2016, and I can see why.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-38302287567897254792017-02-21T04:01:00.003+08:002017-02-21T04:01:23.444+08:00Pervertic Post 13: 3D/CG Waifus<span style="color: #f1c232;">When it comes to having virtual waifus, you can't just stick to the world of 2D. The land of 3D/CG has plenty to offer when it comes to breeding beautiful, virtual women of all types, and it's today where I will dive into these 5 fabulous ladies in all their 3D/CG glory.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Stealing hearts since Tekken 5.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Name: Asuka Kazama</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Don't look down on this chick, this bountiful high school girl will kick your ass to and forth the street with ease. Asuka is pretty much the sexiest girl in the "Tekken" cast in my opinion, sporting an owl glass body with large breasts and sexy thighs. Her sleeveless attire and tight shirt only seem to further amplify her sexiness, and let's not forget about her win poses! Oo-la-la! And since we can dress our girls up in "Tekken" with a different bunch of outfits, its quite difficult to not get her on your list. Still, considering that "Tekken" has plenty of beauties (Alisa, Nina, Christie, Lili....among many others), it's really quite difficult to choose...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Name: Kasumi</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">There's really not much to say about Kasumi, she's smoking hot ever since she made her debut. She's pretty much the face of the DOA franchise, showing up in every game since her debut. Let's not forget that she, alongside Ayane, are the 2 confirmed girls to appear in every "Dead Or Alive: Extreme" games, not only because they are sexy as hell, but because people would flip out in a fan service game without these 2. Kasumi is simply angelic, almost like a seductive angel that seduces you without knowing it. Let's not forget that in the latest DOA, you can pretty much put her in whatever outfit you want, ranging from kimonos to revealing dresses to swimsuits and even school uniforms.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Lara Croft has always been a super sexy pick and a definite waifu for many nerds around the world, especially in the old days. It's without a doubt that the old Lara was most definitely a bountiful bombshell with that ridiculously sexy body of hers, but the one I have to pick has got to be Lara from the more recent remakes. This Lara, while her body is not AS ridiculous, is sexy enough, and she's got a lot more expressive face that I can get behind. I also like that she's a through and through survivalist that guns the hell down of anyone in her way. New Lara definitely has more spunk to her, and I like that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now Isana may be kind of a doozy here. Early into the series, Isana is introduced as a genderless character, a type of human that adapts to whatever gender he/she wants to be as they see fit. The thing is that when they choose a gender, they can no longer go back. As she develops feelings for Nagate, her body changes permanently to that of a female, and a smoking hot one at that. Sporting probably the biggest bust size among the students since her transformation and an hour glass body figure, Isana takes the cake for the hottest girl in the show. Also, she is so easily flustered, which is f**king amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It's really not too strange to see Lady on this list, is there? Ever since her appearance in DMC 3 it was seriously quite hard to chart her off as potential non-waifu material. Her appearance in DMC 4 finally sealed the deal, where we get to see her in all of her HD glory....and boy is she glorious. Scantily dressed in a revealing open shirt with belts and white, short shorts, this woman sure knows how to impress. Now it's only a matter of time before her eventual re-appearance again in a future title....</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-2008066981473978562017-02-15T03:25:00.002+08:002017-02-15T03:25:19.444+08:00The Revival Is Here (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Ah, here we go. FINALLY, a true and true "Gundam" series that managed to suck me back into this one hell of a ridiculous franchise. I'll be honest, the only "Gundam" that I watched and finished before this was one freaking "Gundam SEED" and its sequel, "SEED Destiny", so I've been out of the loop for a long, LONG time. "Double 0" didn't really appeal to me and I dropped it halfway back in 2008 when I was still a wee teenager. So in a way, it was only 8 years later in 2016 that I went ahead and watched "Iron Blooded Orphans", because this one seemed like it had potential. And believe or not, I actually liked this one. Some complained that this one was too dark and serious...but let's all be honest here. Do we REALLY want another season of "Build Fighters"? Because I sure as hell don't. Or how about "Reconguista G"?! Huh?! YOU WANT ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE?!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">When it comes to opening themes, I believe "Iron Blooded Orphans" has some of the best themes of 2015-2016. It's two opening themes are top notch, especially the first one, "Raise Your Flag" by MAN WITH A MISSION. It's techno-rock awesomeness literally makes my ears tingle with glee, and I can't stop headbanging during the chorus segments. If any flags were raised during the opening segment, its my hype flags, that's for sure. The second opening theme, "Survivor" by Blue Encount is pretty good as well, its nowhere near the level of "Raise Your Flag", but its fast paced and hype inducing, which what you'd be looking for in an opening theme.