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Dec. 6th, 2009 @ 10:50 am
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More on Sengoku:
-Worst off-screen disease in the series. Your allies die REAL QUICK if you don't do missions, LOL. I mean, we're talking an allied Honda Tadakatsu losing to nameless general on Easy difficulty. If you don't take care of your army they WILL die.
-There's two kinds of things to accomplish in each stage, missions and 'gekiha kouka' (defeat effects). Missions are what the stage generally wants you to accomplish (defeat X, defeat X before Y dies, make X rendezvous with Y etc.). I think missions are now what makes your allies do better, because there's no more Morale meter. If you start failing the missions your allies seem to do poorly. On the other hand gekiha kouka (I'll just call them GKs) are special achievement type things, along the lines of "defeat X general while combo couter is above 200", "defeat X general while the enemy has fewer than 5 gates", "defeat X general without ever going into red health" etc. etc. The rewards for doing so are also unique, they can be anything from "allies regain health" to "reinforcements appear" to a bonus weapon drop or some such (usually higher quality than what you'd get normally).
-There ARE unique weapons for each character, including the free-mode-only guys. You have to do all of the GKs on a specific stage on Hard or above. Because they straight out tell you what the GKs are there's no 'secret' element to it, but in general the GKs can be difficult (like defeating a general while your combo count is over 400, that can be ridiculous) so I think the difficulty in getting these is actually higher than previous Musou games.
-Specials are revamped. Most generals only have one special now. However, special-type generals have two, and they're often different from before. So now Mitsunari and Nouhime don't need two specials to lay down bombs and detonate them, they function as one, and they get a different special as their second (Mitsunari has a whirlwind barrier, Nouhime has the drain-musou-from-males thing).
-Everybody can whistle for horse now, just like Musou Orochi. Yay.
-You can unlock Fukushima Masanori's and Aya Gozen's models for use in create-a-general. Unfortunately you can't use their voice sets... but I suppose if they went to the trouble to make voice sets for them they might as well have made them free-mode-only characters instead of NPCs. Something to look forward to for Moushouden, I suppose.
-Okuni can still Mary Poppins fly. Yay.
EDIT: Oh, yeah.
http://jaysonic.blog42.fc2.com/blog-entry-900.html
Apparently some stores have started selling Graces early, as people have posted pics of the box/manual on 2ch and uploaded the OP video. The OP has a shot of Richard turning his back on the party, and the usual "show everybody together on the airship" shot towards the end that EVERY Tales OP has only has the six characters, so people are already speculating that Richard leaves/dies/becomes a bad guy or what not and is not a permanent party member. Iiiiiinteresting. Also, Pascal has funny expressions.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) maiki, グレイセスをフラゲしろよ！！！ And you know you can get 3000 grade pretty quickly with the Tidal Wave-Matsuri, right?
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Dec. 5th, 2009 @ 09:34 pm
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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9003118
A new Vesperia MAD/Combo Video thing. It's light on the combos but what they do have are very impressive. Also, there's a lot of jokes in there. Like, one combo that ends with Judith's 2nd hi-ougi, they replaced the voice with Lenneth's Nibelung Valesti. And there's places where they replace Rita's voice with Mao's. There's also entire combos where they give Repede a voice (Kratos saying the move names since they have the same moves, haha) and a Flynn combo with Guy's voice.
There's a Higurashi joke with Estelle, and a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure joke featuring Raven. There's even a Mario joke at the end. Well worth watching. Oh, and the BGM is made up entirely of Mizuki Nana vocals.
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Dec. 3rd, 2009 @ 06:04 pm
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Kneejerk-reaction review to Sengoku Musou 3 (just finished Katou Kiyomasa's Musou).
The Good:
-Interface very friendly. Game not only tells you where to go for missions now, but also what route is the best. Great for maps which are mazelike or for the "d'oh! I didn't know that gate was closed!" syndrome which plagued previous Musou games.
-Portable item system is pretty cool. Activated speed boots or full-musou on demand - I like a lot.
-New equipment system which not includes weapon but armor, gauntlets, boots gives you a ton of skills to mix and match, and you don't need to pray that you get all of the skills just on your weapon.
