raycarter

I don't have a Switch, but I'm a little torn on the matter. It looks great, and I'm hearing a lot of great things about it. But it does sound like something that is a departure from both Awakening and Fates, the two games that got me invested in the franchise. If I ever get a Switch and buy the game, I'll do my best to keep an open mind.

I know I am a little late to the party, but is it alright if I can join this site's unofficial Fire Emblem club?

I have played the GBA games and the 3DS games, but I am most familiar with the most recent release, Fire Emblem Fates (Birthright > Conquest > Revelation in that order).

Here are some samples of the work I have done to this site's wikis pertaining to some FE Fates characters. You can count on me adding more pages and writing.

Azura

Hinoka

Ryoma

I also completed a written commentary on this site's Quick Look for Fire Emblem Fates here

- RC

I just bought the game for myself, and I'm hoping to write a full review of it upon campaign completion.

It's interesting that you used Fire Emblem as a point of comparison, as I (who played through at least 3 separate Fire Emblem games) also arrived at the same conclusion. You could see some superficial similarities, like the dialogue tree between characters and the grid-based combat. Characters can also sync up and attack in unison, and there is some level of customisation in regard to weapons and items.

Off the bat, one major point of departure is the way combat resolves. In Fire Emblem characters get to fight back on an opponent's turn unless they are at a range disadvantage. In Godseekers characters only attack (and respond) on their turn.

Sync up attacks are also a a major point of difference. They are encouraged in the most recent Fire Emblem games, as they give a damage boost here and there. But in Godseekers they can be absolutely game-wrecking as their damage is so far above anything a character can do by himself or herself - not to mention that fighters can perform essentially another turn whaling on enemies before doing that superpower Synchro attack that devastates a small area's worth of enemies.

@uhtaree

First, let me shamelessly self-promote some stuff I wrote about the previous Appleseed movies, the ones from 1988 and 2004. Spoiler alert, your instincts are correct. The movies prior to Appleseed Ex Machina aren't as good.

Second, you should be able to find all four* Appleseed movies on the internet at full length. I also found the Japanese dub for Ex Machina, although I don't think there's much difference between that and the English dub.

* I am not including the two compilation movies that stringed together the Appleseed XIII anime that aired at around 2011. That anime should also be fully available on the internet too.

@cloudymusic: After seeing about two minutes worth of footage of the game on YouTube, I couldn't agree more.

@dochaus I actually watched Appleseed XIII (or most of it anyway) oh so long ago, but only decided to review the movies instead. To be honest, I don't really remember a lot the anime either. There's a villain called Deia who hates bioroids, some other shenanigans going on, and lots and lots and lots of stuff named after Greek mythological figures. I'm not the biggest fan of the naming convention. It just resembled a parlour trick. Overall, though, I found the work to be kinda meh. That said, I could be mis-remembering the anime.

As long as my Celtics do not get humiliated by the Milwaukee Bucks and the Greek Freak, I'll be content with whatever happens in the playoffs. I do not have high hopes for my team to begin with given the injuries.

Mobile games are a large part of my video game diet these days, so this is a sample of what I'm into these days:

1. Naruto x Boruto: Ninja Voltage (gameplay resembles Marvel Alliance with a bit of dungeon-building on the side)

2. Fire Emblem Heroes (tweaks the Fire Emblem RPG formula a bit)

3. Marvel: Contest of Champions (very boiled down fighting game)

3. Transformers: Forged to Fight (made by those who made Contest of Champions, fighting upgraded to a 3D plane)

4. Tekken Mobile (different control scheme from games 3. and 4., considering writing a review about it)

5. Gods of Rome (inferior knockoff to game 3.)

More recently, I have been looking at 2 RPGs from Marvel and DC on the mobile platform; was hoping to write a blog post comparing these two:

6. Marvel Strike Force (a knockoff to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes)

7. DC Unchained (¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe plays similar to Marvel Alliance?)

In other words, I really need to get back to getting pummelled in Tekken Tag 2's online mode : )

Don't forget Korean Backdashing; it's a move that is arguably the foundation of movement in Tekken. I'm sure Avoiding the Puddle has videos about it, but here is an article that goes in depth about the move:

http://shoryuken.com/2017/02/17/this-is-the-year-you-will-learn-how-to-perform-tekkens-korean-backdash/

I'm a really bad Tekken player; cannot play defense to save my life, and I only played a couple of hours online. But I can pull off the KBD in small spurts, and I could tell that it's important not just to create separation between characters but to still keep a character's guard up (that would otherwise be non-existent if you were performing a normal back dash).

@random45: @sethphotopoulos: @steamrickroller:

Hi guys,

This is a bit overdue, but thanks for finding and commenting on my very old post! I've been a largely off of Giantbomb nowadays, which explains my inactivity on the site until this posting.

Unfortunately, I'm quite behind as to how Giantbomb reorganizes where articles can be found and read (like this one), so unless I google search Code Lyoko Evolution I won't be able to access this post.

Just a slight update, the first season of Evolution has finished airing nearly a year ago, in 2013. There is no second season yet, and Wikipedia seems to be suggesting that the series won't go on. I have no idea whether bad ratings or the like led to an early termination, but that won't surprise me.

There's very little to say about how the rest of the season went, and I feel quite confident that what I said here would probably still represent the show fairly and accurately.

Well, looks like I'm done here.

RC