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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Review: Black ★ Rock Shooter The Game
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Warning: The said review contains major spoilers!
Well, basically the game overall isn't really that amazing both gameplay AND storywise. First I'll start with bits of the story and again, spoilers here.
Basically to summarize the game events here are the key plot points:
- Last humans on Earth awakens BRS.
- BRS sees a poster of Sing-Love, a famous idol on the time of the invasion.
- BRS beats Mi and Mazuma with the humans.
- The Aliens are shown to be consuming/"eating" one another as Mazuma gets eaten by Kali.
- Human race becomes extinct as the humans die by Apostle, Nafe,'s attacks.
- BRS beats Shizu and Kari.
- BRS blacks out in the snowstorm while grieving the loss of her companions.
- BRS meets Nana Gray.
- BRS's name is revealed to be Stella.
- Stella is referred to as White, a perfect clone.
- Nana gets jealous that Givson gave BRS a name and states that Nana was a name she came up with and that Givson didn't do so on the Grays, the not successful yet not failed clones.
- Stella and Nana travels to a forest.
- Stella beats Lilio, and Nana shoots Stella leaving her with the intent of leaving Stella out of her own goal.
- Stella follows Nana to Tokyo and Nana gets captured by Nafe; Stella does her best to rescue Nana while Nana also tries to shoo away Stella.
- Stella beats Nafe and goes to the Moon.
- Stella encounters Zaha, the strongest Apostle, just as she managed to reach Nana but Stella beats him anyway since Zaha interferes with her.
- Stella fails to convince Nana not to give up and Nana likely dies as well.
- Stella meets the one last alien at the terrace of the moon palace, the original of all clones, Sing-Love or WRS.
- Sing-Love considers it all to be just a game and have been waiting for the arrival of White to end her game.
- Stella managed to beat her and Sing-Love states that it was her desired game and later on dies while sitting on her chair.
- Bad Ending, BRS alone survives and is the last being on Earth. This lets you alter Stella's decision from stage 1.
- Time leap back to stage 1 and save the human that died from the robot and this will chain up to building events that eventually reveals that Nana was indeed a name given to Nana by Givson as well as names for the other 6 Grays.
- Reaching Nana at the moon will trigger a new cutscene that will change her decision and will have her shoot the bot carrying her and thus, decides to survive with Stella, where as Stella just needs to beat Sing-Love all over again and you get the ending that the two of them survives along with some polar bears running along in Moscow by the end.
So basically, the story focused more on Stella AND Nana's story but unfortunately I couldn't understand it fully to share it, so the enemies were pretty much wasted. And I was really disappointed that Sing-Love's identity wasn't revealed to us in anyway, all we knew about her is that she was an idol, she is the original of Stella AND the 7 Grays. Nothing more than that, sadly. So, pretty much it's another flat story and it's pretty familiar to the OVA actually in a sense especially the Jelly Nana (lol Yomi anyone? And they both were voiced by Sawashiro). So overall, it's not some story that you might really enjoy as it's not even worth calling a good story for me, and I personally want to know more about WRS and the other Grays.
Now, to the gameplay, the gameplay is pretty dull but I must admit that I enjoyed playing it though. XD Basically, BRS cannot move at all, just dash, and dashing is only used to avoid enemy attacks, the d-pad controls her crosshair for targeting and you basically shoot enemies while managing to avoid overheats. Once BRS overheats, you can't do anything until it's gone down to 0%, so you'll actually avoid getting overheats throughout the battle. The game starts very easy and later on gets harder BUT in case you're a record farmer like me, you'll find the hard parts to be a joke once you get the proper skills.
Game balancing is obviously one thing that BRS The Game needed, BRS had too many broken skills to start off especially if you get to the extra missions part. There are initial combos such as Stun Snipe + Blade kill (later on going to be upgraded to G1 Snipe + IXA Blade) and this is one of the most broken combo in the whole game, imagine fighting an Apostle and use it once, you instantly reduced your boss's hp to half with the help of using Skill Burst before Blade Kill/IXA Blade.
Also, BRS later on gets this passive skill that if you block at a right time, you'll recover a ridiculous amount of HP which also almost negates the use of healing items in the more powerful bosses of the game.