-Achievement-like goals for each stage (kill X general within 5 minutes, kill X general with a combo over 300 etc.) add some replayability to each stage.
-Ginchiyo still wears the pants. She bosses around Muneshige in the few stages I played.
The Bad:
-Weapon system DW6ish in that there's just speed/power/normal weapons. No 4th weapon, from what I can tell.
-Doesn't appear to be any 2P costumes. (Though there is custom color palettes now, so if you want to make a pink Maeda Keiji, go right ahead.)
-Obviously, Wii not as powerful as PS3/360 so slowdown/fewer enemies in many places as has plagued previous musou games.
-Possibly no Gaiden stages? But those were the best part of SM2 :( At least the ones that were like Nouhime and Oichi fighting to figure out who the most beautiful woman in Japan is.
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Dec. 2nd, 2009 @ 01:17 pm
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http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/2009/12/02/new-final-fantasy-xiii-shonen-jump-scan-2.html
Woo, a couple of screens of hi-ougi/Limit Break-like move from Lightning, Scene Drive. (It's unclear whether Scene Drive is a generic name for all such super moves or if that's the particular name of Lightning's.) It uses the entire ATB gauge and apparently you learn it from the Blaster role, at least for Lightning. Again I wonder whether even though you can change roles freely if there's a 'recommended' role for each character, for instance previous Famitsu/Shounen articles have mentioned that Fang fits the Attacker role quite well. So maybe Fang learns her super move via Attacker? Or maybe not. Still there's 6 roles and 6 characters, so I wouldn't be surprised if there WERE such a 'preferred' correspondence (I'm guessing Lightning = Blaster, Snow = Defender, Fang = Attacker, Sazh = Jammer, Hope = Enhancer, Vanille = Healer... but again could be way off.)
The background picture is the same as they've been using as a promo poster, pretty nice picture. Seems to be pushing FangxVanille, though!
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Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
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http://pics.livejournal.com/skuldnoshinpu/pic/001pkwce
OMNOMNOM MAGOICHI. Date Masamune may have six swords. BUT YOU HAVE SIX GUNS. UNF.
Now the bad part. LOL.
I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING BAD I SAID ABOUT SENGOKU MUSOU 3. I'm fine with the fact that they have seven Free Mode Only characters. Because it could be much, much worse. It could be Sengoku Basara, which has DEMOTED UESUGI KENSHIN AND KASUGA TO NPCs. Former PCs suddenly becoming NPCs... that's unprecedented in Musou. Musou has cut characters before, but not made them NPCs and taunted players with "nyah nyah now you can't play me!".
PLUS, I hear that they may be cutting the entire Oda faction. So no Nobunaga, no Ranmaru, no Nouhime, no Mitsuhide. Hideyoshi may be dead too. Why? Because they're focusing on Sekigahara in 3 (as evidenced by the fact that the two new mains are Tokugawa and Ishida Mitsunari), and the Oda faction was long gone by the time they got to Sekigahara. Well, Sengoku Musou 2 also focused on Sekigahara but they didn't do something stupid like ELIMINATE SEVERAL FAN FAVORITE CHARACTERS. And actually now that I hear that, it does seem that Magoichi is being groomed as a Nouhime replacement, while Mitsunari is probably being groomed as a Kenshin replacement. Sick.
I'm sure eventually they'll release Sengoku Basara 3 Eiyuuden or whatever and restore some characters, but wow. I have new respect for you, Koei, even if you WERE too lazy to make up some character stories. At least you didn't ditch them! (But I still want Goemon back. And Gracia.)
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
OH CAPCOM, YOU AND YOUR BASARA. AND YOUR FEMALE SAIKA MAGOICHI.
http://koeiwarriors.co.uk/
OK Basara, you win this time. Your Magoichi is 100x better than Musou's Magoichi, I will admit. (Bonus: She's Oohara Sayaka, so odds are good she'll sound like Selvaria in Senjou no Valkyria.)
Also: Hokuto Musou out in March!
Also: Inevitable SW3 artbook scans coming!
Apparently Graces got straight 9s in Famitsu, which actually puts it HIGHER than Vesp (Vesp got 35). Graces better than Vesperia? I highly doubt it. But I'll give it a fair shake regardless.