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I really enjoyed the show when it comes to the first season of "Iron Blooded Orphans". As the title suggests, putting the bleak world of "Gundam" in the viewpoint of children war slaves is quite a cruel and harsh thing to do. It's this very same viewpoint that makes the show slightly more fresh than those from before in the franchise. The story is simple, but most of the characters are strong and very well portrayed here...with the exception of our protagonist, which is a damned shame. The entire show's progression was well done, and since this IS "Gundam" after all, most of the mech battles are very well done. Sound design was amazing, and the battle choreography was top notch for the most part. When it comes to the DESIGNS of the mechs though, I didn't quite like the path they were taking here, other than a few of the robots, most of the others looked quite plain and generic. Also, it kind of disturbed me that the good guys were always winning (there are maybe only 1 or 2 really dangerous baddies here). They just had to diagnose Mikazuchi with the Tatsuya syndrome, didn't they? He is ridiculously broken, so much so that no battle ever feels like a challenge, maybe with the exception of the last one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The calamity war has longed passed, and now, Princess Kudelia is trying to repair relationships between mars and Earth. Being the symbol of hope of peace, she is the greatest face that one can ever hope to see on their side. Meanwhile, a group of war orphans are going on their lives as per usual, living under some adults trying to abuse them. Leader of the orphan group Orga, stages a rebellion to overthrow their overlords. With him are his best friends, friends so close that he can call them his brothers, among them are protagonist Mikazuchi and smart guy biscuit. They stage a revolt and overthrow the government, all while awakening a mobile suit that was hidden underneath their base all the time. Mikazuchi pilots said moble suit, the Gundam Barbatos. After their successful overthrow, Orga renames their band into the "Tekkadan", and he jumps himself onto a ship to aid Kudelia to bring peace to the nations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">With season 2 on air now, I can only wait for the time that I eventually get to sink my teeth into the conclusion of this series. So far, I do quite like it, and after how the first season concluded, I can only imagine that things are going to change for our heroes. Let's see how things actually turn out.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-49253372507183741502017-02-08T22:10:00.000+08:002017-02-08T22:10:03.440+08:00Harem In Tail Land (Utawarerumono: The False Faces review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Ah, "Utawarerumono". A long forgotten franchise of ages long past, who would have known that they would decide to actually do a follow up to that show. The original was one of the earlier generation harems that was actually pretty damned good, it told a story of war and battle, alongside throwing us the convenient typical harem affairs with its abundant cast of lovely ladies. I watched it a long time ago, but it somehow faded away deep into the fragments of my memory...since it was such a long ass time ago. Now, fast forward to late 2015-2016, we have supposedly another season that's not exactly a direct sequel. It features very few of our cast from the original, and instead puts us in the shoes of brand new characters. How does this new entry compare to the previous powerhouse that was released a good 10 years ago?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We have Suara as a one woman army here taking on all the theme songs in the show. The opening songs are "Insecure God" and "Star Hanging In The Heaven". The ending songs are "Feeling As If In A Dream" and "Looking Up At A Sky Full Of Stars". Honestly, Suara's not exactly a singer who does high energy tension type songs, so these aren't all that amazing to me, especially the ending themes. "Insecure God" is pretty slow, so the song that takes the cake here is most definitely the second opening theme "Star Hanging In The Heaven". Its slightly fast and sounds a little bit catchy, especially with the badass opening animations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">If I were to review the older "Utawarerumono", I would have very easily given it an 8 or 8.5 back in the day because of the serious tone that it provides despite being a harem. Now, "False Faces" is very much a different kind of show than the original was, mind you, go into it expecting that. Even if you are a hardcore fan of the original, know that this is NOT the same show, and its really not close. The premise of both shows are kind of different, and in more ways than one, "False Faces" is mostly a light-hearted and easy-going show until towards the final 5-6 episodes, and only in those episodes does the show really pick up the pace for its climax arc. Before that, its really very easy-going for our main cast (minus the origin episodes, which are pretty good), and there's not much at stake to worry about. Still, even as that, the show does work quite well, with its new cast of quirky and funny characters. Also, Haku is a damned good protagonist in my opinion. Not some wimpy high school kid who gets nervous around girls and clumsily gropes them, this man is a boss. The show would definitely suffer without him IMO. Instead of having a man plan out mission after mission in a warring era, we now have a lazy errand boy who's too smart for the tasks he has been given.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Having a similar start to the original, "False Faces" follows the fate of an unknown, amnesiac man who wakes up in a snow forest with no recollection of anything. He is chased down by a spirit and almost killed, but he is saved by a travelling young woman called Kuon. Seeing as how she's pretty much his savior and he has nothing to live for a the moment, she decides to "adopt" him, and gives him the name Haku. Haku is given certain jobs around a nearby town, though he is extremely unfit for physical labor unlike the rest of the tailed citizens, he makes up for it with wit and intellect. He is able to solve problems nobody can, and before he knew it, he was noticed by Sakon, a leader for a wandering mercenary band. Together with Haku, Sakon takes the both of them to the city, where he finds himself in a complicated situation of having to live off odd jobs just to sustain himself. Here, he meets a ton of other individuals who help brighten up, or in some cases, worsen his daily, simply life that he wishes to enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"False Faces" actually ends on a rather sour note, pretty much sequel-baiting itself. There's most definitely gotta be a second season so this to resolve the situation left hanging between Kuon and Haku, or else I'm gonna be one sad panda. Well, for the eventual impending second season, I can only hope they bring back more of the older characters, and probably even Hakuoro and Eruru. Well, one can only hope.