Genre : RPG ?
October 22, 2008
October 21, 2008
Shining Force NEO Review
Shining Force NEO stories began with Max as the central character, he lived quietly with his father and a childhood friend. But later some incident happened, his village attacked by monster that was supposedly has turned to stoned. Then "a men behind the mask" appear, later a fight between Max's father and this men can't be avoided. Moreover one them died in this battle and Max's journey starting from here.
Gameplay
In Shining Force Neo character equipment and skill take the most rule on the games. We will keep getting killed if we don't adjust our weapon and skill depended on situation we were. For example there are some weapon or skill that really effective on some monster but has no effect to another monster (Especially when fighting against golem type monster). So the main aspect in these games determined by your ability to customized your character (Max), for a little tips while playing this one don't just relying on one type weapon. I think at least there must be one type of weapon for range and melee attacks.
Master of Fantasy Review
Master of Fantasy considered 2D games, although this just use 2D graphic but this games has all basic elements for MMORPG games. Just like chat box(for broadcast,all,whisper,grub,circle), skill tab scroll, map, quest, status,etc. This game brought to Indonesia at beginning years of 2008 by Playon interactive.
Gameplay
There are 4 basic class in Master of Fantasy, they are : Fighter, Archer, Mage and Cleric. Later after reaching level 40, each class divided into 2 another class. For example for fighter class, after reach level 20 a fighter should be a gladiator. And in the level 40 they should choose one from Swordmaster or Knight, each has it's own unique ability. There also one unique featured that only this game had, they are proctor feature. A feature that allowed senior and junior relation between player, a senior player can gained experienced from junior player and the junior player can gain extra Libi(currency in MoF) from this proctor systems.
Other
For more detailed information about this games, visit it's official homepage at
Raycrisis Review
Genre : Shooting/Arcade
Digimon World 2 Review
Genre : Adventure/RPG
Prologue
Gameplay
On gameplay we will spent all most of our time to go around in dungeon by Digibeetle to find boss, key item or capture new digimon to be our partner. But this dungeon is not place for easy- fooling-around, if you're reckless you will end up in losing energy or Digibeetle HP so you can't even reach the boss floor before fighting it. Also Digimon World 2 using turn/phase system as it's main battle system just like common another RPG games, but there aren't random battle encounter in this one. So you can just avoid enemies to escaped from some meaningless battle.October 20, 2008
Grandia 3 Review
Genre : RPG
Prologue
Yuki is the main character in this games, he is boy who dreamed to flying in the sky by a plane. On some night while testing his plane design with his mother above the woods, some incident happened and accidentally he met with Alfina who want become communicator and looks for her big brother. Later both of them traveling together to find out what really happened to Alfina's big brother.Gameplay
Grandia 3 stories can be considered a short stories, but this weak spot good covered by nice dilemma between character. On battle system, I think Grandia is still in top position than other RPG with it's great graphic and unique battle systems. Also there are new combo system called aerial combo and regular feature on Grandia like magic and skill customization. But be careful, in Grandia 3 difficulty is can be considered hard (I think). Beginner RPG player maybe will get stress out for trying to beats the last boss.Front Mission 5 Review
Genre : Strategy
Prologue
Front Mission 5 stories begin with Walter and 2 of his best friends while they are still child. This 3 promised to gathered on city park on some day, while they are met at park for some reason many wanzer and any other milllitary unit appear on the city and began to attacking each other in those city. Commotion happened all around the town, and not so long after that a wanzer approaching this 3 child while still battling with other unit. Then some incident happened to Walter and of his friend. Walter stories later begin some years after those incident happened...Gameplay
On my personal opinion I think this is the most not easy version of Front Mission, considered there are limitation attack accuracy of arms, limited point for upgrading wanzer, etc. This where front mission 5 became really strategy game! We must considered many factor before attacking or countering enemies. Because I think there are no ultimate wanzer in this version though, but there something really-really new. Like bazooka or gattling gun weapon, character free recruitment system, arena mode (when you collect bounty that later for upgrading wanzer), survival mode (where we can find a new wanzer part), etc. But the most aspect I like is it's story, it's just reminds me about front mission 3 games. Where we travel from one place to another and progressing mission with some cool scene, like parachuting from plane or using boat to infiltrate enemy base. But the language this game I played actually a japan language so I'm not clear enough to understand about this version stories.Front Mission 4 Review