Dec. 1st, 2009 @ 02:30 pm
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Back to frivolous talk...
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9878/93970ffxiii122381lo.jpg
Cid's full name is "Cid Raines". His subordinate (whom people believe to be Koyasu based on the latest trailer) is named as Rigdy Tai'i (Tai'i = Captain as a military rank). Also old guy in the trailer is ID'ed as the leader of the seifu and is named Garens Dithrie or somewhere along those lines in terms of romanization.
More importantly, Vanille's summon is ID'ed. Brand new one by the name of Hecatoncheir. Defining feature is he has a lot of arms. (Oh dear, bad Vanille/Hecaton doujin ideas already floating.) And his driving mode is Madou (AKA Magitek) armor, which brings me happy memories of FFVI and Tina. (tte iu ka, Vanille, your butt is showing in that pose...)
FF13's summons are a mix of cool and disappointing, I'm glad they got the big boys like Odin, Bahamut, and Alexander, but Shiva seems out of place and I wish they had Leviathan... oh and Gilgamesh, harhar. (Maybe he'll show up in a different matter entirely, like in 12. Hopefully he'll still be Gouri Daisuke if he is.)
http://www.ff14site.com/thread-554.html
The previous week's scans too, featuring ウホッ！いいサボテンダー among others. Man, I love Cactrots so much, I'm sad that they weren't in FFXII. I'm glad they're back. I wonder if Tonberries are back too, cause I love those too. (I dare say that Cactrot and Tonberry are Nomura's best character designs. *rimshot*)
Hey how about a random poll:
Poll #1491878
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17Best Final Fantasy mascot monster?
Personally I can't decide between Cactrot and Tonberry...
Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 10:15 am
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Sometimes I mention Europe as being a lot better than the US when it comes to particular civil rights. But every now and then I'm reminded that yes, Europe can be just as bigoted as the US can be. It's not just Switzerland of course, there was also the proposed burka ban in France for example. To their credit, the Swiss government and several city governments are decrying the initiative as racist and degrading, but if the exit polls end up true and 59% actually voted to pass it, it doesn't speak highly of the actual populace.
"The problem is not so much the minarets, but rather what they represent," said Madeleine Trincat, a retiree from Geneva. "After the minarets, the muezzins will come, then they'll ask us to wear veils and so on."
Sounds like exactly the same slippery-slope argument that Americans use to deny gay marriage. "It's not so much that I'm against gay marriage, but if you let that happen then next you'll be letting people marry dogs and kids and blah blah blah". No, you're just bigoted. Depressing.
Nov. 29th, 2009 @ 09:26 am
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http://www.massively.com/2009/11/26/anti-aliased-boobs-and-you/
Despite what the link sounds like, it's actually a fairly introspective look at the objectification of both men and women in video games, and the double standard there is when there comes to the views on such. I do think the writer kind of tiptoes around the main point that in general, there's still a lot more (straight) male gamers than there are females. So it's almost inevitable that female objectification gets more attention as well as more backlash than male does.
WITH THAT SAID ON A COMPLETELY RELATED SUBJECT... not only are they making a new Ikkitousen game, but they're having a fourth season of Ikkitousen. And not only did they go Ikkitousen to Ikkitousen DD to Ikkitousen GG, now they're on XX, "Xtreme Xecutor" (LOL). Brown-haired girl in the banner is a mystery, although there's an entry on the cast list for a Ma Chao, which would be new. The previous series started diverging from the manga a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if this new series broke completely from the manga. After all they haven't finished the Chi Bi storyline in the manga yet whereas GG wrapped that one up.
