It's not the most balanced game in the world, but it's still good fun. Not sure if they're changing anything from the import, but there were definitely instances of constant juggling, favorites and people running away like pussies.
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It's not the most balanced game in the world, but it's still good fun. Not sure if they're changing anything from the import, but there were definitely instances of constant juggling, favorites and people running away like pussies.
You can do any heavy dash attack instantly by tapping in a direction twice, then inputting heavy. Leo, Zero, and Garuda get to combo off of theirs if they're far enough away. I'm not sure about the speed of Garuda's, but Leo and Zero can do them repeatedly and move faster than running, or even locked on running (which makes you faster, it was clearly intended to be impossible to run away, but it just isn't true)
A bunch of characters have divekicks, Bull happens to be able to cancel the grounded recovery of his into his instant dash attack, which is pretty much gamma charge without the armor (at least I don't think it has armor, but it has some pretty stupid priority).
From what I've seen she's the worst of the Rin sisters, which is still really, really good. The other ones have super broken air killer weapons lights, which she simply lacks. She still has the great base moveset and her fans are still pretty good.
Fimbulvetr
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xXBetter Off DadXx
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Someone probably already answered this, but just in case no one did, the demo is indeed old. I think it came out on the JPSN last June or July.
Thanks for putting the list together!
It is weird in that it's the not usual, but I actually think that's pretty awesome. Maybe we'll end up playing the multiplayer simply because it's fun, not just to get some trophies, ya know?
First off -- where did you get that AWESOME Bull GIF? What's that from??
Thanks for the detailed explanation. One more point -- how does e ancel the grounded recovry of his divekick into an instant dash attack? Simply by tapping forward twice plus heavy attack as soon as he lands from the divekick?
OK, I'm cool with that.
dark_inferno
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Even trough i didnt wanted to spoil myself with the game i watched a video yesterday about Zero. I will take him as my Maincharacter.
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You cancel the Bull thing just by doing it. You can cancel into standing heavy as well... but you really don't have much of a reason too when you can instead zip around with Bull's great dash attack.
If you haven't figured it out already, I pretty much mained Bull by the end of the 360 versions life. I started off as a Leo/Bull main and slowly became Bull/Leo instead. There's this nut on the SRK thread that single handedly changed my entire opinion on Bull, I thought he wasn't very good at one point too.
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You cancel the Bull thing just by doing it. You can cancel into standing heavy as well... but you really don't have much of a reason too when you can instead zip around with Bull's great dash attack.
If you haven't figured it out already, I pretty much mained Bull by the end of the 360 versions life. I started off as a Leo/Bull main and slowly became Bull/Leo instead. There's this nut on the SRK thread that single handedly changed my entire opinion on Bull, I thought he wasn't very good at one point too.
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Risk Breaker
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OMG, Ai Rin is top-tier?? Hell yeah I was gonna main her anyway <3
False edit: oh wait, it's actually Fei Rin which I'm going to main
I was gonna main her anyway <3False edit: oh wait, it's actually Fei Rin which I'm going to main
Lucent
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Just played the Japanese demo again after learning that you can change the text and audio to english. Lol at Black Barron's voice and the way he talks.
The game is kind of fun but I wish it were more like Godhand where you had a bunch of different moves to choose from and stuff. The moves you do have are pretty cool, but I wish there were more. I couldn't try out the other characters since nobody is playing the demo online anymore. That or it's down and they just let me try. lol
I do know one thing though, the boss music for both characters got me pretty hyped. But the plane bombings in both (I think that was dumb) cut off that music and ruined the mood.
The game is kind of fun but I wish it were more like Godhand where you had a bunch of different moves to choose from and stuff. The moves you do have are pretty cool, but I wish there were more. I couldn't try out the other characters since nobody is playing the demo online anymore. That or it's down and they just let me try. lol
I do know one thing though, the boss music for both characters got me pretty hyped. But the plane bombings in both (I think that was dumb) cut off that music and ruined the mood.
dark_inferno
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Yeah I think they have removed it already. Oh well.
Is it the same Black Baron from MadWorld?
AkimbO_Arcana
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I just switched my pre-order from Amazon to Zavvi, because 19,29€ is one hell of a deal.
Wish me luck folks :/
Edit: nope, back to Amazon, Zavvi is out of PS3 copies.
Wish me luck folks :/
Edit: nope, back to Amazon, Zavvi is out of PS3 copies.
