The Sengoku Basara series Thread: NO POLEDANCING KASUGA FOR YOU!

Cryoh · October 20, 2011, 2:21pm

My lordship!

Stuart_Hayden · October 20, 2011, 2:22pm

Yukimura!!!

Geese_Pants · October 27, 2011, 7:43am

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King of Troll…Yoshiaki Mogami

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Muneshige Tachibana… wielder of the Lightning Edge.

Tizoc · October 27, 2011, 10:22am

Muneshige’s vid made me shed manly tears, he looks SO GOOD.

Geese_Pants · October 31, 2011, 8:14am

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I’m guessing this is the last one…

Geese_Pants · November 9, 2011, 9:28am

Actually…this is the last PV.

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Basically showing the improvements of the SB3 original cast…

Gasaraki · November 9, 2011, 10:12am

fucking tight PHANTOM DIVE IS BACK, as well as Chousokabe’s stun taunt move. Super glad Tsuruhime has another melee special now too, definitely needed that. Looks like Fuuma’s air grab and drop kick are two different moves now maybe?

Also didn’t see this earlier:

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Survival mode it looks like, VERSUS MODE IS BACK(please be online)!, unique enemies, very hard mode which seems to greatly raise enemy aggressiveness,

Ichipoo · November 9, 2011, 10:55am

Seriously this is what Vanilla BASARA 3 should’ve been if it weren’t for the time constraint, at least that’s what I think.

Gasaraki · November 9, 2011, 10:59am

It was the same thing with Basara 2 to Heroes. I agree, but shit I don’t care it was fun even without it, and it’ll be fun with it!

Episode_667 · November 10, 2011, 9:15pm

Got my shipping notification from Play-Asia early this morning. LET’S PARTY (in 2-4 weeks)!

CyberAkuma · November 10, 2011, 9:50pm

Compared to SB1, SB2 was definitely much more of a complete game. And the sequel was basically another Capcom “test” to see if BASARA could truly become something viable as a franchise. Thankfully, fans and fangirls both saw to that, and the rest, as they say, was history.

Easily the thing that excites me the most is that SB3’s item crafting system is gone, and we’re basically back to a facsimile of the SB2/H item system. Even more than combos, I always thought what made BASARA so interesting was the way items can change the game almost entirely. And with Personal Items for characters back to being one slot items that can be bought at the shops (for like 500,000 gs), so that ideally means that I’ll be able to do some wild-ass combinations with items again.

Oh, and AmiAmi shipped my copy yesterday. Can’t wait to chop people up with Muneshige. 8D

Gasaraki · November 11, 2011, 1:08am

I’m super jealous, I wish I had the cash to buy it right now, but alas, I don’t =/

Geese_Pants · November 11, 2011, 11:15am

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Mitsunari is more beastly now…sigh.

Gasaraki · November 11, 2011, 11:50am

lol, that item just makes Mitsunari easy mode. He could already cut the special attack animations anyway, that just makes it so you don’t need any sort of execution to do it. Kinda dumb imo.

CyberAkuma · November 11, 2011, 11:11pm

Some play reports are in.

FlameMasterAJ @ KoeiWarriors:

Sasuke is just beasty from level 1 up. His stats are average to above average. He’s good up close and has the range to keep the battle to his advantage. His counter has been buffed and nerfed at the same time. He can no longer move while doing it. However, the damage and flashiness of it makes up for it. It is definitely better than his counter in SB2 when looking at damage and combo potential. It is similar to Kotaro’s counter, but stuns boss’ (even stunning Tadakatsu) on the BASARA difficulty and my attack was only barely above 1400. It did incredible damage to Tadakatsu. What his counter does is send a bunshin to do his damage all over the opponents who are in the way, and then he teleports right above the area. You can either continue the combo in the air, or do his Izuna drop by doing the super skill again.

