You folks are a varitable wealth on knowledge on these games, thanks.
I’m going to try and bring ReACT to a GGXX tourney next month, and if possible I’ll save every replay and show it to you guys. It’s just for fun mind you, but we’ll see.
Those who go to EVO: if you make an EFZ/ReACT tourney please record your games.
So how will I find you people at Evolution? I just realized that it’s already Wednesday.
snicker AHAHAHAHA!!! Like there’s gonna be enough interested people for a tourney. Though I certainly wouldn’t mind being proven wrong. Come and play ReAct people!
Seriously though I plan to record matches, I wonder if the replays will turn out all right though. Replays involving the comp get messed up but will it happen with two players? My comp isn’t good enough to record movies either.
I’ll probably cough up the $20 to go to the BYOC room on Friday, still not sure about the day. But if there’s a free area with a ton of people, I’ll be there instead. I’ll do the VMan thing, I’ll walk around with a 8x11 paper on my backpack that says “Looking for ReAct players.” 
My sign ruled
It should be enough to make replay files with the matches, is that too heavy for your CPU?
I’m not knocking the sign. It worked, I ran into you at AX because of that sign. So I’ll just steal the idea.
I can make standard rpd files of course. It’s just I can’t do something like running Hypercam while playing, my fps will drop to ~10, ouch. I’m bringing my one ps2 controller/adapter (hope there are people who bring theirs) and a tv out cable. If there’s a free tv, I’m so using it. ^^
Oh, I didn’t feel that you were knocking it 
Although to be honest I felt weird when carrying the sign in the beginning. I got some weird looks since not many people knows what is EFZ or ReACT ^^;;
Replay files should do it. No image quality loss, and saves a lot of bandwidth.
Here’s hoping you run into some folks who enjoy the game, maybe even Buktooth!
I have a stupid question, is there a timing issue to connecting Satsuki’s grab supers one after another? Or is it just me being stupid?
Satsuki’s grab range is very nice. If the person is anywhere near that arm, they will be grabbed. The only thing I can imagine going wrong is trying to use the ground grab to catch someone in the air or vice versa.
Yo linalys, where did you get the pic in your av? Is that Melty Blood fan art?
Kind of a last minute post… since I probably won’t get a reply before I leave for Evo in about an hour.
Will anyone have this in the BYOC area at Evo? I’ll be looking, if that’s the case. It’ll be fun to actually play some people instead of just practicing combos in training. _
For those of you interested in the Tsukihime anime now, don’t be. Here’s my review…
I had heard about Shingetsutan Tsukihime and its fantastic characters, music, and plot awhile back. I downloaded the entire show and finally got to watching all of it. Tsukihime sadly bears only but one of the aforementioned, the music. This is the type of anime that I simply do not understand how it gets any credit at all and I truly do believe it to be one of the most boring events in my life.
This show is a tale of vampires, love, and betrayal. This show is also about a terrible story, poorly navigated plot, anemic characters, and bland visuals. There is not a single redeemable quality about this show aside from the orchestration performed by Toshiyuki O’mori. The music is so good in contrast to the rest of the show that it makes you wonder how the pair got so mismatched, this show is dull and listless. The story can be summed up in a paltry speckling of words: uninteresting, unoriginal, and boring. The only way to save a production that has a weak or seemingly simple story is to back it up with a brilliant plot, storytelling, or characters. The highest praise I can give Tsukihime is that it failed miserably.
The characters were all indolent, lame, and they so closely resembled Gregorian monks in their outgoing and expressive attitudes that I thought they were going to kneel to the ground and begin to chant a hymn at any given moment. If I wanted characters this boring I would go to a local monastery, wrangle a couple of them up, and write them into a script; they would still be more entertaining than Tsukihimes cast. The dialogue is standard but through the lack of activity on the screen it becomes a trifled meandering of failed character interaction. The only amusements I got from the show were the occasions when Ciel would make her gallant appearance as Super-Nun and cast a weapon into the ground, more than likely from a light post ( her apparent perch of preference ), closest to her victim who was to fall susceptible to her boredom and complete lack of reason of being in the story, excluding a tack on plot point. Until the very end of the show the character remains pointless, an amazing feat really that they werent even able to accidentally tie her more successfully into this blundering of a story. The other amusement was the beauty of Arucreid that apparently is so great that a passerby would be instantly stunned and would be rendered completely immobile, or was that the two dollar budget? The world of Tsukihime is stagnant and filled with statues in place of people. The sound effects are also laughably bad due to the fact someone thinks the sound of water balloon exploding sounds like a knife entering someones body.
