Kyouma-Blade

I've been keeping away from spoilers, mainly because I can't be bothered trying to piece everything together from the snippets I get. Difficulty alone it would have to be Nohr. I already forgot all the character designs because they look pretty generic anime stuff. I'll probably remember them all when I play through the game though. Thinking about how an adopted child would feel when spending almost all of his life living with his adopted family and suddenly finding their biological mom/dad. I would be pretty happy I got to see them, and maybe keep close contacts with them, but I don't think I would choose to live with them, since they aren't really my family in a sense.

I'm not really sure how this will bring new life to the Mario and Luigi franchise, since they seem to be sticking with the same mechanics, just with an additional Paper Mario. Really, you could've just played Partners in Time and you'll have essentially this game. Only looks to add new Bros. Attacks so far. Here's hoping we get something better than what we've seen already.

Yo, Roy is actually pretty damn good, not what I was expecting at all, especially after seeing how Mewtwo played basically like his Melee counterpart. Fsmash sweetspot is around 20%, and it's easier to land compared to Marth's. Basically he's a better Marth. New main. Ryu is what the competitive fans dreamed of. He's one of the few people who can actually combo, and the combos are on purpose too. Even if you don't use Ryu optimally by utilizing his original Street Fighter inputs, he still packs a huge punch with that Up smash and Up B. Sounds like a way better Little Mac, though Mac is faster and has super armor on his smashes. Lucas is a worse Ness, in my opinion. That doesn't mean he's bad though. Up air still does an alright amount of damage, and he has a grapple grab. His neutral air is always fun to do. Also, his Up smash, if you ever land it, is so damn satisfying. Very happy with these DLC characters. Do not regret buying them at all.

Ryu seems super fun to play as. Roy wasn't needed at all, but he looks a lot better from his Melee design at least. I'm still buying him anyways since Roy's my boy.

I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I think a major flaw is how much you have to rely on teammates yet there is no voice chat. It's a pretty integral part for working together, but it's missing, so you'll just have to assume the others know what to do. I also don't like the lack of local multiplayer support aside from the 1v1, but I understand the limitations behind it. I heard there will be more game modes coming soon, so that'd be fun.

I pointed out the fanservice as an example. What I'm trying to point out is low quality anime. Low quality meaning lazy writing, poor animation, and sporadic pacing. Fanservice may be a contributing factor, but I'm more worried about the other stuff I listed. I was talking generally, not just the United States. It could become mainstream in the U.S., Russia, Australia, France, any high population place and it will affect the anime industry, because, like I said, it's for the money, not our tastes. I don't think they are xenophobic at all actually. Japan is very westernized, so I don't see how they are xenophobic, but not the point. Those companies are smart, listening to the fanbase. The fanbase that gives them money. Of course they would get the license for the acclaimed anime, they know it will sell. But the audience for anime in the U.S. is relatively small, especially the paying audience. I'd argue most of the recently airing anime aren't praise-worthy at all, but again, not the point. Both Japan and the U.S. companies aim to make money. That's the ultimate goal. So they will be smart with anime, at least in their eyes, by finding the best ratio of how much work they put in versus the amount of money they get out. If anime becomes mainstream, the balance will be tipped to have low quality versus high money. I don't believe I mentioned anything about U.S. companies unrelated to anime affecting the anime industry. That's not what I'm saying. Continue to support the anime industry. I know it's in need of it. I won't shame anyone getting into anime. But, I'm against the whole idea of it being mainstream, because of the reasons I stated before. It sounds contradictory, I know, but I'm honestly not trying to discourage people getting into anime. Awful is subjective or objective, depending on the context. If I were to say, "This human feces tastes great!" is it suddenly good? No, obviously it's objectively awful tasting, because it's literally shit. I'll take Sword Art Online as an example. The anime is "mainstream" in regards to the anime community. I see the anime is full of bullshit. For example, the obvious harem that is introduced halfway through the first arc. They waste so much valuable time on those girls that could've been invested in the relationship between Kirito and Asuna, but instead, we got a bunch of girls who fall in love with him because he's high leveled and romantically oblivious. There are more problems with it, but I found a handy list of a bunch of things wrong with the SAO anime. Oh, and here's one for the second season, just for kicks. And don't excuse the anime's shortcomings because that's how it was in the source material. If the anime studio had cared about quality, they would've either made it better or never touched it in the first place. So, SAO is riddled with bad writing and bad pacing. Why is it so popular then? It's because it panders. It gets a cool sounding idea and just writes it like a 15 year old imaging what it would be like if he were a Gary Stu. It's a huge powertrip. It might be entertaining to you, but, to be brutally honest, you don't know what makes a good anime. I apologize if I typed a bit of gibberish. I'm very sleepy. I just wanted to type this up real quick. Edit: Cleared up some of my points now that I'm rested.

