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I, GARLAND, WILL KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN Seriously though there's no way I can pass up playing as Garland, when I was really young I had an NES with like 8 games. I played FF1 all the time, but I was very young and therefore stupid so I always got stuck on Marsh Cave and ended up restarting, so I got to see Garland quite a bit and grew rather fond of that line. They should totally make a direct sequel to FF1 with Garland as the main villain, maybe then i would actually play another FF game.

Saber's crap would be a lot less lame if A) it didn't look so dumb and B) there weren't a billion "omfg <3 Saber" people that might homogenize the played characters ratio into boringness with her like Slash Ky and Sol. Not that there's anything wrong with people liking Saber, but having to constantly see her and those dumb OTG relaunch combos would make the game far less interesting IMO. That said Gilgamesh looks as fun and annoying as ever, but I still want Caster's master.

I really like that FDC jK JC j2K > land > etc combo in that video, I don't think I've seen it before. I'm having trouble doing it consistently, but that's probably just because I suck and often do dumb shit like FDC so low the jK can't even come out. Also how is Faust's normal throw range compared to other characters? I feel dumb for not knowing after playing Faust for so long, but I guess since I also play Dizzy I just assumed it was less than hers (like most everyone else) and didn't really think about it. One more thing, if the opponent is getting used to blocking FDC jK mixups, sometimes I like to just FDC > land > command grab. it seems stupid, but it works sometimes.

I think I'm going to play Gilgamesh because he looks like a bitch.

So yet another Fate/Stay Night fighting game and Soichiro Kuzuki still isn't in it. He was easily my favorite character, even though he wasn't in it that much. What really annoys me though is that Caster is playable, even though Soichiro did pretty much all the fighting for her. Oh well, maybe someday they'll make a 2D F/SN fighting game like Melty Blood and finally include him.

If by some miracle they manage to get Evangelion in there, I would pay a blood sacrifice of 10,000 starving, abused orphans to play as Gendou. Especially if he played a lot like old Slayer (i.e. minus the silly new air combos). Also they should definitely use somebody from Daddy Long Legs because the art is hideous and it has nothing to do with fighting.

I mostly play multiple characters because I have no local competition and instead have to pass the time by learning combos and stuff in training mode for as many people as I can rather than wasting my existence raping the CPU with my one character. Also in most games the character I want to play is hard to use or shitty (Dizzy, Lieselotte, Len), so I end up also playing a better/easier character (Faust, Fiona, Warachia) to make up for me sucking at fighting games. I wish Arcana Heart 2 was out, I really want to try Petra V_V

I always felt like Heart was too awkward to be as beginner-friendly as so many people seem to think she is. Saki seems to be way easier to use, possibly the easiest in the entire game. I dunno, I'm actually finding it quite difficult to play very many characters in AH because so many of them rely on some variation of "trip > homing cancel 6 > catch > combo > ect." like Saki does. I can use Fiona, Lieselotte, and Saki, but every time I even try experimenting with most of the other characters I can't seem to stop trying to do Saki's IAD combo stuff.

So did Japan find Slash kind of boring as well and that's why Accent Core came out so fast? I liked Slash a lot when it was the newest game out, but now that AC is around I don't really want to touch Slash again.

How well does the love arcana work out for most people? I've been using it with Fiona and it seems pretty nice with all the lasers and whatnot. Most people seem to use fire for Fiona, which makes sense for the good fireballs and unblockables, but IMO it's a little boring and looks kind of stupid. I suppose that's not the best reason to not use something in a fighting game, but whatever. Needz moar lazuas, *pew* *pew* *pew*

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Run at him like you're going to attack but don't. He'll probably then do the charge burst, but you will have dodged/blocked it and will be free to beat his ass with something like a combo into RC pogo > etc. for 50% damage. If he eventually learns not to charge burst and just keeps charging then you can mix things up by attacking/throwing an item/etc. and he'll learn not to use it unsafely like that. Or he'll just keep doing it and you'll get free combos

Whoa... last time I saw a tier list for this game (November?) Lieselotte was at the very bottom. What happened?

Does anyone know a good way to combo into Gamma Ray? Not that it's a good idea or anything, I was just curious, and it could be amusing to end a match with it in casuals or something.

Oh, thanks. I guess I already knew she wasn't great, but it's still kind of depressing to see it all spelled out like that ;_;

Did Dizzy ever get done? I don't recall seeing it, but then I was on vacation recently so I might have missed it somewhere.

just out of curiosity, what happened with the IK mode activation against Ky?

Does anyone actually use the bomb bag FRC? I'm sure it could be useful on a rare occasion, but it seems like one of the goofiest FRC additions ever and a waste of tension that could be used more efficiently. Although I would love to see someone pull off something crazy with it, just for fun. haha, no, I'm just a shitty scrub from Indiana. Youmacon was an anime convention near Detroit that had a small tournament with nothing but other scrubs who were even worse than me. It was still fun though.

I was in a tournament at Youmacon a few weeks ago and had to fight a Chipp. I landed 6HS > pogo RC > etc. on him in the corner with a fairly built up guard gauge, and the look on his face was priceless as he watched 75% or more of his life bar disappear. Apparently he had never seen that combo before, and it seemed to have shook him up so bad that he started more or less turtling for the rest of the series, giving me a free win. It was epic lulz.

IMO the best practice you can do outside of training mode (or fighting another human) is vs. CPU on Maniac. Granted it's not the same as fighting a person and cannot really be considered matchup experience, but it will allow you to face the AI at its maximum difficulty right away, rather than wasting time with Survival and arcade mode's pathetically easy first rounds and cheap, unrealistic later rounds. Throw in survival mode's regenerating health system and you are probably better off with vs. CPU's more realistic match conditions. Not that you can't mess around with the other modes every now and then, they just don't really provide the best sort of challenge and conditions for improving. Plus in vs. CPU you can choose exactly who to fight, so if you want to pracrice against the entire cast you have that option as well. One thing I do sometimes when I am bored is to go into vs CPU and just play against all the characters in order, moving on to the next one when I have cleanly beat my current opponent 2 or 3 times in a row.

needz moar indiana. I have sad me V_V

what's the timing like on the j.D>j.2K? I can never seem to do it, the j.D just smacks them to the ground before I can get the j.2K to come out ;_;

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but at the main welcome page with the dustloop/sidewinder sign image, the title bar still says slash. It's not a big deal, but with Accent Core already out on consoles and a US release on the horizon it seems about time to fix that. But whatever, trivial details, blah blah blah.

Is there anything safe you can do after blocked 2H? I really, really don't like the removal of the 2H>2D gatling, I used it all the time and now that it's gone I pretty much just die. Sometimes I can gatling into fish summon relatively safely but generally it just seems like she lost a good, fairly safe pressure string.

I like this man's style. What's the matchup like against Faust? I have often heard that it is in Baiken's favor, but when I play my friend I seem to have little trouble with the match, especially since Baiken's defense is so low and 2D > pogo combos on light characters.