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Did anyone here actually buy Shin Hokuto Musou?
Not yet.<div><br></div><div>Just spoiled myself of Weiâs âwhat ifâ branching story path and its ending, and I wonât spoil much for you guys but itâs pretty much the happy ending I dreamed of for Wei. Oh and the credits for the what if scenario used an old nostalgic DW credits theme, though I wonât say what. Needless to say that I was very happy when I heard it. ;)</div>
Yeah, I picked up SHnK. Itâs not as deep in terms of combat as the first, but the story is more fleshed out. Pretty much for fans only.
I like how not only there characters and weapons to unlockâŚbut plenty of secondary battles and what if battles. I havenât seen commander mode, so I donât want to spoil myself too much.<br><br>I have Empires 7 to grind until an overseas announcement for 8 is made.<br>
Yeah Iâm on Hiatus from Koeiwarriors until a western date is announced. All Those kids do over there is cry about the dumbest shit
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Anyway in the meantime Im still trying to Platinum SB: Samurai Heroes and 5pb release Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds for XBLA which looks like a dope beatâem up title with good support.
http://gematsu.com/2013/02/one-piece-pirate-warriors-2-adds-marco-the-phoenix<br><br>God damn it, just hurry & confirm Blackbeard as playable & Iâll nab this day one. If not, playing as Garp & Kizaru might suffice after waiting for a sale.<br>
OP:PW2 Character VidsâŚ<br><br><br>[details=Spoiler]<br><br>Luffy<br>http://youtu.be/VIavi8iz2N8<br><br>Chopper<br>http://youtu.be/iMzi4GYu0i4<br><br>Kuma<br>http://youtu.be/cpSH6-Cdf1E<br><br>Nami<br>http://youtu.be/8P3_H1LtjRE<br>[/details]<br>
<p>yes, i bought SHM. Combat is simpler but if ur a fan you will enjoy it. if its combat depth you want though stick to the first game ore OPM. OPM shocked me with its engine depth actually. anyway here is a shin hokuto musou tierlist i made. most agree with it on game faqs.</p><p>SS Tier: Raoh, Toki, Kenshiro, Hyou, Juda</p><p>S Tier: Kaioh, Ryuga, Juza, Rei, Shin, Thouzer, Ein, Shachi</p><p>A Tier: Mamiya, Shew, Jagi</p><p>B Tier: Falco, Rin, Bat</p><p>C Tier: Fudo</p><p>Â </p><p>havent tiered outlaw since i havent messed with him but im thinking S tier from what i have heard. shachi and ein are my most undecided. shachi has good sigs and a solid special. free aura meter for a little life and ein gives his attack a boost. shachis sigs are better then eins while ein only has i think 4 sigs? i gotta mess with them a bit more but either way they wouldnt be lower then A tier imo.</p>
Hyouâs SS tier? I donât follow how that is, his attack strings arenât very good - nowhere near as good as Kaiohâs, at least. In addition, Kaioh has unblockable setups into super chains out of the ass with his persistent AoE flame super, and his final super is probably the quickest + largest ranged AoE kill super in the game.<br><br>Iâd also swap Shew and Falco, IMO. Shewâs severely lacking in crowd control, and his supers arenât as good as Falcoâs. Maybe Iâm biased with Falco since Iâve got Ultimate Nexus + extra Aura when gaining Karma, so I can spam his charged C3 and C4 all day.<br><br>Iâll have to mess around with Outlaw and Heart to tier them as well.<br>
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So. I bought Empires 7.<br><br>Shit is amazing. gameplay feels great, glad they always give the freedom to make decisions and whatnot. <br><br>Few things I wasnât okay with though was the lacking areas in the multi-player<br><br>I was a bit shocked when I couldnât do a skirmish with local co-op. it actually made me question if my other controller was broken or something. then I realized they omitted that. I also wished theyâd actually let you participate in the actual strategy with a friend. I say this because well in my experiences with Strikeforce ( which was fucking epic btw ) they let you run around in the hub world to your own devices before your party set out on a quest, I dunno Iâd like to see a bit of an expansion on that.<br>
Empires 7 is indeed amazing.<br><br>Edit mode is a more fleshed out than Empires 6âŚeven though I wish they couldâve done more like more colors for outfits and accessories. WWE 13 spoiled me on that.<br>Iâm not sure why the colors for hair, and the colors for eyebrows do not match.<br><br>I tried starting the game on hard thinking that it was gonna be like Empires 6âŚI got owned by the first 3 months.<br>I didnât know how to make allies, do battle, and the battles I did I get owned by too many stratagems (Fuck you LOCKUP and IMMOVABLE).<br><br>The AI is so much better this time around. Iâm actually glad that they have the UNPCâs EX and musou attacksâŚit made me actually learn to block.<br><br>The new Flail is amazingâŚjuggling officers for fucking days.<br><br>Oddly enough Iâm not feeling Xu Shuâs moveset.<br><br>I hope that we get the 1.03 patch so they can bring back test battles in Edit modeâŚI donât want to start a new playthrough just to see how a moveset works.<br>
