Following up on that article from Kotaku I mentioned in my Dungeon Travelers 2 post, I can agree on most of their recommendations. Aside from Dungeon Travelers 2 I've also played Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus and DmC. Those are really fun games and they play really well (ignoring Senran Kagura's excessive fanservice). I'm surprised as with most people that the Japanese loved Far Cry 3, which I haven't gotten my hands on yet but am looking for it to be on sale during the Steam Summer Sale.
Demon Gaze and 7th Dragon 2020 II are some RPG's I haven't really heard much of, but they do like like excellent games. The 7th Dragon series has never and localization and probably never will, but as Demon Gaze is a new IP, I'm hoping one of the niche developers here in the US like Atlus, Aksys, NIS America, or Xseed will pick it up.
NIS's The Guided Fate Paradox is coming over sometime in the Fall and I am looking forward to the spirtual sequel to Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs Darkdeath Evilman. That was a fun spin on the roguelike RPG genre and had quite a few cameos from Disgaea and various manga/anime. Hoping Guided Fate Paradox will do the same.
Soul Sacrifice is out right now but I haven't the opportunity try it out/ buy it, but the reviews have been positive. Macross 30 is something the states will never see but as new Macross fan I'll believe the Japanese to its quality.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
[Review] Magical Drop V
A cult-classic puzzle game by some, the Magical Drop series is a fast-paced puzzle game with an emphasis on matching colored orbs to create combos to crowd your opponents screen to win, similar to the Bust-A-Move series by Taito. Back in the day I've played a bit with an earlier entry, Magical Drop 3, and it was extremely fun. Now the newest entry in the series makes it's appearance on Steam and it is a blast.
Released on November 15th, Magical Drop V features a story mode for solo play, along with local play versus modes, which includes a 2-on-2 team battle mode and a 4 player king of the hill. There's also online play for each of the modes and leaderboards for high scores. The game features 10 playable characters w/ 4 unlockables. Each character in the Magical Drop series is made unique with a drop pattern. As you create combos, orbs will drop in a pattern unique to that character.
New in Magical Drop V is the Ghostlop game mode, which apparently was an unreleased arcade game that got incorporated into Magical Drop V. Ghostlop is accessed by playing a select few characters and at first glance it looks similar to playing Bust-A-Move, but it is completely different. Ghostlop is played by tossing a fireball up towards an arrangement of blue and orange colored ghost orbs, and to break them your fireball can switch between a blue and orange glow to destroy the appropriate colors. It's a more difficult game mode from my experience.
Winning a round of Magical Drop comes down to 2 different objectives. First is to meet the quota, which is to destroy a certain number of orbs before your opponent. The other method is if a column of orbs reaches the bottom of the screen. So to do real well in this game is to be fast and have a good eye for setting up combos.
The story mode is just your typical arcade style solo play where you pick a character and go through some short dialouge between them and the various cast of the game till you reach the final stage and play off against a boss character.
The graphics are in a clean and crisp HD with a very colorful scheme to it all. The visual effects are great when combos are made as orbs explode, and as high combos are made, there are some nice magical visual effects such as water bubbling, fire blazing, and thunder appearing on screen.
The sound effects are satisfying as you pop orbs and that really energizing ding you hear when you keep comboing goes into a higher pitch gets you pumped up. Characters are voiced in Japanese, but some of them can sound a little bit obnoxious. Music is a nice, light, and cheerful tune when on the various menu screens, while during matches they're more faster paced, but it's difficult to pay attention to it when the sound of popping orbs and combos are just all over the place.
Overall, Magical Drop V is a real fun fast paced puzzler that is great to kill any amount of free time. The game is available on Steam for $9.99.
Released on November 15th, Magical Drop V features a story mode for solo play, along with local play versus modes, which includes a 2-on-2 team battle mode and a 4 player king of the hill. There's also online play for each of the modes and leaderboards for high scores. The game features 10 playable characters w/ 4 unlockables. Each character in the Magical Drop series is made unique with a drop pattern. As you create combos, orbs will drop in a pattern unique to that character.
New in Magical Drop V is the Ghostlop game mode, which apparently was an unreleased arcade game that got incorporated into Magical Drop V. Ghostlop is accessed by playing a select few characters and at first glance it looks similar to playing Bust-A-Move, but it is completely different. Ghostlop is played by tossing a fireball up towards an arrangement of blue and orange colored ghost orbs, and to break them your fireball can switch between a blue and orange glow to destroy the appropriate colors. It's a more difficult game mode from my experience.
Winning a round of Magical Drop comes down to 2 different objectives. First is to meet the quota, which is to destroy a certain number of orbs before your opponent. The other method is if a column of orbs reaches the bottom of the screen. So to do real well in this game is to be fast and have a good eye for setting up combos.
The story mode is just your typical arcade style solo play where you pick a character and go through some short dialouge between them and the various cast of the game till you reach the final stage and play off against a boss character.
The sound effects are satisfying as you pop orbs and that really energizing ding you hear when you keep comboing goes into a higher pitch gets you pumped up. Characters are voiced in Japanese, but some of them can sound a little bit obnoxious. Music is a nice, light, and cheerful tune when on the various menu screens, while during matches they're more faster paced, but it's difficult to pay attention to it when the sound of popping orbs and combos are just all over the place.
Overall, Magical Drop V is a real fun fast paced puzzler that is great to kill any amount of free time. The game is available on Steam for $9.99.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Firefall Beta!!
So I woke up this morning to check my e-mail and I was surprised to finally get a beta invite to the exclusive closed beta of the upcoming shooter-MMO Firefall. I have been waiting patiently for a key since the game was first announced for beta last year. They would only ever send out keys once in a while so I was bound to get one eventually.
I had the opportunity this summer to play the game during their visit to Anime Expo 2012 with their big gaming rig.
From what I've played during Anime Expo, PVP is class-based like Team Fortress 2 but with some really fast paced combat, but not as fast as something like Tribes:Ascend. In the open world environment, it's kinda comparable to something like Borderlands with the huge open world and tons of monsters to shoot at and earn XP and loot.
The beta seems to get updated pretty frequently so I'm sure things are different now than I played it then so I'm looking forward to blogging more about this exciting new game.
I had the opportunity this summer to play the game during their visit to Anime Expo 2012 with their big gaming rig.
The beta seems to get updated pretty frequently so I'm sure things are different now than I played it then so I'm looking forward to blogging more about this exciting new game.
NIS America steps onto PC with its first Steam release Cladun X2
Creating a party in this game is unlike a traditional RPG. The game has a magic circle system where you pick one character to play as, and the rest of your party gets placed into spaced surrounding your main that will enchance your stats and may give you additional bonus effects. Your party members will also act as a shield for you main character until they die in which you also lose the bonus effects they give.
Cladun X2 was originally released on the Playstation Network for the Playstation Portable system. I can't wait to see what else NIS America will bring over to Steam in the future.
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