Nov. 28th, 2009 @ 02:43 pm
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http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3139/maruwakarisengokure.jpg
Other than a terrible haircut, the presumed Mori Motonari looks... rather plain. Oh well. It's all about the personality. And how broken he is. Projectile users usually end up either horrifically broken (DW6 SSX, for instance) or pretty bad (SW1 Magoichi) so we'll see how he is.
maiki, you can't bring over levels in Vesp but you can carry over ALL OF YOUR ITEMS (including the 魔装具) and you can activate 10x EXP if you want so the 2nd playthrough DOES go by really quickly. I finished one in about 5 hours (to get that beat-game-in-less-than-15-hours trophy).
http://kotaku.com/5413616/an-old-friend-returns-in-new-mass-effect-2-videos-screens
And to talk about domestic games for once, woo, new Mass Effect 2 footage. They show off the Adept, who looks tons better now (I'm also liking the game's UI a lot better, much easier to tell how much DoT you're doing and how effective your powers are). Adept would've been my last choice for a class in ME1 (well, maybe also Engineer) but they look more tempting now. Of course the question is if all of their cooldowns are 60 seconds, which would still blow...
The other video shows the return of TALI. WOOO. We knew she was back, but it's a nice feature. Also, the kotaku writer calls her "forgettable" which clearly shows he's an idiot. (Half of the comments to the article say the same thing.) In the video, she gets called Tali'Zorah vas Normandy, which is a nice touch (Quarians, being a nomadic race and living on a spaceship flotilla, incorporate the name of their current ship in their name, so her having Normandy in her name is pretty awesome. But exile!? DDDDD: Also if you visit the actually Quarian fleet this time, maybe you finally get to see her with her environment suit/hood off. Or possibly not, LOL)
Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 10:38 am
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Oh right.
Happy Thanksgiving all.
Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 08:52 am
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Musou 3 website updated. As I had somewhat guessed, Okuni does not get a Musou mode either. Some people were complaining about Toshiie not getting one while Okuni did, but I was telling them hey, they probably just didn't list Okuni on the no-Musou group because she hadn't been officially announced yet. And I was right.
On the other hand Shibata Katsuie doesn't get one either, which surprises me a little. His early work for Oda and his later animosity with Hideyoshi (oh, and that he was also Oichi's first husband, which Musou always ignores) makes good storytelling, I think. But I get the sense that the game devs are just going to gloss over much of the early Oda campaigns, considering a lot of the Oda group like Ranmaru, Nouhime, Toshiie, and Katsuie (oh, and I suppose Imagawa lol) are all Musou-less. It wouldn't surprise me if Nobunaga himself doesn't start his Musou mode until well after Okehazama.
The Sengokushi mode sounds a little interesting, you take a character (including your own CAW if you wish) and reenact various events in history and try to fill in a complete timeline. Downside? As I said before it's DLC, with every chapter being 300 Wii points. And being on a US Wii, it's impossible for me to access the JP store so I couldn't buy it even if I wanted to. Oh well. I'm sure somebody will crack the Wii DLC and provide it, much like how they cracked the DLC for FFIV The After.
Some people are being wishful and saying "well they'll just add all this back when they port it to 360/PS3". They COULD, but you know, they never added Musou modes back for Ranmaru or Okuni when they ported Musou 2, nor did they add them back in Moushouden. So I wouldn't get too excited about it.
Oh, and the exclusive Live FF13 item people were talking about? It's a Chocobo for your avatar. LOL. Yeah. I thought they were saying it was an IN-GAME item, but either I misunderstood or people were blowing it out of proportion.
Nov. 26th, 2009 @ 08:28 am
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/25/perino-no-terrorist-attac_n_370393.html
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Um, you know. EXCEPT SEPTEMBER 11TH. WHAT THE FUCK. NEOCONS ALREADY IN DENIAL ABOUT DUBYA'S RECORD.
Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 06:15 pm
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HEY MAIKI
http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/215/215411/
WALTER!EMOHAIR!RITA
LOL at Milhaust and Mithos costumes too.
EDIT: Vaan!Raven is also very fitting. And I'm sure hikarugenji will be happy with Elraine!Estelle.
Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 01:01 pm
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I STAYED UP PAST MY BEDTIME UNTIL NOW, 11:05 PM MY TIME, TO SEE THE BRAND NEW FF13 TRAILER ON THEIR WEBSITE.
IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO WORTH IT. HOLY FUDGE (to borrow a phrase from maiki) THE GAME LOOKS INCREDIBLE.