Lastly, WRS is the hardest boss on the game, basically she has an attack called Dead End in her scythe mode, and you can only block it. Receiving it full on will render you either dead or almost dead while at max level, blocking reduces about half of BRS's max hp, this skill is supposed to be scary but... unfortunately, there's this skill called Absolute 0 and later on gets upgraded to Absolute Zero, which for a short while nullifies all damage that BRS will take, so at right timing, you won't even need to be afraid of Dead End. Now, WRS fight is divided into two, while the 2nd battle where she's using her Rock Cannon is supposedly harder to fight, JRPG like intended to make it end easily by giving the ex mode a MUCH MUCH shorter HP which you can completely chip off as the fight begins. :/ The only real way to make a challenge out of it is that if you only bring support skills with you and just shoot bosses to death.
Now, to the gameplay, the gameplay is pretty dull but I must admit that I enjoyed playing it though. XD Basically, BRS cannot move at all, just dash, and dashing is only used to avoid enemy attacks, the d-pad controls her crosshair for targeting and you basically shoot enemies while managing to avoid overheats. Once BRS overheats, you can't do anything until it's gone down to 0%, so you'll actually avoid getting overheats throughout the battle. The game starts very easy and later on gets harder BUT in case you're a record farmer like me, you'll find the hard parts to be a joke once you get the proper skills.
Game balancing is obviously one thing that BRS The Game needed, BRS had too many broken skills to start off especially if you get to the extra missions part. There are initial combos such as Stun Snipe + Blade kill (later on going to be upgraded to G1 Snipe + IXA Blade) and this is one of the most broken combo in the whole game, imagine fighting an Apostle and use it once, you instantly reduced your boss's hp to half with the help of using Skill Burst before Blade Kill/IXA Blade.
Also, BRS later on gets this passive skill that if you block at a right time, you'll recover a ridiculous amount of HP which also almost negates the use of healing items in the more powerful bosses of the game.
Lastly, WRS is the hardest boss on the game, basically she has an attack called Dead End in her scythe mode, and you can only block it. Receiving it full on will render you either dead or almost dead while at max level, blocking reduces about half of BRS's max hp, this skill is supposed to be scary but... unfortunately, there's this skill called Absolute 0 and later on gets upgraded to Absolute Zero, which for a short while nullifies all damage that BRS will take, so at right timing, you won't even need to be afraid of Dead End. Now, WRS fight is divided into two, while the 2nd battle where she's using her Rock Cannon is supposedly harder to fight, JRPG like intended to make it end easily by giving the ex mode a MUCH MUCH shorter HP which you can completely chip off as the fight begins. :/ The only real way to make a challenge out of it is that if you only bring support skills with you and just shoot bosses to death.
The graphics is by no means great but I do love that Makise-based costume of Stella :> Anyway, that's about it, had JRPG improved the gameplay and fixed up the broken skills, then, BRS the Game could've been something that probably people would've enjoyed but then I honestly enjoyed it though :p So overall, the game isn't something that can be called a "must play" game. The whole story itself can be finished in 1 sitting and it's only the extra missions that take your time as it's only in the extra missions that have around 2 missions that's proved to be ridiculously hard for me in the entire game. The bike stages are fun though but again very simple in structure even in the said mini-game; though getting no damage in these bike stages might prove to be a fun challenge XD
Anyway, that's it for this review XD
Anyway, that's it for this review XD
Friday, September 16, 2011
September Hauls: Pink, Black and White
Late post again since I just retrieved the images today XD
Anyway these hauls were from last weekend and since I'll be out again this weekend, better post it today XD
As you can see it's my 3rd Nendoroid rendition of Sherlock XD now written in full "Sherlock Shellingford" instead of being written as "Sharo" like the game and petit versions did. 2nd is my new grail, the BRS Game White Premium box and I definitely love it! Already shot WRS, so, her review should come up soon and I already did an initial review in Onii-chan. :3 I've also managed to beat the game as of Tuesday night XD it's quite short and easy and I'll be posting some starter guides on the game soon. :D
Anyway, that's it for now~ Enjoy!
Also, Team Onii-chan will have another display this weekend which is why I'm out again for the weekend and I'll have these two displayed there, so, do pass by! ^^
Anyway, that's it for now~ Enjoy!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
LOLWUT Video Game Bosses
So yeah, I rarely stray from reviews, hauls and reviews these days but...