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Nah she's really good. Her Squarex2 Triangle chain leads to an untechable knockdown which she can then jump cancel into her anti air heavy to lead into her infinite or heavy J.KWH glitch.
It's not just just her having those tools that make her good. It's how easy it is for her to use them. She's not the only one who can use the glitch, but she's probably the character that benefits the most from it.
all that combined with her guns(ranged multihitting making it an amazing tool in this game to bait stuns) make her an unbeatable god in the right hands in cage match.
Her only weakness is that she seems to lack good guard breaking tools.
Zero was the most slept on character back when I played. I think he'll be one of the most popular characters in US release though.
he has the best launcher in the game.(most horizontal range. I believe he has an infinite possible because of this) His KWH combos WITH ITSELF and he has a ground chain that both leads into a launched state AND is an effective guard breaker
Plus he can also make use of the j.KWH glitch.
I think he's the closest thing to bayo's level in the game
In cage match? Me neither then lol
but in larger modes I think any character can win really. Anyone can do damage and get kills off a lucky raw launcher or with team assistance.
Jack doesn't really bring anything to help a team though
I was mostly thinking of characters in an individual setting, but you're right Bull does have alot of utility in this way I suppose
In a character vs character setting though his moves are too slow to do anything. You can't combo into his ground KWL chain so there's really nothing to fear from getting hit by his normal attacks, and it's so slow it gets stuffed out by pretty much anything raw. His normals are all really short range and slow without lean extender so he pretty much gets eaten alive by characters like Max and Bayo.
he just doesn't have any good options 1v1 really. Like his only hope is to catch faster characters blocking with a guard break setups
Friggin Armored Core For Answer man. Or even worse...Chromehounds multiplayer achievements.
As for my character I'm pretty set on Baron. But if my experience with fighting games is anything to go on, the character I choose at the start is usually the one I end up being terrible with.
He's the Blacker Baron, so he's like a super Black Baron. I guess.
Anarchy Reigns and MadWorld don't appear to be in the same universe, they just have a few of the same characters.
Why I didn't think she was that ridiculous was because I never felt imminent fear from her jab.. because I can like, block it, or armor through it with some character. The heavy that causes the knockdown also has her standing around for half a year if she doesn't connect it. This is just my experience from playing against her though, but the only thing was that I needed to not try to attack the jumping guns head on or I would die.
He takes a very large step forward before actually doing his attack, which is a fighting game lolno if I ever saw one. I always thought the Rin sisters had stupid launchers, not because of range, but because of how fast they were. Against all the characters trying to armor their way through everything, they can just stand in place and press H without caring into their pseudo-infnites/grounded resets. It doesn't make Zero's launcher bad, but I don't really think it's that amazing when people pressing buttons will readily hit you out of it.
Okay, no. Stop. Well, actually, yeah I've had people do that to me before, though I pretty much refused to believe that it existed due to the sheer stupidity. Like I said, the range on that thing is enough to make it ridiculous already.
If you do more than one rep of his relaunch loop, you need to be against the wall to do the KWH glitch or their too far away and you don't get the cinematic. At least from my experience. I remember you mentioning something about some other Zero loop, but I don't know what that is.
I don't really think 1v1 is a good way to evaluate characters in this game, because it only really applies to 1v1. Even though anyone can win in larger modes, there are clearly characters better at them too.
In a cage match against Bull, Max can get a life lead and then sit in place with his counter active, and he wins the game.
He sucks in cage match, yes. But in an isolated 1v1 withing a larger match, he can choose to not directly fight whoever it is. The divekick > dash attack thing isn't just good for running away, it's really obnoxious for irritating people and stalling. His dash attack is also really good in general, despite not giving him a combo (not like he has combos anyway). He won't kill anyone in a 1v1, but he can certainly avoid being killed.
Keep in mind that I am severely biased against my own characters, lol.
I like Leo too much to drop him, despite him being increasingly worse the more chaotic a match is. I've still somehow won plenty of FFA with him, but, but I usually switch over to Bull for team modes and battle royale. I did pick Zero up too, but I'm just too spoiled by Leo's hilarious shift combo pressure to drop him.
Twin Drive System
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I am so ready for this.
sdarkshadow; sdarkshadow; PS3
sdarkshadow; sdarkshadow; PS3
InfiniteNine
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About the same with no real visual difference so you're good to go with whichever one you decide to buy. Also Bayonetta PS3 was not ported by Platinum.InfiniteNine said:
I personally go with PS3 over Xbox for Japanese-developed games since PS3 is often the lead platform during development. Unless of course, the X360 version is significantly better in terms of visuals/performance. I also prefer Bluray disc format and the look of PS3 cases.