What is this black-haired seifu(?) guy doing. (EDIT: I think he said he's Cid. Wow, younger cool-but-somewhat-douchey-looking Cid as opposed to older-dignified-yet-crazy-gray Cid in XII.)
Some Fang/Vanille-flavored scenes. There's one scene where Fang holds off enemies(?) so Vanille can get away, or something. She jumps through this closing door and Vanille's like "but wait!" and Fang just smiles at her. Hohoho.
Fang/Lightning scenes too. One cutscene Fang throws her spear into the air and Lightning shoots it. And Bahamut comes out. LOL.
Oh, and you see Vanille's summon for about 3 seconds. I didn't really recognize it, but I mean, I wouldn't have really recognized Bahamut either if they didn't SAY it was Bahamut. It certainly doesn't look like Leviathan though. EDIT: move names are Gatling Cannon, Tetra Missile, Penetrate Ray, Buster Force, and Gaia Salvo Lv. 3. Earth-based? I thought since her weapon was a fishing rod it'd be Leviathan for sure, but that's definitely not Leviathan. Titan maybe, but doesn't really look like Titan either. Maybe it'll be somebody new, a la Brunhilde.
There's a scene with Lightning and Snow at the end that I'm sure will make the Lightning/Snow fans crazy, but you know, if they actually listen to the dialogue they're talking about going to meet Serah(?) presumably, so yeah.
Jill's voice sounds familiar to me but I couldn't place it.
Lots of battle shots at the end, cripes. I dunno if the battles are fun or not, but they sure as hell LOOK fun. Combo beat downs, and at one point looked suspicious for a possible Lightning hi-ougi or I guess I should say more like Limit Break, this isn't Tales haha.
Scene at the end is pretty incredible too, the party members are busting through a bunch of enemy troops on their respective summons, Sazh in his car, Snow on his bike, and Lightning's kind of riding on Odin's shoulder telling him to bust up some shit.
The 17th cannot come soon enough. Oh man.
Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
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http://koeiwarriors.co.uk/
OKUNIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Motochika... wow. Either he's been watching too much Gackt, or playing too much Brutal Legend, or something.
Fukushima Masanori(NPC) looks hilarious with his pseudo-Elvis haircut, apparently he has a pretty pissy attitude too. That's ok, Nene will put him in his place!
Still no revelation on the mysterious character #37. I wonder if they'll be super-broken, if they're keeping him secret until release date, sort of like how Zuo Ci and Musashi were.
Nov. 24th, 2009 @ 06:52 am
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Yeah, another of the "heard about it, didn't post til now" things, I saw Aya Gozen in Sengoku Musou 3. Cool I guess. Pity she's an NPC. We'll see if she's playable in a port or XL or what not. Fukushima Masanori has a unique model too (looks kinda Elvis-y actually...) so. Still waiting til next week when presumably, they'll finally show us their version of Mori Motonari.
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=7210824
HEY LOOK AWESOME JILL FANART. CHUUUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!!! And if you go Nico you can see a time lapse of how they actually drew it... set to FF12 music. Including the FF12 version of Big Bridge. Mmmm.
So for RPG fans, if somebody says "Taisa" they mean Jade, and I guess now if somebody says "Chuusa" they mean Jill? Or have there been other famous chuusas?
Silly Kotaku, whoever they got to review FF13 (forgot who it was) wasn't even a big FF fan, whereas they have others on their staff who describe themselves as big FF fans. I never understand why mainstream game sites do that. They get non-fighting-game-fans to review, for instance, Tekken 6, so the reviews end up talking about how bad the plot is. (I still remember Onion AV Club's awful awful awful SFIV review.)
Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 07:02 pm
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Although I'm enjoying Neuro consults, it's kind of a bummer to be doing it in November. One, because there's a lot of holidays busting up the days, and two, because now by the time we get out of the hospital it's dark dark dark. By the time I get home I already feel completely unmotivated to study or do anything other than eat dinner and just chill, which is bad. I'm behind already on the studying. It's going to be even worse next month when I do Psych, given that I'm not nearly as interested in Psych as I am in Neuro.
As seen on ryuuraigeki... seriously ladies, what the hell. I don't even. (Link absolutely NSFW)
Nov. 17th, 2009 @ 07:21 pm
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