Comiket 75 — Magical Battle Arena Lyrical Expansion

December 30th, 2008

  

Well, I’m tremendously disappointed that the triple Nanoha/Hayate/Fate tech is just Hayate’s desperation Super, but eh… what can you do? I’ve only had a chance to barely muss around a little bit, but I’m heading out for dinner shortly, so I probably won’t get a chance to do much of anything with this for the rest of the night. They’re all pretty predictable though. Hayate is slow as snot with wide area attacks and mainly supported by her freezing/horribly animated stunning shots.

Vita’s got some surprisingly quick and nasty projectiles. They don’t do a ton of damage, but they’re lightning fast compared to most of the other specials. She also recharges almost immediately. Her Supers are really really lame though. Her normal one (huge Graf Eisen) is painfully slow and I’m sure extremely easy to knock her out of. Her Desperation (just the same as her melee special, with her hat falling off) is also one of those lame melee only attacks.

Nanoha’s adult form is… pretty much the same as the young version. She doesn’t rush on her charged melee, so that’s a little annoying. Axel Shooter is replaced by a pretty short ranged ACS Driver dash, and her shield special is replaced by a Buster option which then adds extra shots onto her other specials. Up to four (well, #3 adds two more) can be set, but they vanish after about 10 seconds unless you set more. Her desperation Super is a little nastier than many of the others because there’s no projectile before the bind hits. Doesn’t really make up for the lack of the uber-Axel Shooter, but the ACS Drive does give her a little more balance.

Like I said, I’m on my way out the door, so I haven’t really had a chance to mess around with the new modes or look for any hidden characters or whatnot, so I may or may not have more to say in a few days.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Steven Den Beste says:
    December 31, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    Those guys are really working hard on this. For a doujin group it’s quite impressive.

  • MuzikalNotes says:
    December 31, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Impressive how the expansion leads to the creation of a newbie guide on one forum, and a mission guide on that same forum (this one has been stickied) and another one. I blame all the hype about Hayate and Vita.

  • Memento says:
    January 1, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Actually, Hayate is pretty damn good; her normal (charged) bullet has a Knockdown effect, and she pulls it off lightning quick. Followed up by her charged guard and then followed up with her charged melee, keeps the enemy stunned/frozen. Diabolic Emission is also lightning fast and covers an incredible area, dealing a decent amount of damage to top it off. Also, her charged guard breaks/penetrates any shield with one shot out of nine fired. Very effective in dealing with Lina charging up a Dragon Slave, or any special for that matter.
    I’ll agree, however, that Vita was a major disapointment.

  • MDKGunner says:
    January 4, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Speaking of Hayate is she an unlockable character or something as i have the expansion patched to the latest one but i only have the same characters and stages as back on ver 1.05

  • jeffng9 says:
    January 4, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    hayate is pretty cool, true about the animation is not that good but her moves are better than vita’s in my opinion… Diabolic emission is lightning fast compare to what i believe it should be a slower move compare to the original as its a wide area attack, i’m also surprise to see that as hayate’s ultimate finisher number 1 and Fate, nanoha n hayate combo as her desperate finisher. As for the StrikerS version nanoha i couldn’t agree more. i prefer axxel shooter than the new move that they insert for the adult vers nanoha. I also notice that nanoha ACS drive did not come in effect when you use ur normal super. I’m surprise to see that nanoha Ultimate finisher number 1 was starlight breaker and her desperate is the move she use on tiana in the anime episode. Vita enlarge version of graf eisen look very fake compare to others… i would prefer to use fate compare to vita. I totally agree with you that vita was a major dissapointment.

    To MDKGunner
    v1.05 is without the StrikerS package i think. You should wait for a higher version patch

  • MDKGunner says:
    January 5, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    To jeffng9
    I’ve got the expansion and the new characters but me and a friend of mine can’t get online gaming any suggestions?

  • Unknown Player? says:
    April 13, 2009 at 10:52 am

    To MDKGunner
    Simple. Click my name, as I have connections with someone who got theirs to work and kindly uploaded his copy.

    To anyone else: It all starts with unlocking Mission Mode, and beating the missions.

    To the subject
    As for Vita, the hat falling off leads to this move being more berserk.
    As for Nanoha StS, the changed moveset leads me to believe they wanted to show different moves this time.
    As for Hayate–my fave Nanoha character, and the first character in this game I can say I mastered!