Here's my line of thinking. You know how there's fanservice everywhere in anime? Like, you'll be hard pressed to find any currently airing anime that doesn't have fanservice. And I mean the nakedness and shit like that. This happens because the anime industry panders to its audience that pays. Usually it's the otakus or the like who would pay a whole lot of money to get some figma of their waifu. The anime industry has to pander to that audience because that's who pays their bills. So, they give perverted material to the perverts. Now, to come back to my wish that anime never becomes mainstream. Mainstream is a difficult word to define. Maybe I even used a poor word to describe what I don't want to happen. But, I'll define it as "A person completely new to the medium," because this is the point I want to get across. If it becomes mainstream, people who have nearly no idea what makes a good anime will be dishing out money to almost every anime, be it good or bad. So, most companies making anime will see this trend, say "Shit, our awful anime is printing money, let's make more of that kind of anime," and the whole medium will be going down the drain. Of course, some companies will continue to make good anime, but it will be drowned out by the bad stuff, because that type of anime just easier to make. As another example, a few years back, and even now, though less prevalent, was the "Moe-blob" genre. Basically, if you seen K-On, that but a lot more boring. A bunch of cute girls doing cute things. One of those anime by itself may be good, but if you were forced to watch that almost all of the time, that would be boring. Those anime are relatively low effort compared to anime that is actually well written, well animated, well executed, and all that jazz.

Anime should never be mainstream.

Parasyte - I didn't mind the electronic soundtrack. Monogatari Series - I'll give Second Season a try, but so far it's been bleh. Angel Beats - Bad. Gosick - Awful in the second half. Log Horizon - Overrated. It's still okay, but not that good. Angel's Egg - Pretentious as firetruck and isn't good. Ouran High School Host Club - Not that funny. I dropped it halfway through. Akame ga Kill - I like how stupid it is, but that's about it. Anohana - Stupid as hell, but damn if I didn't cry at the end.

I knew I forgot to mention something in that quick write up. It's fun playing catch in Mewtwo dittos with a fully charged shadow ball. I always mess up the timing though. T.T

I'm horrible with Mewtwo. He has so many recovery options too. Insane jumps, teleport, side b boosts him up a bit like Mario's cape, and a fully charged neutral b pushes him back a bit. But none of that matters since he's going to be launched all the way out to the blast zones anyways. His smashes are great. Up smash actually keeps them inside until the end of the move, unlike Zelda's. Forward smash racks up a nice amount of damage. Down smash pops them up, so you can follow with an aerial. His tilts have insane range. Up tilt covers the top of you, and can be used to pop them up. Same with Down tilt, but covers in front of you. Forward tilt is unnecessary, since the other two are better. Forward air is deceivingly strong. It's a great option for a KO, if you can land it. Up air has great range, but lacks knockback, which makes sense. Back air is way too slow to come out for my liking. Down air is satisfying to land, but awful if you miss. Neutral b doesn't have a hitbox when charging it. :sad: Does a nice amount of damage when fully charged though. Side b sort of sucks, if your opponent knows how to get out of it. (Tech it.) If they don't know, it's a free forward smash. Down b is hard to land, and it's useless when they are at low percents. Side taunt makes him look like he's upping his power level. 9001/10

I can't help but draw comparisons between Koufuku Graffiti and Shokugeki no Souma. The orgasms to the food are vastly different, and the general feel of both are different. Graffiti has a comfy and a very slice of life feel to it, while Souma has a very exaggerated and intense feel. I prefer Graffiti so far, but I'll keep watching Souma and see how it goes.

Steins;Gate - Time Traveling shenanigans with a hint of mindfiretruckery. Shirobako - Explores the anime industry, while giving me characters to care about and silly situations. Baccano! - People can live forever, but only if you drink the Elixir. Begin a story that spans over three years, while switching to those years at random. Great cast of characters, but may be too much for you to remember. Code Geass - Japan is conquered by Britain. Japan wants to fight to get their land back. Mechas are the best way to fight. Lelouch has the best mindfiretruck plans. The Pet Girl of Sakurasou - A girl sheltered from society is a genius. She is thrust into a regular school with the strangest personalities. Feels ensue. Parasyte - Aliens come from nowhere and begin to take over humans, blending in, and eating more humans. Shinichi has to coexist with an alien who only went for the arm. Explores what it means to be a human.