</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-23950152628173067452017-01-31T04:32:00.005+08:002017-01-31T04:32:52.049+08:00Guilty Gear Xrd: Revalator<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(+) Pros: - Excellent visuals that are both extremely flashy and beautiful to look at, - Diverse cast of characters, - Core fighting mechanics are fun and pack a ton of depth, but remains beginner-friendly with its godlike tutorial, - Amazing soundtrack from my man Daisuke Ishiwatari, - Great set of online features, - Tons of unlockables that encourage more play time, - Story mode is a blast to look at.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">(-) Cons: - Story mode has no need for you to play at all, - Single player is slightly lacking to other Arc System Works games.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Gameplay time: About 3-4 hours for Story Mode, Infinite for everything else</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Here we are with the game that I consider to be the 2nd best looking fighting game in the market at the moment (only behind Tekken 7, which looks absolutely godlike). Sure, it might be debated as not many people favor the heavy anime styled visuals that is present in "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator", but nonetheless, it still looks absolutely amazing for what it is, that man you cannot disagree. I've never really had the chance to jump on the "Xrd" train during its first installment as I hadn't got myself a PS4 at the time, and I was probably hooked onto some other games to bother too much about it. So when "Revelator" came out in 2016, I had to give it a go, there's no way I was going to skip this one out. Needless to say, as someone who's loved Arc System's fighters since "Blazblue: Calamity Trigger" (and a little bit of Guilty Gear XX back on the PS2 era), "Xrd Revelator" was an absolute blast to play. Being very similar to its older games, it feels very familiar to fans of the franchise, and even someone like me who had always been more of a "Blazblue" guy...I found the game extremely easy to jump into. If we're looking at the most visually appealing fighting game in the market right now, I'd say "Xrd Revelator" takes the cake.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As I would expect from Arc System Works, they bothered to include an actual story mode into "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator", just like in their "Blazblue" games. Since I never had the opportunity to play "Xrd", it helped a lot that "Revelator" included a "previously on..." prologue episode before the story even begun to fill me in on the events of the previous game. Because of that, I never really missed much, and was able to get into the story rather quickly. It takes place after Elphelt was captured by Ariels, the mother of the Valentines that disguised herself as the supreme will that was even of a higher position than Ky Kiske, the king of his country. She apparently wants to fuse Elphelt with Justice to creature an omnipotent gear that could end the world. Of course, Sol is not going to take that lying down, so he collaborates with Ky Kiske and many others in order to try to find Elphelt and bring her back.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Right off the bat I'm going to get the obvious out of the way, "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator" looks absolutely amazing. I know I know, I pretty much gloated that off at the very beginning, but I have to stress on that fact. It uses 3D models that mimic those of the old school hand drawn sprites of older games, and it looks great. Characters are incredibly expressive, both in and out of battle, the animation style allows for some very vibrant character expressions on the models. It really looks like a well done CG anime during many sequences. During game play, character attacks look visually impressive, and visual impact when hitting an opponent feels extremely satisfying with giant orange flicks that flash on screen. Stage backgrounds look good too, though they don't do much to interact with the game itself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">With "Xrd: Revelator", the game has a decently healthy selection of 23 characters, 2 of which are DLC characters, which means its a 21 character in the base game itself. That itself is not too amazing, but considering its Arc System works, they do their magic on their character designs. If you've already known GG for awhile, then you should know, the cast is extremely diverse, in both their character designs and styles of game play. Almost everyone feels different from one another, with completely different move sets and fighting styles, ranging from the simplistic close quarters combat of Sol or Ky, to the extremely complex, micro managing combat style of Zato...or even a fighting style centered around kiting enemies from afar with Axl Low. The game has a ton of choices, and while some characters are most definitely a lot harder to use than others, there's always someone that's perfect for any player.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The core mechanics of the game itself are fairly diverse, as expected of a game from Arc System works. If you've played and are mostly familiar with the GG games of old, you should be fine, otherwise, its a game that's fairly similar to "Blazblue", though here, its slightly more complex. You've got your advance guards, your counter breaks and your rapid cancels, but unlike "Blazblue" where you have a button dedicated to a specific character trait, in GG, its all simply just another attack button, so there's certainly going to be a little bit more complicated when it comes to chaining combos and attacks. Still, GG focuses a lot more on using the tension meter on canceling than using special attacks, much more so than BB. Even if you know next to nothing about the game, the tutorial mode is fantastic and should quickly get you up to speed with its various training methods.