HG Guntank, Z'gok E and Gelgoog Cannon (commander type) completed

Cleared Busoushinki Battle Masters

Clear time 25:30 hours. And here're my stats from the end of the game, as usual.



My tactic at the end was pretty much just firing the rifle until I got near → HAMMER HAMMER HAMMER → cancel into the pile driver if the hammer misses → repeat forever, but I swapped the pile driver out for a pair of knuckles for the final battle against Artemis. Gaia/Chitose was a close one because Lilith took out half of my life and Hades managed to defeat Artemis without even getting scratched. Artemis was easier but I got hit by her special RA twice.

As like in Battle Rondo, choosing equipment based on their specs/abilities/whatever naturally leads to looking fucking wacky. Bah. If only you could recolour shit like in Armoured Core...

It isn't THAT bad in Battle Rondo because there's a lot more to choose from, plus there're colour variations of some Shinki, but there's not much for choice in Battle Masters.

Speaking of Battle Rondo I totally forgot to get some Web Money when I was in Japan and don't have enough shinki points now. Damn it.

SRH Kamen Rider 555

This week's loot (28th August 2010)

Also got the Deardrops album Straight and a DVD of some movie that sounded kind of X-Files-ish but I somehow managed to lose them (they're in this room somewhere, I think). Eh.

Edit: The movie was The Fourth Kind and while it isn't as bad as what I've seen the internet says it was still pretty terrible. Maybe if they made it into a real fucking movie and gave it an ending, instead of making it a fucking mockumentary and copping out at the end. It's a real pity because they had a pretty cool thing going on there with the whole false memories of owls and Sumerian stuff.

Cleared some games

Cleared Otoboku 2, Deardrops and ACE R this week.

Otoboku 2 was very good, though the individual routes felt kind of rushed. And by kind of I mean extremely. I still enjoyed it more than the first, though, and that's saying quite a lot.

Otoboku 2: This is a man

Deardrops was decent but pales in comparison to Kira ☆ Kira. Nothing much to say about it, nothing unexpected like WHOOPS ALL OF A SUDDEN THE MAIN HEROINE DIES IN A FIRE. Pretty nice songs, though. Especially Yayoi's ED which I keep playing over and over again (I got both Straight and My Dear Stardust, prefer the latter's version more).

Deardrops: Main character Suganuma Shouichi used to play the violin.
He quit it forever due to something. The OP song has a violin in it.
Gee, I wonder if he ever takes up the violin again?

ACE R is disappointing. I've started on my second playthrough already but it's still very disappointing. They really should've stuck with the old system, I especially loved using one of the shoulders as a shift key for the weapons.

I want to like it, I really do. It's an action game which has Full Metal Panic and SRW OG and Crossbone Gundam and Code Geass, by From, how can you ruin that?

Somehow, they managed to. Damn it.

I mean, fuck, the average crappy Gundam game is more fun than this, and considering how crappy the average Gundam game is, that's pretty bad.

It's just so frustrating in so many ways I've lost count.

Gah.

Eh, I'm going to play ACE R a bit more then get to Sorairo (which I've already finished about a third of) and Alternative Chronicles 01 (cleared Chicken Divers and Rain Dancers).

I've been chipping away at Busoushinki Battle Masters too, currently clearing the stuff needed to get to the F1.

Totally unrelated but I'm making spoiler highlight things easier to find with black text on black backgrounds from now on. Probably.