Here's the link to the reddit thread if anyone is interested. The dude who posted is a well known person in the 3DS data mining community. He has credit to what he's saying, so I believe him, at least more so than any other leaker. I'd like Ryu to be in the game. He's iconic to not only the fighting video game industry, but to fighting games as well.the video game industry as a whole. He'd be interesting to see in this type of fighting game. Roy's my boy.

No Snake love? Haven't played any of his games, but the way he played in Brawl was unique and fun. Definitely want him back.

God damn it. Edit: http://a.pomf.se/upfetz.mp4

This is a great anime. Some manga readers say they dislike the modernization of the anime, but I didn't mind it, mostly because I didn't read the manga. The last episode was a bit wierd. I would without hesitation give this anime an 8/10 on enjoyment alone. It's a great watch.

Then manage your money correctly, instead of relying on an outside dealer to do it for you. I've also never heard of anyone who pre-orders for that, besides you. Most people do it for getting the game on Day One "guaranteed." The reason the bonus is there is to get more people to pre-order. They're not even rewarding the people who pre-ordered before giving the bonus, not intentionaly. They are specifically doing so to get more people to pre-order the game. Why is the fault put on me? It shouldn't be common practice. It's stupid to exclude a group of people from content that contributes to the enjoyment of the game you're buying.

I get that some of them are bonuses that don't add to the game. Artbooks like the KH 1.5 one I raised above is an example of that. But why the pre-order? They could've sold it seperately. Then again, I don't have that much of a problem with them, since as you said, it doesn't effect my enjoyment of the game. The thing that bothers me the most about the things that do add to the game, like the Tomb Raider pre-order bonuses mentioned in the video I linked, are how they are exclusive. They offered a whole tomb DLC on Day 1 of the release if they reached a certain amount of pre-orders. That DLC could very well have been in the actual game, with out being DLC or a pre-order bonus. It's beyond stupid in my opinion.

I predict this will be a major flop. To me, it just looks like they are appealing to the younger generation with the video game intergration as a gimmick. I saw the trailer, I don't see anything good about it. If that was supposed to make me want to watch it, it did a horrible job at it. But who knows. The movie isn't out yet. It could be great. But seeing Chris Columbus on board is making me uneasy, seeing how the Percy Jackson films went.

I hate pre-orders. Absolutely despise them. For a recent example, let's take the Shulk amiibos. I had no idea Shulk was pre-order only in my area. So, I walk in on the day it was released and they told me, "Sorry, we don't have any. It was pre-order only." So now, I can only get a hold of one if I pay double the amount on eBay. That's just not worth it for me. They say they do it so they know how many people want it, but that's stupid to me. I wanted it, why did I have to pre-order it? Another example, Kingdom Hearts 1.5. I dislike any pre-order bonus that is exclusive to the pre-order. The artbook could've been sold seperately, but it's exclusive. Why? To "reward" the people who pre-order? Why? It's pointless, if they wanted to buy it, they would buy it anyways, regardless of the bonus. An even worse example is Assassin's Creed Unity, and by extension, all games that have in-game material as exclusive bonuses. There are several different weapons you can get if you pre-ordered Assassin's Creed Unity at different retailers. To my knowledge, you can't get these weapons in any other way. Bullshit. Why not? It's part of the game, don't rip it out to "reward" people for pre-ordering your game. Let it stand on its own merits, and don't exclude others who don't pre-order. This is a really tame example, but I'm ranting off the top of my head, and can't think of a better one right now. Now, my Gamestop and probably a lot of other retailers in my area are not even going to stock for any day one purchases, and only have enough for the pre-orders. Why the firetruck is that a thing? You're going to just get more in a couple of days, why didn't you order for more units for the first day? Oh, that's right, you have to "reward" the people who pre-order. You're not rewarding them, you're penalizing the people who don't pre-order. I found a video that expands on the issues of pre-ordering, but it's a bit long. TL;DR Pre-ordering is bullshit. It's not rewarding people who pre-order, it's punishing people who don't.