Now for Yukimura… They didn’t explain all his changes… Holy… He got more buffs. Where do I start…? Okay. Rekka can be dodge canceled now, as for DaiRekka. If you miss or want to stop the ending lag of Rekka/DaiRekka, you can dodge cancel. But that’s not all… You can cancel out of Rekka or DaiRekka at any point with ANY skill now. That’s right. If you’re doing Rekka and you know it’s about to push the opponent too far, you can cancel into Ouhouraku or Koen. It helps keep him on track with the newer characters. Not only does he have this, but his Koen can now charge to another level. After about 2 seconds, he gains a reddish fire aura and a charge noise can be heard to indicate it’s done charging. You can now do a very powerful version of Koen that penetrates guards like they are nothing. You can really see the damage after charging, and it obliterates Boss’ like they are nothing. Also, Rekka and DaiRekka can be turned easier, much easier, and the camera follows accurately now. Another thing, Yukimura’s taunt from SB2 is back, where he says Oya… Kata… Sama… I missed that. He’s near perfect. Oh, and Senryo Hanabi seems to do a bit more damage too!

BASARA difficulty is pretty good. They actually combo now, parry often. They also run away from your BASARA Art attacks. They do proper juggles and won’t let you tech or hit the ground and do a full combo ending in a skill. Their stats weren’t just inflated like most of us feared, they are now smarter too. They are even smarter when you do counters, they wait till your recovering from your lag to attack (Sasuke almost has no Recover lag so I was able to intercept the attack). Over all, the AI is smarter and makes use of real combos to kill you.

The guard system has been buffed. However, guards are easily broken now. It takes way fewer hits to break guards, and some attacks in SB3 that didn’t break guards, now break on impact (like the base guys). So it makes it fair to break guards, and the AI takes advantage of this in BASARA mode.

You can now Guard Cancel your attack string. This is useful for slower characters or to do pokes in vs mode. You can also dodge cancel out of your S string better now, they definitely touched this up in this game. Though it depends on what part of the S string you can guard cancel for certain characters, but Yukimura seems to have great guard and dash cancels during his S string. Overall, the mechanics and system was definitely upgraded for the better, it feels refined in a way I thought never possible. Controls are so great and more combo possibilities are here with all these new perks that seem so little but really improve gameplay. I hope this gives people a bit of insight.

http://s13.zetaboards.com/koeiwarriors/single/?p=9042151&t=6799057

Gasaraki · November 12, 2011, 2:17am

^Fucking fantastic news

Some gameplay:
Katakura http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16145428
Sasuke http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16131622
Matsunaga http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16137422
Muneshige http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16146393
Toshiie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wepKJDWnicQ
Uesugi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNJ3VAiR0A

Ichipoo · November 12, 2011, 9:08am

It’s like the more good things I hear about Utage, the more I dislike Capcom. :shake:

Tizoc · November 12, 2011, 12:31pm

If you’re gonna divert you hate towards someone let it be Capcom USA; they seem more interested in getting Megaman back than letting you enjoy poledancing Kasuga and stampeding over mooks on your 2 giant horses LIKE A BAWS.

CyberAkuma · November 14, 2011, 7:54pm

Capcom USA only has so much power, even there. Capcom JP are the ones who make the decisions, have the final say and all that.

So, you want someone to blame for why BASARA failed TWICE in the West? Look to Capcom JP, who were the ones who had the bright idea to turn the first game into “Devil Kings”, then basically did squat for the third game’s marketing push in the West and yet wonder why the game didn’t sell to whatever lofty expectations they had.

EDIT: Yet another thing a player has found:

“If you are Shingen and your bodyguard is Yukimura or 2nd Player is Yukimura, if you taunt he now screams ‘YUKIMURA!’. Since Yukimura screams ‘Oyakatasama!’, you can go back and forth :D!”

Ichipoo · November 14, 2011, 9:45pm

I decided to give in and get the Wii version so I can play it on both my laptop and Wii. :shake: