EXAMU does it again

So the upgrade from Arcana Heart 2 Suggoi! (called 2.5) to 2.6...
Will be a PAY UPGRADE AGAIN.
And it's 102,900 yen (about 1000, but more with the current exchange rate)
Adds balance changes and training mode and NOTHING ELSE.

Ok, so Examu pulled this shit before with Arcana Heart to Arcana Heart Full for SBO.
After lots of protests from arcade operators, they lowered the price to around 80K yen instead of 140K.
Then...they waited until this year's Super Battle Opera announcement and went ahead and did it again!
The full PCB is 176,400 yen.
Which means that if you had waited and never bought AH2 or Suggoi! until now, you'd have saved something like 2000+ dollars.
Operators are understandably livid, including the ones I know in the USA.
Training mode doesn't help either, arcade operators in Japan hate that shit as it increases credit time from 2-3 minutes to 5 minutes, plus in Japan everyone is polite so people don't interrupt training mode.

There's already bokutari (ripoff) threads on JPBBS, but more than likely arcade operators will bite it in the ass again and pay for the upgrade, as it's required for SBO.

[11:28] <@fubarduck> they have a way to fund Demon Bride now!
[11:28] <@fubarduck> since THAT'S not going to be purchased

Arcana heart 2 Sugoi!! for PS2

Welp, guess that makes Spooky's board purchase that much more oop aww.
At least I'll be able to play Angelina again, Henry Cen the "arcades are seriousbusiness" man is still too lazy to re-unlock her at CF.
Oh yeah, Yami from Okami is the final boss of Tatsunoko vs Capcom.
Sort of random, then again as a final boss a faceless metal sphere of doom works well for VS games.
Still no word about the Samurai Pizza Cats :<

Elves :V

Parace L'Sia
She's a Swiss elf.
Like that means anything.


Wakka Wakka

Arcana Heart 2 SUGOI! Footage

Loli croquet's range is sort of crazy.
I like how cape girl moves...but the player didn't know what to do.

Arcana Heart 2 SUGOI! New Characters revealed

Latest Arcadia
New art it seems for all.
Seems like Kei Garou shading.
I actually like the new art a lot more.
Inuwaka Nazuna

Croquette loli.

Inuwaka Akane


Hi, my scarf looks like hair in silhouettes.


They're sisters.
Why is their last name Inuwaka when they have cat ears?
Maybe they're dog ears, but we already have a dog!
Whatever.

Akane looks fucking cool.
Hell it just might be the new art.

Arcana Heart 2.2

Balance changes and a new character!
Looks like some cat girl thing riding a huge wolf thing with a bird.
Nakoruru?
Who knows.

Random Updates

Wow, every single random Japanese youtube channel I am subscribed to is putting out Scarlet Weather Rhapsody vids.
This includes daruism, serikamo, even nakaji39 geez.

In terms of the actual game, I like it.
That is to say, I like it more than probably the rest of the people who played IaMP.
Glitches, wrong block pushback, fly stall and bullshit weathers aside, I find the game is pretty fun.
However, I still do not play with fly, rather I play around it.
Fly is a sort of bullshit mechanic when full abused, people are starting to realize just how powerful and idiotic it can be.
Right now my gameplan as Suika almost entirely revolves around keeping you down so you don't abuse fly, and spamming 2C and preemptive melee if you do.

I get the distinct feeling the current Japanese scene is like our USA scene, there's the old IaMP player base that basically rapes for free, and then tons and tons of new 2ch/4chan scrubs.
Anyway the USA hackers have already made a no weather hack, the rage from super armor is too great.
Japan will most likely keep playing it straight though.

Also youtube seems to be failing more and more on the videos I upload lately, roughly half of the TMN Magist3r set was lost to Youtube's mysterious "Failed" error.
Doesn't matter TMN got a new HD so his seeking times don't suck (and by extension, Fraps) anymore, so he can record his own matches, and I'm back to uploading Tohgeki 3.


Angelia is my main in Arcana Heart 2.
I played for like 3 days straight at the last Spooky gathering.
Actually, I sort of waited until the wee hours of the morning when only Ken and Hal were awake, and had them teach me her BnB.
Then I proceeded to lose 9000 casuals.
I don't know why or when this blasted loli angel wearing only a nightshirt went from annoying to cute, but right now I find her the most hilarious thing in the game.
Bakabakabaka indeed.

In real life news, the douchebag housemate really did use the nuclear option.
That means everyone has a month to leave; I'm looking for a new place.
Hope he dies prematurely to whatever ruptured organs he has.

Arcana Heart 2

First Arcana Heart 2 footage coming out from AOU 2008.