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Even IF you're already somewhat decent at the game, the game further tries to educate you by providing match-up tips against other characters with the character you are playing as! This is rarely seen in other fighting games, and I'm glad to see Arc System works apply this to "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator"...though this is strangely missing in "Blazblue". Even after ALL that and you STILL want to take it easy, the game has a "Stylish" command input, which pretty much turns the game into "Persona 4:Arena" and lets you blindly mash buttons for standard bread and butter combos. I highly do NOT recommend you to play the game this way though. There are plenty of ways to practise, ranging from the standard Arcade Mode with character intros and outros to training missions in the dojo, which teach you combos for certain characters. All this, combined with an excellent rock-based soundtrack, makes for some damned, good fun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Alright, now let's get on to the main meat of what GG does really well, its online features. Going online to kick some ass in "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator" is relatively simple because of its online infrastructure. Now, the netcode is decent, but what's really good here is the feature list. They've made a very charming lobby where you get to move a relatively cute avatar around to challenge others. The standard list of to-dos here in a fighting game online lobby are here, you can challenge others one on one, you can go into ranked queues for increasing your rank, you can queue up in individual private lobbies to fight against others as you spectate...the list goes on. The game spots a nice replay theater for you to view past games against players you went up against, and you can keep track of your stats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Playing the game earns you world dollars, which you can use to purchase many other things in the game store. These include custom themes, character system voices, character color pallete swaps, character icons to use to edit your online profile, items to dress up your online avatar in....and many, many more. There are a metric f**k ton of things you can buy, and you'll accumulate the money quite quickly anyway. Most important is the fact that one of the DLC characters Raven, can be purchased in game with in-game currency (sadly, Kum and Dizzy are still paid DLC if you didn't manage to get them for free during their release windows). Of course, you could technically fish for those...but fishing is incredibly RNG heavy and you usually get useless stuff from it anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Finally, let's talk about the game's story mode. Its really quite refreshing to see Arc put so much effort into the story. Unlike "Blazblue"'s visual novel styled story telling which is starting to look a little bit aged and old now, "Guilty Gear" uses full blown cut scenes with their characters moving around and talking to each other. In a way, its almost like a full length 3D CG anime film, complete with fully voiced dialogue and its individual arcs within the story that the game splits itself into. I'll be honest, the story is pretty straightforward, but at least its a blast to look at and quite fun to watch from start to finish. Honestly though, after you're done with it, there's no real merit to revisiting it, but at least it was fun while it lasted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Now let's talk about what the game could have done better. For one, the story mode, while fun, is very much just you watching how it plays out. At least in "Blazblue", you could make choices for a more branched out story, and you had to play the fights out yourself. Here in "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator", the story is STRICTLY a movie ONLY. There's no fights that you have to play out, no QTEs like in "Mortal Kombat", nothing. They really could have done something more interactive so that we could feel like we were a part of this story that was being told. Secondly, which is the more important point that I have to get to, is that the game feels a bit light on content compared to other Arc System Works games. Considering this is "GUILTY GEAR", their first and possibly most well known franchise, they could have put more stuff into it, like its own Score Attack mode with insane AI settings or something like that...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Anyway, that's "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator" for you. It's a damned good fighting game that looks freaking amazing, its a game that well deserves its asking price. Now that GG has come to steam, hopefully it gets an even bigger community so that we get more games. With that in mind, "GG Xrd: Rev 2" is coming soon, with Answer and Baiken (f**king finally) on the way. Since we DON'T have to pick up a brand new retail game for the update (thank god), I'll probably be getting that one too...and I can't wait to play as Baiken, who looks incredibly sexy in her new look.