downloading shingo dlc here comes a special boy !!
Throwing this on again as I am a born sucker who needs to at least try Shingo in this game. He still rules, his VA still rules, I think his new outfit looks good, I'm glad you can still whiff cancel cr.D, I wish his proximity unblockable was still a DP motion and was also still a proximity unblockable instead of a command grab, I wish he still checked GameFAQs during his final bankai. About what I expected. Welcome back, kiddo!
Anyway, the game: one of my major problems with it reared back up when I watched the Shingo trailer and was able to guess what the EX version of all his moves would do before I saw it. I've spoken about it previously, but there's just no surprises in this - it's a combo game, but to me it seems like there are very fixed routes you have to go down to Do the Big Combo and you're not really able to stray from them (also had this problem with XIV). XIII was a combo game too, but was more freeform, more experimental, more interesting - due in no small part to you being able to produce some real bullshit. I think games like this have to have a sufficient amount of truly stupid nonsense in them to be worth a damn. Look at Marvel 3! Any time I watch that game nowadays there's a solid chance that I'll see something I've never seen before, and I think that could probably happen in KOFXIII, and I think there's almost no chance of it happening in KOFXV. The whole thing just feels sterile to me, missing some vital spark. It doesn't help that it looks ugly to mine eyes, that there's something wholly unsatisfying about the animations, that character proportions are often freaky and alien (check out Ryo's Tetsuo Hara head to body ratio, and take a good look at Vanessa's fingers, it's fucked). The new characters do nothing for me, they didn't bring back Mian, the fucking weasels actually want you to pay extra for Kim. I dunno man, I just don't like this one. It's trite to say but 98 is better, so why would I waste the time? Let's play 98. If you haven't played 98, I really recommend playing 98, it's very cool and looks great and has a dope roster and is full of personality and dumb shit like the unblockable fireball glitch (love that one). Also the international subtitle is "The Slugfest", which is just so awesome. Try it!
Throwing this on again as I am a born sucker who needs to at least try Shingo in this game. He still rules, his VA still rules, I think his new outfit looks good, I'm glad you can still whiff cancel cr.D, I wish his proximity unblockable was still a DP motion and was also still a proximity unblockable instead of a command grab, I wish he still checked GameFAQs during his final bankai. About what I expected. Welcome back, kiddo!
Anyway, the game: one of my major problems with it reared back up when I watched the Shingo trailer and was able to guess what the EX version of all his moves would do before I saw it. I've spoken about it previously, but there's just no surprises in this - it's a combo game, but to me it seems like there are very fixed routes you have to go down to Do the Big Combo and you're not really able to stray from them (also had this problem with XIV). XIII was a combo game too, but was more freeform, more experimental, more interesting - due in no small part to you being able to produce some real bullshit. I think games like this have to have a sufficient amount of truly stupid nonsense in them to be worth a damn. Look at Marvel 3! Any time I watch that game nowadays there's a solid chance that I'll see something I've never seen before, and I think that could probably happen in KOFXIII, and I think there's almost no chance of it happening in KOFXV. The whole thing just feels sterile to me, missing some vital spark. It doesn't help that it looks ugly to mine eyes, that there's something wholly unsatisfying about the animations, that character proportions are often freaky and alien (check out Ryo's Tetsuo Hara head to body ratio, and take a good look at Vanessa's fingers, it's fucked). The new characters do nothing for me, they didn't bring back Mian, the fucking weasels actually want you to pay extra for Kim. I dunno man, I just don't like this one. It's trite to say but 98 is better, so why would I waste the time? Let's play 98. If you haven't played 98, I really recommend playing 98, it's very cool and looks great and has a dope roster and is full of personality and dumb shit like the unblockable fireball glitch (love that one). Also the international subtitle is "The Slugfest", which is just so awesome. Try it!