天下制覇

This is the best pairing. You know it to be true.

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Can I go back to doing something enjoyable now?

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Yeah yeah, I’ve been slacking lately on doujin stuff. Blame Vesperia and Last Remnant. I’m sure the title is a reference to some Japanese story or literature that I’m just not getting, but whatever. This one looks like a very basic SRPG, borrowing some things from the N-1 series (chain attacks and such). The graphics could definitely use some polishing, and the zooming in and out was making me a bit seasick after only the brief promo, but hopefully it’ll look a little more polished by the time they put it out… or at the very least… add depth. At least they seem determined to cram the entire current era cast in there.
Brought to my attention via Doujinsuki.

Not too bad, though Vita and Hayate already look pretty similar to Ruru and Noyel respectively. Nanoha’s Striker form looks like a slower version of her with bigger… beam cannons, if you catch my drift. New maps and modes too, though I don’t think target shooting will hold my interest that long. The city scape could be an interesting map to play on though, assuming the hit detection/camera movement for the buildings doesn’t drive you insane.

• Fly-Systems has announced an upcoming expansion for Magical Battle Arena adding in Vita, Hayate, and StrikerS era Nanoha, among I assume a few others.
• Fortune Summoners is a terribly boring game. I played it for the better part of an hour and was still fighting slimes and my party was more concerned with falling off ledges than helping me club the millionith slime to death.
• AQLoop is releasing MELancholy of DYnast, the TWilight refrAIN OST for next Comiket.
• Werk has announced that they’ll be releasing a ‘minor’ expansion for Battle Moon Wars Act 4 that’ll add in Saber Lily, a younger version of Haruna, and, god willing, will fix some of the more egregious crashing issues.
• They’re also releasing an OST in a couple months, which is only notable because the cover is… wow. Kohaku especially looks smoking.
• Speaking of BMW, translation of Act 4 is about 2/3rds finished and through the first major arc (Hollow Ataraxia: stages 37-46), so only 6 stages and the Dictionaries to go. It’s still rough in places, and I’ve been waiting for Werk to finish the numerous NUMEROUS bugs that I cannot before I bug someone to hack the exe for the remaining stuff. 
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Iosys’ latest collection of Touhou remixes… and the title should give you a bit of a clue as to what it’s centered on. Poor poor Cirno. Oh well, ⑨ probably deserves more or less whatever comes her way. This one is probably my favorite Iosys promo in awhile though.

Check out/download the flash itself from here.

He’s up to 326 at the time of this posting, which comes to around 35 hours worth of play, and has been uploading them for the past few days… and at three or four matches per clip… there’s quite a few. Thankfully, almost all of the ones I’ve seen have been pretty good players too. Granted… my sample size so far is about three, but I’m just thrilled that Len’s aerial movement no longer stops on her air 236 ice shard. The delicious crossup potential already makes me salivate. Not as good as Akiha’s still, but I’ll take whatever mixups I can get. Otherwise, too much else to really discuss here and especially since I’m sure there’ll be at least one update ala ver.B before it comes in a release format that I can consume, I’ll leave all the crazy analysis to the others. NRVNQSR EX-MOSQUITO IS IMBA!!@ElevenSHIFT-ONE etc etc

If you’re interested in the story mode stuff, Sibladeko’s been uploading random clips of that as well. It certainly appears to have even less of a story than Act Cadenza has, but they’re forgiven for all the weird animation they did just for story mode. The Necos especially have some weird stuff. etc etc

Yes, I am aware that it’s out. It adds a character dictionary, sound dictionary, changes some minor interface stuff (uuuugggghhhh), and adds a New Game+. I’ll get around to version checking the previous… er… version and incorporating the changes into the patch (along with the finished script files for up to stage 42, which is about 50% of the script) as soon as premier week is over, so expect something around next weekend. A quick glance shows that no new stages were added and only the Mech-Hisui Mazinger attack was undummied. No Sugoi Beam for you, sorry.

Aaaaaaaaand back to the premiers. Just Kemeko left for today… and Tales of the Abyss 2… Thank Zeus. Since I’m expecting a new OP for ZKC, I think I’m going to punt on covering the stream this week. You’ll survive… somehow. I may not get to that until tomorrow then. *shrug*

Aquastyle released their latest/greatest SRW tribute DVD featuring Aya, Flandre, Remilia, and Suika. No Love Love Yuyuko attack in this one, sadly. I went ahead and cut out all of the ‘story’ junk (ha… story) from the start and end so all that’s left in that is various Touhou themed SRW attacks. If you’re interested in the first one, you can watch it here.

Well, Sion’s ultimate vampire form is certainly no Onslaught or G.Akiha, but I guess it’s relatively menacing. Rrarr rrar, I’m huuuuuuge and eeeeeeevil!

Thank to Sibladeko for posting it.