Umineko Fighter [Ougon Musou Kyoku]

[Jergo]

Melty Heart Phantasia looks pretty good to me :D

Seriously, I like it! If it'll be buyable I'll support the devs

[furix]

I am still amazed at how fitting the music from the novel is for the fighting game. :3

And after seeing more EVA-BEATRICE in game, I kinda wanna use her more now too. Thing is, I always liked her design wise, but ugh! Such hateful personality. :[

[Cirno]

Yessss music choices are wonderful so far. Also confirmed two character slots? I'm gonna assume Jessica and George, Lambda and Bern (who might be a boss character duo, making it more likely), or what I'd hope for the most,

Erika and Dlanor

(hoping for the latter rather than the former, though the former would play pretty baller as well).

[J-KT21]

The woman summoning that huge flying sword seems totally broken.

Seeing this, I want ArkSys to make 2D background sceneries for BlazBlue. This games is much more appealing visually, which makes me go .

Edited November 25, 2010 by J-KT21

[Mightfo]

The woman summoning that huge flying sword seems totally broken.

you must have missed the fact that the guy was trying to show off the butler's evade and kept stopping right under it instead of running forward

it looks really easy if you blocked it once and then keep running.

Dashes do seem too slow, though.

[Kuuhaku]

It looks like he was trying to do something with Shanon too, but decided that doing it with Ronove was easier.

[Hecatom]

And what is it?

it means when someone can jump at an arch for an instant overhead. Their jump looks like a triangle, an example of this is magneto on mvc2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdZBPEd5W8

now, the term triangle jump can be also used for wall jumps like chun or vega on sf, in this case i guess that they mean the later

Edited November 26, 2010 by Hecatom

[STenSatsu]

Ugh, few too many pauses for me. If they took out the EX move pauses it'd be sweet. Lot of talking too but I can deal with that.

[SoWL]

More observations!

- There is a fourth Touch option called Defense Touch. It costs two stocks of your Reserve character's SP gauge and switches characters even in block stun. It also halves your Break Limit gauge and gives one SP stock to the character you switch out.

- Virgilia's Brimful ability allows your Attacker to build his own SP gauge, without having to deal with all the switching.

And a theory about secret characters:

- They are not secret, they're added with the patches which come with EP8 and Tsubasa to encourage the sales. Both of those patches add characters which are relevant to the game they come with, so it's almost impossible to guess the character from EP8.

[Hecatom]

about the aditional chars, from the trailer i actually believe that there are only 3 and not 4 because one of the free slots doesnt have a number on it, but who knows

[J-KT21]

you must have missed the fact that the guy was trying to show off the butler's evade and kept stopping right under it instead of running forward

it looks really easy if you blocked it once and then keep running.

Dashes do seem too slow, though.

I did see his attempt for the evade trick. But I guess you're right, probably the dash speed that seems horrendously slow. That gave me the impression that she could zone all day and that she was unapproachable. My bad.

[Cirno]

You shouldn't use the red so hastily, SoWL. You wouldn't want to cause a logic error.

[Tachyons]

More observations!

- There is a fourth Touch option called Defense Touch. It costs two stocks of your Reserve character's SP gauge and switches characters even in block stun. It also halves your Break Limit gauge and gives one SP stock to the character you switch out.

- Virgilia's Brimful ability allows your Attacker to build his own SP gauge, without having to deal with all the switching.

Guard Touch costs 1 stock for the incoming partner. But yeah it halves the guard bar.

[SoWL]

You shouldn't use the red so hastily, SoWL. You wouldn't want to cause a logic error.

But you've already done it in the first post, with so many spoilers around etc. We have nothing to lose by now.

I see that the devs spend a lot of effort to demonstrate how easy it is to punish Gungnir. I guess it does look overpowered, with all its reach and powerful-looking fireworks, but it's still blockable, and people will stop spamming it as soon as it stops scaring people.

I've also just noticed that they characters have unique voices for switching with characters: Shannon calls Ronove by his name before doing the regular Touch.

Guard Touch costs 1 stock for the incoming partner. But yeah it halves the guard bar.

But Evatrice lost two stocks after Virgilia does Guard Touch at 1:30.

[HiagoX]

And a theory about secret characters:

- They are not secret, they're added with the patches which come with EP8 and Tsubasa to encourage the sales. Both of those patches add characters which are relevant to the game they come with, so it's almost impossible to guess the character from EP8.