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I'll be straight up honest with you guys, I only watched this one because its story was written by the great Kazuma Kamachi, the author behind the "To Aru Majutsu No Index" franchise. I was quite hyped to learn that another one of his many works got an anime adaptation, and soon grew quite eager for "Heavy Object" to end so that I could watch it. Sadly for me, while "Heavy Object" is a rather unique concept to say the least, I found it extremely hard to grow on the series as a whole. I'm not too huge of a sci-fi guy, so "Heavy Object" didn't exactly sell me on the premise alone, even after finishing the entire 24 episode offering, I was feeling rather iffy and confused as to what to think of the series. The series has its strong points, but I feel that it has far too many issues that stop it from achieving greatness. I mean, if you're into giant mechs and destroying them, this one might be for you, otherwise, I feel that "Heavy Object" only appeals to a certain niche audience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">For one, the series does have some solid theme songs, I'll give it that. Both opening songs are performed by ALL OFF, the first opening theme is "One More Chance", and the second one is "Never Gave Up". Both songs are fast, furious and get you freaking pumped with its high strung vocals and powerful instrumental flurry. "Never Gave Up" does feel a little bit uplifting, which is slightly questionable, but its still a powerful song nonetheless. The ending themes are your typical slow affair, with the first theme being "Dear Brave" by Kano, and the second theme being "Unchanging Strength" by Yuka Iguchi.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">While I personally don't enjoy it AS much, I'd say that the show does have some undeniable charm. "Heavy Object" is a sci-fi anime that takes place in the future, and it does have a rather ridiculous setting. Right off the bat, things will seem infuriatingly confusing and completely nonsensical, that much is similar to the "Index" franchise, that much I can say for sure. If you don't pay attention to even the slightest bit of detail, you'll have question marks flying out of your heads. The story itself is mostly your typical political struggle between countries and factions, nothing TOO complicated or mind blowing here. The characters are a rather strong point, since most of the screen time is focused on our main central 4 characters, which do turn out to be somewhat likable down the road (plus, Capistrano is a freaking goddess). While there are plenty of other side characters thrown in from time to time, the show's focus never breaks away from our central cast, which gives them some good character development. The show's main focus however, is the action, and while most of the mech battles are done in CG, the main meat of the show with regular foot soldiers taking down mechs can range from good....to "meh". Some of the battle arcs are nice, while others aren't that great, which is probably why I feel like this show doesn't appeal to me that much, since the later strategies to take down future mechs don't feel that mind blowing anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Quenser is a regular young man sent out to the army to investigate and learn about Objects, mysterious mechs that surfaced in the world and took it by storm. An Object is a massive mech that is powerful enough to completely obliterate armies, tanks and any sort of planes that even dare to mobilize against it: simply put, it is the most powerful thing in the world. Since the introduction of Objects, wars have been completely skewed and even removed at times, with most conflicts between factions being settled between 2 Objects duking it out with one another. Whichever Object wins will have its supporting factory win the war, so to say. Quenser is a mechanic studying the Objects up close, as such, he is treated a foot soldier. There, he meets someone who'll become his best buddy in the battlefield, Havia, a prince from a faraway land sent to fight for his family's honor. Together they work under the voluptuous Major Capistrano and her Object pilot Milinda. They go on various adventures, fighting against armed soldiers and objects alike, except on most situations, Quenser and Havia have to deal with Objects by themselves...as mere foot soldiers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Heavy Objects" threads on a very niche line in my opinion. Surely it has its nice bursts of charm, but I feel like the show gets repetitive and bland after awhile, especially if you're not huge into mechs. As one of Kazuma's works, I feel like it's going to have a nice following, but for myself...well, we're just going to have to see how the future for this franchise turns out.</span><br />
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The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-36319037261052423672017-01-08T22:46:00.001+08:002017-01-08T22:46:03.294+08:00The Pervy Antics Continue! (To Love Ru Darkness S2 review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It never ends, doesn't it? At this point I'm not even surprised anymore: "To Love Ru" is simply one of those shows that will never go away as long as the fan base remains intact. If there's demand for it, there'll definitely be another season. I won't lie, more "To Love Ru" will make me a happy man, that's for sure. With the second season of "Darkness", it brings us even closer to the eventual reveal of Lala's mother (please make it happen in full anime glory)! With more new characters, more ecchi filled scenarios and more screen time with our favorite girls of this harem with a long anime heritage, "To Love Ru Darkness S2" pulls out all the big guns, bringing the ecchi levels to new heights. Those looking for fan service will be more than happy to know that this show somehow manages to be even MORE pervertic than the last season, which is downright insanity. Without further ado, Rito has more boobs to fondle, asses to grab, and panties to dive his face into. All hail the harem lord and king of pervertic accidents!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"To Love Ru" opening theme songs have been somewhat improving in my opinion, especially with "Secret Arms" by Ray here. It'll never have an opening song that's fast or rock heavy due to the nature of the show, "Secret Arms" is as good as it gets with its smooth tempo and good vocals. The ending theme is "Gardens" by Mami Kawada, who is sadly retired at the time of this post. I've always been a fan of her faster paced songs in "Shakugan No Shana" and "Index", which "Gardens" sadly is not. Still, its a slower paced song that's better suited for an ending theme.