Here's a little random post that might give you a similar LOLWUT reaction I had.
So bascially, it's all about the main pic (got from its wiki entry), it's a game called Revenge of Shinobi which was for the Sega Megadrive many years ago. And yeah, so what about this game particularly caught my attention?
It's a literal copyright infringement game on its first versions, as the 3rd to last stage (I think) had a boss who is literally SPIDERMAN! YES, the web slinging hero we all love (or hate :p), by any views he's totally Spiderman, crawling on the ceiling, throwing out webs, zipping down from a ceiling lol wut!? And what's even more ridiculous was after beating Spiderman, he literally mutates into the god damn BATMAN! YES, THE DARK KNIGHT himself with a little mutation that literally makes him have REAL bat wings. Don't believe me? Well, here's a little something to show it :))
It's a literal copyright infringement game on its first versions, as the 3rd to last stage (I think) had a boss who is literally SPIDERMAN! YES, the web slinging hero we all love (or hate :p), by any views he's totally Spiderman, crawling on the ceiling, throwing out webs, zipping down from a ceiling lol wut!? And what's even more ridiculous was after beating Spiderman, he literally mutates into the god damn BATMAN! YES, THE DARK KNIGHT himself with a little mutation that literally makes him have REAL bat wings. Don't believe me? Well, here's a little something to show it :))
And yeah, aside from those... there are even more copyrighted bosses in this messed up game, like Devilman, Terminator (as mentioned by wiki) and finally, the 2nd to last boss is actually the king of monsters, Godzilla and below is another video for your viewing pleasure.
Apparently, all the copyright stuff existed in the first version release and eventually they replaced the bosses with others due to copyright BUT SPIDEY REMAINED! LOOOOOL. For a ridiculous game, it did get successors that actually looked really neat like the game titled Shinobi for the PS2. But yeah, this post is thanks to my friend "Snacks" for linking this to me the other day. XD
Monday, November 29, 2010
Interests Caused by Favorites
So who is this character in red?
Well, for one... That's Reimu Hakurei.
So this month's random post would be about what the title says.
So wait, what? That's Reimu? well, let's just say that one in the screenshot is a touhou doujin game entitled Koumajou Densetsu Scarlet Symphony. Created by Frontier Aja, this is a game based from Castlevania, really a nice game, though it plays like castlevania, they kept Touhou's trademark which are bullet games, this game has a lot of dodging needed and boss fights at the end of each stages are indeed bullet hell bosses in Castlevania fashion. So, with this, an interest towards Touhou sparked from me just because I get to know them via my favorite game series, Castlevania.
Basically, I first encountered Touhou through Serio's Castlevania Fighter, Remilia was a secret boss in the survival mode of the game, at first, I didn't know who she was so, I got beaten and it listed that I was beaten by Remilia Scarlet, so, look ups here and there and I discovered it but still wasn't interested enough until beta 4 of CV Fighter was released which included Reimu as one of the new playable characters, and so, I got really curious with the sprite and all and found out about Koumajou Densetsu eventually and now, here I am knowing quite a bit more on touhou. Also, Frontier Aja will be releasing a Koumajou Densetsu II this coming December during the Winter Comiket. Part 2 features a greatly improved game system and gives you control of Sakuya Izayoi this time, of course, familiar characters such as Reimu and Marisa as well as the Scarlet Devil people will come back at this game.
Now, going to anime side, with an addiction towards the great kz of livetune in vocaloid composing, remixing fame, I found out sometime last week that the anime, Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai's Opening song was composed by kz as well.
Still sung by Clara and Alice, the opening was really catchy and so, I tried watching it last Saturday night, and poof, it was like magic and definitely liked the series. It's still on going right now but the contents of the anime is really good especially for Otakus that faces the same kind of situation. Anyway, that's it for the random entry. Here's a little something from the anime :D
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Ragnarok Online Renewal Guide
So, yeah, Renewal isn't just about 3rd jobs
Basically, it's a complete game system change, hence the name "Renewal".
Now, it's more of a good game balancing of sorts and this guide will be for total newbies of the game and for long time returning players who don't research about stuff. But of course, I'll start with the newbie guide...