Prologue
Front Mission 4 game progress focused on 2 main characters, they are Darril and Elsa. Darril is a soldier that has duty for scouting on some area of South America, in other place Elsa is a wanzer pilot of Durandal (a wanzer research and test team from European Community (E.C.)). The stories begin with Elsa especially when unknowed forces attacking an E.C. German base not so long after Elsa joined Durandal. Although German government has already investigated this incident but Elsa knew if there was something didn't right about this incident. So Elsa with Durandal team decided to investigated this incident to find out the plot behind this attack.Gameplay
There are something new on this front mission battle system, so now we can't only depend on upgrade and battle skill while playing this game. There are new attack link and defend link system, where we can attack enemies together with our ally in one battle scene (just like Back Up Fire skill on Front Mission 3). This new thing make this game became not easy to play (but I think this is still easy than Front Mission 5), because not only on our side that can do linking attack but also the enemies too. So we can't be a Rambo with going alone with one wanzer and destroying all enemies (except on tutorial off course) in this 4th series. Also there are new type of backpack for this series, there are jamming, radio, and repair backpack. Jamming backpack used to jamming enemies wanzer systems, like making enemies unable to move or system down. Repair backpack specialized for repairing any wanzer part, and the most special one is radio backpack that can be used to call air support attack!Radiata Stories Review
Genre : RPG
Prologue
Another RPG by square enix, Radiata stories main character is Jack Russel a son of a heroes in radiata. The stories begin when Jack trying to be Knight of Radiata through it's exam. He was confident enough that he can passed those test with his current ability, but reality talk different he was totally beaten by ... (it's secret) but with some unreasonable reason at least he is being accepted to be a knight of radiata. His adventure continued from there...Gameplay
Battle system on radiata is easy to be understand, it's just like Star Ocean 2nd Story or Legend of Mana games. We control one character only on playing, while the other character will be automatically played by cpu. Although we can't control other character, but we can still give them a command. As addition There are 2 path on Radiata Stories : Human Path and non-Human Path, non-human path happened when you chose to chase Ridley and the other option will lead to human path.October 19, 2008
Phantasy Star Universe Review
Genre : Action
Prologue
A great sample of an action game by SEGA, on this game we play as Ethan Waber who live in era where human civilization has greatly advancing and live in another galaxy called Gurhal Systems. In these Gurhal Systems there are a sun surrounded by 3 planet, each planet resided by a kind of human race. They are CAST, Newman, and Beastman. After a long wars between this 3 planets finally an era of peace was born. But after arround 100years era of peace a new threat has occurs on gurhal systems and this is where the Ethan Waber stories began.Gameplay
Weapon Variety
Wild Arms 4th Detonator Review
Genre : RPG
Prologue
Wild Arms 4th Detonator main charracter is a boy called Jude Maverick who lives and raised in a hidden village, this village actually was mechanical object that keep flying on the sky and has stealth ability. But someday this hidden village was founded by some group of people who seek ARMs that being keep in this place. Then a little conflict happened but at least the ARMs called Shapeshifter has been saved and take Jude as it's host. But due to Jude's lack ability of controlling ARMs situation became more complicated especially when main mechanical part of this village damaged. In the end this village can't be saved and all villager must escaped from this village at once by emergency pod. This is where Wild Arms 4 stories really began, where Jude finding out what happened to the outer world really are..Gameplay
Wild arms 4th Detonator served a new different battle systems, as subtitute an old battle systems they use hex battle systems. Actually it's very unique but can make a battle really difficult especially when a player careless. Also there are some special team attack, when Jude and his friends combined their attack together. But actually feature that I can remembered well is an ability to turn off random encounter in some area around save point. This is really useful when you getting bored by encounter monster and do meaningless battle.September 28, 2008
Audition AyoDance Playing Guide
HOW TO PLAY
GAMES MODE
Until this latest patch, there are already many variety games mode that has been developed in Audition Ayo Dance, but in this blog I will write as far I can remembered :*Practice Mode, there are 2 mode : 1 for each dynamic mode.
*Freestyle Mode, mode where you can freely choose move from all available move for freestyle.
*Dynamic Mode, Just like dance competition but there are freestyle section included on it.
*Synch Mode, mode that can only be played in team. Where majority synchronization of perfect determined the score.
*Crazy Dance, extension of dance competition where the move level up to level 11 (Very not recommended for beginner XD).
*Couple Dance, a pair mode. Played as a team each team with different gender of player.
*Club Dance, just like couple dance mode but we can choose our partner later in game-play. (P.S. There are new club mode in this latest patch)
*Ballroom , just exactly like couple dance mode but with different music, move and customization.
*B-Boy Mode, usually played as a team mode. Played by memorizing the opponent freestyle moves to counter. But in the new B-Boy Battle player divided into leader and sub player, also move level had been improved.
*Battle Party, mode where you can earning "den" by defeating NPC. (P.S. den are currency in Audition)
*1-2 Party, mode where you must memorizing npc move and it's timing.
*Story Mode, common story mode for increasing fame or reputation.
-Battle Party-
For more information, download Client and Patch,etc. You can go to it's Official Website at http://www.ayodance.com/
September 13, 2008
Grandia 2 Review
Genre : RPG
Prologue
Gameplay
Feature
Digimon World Review
Genre : Adventure
Brigandine
Some feature of Brigandine in example like : monster leveling up and evolving (master level in lv.30), skill & evolving customization, etc
September 11, 2008
A Little Knowledge About Games
This is some missing part that I had forgotten, thanks to my friend "Nisa" who remind me about this.
-Console : On my opinion console is just like a main part of a games, it's just like an engine for a car. Console read data from disk or cd or whatever it is and be main systems of games it's self. Some of popular console just like : Playstation 2, Sega Dreamcast, XBox, Game Boy, etc.
-Genre : Genre is just like variety of type games it's self.
For Example:
*RPG (Role Playing Games) : Characteristic on RPG, usually player must play around 20-50 hour to finished the games and also basically there are battle transition (random battle encounter,etc) while playing. RPG it's self considered a games type that focused on story. So don't blame this kind of games if you stuck playing or got bad endings, because you never read the text or conversation between character. Some games title that considered kind of RPG just like : Final Fantasy XII, Grandia 2, Star Ocean 2nd Story, etc
* Adventure : Adventure type games maybe just like an RPG, but it is more focused on preparation just like you are going to hiking or something ( I could write like this because on RPG sometimes we can defeat the final boss just with high level charracter! but in adventure usually wee keep gotten killed while not bringing enough supported item) . Preparation that I mean like continous support item, upgradeable weapon or any key item that you need for surviving and keep progressing the game. Example games for Adventure type : Alundra 2, Digimon World, etc.
*Action : Action game mainly focused on style or technique, maybe we can say just like action film. Also usually at first play it's hard to control due to it's complex button (many combination) but I think all people still can handle it while games progress. Some of Action games category for example : Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid, etc.
*There are still many other variety of type games just like Racing, Fighting, Shooting, Simulation, Strategy, etc.
September 1, 2008
About Grathmeld
Grathmeld is a word I found from games called Ar-Tonelico, it's like a technic / procedure to create new item with recipe and some materials. I never thought that I can use this word as a blog address before, because I think this word maybe has already used by other people. But looks like I still have a little-luck, still has chance to get two different address in blogspot.com that I like (Escalario and Grathmeld).
