God Eater 2 1.40 New Update

The latest 1.40 update for God Eater 2 already out now, you can check my old blog Progamersdiary (also special thanks to Nicoblog for the link) for further information (haven't tried it yet but soon I will update once I update my game to 1.40).

With about >300 MB this new update bring a lot of improvement for gameplay feature such as, we will have new mode called as Survival Mission. In this mode we will fight countless Aragami and cannot go back to HQ until we finish the mission. Also in this 1.40 update, we can adjust difficulty level for mission that we take.

The ally NPC in this game also will have leveling system, it make them will get some abilities like buff skill that will usefull in the game.There's also some re-balancing in game mechanism like re-balancing bullet damage & blood arts. Last but not least, we will got new hair model that based from some God Eater 2 NPC such as Julius, Ciel, Gilberl, Nana & Romeo

The features above also available for both platform (PSP & PSVita), however the online play feature is PSVita - only exclusive feature.
 
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[Review] Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo

Bandai Namco Games
2D Fighting
29 November 2012

Saint Seiya Omega Ultimate Cosmo is the first Saint Seiya game that make a debut in Playstation Portable console. Surprisingly this game was released at the same time with Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes (make it hard to choose at that time because I also a quite fans with Saint Seiya series).

This game introducing new characters from the new Saint Seiya anime (called as Saint Seiya Omega) alongside the old characters that actually appear in this new anime. All of the characters that can be playable in this game are Pegasus Kouga, Lionet Soma, Aquila Yuna, Dragon Ryuho, Wolf Haruto, Orion Eden, Opiuchus Shaina, Hydra Ichi, Peacock Pavlin, Hornet Sonia, Andromeda Shun, Siren Sorento, Poseidon, Sagittarius Seiya, Capricorn Ionia, Leo Mycenae, Aries Kiki & Libra Genbu.



Game Features

• Story Mode: Poseidon come back to bring down Athena from her throne, as one of Athena new generation Saints you must defeat Poseidon. In order to do that you must collect all 6 gems of Triton through some battles. Once you collect all the gems, you can combine it into suit of Triton / Triton Scale. Story mode has 6 routes that represent each of Athena new saint (Pegasus Kouga, Lionet Soma, Aquila Yuna, Dragon Ryuho, Wolf Haruto & Orion Eden), each route has at least eight battles including battle against final boss (Poseidon). Once you finish all of the 6 routes, you will get new route which is Sagittarius Seiya route.
• Arcade Mode: Fighting against some saints, in this mode you can also unlock some character like:  Aries Kiki (unlock by using Libra Genbu in Arcade Mode), Siren Sorento (unlock by using Lionet Soma in Arcade Mode), Poseidon (unlock by using Siren Sorento in Arcade Mode) and 6 Triton scale saints (unlock by using all 6 Athena saints in Arcade Mode).
• Versus Mode: Fighting against A.I or your friend through Wi-Fi connection.
• Training Mode: The name already explain it, it also has tutorial that teach you some useful moves.

How It Looks ?

Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo has similar gameplay like any typical fighting games. The characters appear in 2D graphic while the environment appear in 3D graphic, so you can perform left or right sidesteps.

The visual effect for this game also very cool beside attack that using cosmo or finishing move, The movement effect for all characters looks very good, like when you perform quick movement there's also afterimage effect or light effect for certain Saints. In this game you can break enemy's armor by hitting them using cosmo energy or finishing move.

Attacking using cosmo may consume 1 block from your special gauge, it gives a little better damage than attacking without using cosmo. There's also finishing move but you must activate awaken mode first (require full 3 blocks of your special gauge). Uniquely the finishing move isn't some absolute attack that will hit the enemy no matter he try to escape, yeah for certain type of characters/Saints has finishing move that easy to dodge. So you must smart enough when and where you can give the finishing move to your enemy or your cosmo will be waste to nothing.

 

 

Pros & Cons

+ The visual effects are very good.

+ Good mechanism on fighting, like armor breaker & chance to dodge finishing move.

- Story Mode quite boring.

- Background Musics are very so-so.

- There's no guard breaker, the most annoying a.i in this game is the one that always put defensive stance no matter what happens.

Sephiawind Score:

STORY 4/5

The Story really easy to understand even though you're not understand Japanese, because it appear in anime scene that you can enjoy to watch.

GAMEPLAY 2/5

The Story mode is the most boring mode in this game, simply said in order to finish all routes you must play total 56 battles with almost the same story and event for every each of 6 Athena saints. Though the game mechanisms are very interesting, I guess you will get bored once you unlock all characters. 

GRAPHIC 4/5

The visual effects are really good

SOUND 2/5

The background music's very mediocre.

REPLAY VALUE 1/5

You may playing this game again, if unlocking all contents in gallery mode seems important to you.

2.6/5
  

Conclusions

To summarize this review, It's really hard to enjoy this game, as a debut Saint Seiya Omega : Ultimate Cosmo didn't give a lot of impression, the 'actually' good mechanisms on game are overshadowed by the very boring story mode. The rooster characters for this game also not that many and as an old fans you may dissapointed because there's only few old character that make appearance in this game like Sagittarius Seiya, Andromeda Shun, Siren Sorento & Poseidon. This game also lack the guard breaker mechanism, you will find the enemy that always put defensive stance, it so hard to give him a damage and sometimes you may choose the grab and throw tactic in order to finish him ( well I guess that's not how Saints fight). The Triton scale isn't special stuff in this game, it just a different suits without any special feature for all of 6 Athena's Saint.       
 

   

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[Review] Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes

Bandai Namco
3D Fighting
29 November 2012
Also Available on Nintendo Wii & Playstation Portable
Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes is latest installment from Kamen Rider Climax Heroes series that released on 29 November 2012. In this latest installment, the game didn't used the name of guest Rider as the title (in this case is Kamen Rider Wizard) instead put the 'Super or Chou' word on it. It's indeed worth the name of 'Super' because there's a lot of gameplay improvement and updating new rooster characters.

Remarkable Features
Speaking of Climax Heroes, the most main feature that fans waiting for is the completeness between the old Riders until the new Riders, it's almost complete in Heisei era side but there's no additional new characters on Showa side. The new characters that make debut in this game are Kamen Rider Gills, Kamen Rider Delta, Kamen Rider Chalice, Kamen Rider Leangle, Kamen Rider Zanki, Kamen Rider Todoroki, Kamen Rider The Bee, Kamen Rider Drake, Kamen Rider Sasword, Kamen Rider Saga, Kamen Rider Joker, Kamen Rider Eternal, Kamen Rider Skull, Kamen Rider Meteor & Kamen Rider Wizard.

Not only the completeness of characters, Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes game also make the original actor reprises their respective role  by doing voice dubbing. The original voice actors that make his comeback are Toshiki Kashu (Agito), Takamasa Suga (Ryuuki & Ryuuga), Takayuki Tsubaki (Blade), Kousei Amano (Garren), Ryoji Morimoto (Chalice), Takahiro Hojo (Leangle), Yuuki Sato (Gattack), Hidenori Tokuyama (1st The Bee & Kick Hopper), Masato Uchiyama (3rd The bee & Punch Hopper), Renn Kiriyama (W & Joker), Sota Fukushi (Fourze), Ryo Yoshizawa (Meteor) & Shunya Shiraishi (Wizard).

Sometimes any Riders also make a short conversation (taken from the story in the series) before starting a battle with the enemy, For example when Kick Hopper meet The Bee (Kageyama version) , The Bee (Kageyama) asking where Kick Hopper 'kanzen chowa' gone and Kick Hopper said that he don't need that anymore. Much resembling the scene in the series with original voice actors that make it look original.

Not only new characters & original voice dubbing that we got in this game, there's also Rider Arts and Free Run System that make a debut in this new installment. Rider arts act as simple finishing move that consume 1 block from your Rider Gauge and Free Run System is new movement feature in this game, you can run freely using all directional button. Due to the two the new features, the control mapping also change into a little bit complicated in order to maximizing the less button in Playstation Portable handheld. Well it doesn't take a long time before you getting accustomed with this new control mapping.

      

Custom Background Music also got new improvement in Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes. Now we can put background music for each forms for certain Rider, for example:Kamen Rider OOO, we can put Time to Judge All as Tajadol form background music and Got to Keep it Real as Gatakiriba form background music and when we change the Tajadol form into Gatakiriba form in the battle the background music also change from Time to Judge All into Got To Keep it Real, very cool isn't it ? This Custom Background Music is exclusive feature only for Playstation Portable user.

 The Rest Features

Kamen  Rider Super Climax Heroes  also offer the same modes of gameplay like previous game that you can choose such as:

• Super Heroes Mode : The same like Ragnarok Mode in previous game but with upgrading character feature and minus beat em up mission.
• Arcade Mode : Surviving against random enemies.
• Versus CPU Mode : Fighting against chosen or random enemy.
• Versus 2 Player Mode : Playing against your friend through Wireless connection or 2nd player joystick (for Wii ).
• Training Mode: The name already explain it.

Pros & Cons

+ New Kamen Rider Characters.
 
+ Artificial Intelligence for enemy got improvisation that can bee seen on some difficult mission in Super Heroes Mode.

+ Custom Background Music got an improvisation.

+ The new features such as free run system and rider arts are really good.This game also introduce Rider cancel which is make easier doing a long combo.

- Password Missions are less challenging

- There's no beat em up mission, which is make this Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes gameplay only on fighting mode.

- There's no additional for Showa era Riders and some of them alongside the some Heisei Rider didn't get Rider Arts

Sephiawind Score:

STORY 1/5

The Story is not the main feature in this game, you can still enjoy playing this game without care about the story.
 