The Novice Training Grounds
Basically, when you start the game after creating a new character, you'll be starting at the Novice training grounds. Upon arriving, you'll see an NPC named Sprakki near you, talk to her and she'll ask you to go across the bridge and she'll be waiting inside the training quarters.
You'll then get a notice of a new quest, quests are an essential part of Ragnarok's story guide or at times just for items/exp, you'll be able to track some of the quests at renewal by pressing Alt+U, double click on the quest name to see your current goal. Now, do as she says and head to your right and enter the portal between the guards. You will find Sprakki again, talk to her and she'll reward you with some exp and give an option to start training or directly jump to the world of Ragnarok.
Now, for totally complete starters, choose to start training instead since this whole process will reward you with a number of beneficial items and exp. Once you sign up, you'll be transferred inside, and you'll see another npc named Brade, talk to him, read and do as he says, he'll give you novice gears which will be useful in your stay at the training grounds, he'll ask you to equip them and do so by opening your item window (Alt+E) and selecting the equip tab, double click the items to equip them.
Once you equip, talk to Brade again, and he'll reward you with exp and ask you to talk to Jinha to learn your active skill, First Aid, Jinha is just in the 1 o'clock direction of Brade, talk to her and learn the skill, then return to Brade.
After talking to Brade, he'll again reward you with some exp and ask you to go to Chocolat, from Brade's location, go to your left and enter the portal, talk to Chocolat there and she'll ask you to learn a thing or two from different people you'll get familiarized with when you're in the real game world already.
Now Chocalat will ask you to talk to the npcs above her and then report to her what you've learned, you can read them as they're useful guides if you're a total beginner in this game. Talk to Kafra first after Chocalat's first instruction, after talking to Kafra, talk with Chocolat again and she'll ask you to talk to Zanda this time, do the same until you're done with the Soldier and Chocolat will now warp you to the real Training Grounds.
Now this will be your first encounter with monsters, but wait, talk to Brade first as he's here once again.
Brade will then ask you to slay a Poring. Now look for the game's mascot, Poring, a pink cute critter which should be dead in one attack if you've equipped the novice knife.
After doing so, talk to Brade and he'll reward you again with exp, a novice cutter and some novice potions. Now, choose to stay at the Training grounds for a while. And level your base level to at least 12 and max your job level to 10 and then max your basic skills. Now in your leveling process, you'll see an NPC named trainer, if you talk to him and choose the 2nd option, you'll be transferred to a similar map with slightly stronger monsters which will help you level fast enough. Choosing the 1st option will warp you back to the map with the weaker monsters.
Now, there's still bonuses here, see the line of NPCs near Brade, talk to the Swordsman, Thief, Merchant and Mage NPCs, and you'll see a third option with the word "quest" in the option, select it and you'll receive a new quest.
Swordsman
Thief
Merchant
Mage
Now, the tasks for these quests are quite easy and will reward you with good exp. Swordsman will ask you to kill 2 Picky monsters, Thief will ask you to kill 5 Willows and get a Tree Root, Merchant will ask you to earn 300 zennies and Mage will ask you to kill 5 Lunatics. Lunatic are found the weak monsters map while Picky and Willow can be found in the other. Remember that you can track your quest in the Quest Window (Alt+U) to see your progress.
For the Merchant quest, you'll see an NPC near the Trainer, which gives a buy/sell window, you can sell your loots until you get 300 zennies to clear the quest here.
After completing the quests, talk back to the respective NPCs and select the Quest option again and you'll be rewarded with exp and some items. Now, seriously reach base level 12 and if your choice is one of the 6 basic first jobs (Swordsman, Thief, Merchant, Acolyte, Mage, Archer) just talk to the respective NPC and pick the I want to be *insert job here* option and confirm it, you'll be directly warped to the guild of the chosen job.
Upon arriving, talk to the Guildsman and pick the job change option and you'll instantly be changed to your desired job. And this ends the Novice guide.
The Eden Group
Now part 2 for the newbie guide would be the addition of the Eden group on Renewal, basically the reason why I advise level 12 was to access the quest of this immediately. In many towns, you'll see a novice-like elf NPC named Eden teleport officer.