The artwork and animation in Tsukhime is barely standard. Only for brief moments are there scenes comprised of more than a handful of frames leaving every action with unbridled lackluster and a complete avoidance to setting up any type of believable or coherent atmosphere. Its a peculiarity to actually find the characters simply moving in this show. The fights display poor choreography and feature only slightly more movement than the sluggish pace of the rest of the show leading you to believe that you are actually watching the natural progression of the life of a snail. You would suspect that the money not spent on the animation went to the backgrounds, sadly no. The backgrounds are rarely more than solid flat walls, streets, or shades of blue truly giving you the impression that you are on the moon with only rocks to entertain. I am not even going to go into the absurd knife fights that take place.
Every episode of this show seems like a poor side story to another show that wasnt quite good in itself. The story moves at a speed that seems to be moving backwards. This show could have been completed around episode 5. There simply isnt much to talk about. I never had the feeling of suspense, beauty, romance, intrigue, or the apparently elusive entertainment that Tsukihime was never able to find. A single episode of Pokemon is more fulfilling than this show. If you by chance happen to get the sudden urge to download episode one to see what the fuss is about by all means do so. If you dont like episode one you wont like the rest of the show, because the rest of the show is just as entertaining, the story isnt worth being told, and the characters might as well have lied on their backs for the entire duration of the show. If this show was meant to be a comedy I certainly would have given a better review for not taking itself seriously. If I could give this show a lower review I would but the music managed to round this show to a 3. This show is barely a 2.
As Arucrieds departing words, Bye-bye, faded into the oblivion known as Tsukihime I couldn’t help but smile as the worst days of my life were over.
For those of you who want to tell me that the original story for Tsukihime is great, and inherently the TV show is as well by some mysterious circumstance, no. This TV is horrible and what ever “greatness” may have inspired it has been done a great disservice, boo… simply boo…
Any peson who knows about Tsukihime agrees that Shingetsutan Tsukihime does not compare to the original game at all.
Even the people who created the anime doesn’t seem to like it either.
It is important to make a clarification: Shingetsutan Tsukihime IS NOT Tsukihime. The anime is just a very superficial adaptation of HALF the story of the original Tsukihime, not counting Plus-Disc, Kagetsu Tohya, nor the Melty Blood games.
The anime itself is not bad, if you don’t consider what it is based on. It is not the kind of thing that will appeal to people who expect action anime. It is based on a visual novel, so how can you expect much action?
Character matchup update:
Hisui 5 : 5 Ren
Hisui 4 : 6 Kohaku
Hisui 4 : 6 Ciel
I thought Shingetsutan Tsukihime was one of the best animes of 2003 (behind Scrapped Princess) but as an adaptation of the Tsukihime game, it was absolute garbage.
WTF? Why would anyone play with just Hisui?
It’s Tsukihime fanart. =p
I think Hisui deserves an advantage just because she’s the ONLY person who can (sorta) get away with jumping in on Ren while she has 100% circuit. Stupid EX Ice Blade… One of the 3 things Ren has going for her.
Edit: Forgot the link. ttp://www.geocities.com/linalys/2004_6.jpg
I think Ciel can also attack ren when ren has energy(unless she is crouching… but everyone stands up consciously when you jump in) Ciel’s air qcb+ex doesn’t have recovery when you cancel it into airjump or back airdash.
Anime was cool. Sorta. Pretty good for a fighting game adoptation, not good for a visual novel port. What’s with ciel’s spear anyway?
I suppose it was a way to save money. Animating the Seventh Holy Script would take a lot more resources and time. Banquo couldn’t stop giggling whenever the artists talked about changes in the Tsukihime panel at AX ^^;;
I really don’t think that Shingetsutan Tsukihime has anything to do with Melty Blood…
She is not that bad. By herself she loses the Kohaku assists, but she gains the Random Stuff-fu which helps her a little with zoning.
I watched the anime before I started getting into the game, and I liked it. It took a bit to get off the ground, but once it did I quite liked it. The only problem being that the length of the show severly limited the telling of the excellent plot behind its adaptation, which more or less tended to leave me confused. There was obviously plenty stuff left without closure in the end as well.
Anyways, getting in with Satsuki is quite the challenge. I’ve been playing these folks who don’t quite know the game (or play fighting games in general) but they ALL pick Waka (that’s what I call him), and I have one hell of a time getting in to land some hits.
I’m loving it regardless.