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Speaking of Wind Charl, how the hell do you beat her with Kira? I understand that beating zoners is eternal weak point of grapplers, but I think that there is some Arcana that can make it easier, I just don't know which one it is. It doesn't help that I use Thunder and most of Charl's moves are unclashable.

And Masamune Date is an eyeball, yeah. At least it takes place in a different world.

The action doesn't matter that much to me, it's all about throwing the classical history out of the window and making it into a game that's actually fun. And yeah, you can always skip the H-content in eroge, but it's harder to do it in anime.

This is basically Chinese Sengoku Basara, but with girls. Was never interested in it, but this may be the last drop that will encourage me to try the original game.

My reverse trap fetish desires more abominations, but with Valk's body.

Big Sight for the best fighting game stage of 2011! So, people actually judge the game from a one-minute long camera video? Oh come on. At least wait for some coverage of better quality.

I'm feeling about the same, as the only way I can play the game right now is by visiting my friend and playing his copy. At least I'll be able to earn some money to finally buy a PS3 soon.

Again, having one blue mage doesn't mean that we'll never get more. Have more faith in their character designers.

But it doesn't even have a face while she fights.

Characters sharing roles in Dissidia is nothing new, we already have mages, swordsmen, brawlers, sharpshooters, and many others. Reposting some stuff: http://community.livejournal.com/ffchaoticcosmos/320363.html http://community.livejournal.com/ffchaoticcosmos/320562.html Apparently, Chaos is now playable, and Gilgamesh is a blue mage.

He still has that flash, yeah. But I'm not even paying attention to it, and the way I've learned his combos is by sheer practice (and I still have problems with his ground combo into Ultimate Jecht Shot). Basically, you need to press the button once right after the last hit of the combo link. So, if you're doing it in the air, you press O after the second kick, then after the last drill hit (fourth one if you don't charge it, I think), then you may press Square right after the sword combo, but before Jecht deals his Brave finishing blow. It's much easier when you have the rhythm in your head: it's something like O, half a second, O, a full second, O, another second, Square.

Hum, I'm fine with Gil being the Shrodinger-Fu fighter of the game, Kefka is not as random as I wanted him to be, though still fun. Prishe doesn't sound that original, maybe because I'm used to combos in my fighting games. Well, as long as she's similar to Jecht, it's all good.

Don't act like you don't like Jam's Ball Buster.

Jecht could always charge his attacks for more hits and increased damage (in fact, the only attack he couldn't charge is Jecht Block). It's just that it took you so much time that it was never worth it. But now the charge time is much shorter (and the length of Jecht's initial dash is better, I think), so you can mix up regular and charged combos to confuse your opponent. Oh, and don't forget that charged Brave attacks break guard, so that's one way less out of his mix-up. That laser attack is Jecht Beam, and its range is not as great as you may think. If anything, I'd compare it with Zidane's Free Energy: he also has lots of Brave-to-HP links and also needed a quick HP attack before. But in Jecht's case, it's useless in his combos (not dealing any Brave damage at all), so the only time you will use it is when you must break opponent's guard, but don't have enough time to charge your Brave combo... which doesn't happen that often. Or you may just surprise your opponent who didn't know about Jecht's new-found instant damage.

But he always had it... And I'm not sure why Exdeath is considered UP. He always seemed like one of the most powerful characters if your timing is right, simply because some characters don't even have an attack that can break through Omni Guard. Maybe it's just that no one bothers to learn his timing.

Well, it comes with a pre-release DLC, so why not?

My short opinions on the demo: - Jecht is as great as ever, and his Jecht Beam is a really quick HP attack that he required before. No reason to do it in his combos, though. - Tifa is a beast and one of the only characters I've lost to. Both her HP and Brave attacks are extremely hard to both dodge and block, pretty much the only way you can beat it is hit-and-run. Certainly looking forward to picking her to make my brawler roster more diverse. - From the moves I could see in her assists and on Bartz, Yuna is flashy as hell, with summons going out of magic circles and covering the screen in fire and ice and stuff. I kinda wonder about the way her moves work with each other, though. A worthy addition from one of my favorite FFs. - Some of the new moves and reworks of old characters are borderline hilarious. I had to pause the game when Kefka started moving during Missing Zero just to say "WTF SQUARE?". - The assist system is nice and grows with your skill as you find more uses for it. I'm kinda sad that they had to nerf EX modes by making EX cores smaller and tweaking EX mode activation during hit stun. My Gabranth got more hatred to drive him. Overall, the game is still both fun and rage-worthy if you play against an unfair PC. I can totally see myself spending another 300 hours on it. Looking forward for Priche, Gilgamesh and Yuna news.

I so totally don't see where did that come from Trying different Arcanas for Kira, and I kinda like how Thunder works on her (clash frames on grabs, woo-hoo!). I haven't tried Metal yet, but the latter does seem to fulfill the same goals more efficiently. Which is probably why I will never try it.

Do also note the new space stage. I thought that you can only fight Galactus on it, but I was apparently wrong.

You mean he doesn't look like Freddy in his regular state, even though his design was inspired by him?

Why do Cap, Dante and Thor have the same face on that pic?

...But blue doesn't work like that.

...Yeah, that's what I said.

Apparently, the remaining two characters are cameo characters from 5pb (and Nitroplus) VNs: Sakihata Rimi from ChaoS;HEAd and Makise Kurisu from Steins;Gate. While I'm happy about that as a fan of both respective VNs, I'm not sure that Christina fits the fighting game genre. At least she seems to be using the gadgets from Okarin's lab. And, well, announcing cameo characters before showing us any gameplay footage?

...Shouldn't this thread go to the misc fighters forum? Or is it only for gameplay discussion? Another thank you for all this goodness. It's much easier to find easter eggs this way.