However.. I'm really tempted to double dip since I love Platinum and to play this game online with as many people/friends as possible.
Fine Ham Abounds
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I forgot I had this preordered from Gamestop for like 6 months, so I'm good to go Tuesday
Free online plus preferred controller for me. Apparently there aren't any big technical differences so i imagine these are the two deciding factors for a lot of folks.
PS3 being lead platform (though this doesn't seem to make a significant difference), I don't play online enough so I let Live end, and Microsoft's kind of been bugging me anyway. I've actually been way more in favor of getting PS3 versions unless the 360 version is straight up superior in an undebatable way like with Bayonetta or pre- L.A. Noire Rockstar games, and half of the time that happens there's an even better PC version to get. And in this specific case I believe I have more slots open on the PS3 friends list (not that there's an easy way to count), so that will work better at least temporarily for this time.
(The shitty cases-with-holes thing has also been a factor, but that's been dropped in favor of just thinner plastic where the holes were, so now the ball's in Nintendo's court on addressing that, and unfortunately they seem content to leave them there.)
Lucent
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Almost considering getting this despite the fact that I'm getting Ni no Kuni this month. Wonder how much Bayonetta will actually cost to unlock later if I don't get it at gamestop. I have $10 worth of Best Buy certificates so I could get it for like $20. Wouldn't be bad.
Seems like it'd be a fun game to jump in some matches every now and then and just mess around. I dunno how well I'll be able to stand up against other people. Esp those people...you know like the ones who just seem to be naturally amazing at the game or it's the only game they're really playing at the moment and putting crazy hours into it to be the very best...LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS~!
I'll just go ahead and add mine.
Lucent; Lucent85; PS3
Seems like it'd be a fun game to jump in some matches every now and then and just mess around. I dunno how well I'll be able to stand up against other people. Esp those people...you know like the ones who just seem to be naturally amazing at the game or it's the only game they're really playing at the moment and putting crazy hours into it to be the very best...LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS~!
I'll just go ahead and add mine.
Lucent; Lucent85; PS3
If most of the players are Japanese that will explain it right there.
GameStop has a habit of locking up their bonuses from time to time (Mass Effect 2 bonus weapons, Sonic Generations Casino Night DLC). I've been burned more than once. If you really want Bayonetta, I'd just buy it there.
According to Retro_Funk, it seems it does not.
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Retro_
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There was a thread about local play on PG's boards a while ago
Pretty much covers everything you want to know from JP himself
Too late for Anarchy, but at least they're aware of the demand for local play for their multiplayer content going forward.
A player named Aaliyah_Robin hit me with some crazy Zero loop a while ago. Their play is what opened my eyes up to the character lol
but I'm not sure on the specifics of it myself. I couldn't replicate it in training mode even without the latency that they performed it in.
PlatinumGamesJP said:
PlatinumGamesJP said:
Pretty much covers everything you want to know from JP himself
Too late for Anarchy, but at least they're aware of the demand for local play for their multiplayer content going forward.
A player named Aaliyah_Robin hit me with some crazy Zero loop a while ago. Their play is what opened my eyes up to the character lol
but I'm not sure on the specifics of it myself. I couldn't replicate it in training mode even without the latency that they performed it in.
Shizzlee
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Baron in lag ain't nothing to fuck with. Played this dude this morning. Terrible connection. Played three matches. He beat my Max with his Nikolai, but that's cool because my Max is ass and it was close anyway. I owned his Garuda with Gargoyle. Not worth mentioning. Then Baron vs Gargoyle. I beat him free first two rounds, but then this dude kept spamming delayed weak (rolling punches) in the third round. He finally managed to hit me with it then went for uppercut out of it. I knew that wouldn't work. I dodged it, it whiffed, but the cinematic still happened and it was instant death. Wtf man? Next match, same thing. I didn't even bother to 360 it because he kept doing it over and over so I could have if I wanted to, but I was dodging it and the same shit kept happening. He left in the last round so no one won, but what the hell was that shit? x.x
Cool, thanks.
dragonflys545
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Cause free online, plus I sold my 360 recently.
QisTopTier
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Do it you have nothing to lose
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Vilix
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Except for a superior online experience. Oh yeah. I went there.