Talk to the npc and choose to move to the Eden group. Upon entering, move forward and talk to the Secretary, choose to join the group and you'll be prompted with a typing area, just type anything. You'll be asked to do this twice.
After the second type area, you'll be rewarded with the Eden badge. This is a 0 weight, non-sellable, non-transferable item btw.
Now if you're around at least level 12, talk to Boya and choose "what is your responsibility" option and agree to proceed with his training. This will now be marked in your quest log.
Now just do the quest and once you complete it, you'll be asked to report to Boya. Do so and talk to Boya and he'll say that your equipments are ready. Once done head to the blue gate near the bulletin boards and talk to it, you'll now have permission to enter it.
Once inside, head to the upper right portal, talk to the only NPC there and choose to take the suppliers and say that you have weight, make sure you are not carrying too many items.
Once you're done, you'll be rewarded with a good starters gear which has really good defense rates and effects as well. You can do this process two more times when you're at level 26-40 and 41+. Note that once you forgot to start the quest in the two earlier level caps (12-25 and 26-40), you won't be able to do it anymore. After doing the 2 later quests, you'll be given upgraded versions of the Eden set; these equipment sets are non-transferable and have 0 weight. An incomplete walkthrough of the Eden quest can be found in the iRO quests wiki.
One last note is that the bulletin boards have level caps assigned to them, while you're inside in the level cap, you can select it and choose quests to complete which will reward you with extra exp once you complete them.
Now that newbie guide is done, here's more interesting notes on renewal.
Renewal Leveling Guide
In renewal you cannot kill monsters with too much level difference than yours anymore or else you'll be rewarded with sucky exp. The best way of leveling in Renewal is either to kill MVPs or kill monsters whose levels are 10 levels higher than you, they will be the ones who'll give you a boosted exp of 140% upon successfully destroying one. Although, you can opt to kill monsters which has a level difference of 15 as the maximum. but 15 levels higher would only yield a 115% exp reward. Now how to find out the monsters' levels? Simply open your map (CTRL + `) and then press tab once opened and you'll see a monster name of in the field and a number below it.
Basically, the monster name is the monster which has the highest spawn count on the said map and the number is that monster's level. Or alternatively, you can just check monster levels here.
Exp Tables AdjustmentsIt's now quite easy to reach level 99 even in trans classes due to the major shift in Exp Tables. The challenging part now comes when you are already a 3rd job.
Stats have changed now, such that certain stats like LUK have very big usefulness now as it features a number of pros. Moderate DEX right now would be around 80+ if you want to have less misses when attacking monsters. A full list of stat changes can be seen here.
Skill Changes
A number of skills have changed which in some way would provide more versatility to new rising builds for 3rd jobs. Swordsman in general are the most notable in the skill changes since they really allow more versatile builds now than pre-renewal ones. Two notable of such would be the Crusader's Spear Quicken, which is now usable for 1 hand spears and also provides additional Crit and Flee stats when the skill is active, and the Lord Knight's Spiral Pierce/Clashing Spiral which are now usable with 1 hand and 2 hand swords as well.
Level Caps and Max Stats
Note that the new 150 level cap are only allowed for 3rd jobs when you successfully change into them. Max level of Novices, 1st jobs, 2nd Jobs, Trans Jobs and Expanded Jobs (Ninja, Gunslinger, Super Novice, Taekwon Class) is still level 99.Also the maximum stat points for the said jobs are still 99, only 3rd jobs get the 120 max stat bonus.
Trans made 3rd Jobs versus 2nd job made 3rd Jobs
In order to be a 3rd Job, you either need to be a 99/50 Second Job or at least a 99/50 Trans class. So what are the odds of when these 2 different jobs collide in battle? Basically the one that came from a Second Job loses big time. Why? When you trans you'll lose the excess unneeded stat points from when you created one such as 16 unneeded points for AGI/LUK for Wizards when you created the character, aside from that Trans Classes have 25% higher HP/SP than normal 2nd jobs and have 52 additional stat points to benefit from. Last but not least, are the very good skills you get from Trans Jobs like an LK's Spiral Pierce, SinX's EDP and Soul Destroyer, Stalker's Preserve skill and many more.
Anyway, that ends my guide for Renewal, you can read more online if you need more info as I've covered only some noticeable highlights.
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