I doubt it's a character from EP8, but it may be added with a patch.

[Tachyons]

Eva almost had three, but really she tagged in with two; Virgilia tagged out with three. The partner comes in with the number of whole stock filled. So if you almost had three, you'll come in with two, and the 'almost filled up bar' will be carried to the switched out partner. Notice after the switch Eva is left with one, and Virgilia has three with a nearly filled fourth stock.

Another Guard Touch moment is on :58 Ronove switching to Shannon.

[HiagoX]

Just watched the gameplay videos 2, 3 and 4.

The game looks pretty fun, and it's nice to have the seiyuus used in the anime. Now on another note, it seems you can interrupt the opponent's Metafield activation. Moreover, you can try activating again after being interrupted. Also, you can use your Metafield Super at least twice.

How does Metafield work, anyway?

EDIT: Just took another look at the latest video, it seems like you waste 2 super bars to reactivate Metafield after being interrupted. May be wrong, though.

Edited November 26, 2010 by HiagoX

[SoWL]

Eva almost had three, but really she tagged in with two; Virgilia tagged out with three. The partner comes in with the number of whole stock filled. So if you almost had three, you'll come in with two, and the 'almost filled up bar' will be carried to the switched out partner. Notice after the switch Eva is left with one, and Virgilia has three with a nearly filled fourth stock.

Ah, so that's how it works. Makes sense, as we've never seen an Attacker with half-filled SP bar. Nice catch.

Meta-Field grants you both of your character's abilities, allows you to use their Meta-Field supers and serves as a cancel. Everything about it is listed in the OP post by now.

[HiagoX]

Oh, I apologize for not paying attention to the OP.

[Hiroshi]

Lucifer is sexy.

Just to have them all listed at one place:

Battler - Resurrection: Recover HP over time
Beatrice - InfinitySP: Specials do not consume SP
Ange - StunBoost: Increase Stun damage and duration
Lucifer - AttackTouch: Use AttackTouch without using the Touch gauge
Shannon - AutoGuard: Guard automatically if possible
Kanon - SilentAttack: Decrease enemy SP gain through your attacks
Virgilia - Brimful: Recover SP over time
Ronove - CounterBoost: Increase counter damage
Eva Beatrice - Berserk: Increase damage inflicted
Siesta410 - BreakBoost: Increase Guard Break damage

Will probably translate some system stuff that is on the page now later. Edited November 26, 2010 by Hiroshi

[RadRed]

That's a mighty nice looking combo, if I do say so myself.

Definitely made me want to use the Ange/Lucifer team more.

[SoWL]

There is also a Meta-World video, which looks pretty damn awesome, too.

It also has Endless Nine as the BGM, so my life is now complete.

Judging by that Lucifer combo, one life bar equals to about 3000 damage. And there is yet another Touch option we haven't seen in action yet.

[George Costanza]

Beatrice - InfinitySP: Specials do not consume SP

Kanon - SilentAttack: Decrease enemy SP gain through your attacks

derp

Also this picture accurately describes that metaworld video

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Death_Note_In_A_Nutshell.jpg

Anybody know how the whole thing works though. Are the special abilities only active in the metaworld? If not then what is the metaworld for?

[Tachyons]

SoWL, mind if you can confirm something?

Apparently, zts and dai were the ones playing on gameplay video 4....ON NETPLAY!

http://twitter.com/zts_czl

Notice the 1P select screen and then they go to 2P side in the match. Also take note the text at the bottom of the character select and blank screen.

[SoWL]

Anybody know how the whole thing works though. Are the special abilities only active in the metaworld? If not then what is the metaworld for?

Meta-Field grants you both of your character's abilities, allows you to use their Meta-Field supers and serves as a cancel. Everything about it is listed in the OP post by now.

There is another way of gaining abilities, and that is by doing the regular Touch.

SoWL, mind if you can confirm something?

Apparently, zts and dai were the ones playing on gameplay video 4....ON NETPLAY!

http://twitter.com/zts_czl

Notice the 1P select screen and then they go to 2P side in the match. Also take note the text at the bottom of the character select and blank screen.

Yeah, I was pretty sure that it's netplay, because we couldn't see the second player's team until the match started. And I wouldn't put it past them to simply have fun and then upload it as a gameplay video. I just wonder whether they had some kind of guidelines or scenario to follow during the match (like trying to show a way to pass through Lia's spear spam).

Edited November 26, 2010 by SoWL