29.12.10

Too many games, not enough time

Let's see... Agarest Senki 1 - stuck at 3rd generation, Agarest Senki Zero - start of 2nd generation, Agarest Senki 2 untouched. There are still games that needs clearing for a 2nd time, Tales of Vesperia, Ar Tonelico 3. For the time being I've finished Tales of Graces F and started with my 2nd playthrough. Haha, damage x 5, critical x 2 and exp x 5 ought to make a fast and dangerous round
Graces F without a doubt has my vote for best Tales battle system. The Style Shift LMBS (linear motion battle system) means each character has 2 styles of fighting. Asbel can fight with his sword sheathed or drawn, Hubert can either use his double sword or dual guns. Around Step makes battles faster paced, instead of just attacking from the front, you sidestep and evade the attack, move to the enemy's back and backstab. Unlike the Wii version, Graces F is in HD with better and clearer graphics, an after story scenario with downloadable contents (No Miku costume for asia PSN it seems)

Watched Nanoha The Movie 1st. That was a great 2 hours! As a fan of the Nanoha series (I missed Strikers though) a remake of the original Nanoha season 1 was too good to pass up. With a slightly modified story, slight changes in the barrier jacket design and better animated aerial magical battles that can make other animes pale in comparison (the movie version of Starlight Breaker literally had enough power to blow up a city, and Nanoha is just 9 years old) Here's to hoping Nanoha the Movie 2nd will be just as awesome. A final note, Fate's final scene with Nanoha was so lovey-dovey.

Anime MM! Mio-sempai is just adorable even with her super S aura. Lots of laughs but story was pretty poor, and the lack of character development didn't help. Seiyuus Taketsuna Ayana and Fukuyama Jun saved the series for me.

Eroge Sangoku Hime. After Sengoku Hime, the makers probably realized that they weren't content with gender bending the Sengoku generals so they went bended the three kingdoms generals. While it's been done before (cough cough Koihime Musou) I didn't really enjoy the slow pace of Sengoku Hime or the artstyle of the PC ver (The PSP was better but too much politics involved) Give me a Sengoku Rance system and I'd be more than happy

Tales of Xillia announced for the PS3. The game that celebrates the 15th anniversary of Tales of series. Male lead seems to be drawn by Fujishima Kosuke and female lead is drawn by Inomata Mutsumi. Trailer on the main side doesn't exactly look that interesting yet but I'll give it time


A new Queen's Blade game featuring some other game girls like KOF's Mai, Alice, GG's Dizzy, Samurai Showdown's Cham Cham and Mina, Tekken's Lili