GAMEPLAY  5/5

Considering that you're a fans of Kamen Rider series, this game is a must play since it is provide a cool mechanism like combo maker, rider arts , some new playable characters or some available new form that now can be play on Super Climax Heroes games. The story isn't that great but you can make a dream match between your favorite character or test your might against your friend.

GRAPHIC 3/5

The graphic isn't that great compare with Wii version but it still have a good details. 

SOUND 5/5

Accurate sound effect, original voice actor and Custom Background Music, what else ?

REPLAY VALUE 5/5

Actually you can finish this game less than a day but as I said on Gameplay section above, you can still create your own dream match, playing some password mission or upgrading all your favorite Riders on Super Heroes Mode.
 

3,8/5


Conclusions

Climax Heroes series is a long range series from the original Climax Heroes that released on Playstation 2. As the long range series, the mechanism of gameplay and availability of characters evolve from time to time. This latest installment of Climax Heroes probably worth the name of Super since it is provide a whole new mechanism such as Combo maker, Rider Arts, Free Run, Custom Background Music and the details of consuming Rider Gauge. The returning original voice actor also become a plus value for this game. To summarize this review, Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes is still the best tokusatsu fighting games at least in Playstation Portable console.

                
   
 

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Persona 3 The Movie : Is It Even 'Edible' To Watch ?

Persona 3 The Movie is already out now, you can grab it on here . The quality is poor and there's no subtitle on it yet, but if you already play either Persona 3 on Playstation 2 or Persona 3 Portable on Playstation Portable then probably you can understand the story. That also a recommendation if you don't understand what really happened in this movie then playing the game should be more than enough

I heard that there will be another 2 movies coming out after this, but still I guess this isn't good idea to put all of the stories in 3 movies with about 1 hour duration. A very quick pace and even too much skip in the story that I can say that this should follow the Persona 4 Animation after all, by making it into series is still better and I thought that Devil Survivor Animation 2 (DSA2 ) is the worst Shin Megami Tensei anime adaptation but right now this Persona 3 The Movie take the title from DSA2.

This first part 'spring of birth' covers the game story until the Fuuka Yamagishi rescue event, it's indeed very quick pace and there's no comedic event from Iori Junpei (that's what I really hope to spice up the story) , just serious story till the end (quite boring).   

So is this even edible? For now I said it's not that really recommended to watch, unless you already playing the game so this movie only for those of you who really want to see 'what if persona 3 become an animation film', still I'm looking forward for the rest 2 upcoming movies (even though I'm not expecting improvisation from this movie) . Aside from the quick pace and too much skip, the battle scene, characters design and voice actors/actress are really good 

note: I played Persona 3 Portable game 5 times (I'm quite a fans for Shin Megami Tensei series), so I almost remember the story and some events in the game, I really disappointed on how this movie become.      

 

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A Closer Look Three New Weapons Toukiden Extreme

The official website Toukiden Extreme give new details on three new weapons that will appear in the game. As we know that three of them are Japanese Spear or Naginata, Kanabo (spiked club) and long range fire arm weapon that look a like riffle. 

Now let's take a look the detail for each of three new weapons that will appear on Toukiden Extreme.

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New Update: Gateway Omega 2.2

Good days readers, especially for those of you who using Gateway 3DS Flashcard. Yesterday Gateway announced new update Omega 2.2 for your Gateway 3DS flashcard. There's several features that Gateway team give to us like :

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Conception 2 Children of Seven Stars: The Impression

 

Conception 2 Children of Seven Stars 
Platform: Nintendo 3DS & PSVita
Genre: Role Playing Games
Release Date:  April 15, 2014
Spike, Atlus
This is not review, you can say that it is preview and some impression that I get when I play Conception 2.

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Toukiden Extreme : Introducing Three New Weapons

The upcoming release for new sequel Tecmo Koei Monster Hunting game , Toukiden Extreme (極 or Kiwami) will get three new additional weapons. Three of them are Naginata (Japanese weapon that look like spear), Kanabo (spiked club) and the last is long range fire arm (much like rifle).

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God Eater 2 Got New Online Feature in 1.40 Update

Good news for those of you that still playing Bandai Namco Monster Hunting game : God Eater 2 , because at this month we will get 1.40 update that will enhancing your God Eater 2 game with Online playing feature. Still there's no exact date when this patch will come out and there's no further information about Playstation Portable will get this online feature or not.

You can check previous update and DLC for God Eater 2 (for PSP only) on my other sites if you miss the latest update & DLC http://progamersdiary.blogspot.com/2013/11/god-eater-2-update-101-psp.html  .

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Play GBA Games in Gateway 3DS Blue Card Using Multi Kernel

A GBAtemp member starting to develop a kernel that let Gateway & MT cards user to enhance his/her blue card with certain kernel (called as Multi Kernel) let you play not only Nintendo DS ROM but also any games such as GBA & NES ROMS.

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