Content on this blog is focused on games that I had played, and majority for a game that I had been finished. Any pictures that uploaded in this blog is source from photograph from any media I found (just like cd cover, poster, etc). But I'm still not stupid enough to take a photo from monitor of TV or computer, because it's refresh rate will had a bad effect for pictures quality of my Nokia E50 camera phone.
Atelier Iris 3 Grand Phantasm Review
Atelier Iris 3 has many uncommon featured, in example : burst mode, character customize mode, item creation through alchemy, etc. Altough the graphic just 2D but this RPG still has a good composition.
August 31, 2008
Arc The Lad 3 Review
Genre : RPG/Strategy
Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere Review
Genre : Simulation
August 30, 2008
Alundra 2 Review
Genre : Adventure
August 28, 2008
Tomba 2 Review
Genre : Adventure/Platform
Prologue
Gameplay
August 26, 2008
Front Mission 3 Review
Genre : Strategy
Eternal Eyes Review
Genre : Strategy
Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories Review
Genre : Strategy
August 25, 2008
Chocobo Dungeon 2 Review
Genre : Adventure
Breath of Fire 4 Hint, Bug and Review
Genre : RPG
Review
Breath of Fire 4 has a unique feature like faeries village development and master feature. Master feature allowed any character to study under a master and they will received bonus status effect for which master they are studied. Faeries village development allowed player to develop faeries village to get supported item/skill/etc in that used later in battle.
Hint
About BoF4 Breath Attack : Breath attack damage usually very depend on HP , so this is very helpful when you fight again Last Boss or any Breath attack monster. For example when you fight again Last Boss their Breath attack damage gradually will drop each time you made a damaged on them. When the damage of Breath attack totally meaningless it can be used for indicator that their HP already in low condition and you should finished them off!About Faeries Charge : Faeries skill (Faeries Attack, Faeries Breath & Faeries Charge) are very depending on number of faery and level of barrack, I don't know how opinion of another gamer about this skill. But that I know Faeries Charge is the best skill for finishing off final boss. Okay lets get to the Point, Faeries skill AP consumption are very large (on my opinion) than any other skill. But there are some item/skill( I totally forgot) that cut AP consumption, or in another way equip faeries skill to any charracter with high CP (high CP = high AP restoration). Okay, one problem solved! next is how to efficient the damage of Faeries Charge. Just like I mention in text above, for final battle you should use all faeries and make sure all of your barrack reach max level (lv.20) . For addition note: if you has set into like this, don't ever come back to faeries village. I don't want accept any complain if there are any faeries on your was village died!. Okay next is how to do this in the actual battle, "Just use it on last combo! with the same type of attack." so it can be triple damage (1 base damage plus 2 bonus combo damage) for each faery. I can't count how many total damage but I think it's really effective.
Bug
I don't know this is bug or not, but this work well in BoF4 on playstation. With this you can earn high exp in each monster (max. 256000 exp, I think). You only need equip skill burn and frost (but I think Scias already has frost) to charracter with low magic power. 1st Step Find a monster in the Ruin where all the dragon meet with Ryu (After Deis came out from the Ershin and reside in girls body), the monster shape just like armor equiped with dual gun (I forgot it's name). 2nd Step cast burn or combo this burn with sever if there are more than 1 of those monster (but I think this monster will died if your magic power are high enough) , after being hit by fire elemental magic this monster will change shape! This is where it'll starting works. Take a look on monster detailed , experienced gained from this monster will increase twice each times it's tranformed into other shape. Then to change their shape into original state just hit them with water elemental magic. 3rd Step If their HP low, use Nina Healing technique on them! you should do this cycle until reach it's maximum experienced you can gained (around 256000) then kill it! This should very helping so much on levelling up a character or all party charracter. If you want to concentrate on 1 charracter just use monopolize skill! Monopolized can be gained from Marlock.August 24, 2008
Gunbound Review
genre : Shooting