C80: Big Bang Beat: Revolve Final Trial and Barning Stages

August 9th, 2011

        

Frontier Aja’s put up the supposedly final version of BBR’s trial, which unfortunately adds Ren instead of Kinako, as well as the full voicing, music, etc, although it’s weird to hear Erika voiced by someone other than Shizuka Itou. The main tweaks to note introduced at this stage is a semi-return of the enhance system doing double-duty with the super button. Rouga’s got limited recharging cancels, Kunagi can charge her super bar, and Senna can recover her life. Ren and Erika seem to have gotten the shaft here, although Erika does have the silliest infinite combo ever with her new command throw. Ren in general seems to have taken a huge nerf but I never really played him anyway. His old chained shoulder-charge into Super grab does pitiful damage and even completely whiffs against Erika. Also, I included trains because that game only gets more hilarious when its creators mistransliterate its title as "Barning Stage."

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2 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Travis says:
    August 9, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    I haven’t really been commenting much (again) due to real-life concerns, but the sheer boiling, dare I say, barning passions that lie dormant within the magnum opus of trains.bat has convinced me to post a theoretical, a sort of what-if of the gaming world. Now, our Initial-D Trains game is fascinating on it’s own; it brings back memories of SimCopter with it’s vivid and rich… Night level.

    But more important to me is the socio-mythic importance of these games. We’re starting to see the gentrification of the train-riding class and as they look for new symbols to express their growing dissatisfaction with society, it becomes appropriate to repurpose the symbols of their former labor – a train is no longer just a train, but the mighty bearer of a modern cavalry charge (at Nagashino)!

    Suddenly, the release of Burning Stage becomes so much more than a game; being able to go off-rails, as it were, is indicative of a freedom of choice that so many games lack. I would push the button and began on that journey, but my time here grows short and what am I even saying.

    /

    B’seriously.

    I heard from a little bird that the Trains RPG was an April Fools joke. Makes me feel sad. Least BBR is looking more and more polished.

  • Gil says:
    August 9, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    More updates on Densha D, please.