This Month's Haul - July 2007

[nocturne]

I'll look it up when i start smoking then.

[StriderKyo]

Oh, and the story is really channy with the typical anime sense of how the military works, but that's to be expected.

Alright Hiro, you're 73 lbs. soaking wet and haven't finished high school yet, but you're chock full o' genki so we're putting you in charge of our 16 year old girl squadron. Don't worry, they're all single virgins, we checked 'em out. They might tremble and scream in fear every time they get shot because we like it that way, but they'll be able to handle those space robots just fine. The invading horde of ugly, grizzled, murderous space-war veterans won't stand a chance; fortunately I don't think any of them thought to bring laser swords, just guns and massive warships. We're predicting a 93% chance of the Nazi-hat wearing enemy commander saying "hm...I didn't expect you to make it this far" when you confront him. Good luck and may your blue hair dye never run out.

[Grave]

Hey, my last channy purse-like thingy was a gift from mums.

No shame! In addition to the PS3 and Motorstorm, this guy showed up today:


It's ~ wonderful ~ , but it's staying in the plastic til September. The place I live now is too dusty and old to have cute things.

edit: also, my PSN name is Drakee, be my friend or die

[mannerbot]

Gloomy Bear is the shit.

[Grave]

Gloomy Bear is the shit.

I always liked them, but I was never really sold til I saw the Pandatone ones. Wish they had bigger ones like this... but at $10 it might be hard to resist grabbing at least another one.

[MechDeus]

B Grade production values, over -cluttered ui and over-complicated controls.
Shoddy graphics(looked like xbox 1.25)and no real clear objective or map system.

Since most of that isn't true I'm guessing space combat games in general just aren't for you. And your graphics comment is so hilariously off it's practically trolling in terms of complaints.

First off, play through the tutorial (yes, the whole thing). I use almost every single button and function in every mission, so it's not like the amount of stuff there isn't without a reason. Your objectives are the objects marked OB, kill all of those and you win.

StriderKyo: lol It's so true.

[Cowutopia]

So, so awesome. I had to drag myself away in order to do actual important things that have to be done this weekend.

I'd buy it but I still can't beat the demo.

[MechDeus]

I'd buy it but I still can't beat the demo.

To help make it easy: First off, press accelerate and decelerate together when the level begins, this makes your ship match the speed of your target so you can now ignore those buttons unless you need to catch up to someone. Now look on the screen for what resembles a baseball home plate icon with OB written in it. Aim your ship at that and press A twice (that targets whatever is closest to your reticle). The game will now automatically scroll through all your objective kills until you win. Congrats.

If you need to kill a large warship (I don't recall the exact level of the demo) once you get about five clicks away charge up a level 1 special (Y button). If that doesn't kill it then U-turn away (hold B then press up), wait until you're 5-6 clicks away, then U-turn back and do it again.



Those orange and red symbols like the one in the middle of the screen are what I'm referring to. If you're having a little trouble lining up warships on multiple runs you can padlock view (click in the right stick) and then press B+A which makes your ship automatically line up with the target.

[Othello Harrington]

My The Flash shirt says otherwise.

No, it really doesn't.



Nope.

Now THIS is a shirt bro.

[animegirl]

Picked up:

Re-Animator Special Edition DVD
The Films of Alejandro Jodorowasky DVD Set
Lamb of God- Ashes of the Wake CD
Dark Tower Comic issues 5&6
Marvel Zombies Collection (this was pretty awesome if a bit silly)