GET HYPE GET GET GET ICHI NI MASEN?

I get Blazblue on THURSDAY.
So instead I'm playing THIS:

It's free too, you know you want it poverty fans!

So a more thorough rundown, this game surprised me.
For one thing is it really unique and different.
First off, if you mash in this game you will lose hilariously and all the anime girls will laugh at you.
There are almost zero chains and almost zero 2-in-1s (special cancels).
No mashing ABC for three hits here, you'll get nothing.
Instead, the system has you heavily rely on your assists to fill in the gaps.
In fact since everyone is relying on rather situational assists pretty much every combo out of an assist setup requires link timing.
Some characters have target combos (very specific chains), everyone has tons of command normals, some people can chain jabs, and I think two? characters have actual 2-in-1s off specific moves.
So yeah your assists, you have one of four (with a hidden fifth), and they basically are an extension of your character, rather than an assist.
Playing this game without using your assist is like say, playing a one button version of a normal fighting game, it won't work.
They make up for your lack of chains, they make up for your lack of 2-in-1s, they can also do some really fucked up shit like guard for you (stupid mixup) or alpha counter or cast gravity pits or curses or projectiles or other wacky effects.

As for the character I was trying out, she is one of the lucky two characters to have a 2-in-1, hers is into her rekka.
She can also actually chain her 5AB, so 5AB rekka is the break and butter here.
Throw in the Yayoi (shoto) assist and you get the loops you see here.
Because she's closest to a normal fighting character as you'll get in this game, she has some really good loops and combos.
Unfortunately she takes a lot of damage, plus her combos don't do that much.
Comparatively, sword girl one does like 75% off a one assist zero dizzy 6 hit into super combo.

Oh yeah, the characters.
Well obviously this is moe bullshit.
It's extremely well-drawn well-animated moe bullshit though.
You have Yui: Sword girl 1 (fucking powerful, long ass range, stupid damage)
Haruka: Wand girl (keepaway, reflectors, funny crossup)
Lilith: Vampire loli grappler (holy crap setups for tick spd off anything and everything, damage absurd)
Luna Himeki: Gun kata plus Gurren Lagann Yoko (actually needs a flowchart to understand as after she goes into a stance just pressing a direction changes it, it's really confusing if you have no clue)
Kurumi: One move joke character that's not a joke (her assist recharge is insane, plus she has a target combo, she only has one special move but her normals feel really fast)
Saki: Sword girl 2 (If Yui is Ryu then Saki is Ken)
Kaede: Waitress (I believe she has a 2-in-1, fast mobility, has some pretty screwy loops, slow assist recharge)
Natalia: Pilebunker (I know nothing about this character yet except she has a pilebunker)
Eri: Tonfa loli (Also has a 2-in-1 into her rekka, low damage and life, stun loops)
Ayane: Bow girl (Setup character, not too sure about her either)

Steampunk SWR?

What's with all the gears and hexagons?

More MTGO Rage

(12:35:36 AM) chioyoung: I freaking hate mtgo
(12:35:46 AM) chioyoung: I couldve gone 4-0
(1:36:53 AM) sibladeko: but?
(1:36:57 AM) sibladeko: what happened
(1:36:59 AM) sibladeko: oh wait you got it working?
(1:36:59 AM) sibladeko: wtf
(1:37:02 AM) sibladeko: fucking wizards
(1:43:34 AM) chioyoung: yeah but then
(1:43:37 AM) chioyoung: I got d/c
(1:44:46 AM) sibladeko: HAHAHAHA
(1:44:49 AM) chioyoung: and then it wouldnt let me play cascade spells
(1:44:58 AM) sibladeko: hahaha what
(1:44:58 AM) chioyoung: and then I was going to win
(1:45:03 AM) chioyoung: and then on the last attack
(1:45:05 AM) chioyoung: a bug popped up
(1:45:08 AM) chioyoung: and froze my comp
(1:45:10 AM) sibladeko: HAHAHAHA
(1:45:11 AM) sibladeko: oh man
(1:45:22 AM) chioyoung: so I gave up after going 0-4

Friends. Don't let friends play MTGOnline.

Vanguard Princess

Sprite work is HOLY CRAPPPPPPPPPP

Rage

So Brady freaking Chan wanted me to install Magic Online.
Thing is, doesn't work!
Disconnected!
I'm behind a router but I'm the DMZ so I'm straight on the world anyway, all ports forward to me.
Brady suggests a restart, which I haven't done in something like a year.
And of course the system decides to delete the Microsoft UAA Bus on restart, thus I have no audio.

And now the driver is downloading at a whopping 20k/second, it is 30MB.
Rage.
Plus Magic Online still doesn't work after the restart.

WE TALKIN' BOUT...practice

Michael Jackson dead?

This'll change if it's wrong, but that's what everyone is saying.
So instead of rehashing links I'll just throw out my own Michael Jackson memories.
CTY talent show, our hall, doing "I want you back."
Fucking up the synchronized line we had planned.
We got third.

I think some crazy awesome hot diva girl doing Like a Prayer with her entire hall just being backup got 1st, they deserved it I remember just thinking "holy shit."

Updates

I am going to Evolution 2K9 in Las Vegas.
It cost me way too much, I plan to recoup the money lost by betting on Justin Wong and heartnana in everything they play.
Speaking of heartnana I convinced him to go to one of the Kansai area IaMP tournaments for fun, I hope he enjoys this one and goes to more of them, as Kansai actually has a shitload of IaMP tournaments.

This Saturday I went down to the city for the first time in a long while.
Blitzkampf tournament, twas awesome, I forgot how much fun it was to hang out with NYC crew.
Rithli probably got tons of lolfootage to make really hype videos for a group of dorks by a Snapple machine (well actually we had use of the actual gazebo this time.)
I've never seen jiyuna so gone, usually he plays better when he's drunk but he was completely off in moonland by mid tournament.
Like he lost to zaelar and kept falling off his crate it was quite hilarious.
Oh yeah I got 4th, relatively easy bracket, rithli and zar were on the other side.
Went through nas Fritz (last round last match), legendary blue shirt Kanae(last round last match but I fucked up second match he should have never seen a third), lost to Ken Akatsuki in top 4 winners, beat chibi Adler/Nun (I was actually happy he switched to nun, I hate adler), lost to Rithli Adler (I took a match off his Adler though, I think that was the first time I ever did.)
So not bad for someone who plays this game...not so often.

Lastly this game is hilarious, Konami going back to its Tokimeki Memorial roots.
They had all three voice actors say something like 9000 names too so there's a high chance if you're Japanese she will say your name.