In my first run through of Empires mode I hit the world in chaos story where shit is just everything everywhere. <br><br>I started my kingdom in nanzhong, and got hit by the nanzhong effect in which you donât care to expand but you donât want to lose the damn place either. <br><br>Those strategems are evil nowadays. Local co-op will fuck up a place real good. Call inferno call base fires cast gust and then flood when itâs done. <br><br>Then your pal casts the base strats so you get catapult and then mobile catapult then stack up Weapons bed and supply depot. <br><br>Geez itâs nasty.<br>
So much genius stuff can be done with those Stratagems. <br>Apparently if you get the Wise fame leveled up enough/right stratagemsâŚyou could be able to win battles without even leaving the main camp. Itâs an achievement actually.<br><br>I also finally found out how to use the Ring blade (Ding Feng)âŚeffectively.<br>All non-Vanilla DW7 weapons are so bonkers.<br><br>For realâŚthis game has taken my attention away from DW8, and thatâs a good thing.<br><br>
<blockquote class=âQuoteâ><div class=âQuoteAuthorâ><a href=âhttp://forums.shoryuken.com/profile/10289/Cryohâ>Cryoh</a> said:</div><div class=âQuoteTextâ>Hyouâs SS tier? I donât follow how that is, his attack strings arenât very good - nowhere near as good as Kaiohâs, at least. In addition, Kaioh has unblockable setups into super chains out of the ass with his persistent AoE flame super, and his final super is probably the quickest + largest ranged AoE kill super in the game.<br><br>Iâd also swap Shew and Falco, IMO. Shewâs severely lacking in crowd control, and his supers arenât as good as Falcoâs. Maybe Iâm biased with Falco since Iâve got Ultimate Nexus + extra Aura when gaining Karma, so I can spam his charged C3 and C4 all day.<br><br>Iâll have to mess around with Outlaw and Heart to tier them as well.</div><div class=âQuoteTextâ> </div></blockquote><div class=âQuoteTextâ>Hyou has the best strong ender string out of the hokuto ryuken users. The pulsating waves from his body can be timed with button presses and he will release more waves and the last wave wll be double in range and stronger. great crowd control. He also has great sigs. Kaioh can be SS tier too. His sigs lockdown with demonic lava flow is indeed awesome and effective. I am dissappointed in both their specials for the record. Kaiohs doesnt work vs bosses and officers and hyous just does a bit of poison damage but i think its unblockable so thats nice.</div><div class=âQuoteTextâ> </div><div class=âQuoteTextâ>Shew being a Nanto user has access to Nanto mode making him automatically better then Falco. Other then that yes Shew is trash. butâŚdat Super Saiyajin power son.<br></div><div class=âQuoteTextâ>Kaiohs last super is the huge energy blast right? its good but i expected more AoE from his final super like Raoh. idk i guess kaioh dissappointed me since i expected an alternate raoh but raoh is just a bit better overall so kaioh left a bad taste in my mouth which wasnt fair to him really.<br></div>
Kaiohâs actual last super is called Flurry of Extreme Blows (just unlocks super late, haha), and itâs trash. Costs more meter than the huge AoE, and does less damage. I think that they fucked up the placement of the supers.<div><br></div><div>I finally got around to leveling Outlaw and Heart some, and I donât really like Outlaw too much. His R1 used to be the greatest thing to avoid beatdowns ever, but the versatility is gone now, since everyone can cancel into a dodge. His bomb super does amazing damage, but it takes quite a while to get it to go off. Heartâs not bad at all, since his R1 acts like Ryugaâs, but it leaves them grounded.</div>
<p>Some of the final supers are fucking retard stupid broken like the Nanto OGâs like Shin for example and Raoh with his huge ass Freeza Death ball and others are just ASS. i dont get it.</p><p> </p><p>And they fucked up with supers bad. Descriptions and shit dont match. Shins hell slaughter fist is described as his Nanto mode activate but its really his thousand hand pierce. certain sigs are unblockable but the game doesnt mention it. Thouzers Nanto spirit blade is a good example. Amazing sig and you wouldnt realize it unless you experimented or played the first game.</p><p> </p><p>fucking lazy as hell with the combat engine in this one i swear.</p>
Indeed. Tokiâs Hokuto Face-Breaking Fist of Compassion is unblockable, one-shots Defense Captains of any level, and is easy to set up for 2 hits on cornered bosses for 70% damage on Chaos. I donât like to say it, but Koeiâs combat designers phoned in the sequel.<div><br></div><div>Another surprisingly underrated unblockable super would be Jagiâs Wildfire, but it has some issues with spotty collision. If there is some sort of obstruction between an opponent and Jagi (base bonfire thing, car, etc.), then said opponent doesnât get hit, even though the attack should be raining down from the sky. Of course, the downside to this super is that youâre playing Jagi, but his fully charged C1 does kill all grunts in a large blast, provided youâre juiced up with Sniper or Accuracy.</div>
Weird, I was fucking around with Hyou, and one of his sigs (Slithery Scraping Lightning Palm) states that itâs unblockable, but I saw a defense captain just block it. What the fuck, Koei.