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I won't be ashamed to say it: I very much enjoyed myself with "To Love Ru Darkness S2". Considering the scale of things here, it's extremely hard not to, as a show that delves on having its fan service to be one of its biggest selling points, it does a great job. Hell I still do believe that when it comes to these fan service shows, "To Love Ru" is still THE best franchise to do it, outside of maybe "High School DxD". How Rito spends time with the girls and how his everyday life simply continues to unfold really doesn't get old, despite this being the 4th entry in the franchise. With even some much needed screen time on other girls that usually don't show up (Kujou Rin) and the new character, Nemesis, there's really nothing that's being left out here. "To Love Ru" has always been awfully quirky with its romcom comedic moments, like how Rito frequently causes upskirts, or how he nosedives face first into some random girl's panties...its all here and it skyrockets to insane proportions. The ending arc is even surprisingly well done, with a nice amount of detail, character progression and background story on one of the franchise's most popular but under-developed characters, Yami.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Taking place directly after the events of the first season of "Darkness", Momo still grows increasingly insistent of making her bat shit insane harem plan come into fruition. Trying to force her ideals onto Rito to become the king of Deviluke and have multiple wives...of course, for that to happen he has to marry Lala first. With Mea now finally being more on the "good" side, there are fewer things interrupting Momo's plans now...until a new sinister presence shows up. Meet master Nemesis, the mysterious voice that has been keeping contact with Mea up till now. Out of nowhere, she suddenly decides to appear in her physical form. She sends Mea on another mission to screw around, and now, Rito suddenly has to worry about the darkness project that happens to be the background story of Yami...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">With even the release of an OVA episode that's incredibly high in terms of fan service volume, it's almost confirmed that we haven't seen the end of "To Love Ru".The manga is STILL growing strong, and artist Yabuki Kentarou shows almost no signs of slowing down. Well then, here's to "Darkness" season 3, my fellow weebs!</span><br />
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<br />The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-67514790340565969722016-12-28T21:52:00.001+08:002016-12-28T21:52:40.905+08:00Seiyuus - Young Stars & Brilliant Performers<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We'll start off the post with the woman with the cutest voice among today's picks. Ai Kakuma is nothing short of a seiyuu that meets the demands. The is more than capable in voicing both the cute girls and the sexy women. She's got both in her resume, but if you ask me, I'd always go for the sexy ones, because she does a pretty damned good job in those. All in all, she's got a versatile voice. If you'd want to go super cute, she's done Hakua (If Her Flag Breaks), Nina (Aldnoah Zero), Kurase (Shokugeki No Soma) and Rurutie (Utawarerumono). If you want lewd, she's done that before with the deranged Dullahan in "Monster Musume". If you want a matured beauty, she's done a teacher in Roseweiss (High School DxD Born). Julis (Asterisk War Series) is pretty much the regular main heroine as far as her roles go, but for me, I like her kuudere voices. I'm talking Est (Blade Dance Of Elementalers) and Sento Isuzu (Amagi Brilliant Park), with the later being one of my favorite waifuus of all time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Here comes the breeding horse! Asanuma is one seyiuu I can respect and get behind, this dude actually started off as a script writer more than anything else, and sometimes, he's so good that he gets seiyuu roles for main characters in certain shows. This multi-talented guy is pretty good at what he does, and despite his age (he's 40 this year), he gets the job done on some young/bishonen characters, sounding pretty damned fabulous. He's done his fair share on the older dudes, like old uncle Takeru (Minami-Ke) or the big brother figure Susanoo (Akame Ga Kill). His strength lies in the younger characters IMO, with a hot blooded pretty boy like Maehara (Assassination Classroom), the popular, caring best friend in Takeru (Accel World), the "Big Sister" male character in Nagi (Rakudai Kishi No Calvary) and the flirtatious pretty boy Taro (Ookami-san). Of course, his 2 best roles in my opinion are none other than the godlike Izayoi (Mondaiji) and the breeding horse, hilarious as f**k protagonist Tsuda (Seitokai Yakuindomo).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Kaito Ishikawa is pretty good, I'm not going to lie. For someone his age, you can call him a young star within the voice acting industry right now. I mean, he's been getting main roles when he was as young as 19! Hell, nowadays, he's pretty much become one of the staples for voicing protagonists in most animes. I won't lie, he does the job well, and his slightly deeper voice makes for a great casting choice for the more hot blooded and serious main characters. He's got the sinister and serious Nine (Zankyou No Terror), the conflicted Fidel (Star Ocean 5), the hot-blooded Nero (Devil may Cry 4:SE), the oblivious protagonists in Harutora (Tokyo Ravens) and Moroha (Seiken Tsukai No World Break) and the young yet somewhat mature hero in Gunvolt (Azure Striker Gunvolt). He's done plenty of supporting characters as well, ranging from the conflicted Mitsuo (Golden Time), to the brash young man Kimizuki (Seraph of The End), the responsible class representative Lida (My Hero Academia), and of course, star cyborg Genos (One Punch Man).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Well shit, Mikako Komatsu is pretty freaking adorable in real life too. Komatsu here has a hell lot of adorable girls in her roles, though like most, she has a great array of choices to choose from in her list of voiced characters. By default, she's got a really tricky voice to rate, I say that because 2 of my favorite characters that she has voiced are Hotaru (Aoharu X Kikanjuu) and Saika (Yahari Series)...both of which are trap characters. God dammit. Well, other than those 2, she has done an array of other cute girls, ranging from the slightly cold Shiina (Gourmet Girl Graffiti), the super normal girl gone mech pilot in Inko (Aldnoah Zero), the arrogant master chef Taki (Shokugeki no Soma), the blunt fighter Rose (Tales Of Zestria) and the girl who is much older than she looks, Izzy (Taboo Tattoo). Then there's Neko (K Series), who is sexy as hell, but has very low sex appeal in how she acts, shame. Speaking of sexy, she's also voiced the deadly Ginger (Gangsta) and the blue haired bombshell in Tsugumi (Nisekoi Series).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I'm surprised it took me such a long time for me to mention her in one of these posts, honestly. Yuko Kaida is nothing short of amazing, and she's been in the industry for quite awhile too, dating back as long ago as during the "Bleach" era. Anyway, Yuko kaida is another one of those seiyuus that voices the more mature characters, call her "one-san", if you would. She's got plenty of sexy women who fir the elder sister archetype, and while some are typically much cuter than others, she's more suited to the more mentor-ish woman role. She's got Elizabeth (Freezing), Claire (Resident Evil Series), Einheria (Bravely Default Series), Garack (Snow White With Red Hair Series), Sumire (Black Bullet) and Yomikawa (Index Series), all of which are pretty much elder-sister type characters of some sort. Then there's Rosa (Final Fantasy 4), who's basically a young wife and Momoka (Ookami-San), the closest thing we have to a cute, high school girl character. Lastly there's everybody's favorite from her, Kido (Mekakucity Actors), the badass leader of the Mekaku City Den.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">2nd row - Einheria (Bravely Defauly Series), Garack (Snow White With Red Hair Series), Sumire (Black Bullet), Yomikawa (Index Series)</span>The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-77266518178937873122016-12-21T21:40:00.002+08:002016-12-21T21:40:35.765+08:00Greatest Boss Fights: Asimov (Azure Striker Gunvolt)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br />It's actually been a damned long time since we covered a boss fight here. Sure, I did a ton of "Dark Souls" boss profiles, but none of these posts have been done in over a year....probably because there weren't any bosses that literally blew my mind these few years. I've got a few in mind now, so let's just get started on today's main topic at hand, the true final story boss of the first "Azure Striker Gunvolt": It's Asimov. It's actually been a damned long time since I've seen a boss fight THIS well done, the atmosphere, the buildup.....EVERYTHING that made the final fight against Asimov an epic and entertaining one just worked in the heat of the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Needless to say it's troublesome to even make it to this boss, since you'd have to collect gems in every stage to even get the true ending to fight this guy. Asimov is no joke, armed with Copen's pistol, he is a dangerous force to be reckoned with, EVEN with Lumen's song that makes you feel so OP, he laughs it all off if he even manages to hit you just ONCE. A single shot from Asimov immediately puts you on overheat, making you nothing but a helpless little whelp to his upcoming attacks, which usually includes a damaging electric charge that CANNOT be avoided through normal means.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Take note for the entire battle that a single hit from Asimov makes you overheat, leaving you vulnerable. The most reliable way to take on Asimov is simple, do not get hit, which is pretty hard at first. Also, it is completely impossible to damage Asimov through normal means, he simply phases through all bullets until you manage to beat him in a lightning clash. Like all bosses in the game, Asimov's battle is split into 3 phases. The first phase is fairly simple, with him simply firing straightforward triple shots at you. With Lumen's song, its impossible to get hit by these, making the first phase a pushover. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">After Asimov has enough fun trying to tag you, he charges in with a lightning field attack that is mostly undodgable due to its massive AOE. Instead of trying to dodge the thing, you'll want to clash against his field with a field of your own. Don't worry, with unlimited energy, you'll easily phase through this. Once the clash ends with you beating his lightning field, Asimov lays motionless for awhile, letting you hit him for some damage. This is the ONLY time in a fight where you can damage him, so go crazy, use skills, pelt him and zap him, do anything you want. When Asimov recovers, he goes back on the offensive and you can't hit him again, take note of that. Rinse and repeat until you deplete his first HP bar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">After the cakewalk of a first phase, its time to ramp things up. Phases 2 and 3 are exactly the same, but man, things get tough. Asimov gets a completely new plan of attack and shoots differently now. He can now attack in one of 2 ways, either a chaser styled attack with homing bullets, or the spread styled attack with him shooting a turret that fires bullets all around it. These are...pretty freaking hard to avoid, especially with how the Chaser is so annoying to dodge and that the spread attack can get so unpredictable in the heat of a battle. Remember, getting hit once overheats you and leaves you wide open, so this part will probably have you die more than just a few times.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Even with unlimited jumps and air dashes, it takes awhile to get used to Asimov's attacks. Chaser is tough to avoid because the bullets home in on you in such a convoluted manner, each and ever jump or air dash has to count here. The trick is not stay on the ground too much, where you are most open to the homing shots. The spread attack is arguable more troublesome, as you need to guess which side the turret fires from, and if you're standing on the wrong side, you're pretty much f**ked. If you have nice reaction timing, you should be able to dash and jump away, otherwise, its a cruel guessing game. Anyway, after a few attacks Asimov goes in for the lightning field again, repeat until its time for phase 3.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Phase 3 is almost the same as phase 2, except now he gets access to his finisher move: Voltic Chains. This is bloody ridiculous, not only is Voltic Chains EXTREMELY hard to avoid by most means, it does an insane amount of damage, one-shotting you most of the time if you aren't at full HP. The moment Asimov's cut-in appears, the chains start to appear, covering the entire screen. There is a small window where you are safe from Voltic Chains on the very top of the screen, use Lumen's infinite jump to get there and STAY there until the attack ends. Still, you have to get down the timing of Voltic Chains JUST RIGHT to avoid getting hit, which is utter BS. Good luck in the boss rush without Lumen's song...</span><br />
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<br />The Foolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12789000641326160599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506659324183640784.post-71174918600785265792016-12-14T02:21:00.005+08:002016-12-14T02:21:48.406+08:00And The Story Goes On... (Owarimonogatari review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">OP 1 - Decent Black (Kaori Mizuhashi)</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">OP 2 - Mathemagics (Marina Inoue)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">ED 1 - Sayonara no Yukue (Alisa Takigawa)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Another day another "Monogatari" series, its like one of those shows that never truly die (much like the DRRR! seasons after the first, I've gotta start on those one day). "Owarimonogatari" is yet again, another installment in the "Monogatari" franchise, which has gotten pretty f**king impossible to follow now if you ask me. With all the freaking OVAs after the second season like "Hana" and "Tsuki", this comes right after and now they do the prequel "Kizumonogatari" films which seem like they're going to be a lot of a hassle to get into. Well, at least with the novel's story already "finished" (the author is doing some spin-off stuff with the characters), maybe we'll get to see some sort of a conclusion to the story, which I feel like the franchise so very much deserves. With "Owarimonogatari", now we get even MORE heroines for out beloved Koyomi ni-chan to invest himself in, so let's begin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As with all of the other "Monogatari" seasons, "Owarimonogatari" comes with its own set of opening theme songs sang by their respective heroines in the arcs. My favorite here is definitely episode 1's OP, which is "Decent Black" by Kaori Mizuhashi, Ougi's seiyuu. It creepy, catchy and honestly very addictive, the mid-ranged tempo that the song has going works for it incredibly well. Then we have "Mathemagics" by Marina Inoue, who is Sodachi's seiyuu. Its a little weird, while Marina Inoue's vocals are nice, the song feels a little bit clunky, I'm not a huge fan of this one. Finally we have "Mein Schatz" by Mito, which is kind of the filler opening theme for the 2nd arc of the show. It's alright, but it still loses out to "Decent Black".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Rating: 7.5/10</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">I feel like at this point the series has exhausted pretty much everything that it has to offer and is pushing itself through to the finish line. I'll say what I always say: it's more of the same, which isn't exactly a bad thing. For the "Monogatari" fans, you'll be happy to eat this up like I did, because its more "Monogatari", hey, who doesn't like that? However, unlike "Hanamonogatari" or the last arc of "Monogatari Second Season" with Kaiki, there's really nothing new or special that's being done here to really spice things up. This one focuses on Koyomi's back story with this new girl named Sodachi, who ends up being pretty f**king important to Aragagi's life cycle (and for some reason, we have NEVER heard of her) and while Sodachi's arc was good, it's really just Aragagi solving another girl's problem. Still, Ougi is the one saving grace of this season, the literal goddess who brings life to this new season. As a character, she's mysterious, charming and full of spunk. It also certainly helps that Kaori Mizuhashi's voice acting made her sound so...smooth. It's actually great that they made her a central character for the first arc in this season. Oh, and Gaen, she's most certainly a fun character, too bad she doesn't appear too much. It's great that she had some screen time this season, even though the arc where she mattered was merely a prequel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Aragagi Koyomi is almost out of high school, with little more than a few months before graduating. It is at this time he meets Ougi Oshino, a transfer student who was introduced by Kanbaru. Ougi is an interesting girl, she takes an immediate interest in Aragagi and starts to be really pesky about learning his life. She makes Aragagi remember about an event that happened a few years back, an event that simply changed his life so much that he tucked it away deep in his memory. This is the memory of how his class went berserk and completely isolated a girl away for the rest of her life, the story of Oikura Sodachi. An apparition traps Koyomi and Ougi in his old classroom, and his memory of that painful past has returned. He sought to make things right again with this forgotten girl, and now that Sodachi has finally returned to school for some reason, things are about to take a really, REALLY strange turn...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Owarimonogatari" just becomes another addition to the franchise at the end of the day, nothing much. However, things aren't over yet despite this being the fourth installment in the franchise, MINUS the OVAs. There are 3 movies that are on the way (2 of which already aired in Japan), dubbed "Kizumonogatari". Apparently these are prequels, but I am hell bent on seeing through the "Monogatari" series to the end, now that I have come this far. When the 3 and final one is out, its time for a marathon....</span><br />
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