Blood+ One Night Kiss
Ok, gotta mention from the get go that I have never seen the anime, so cannot comment in that respect. I've only just played it for 30 mins through a tutorial of sorts, but here are my impressions so far. The title screen appears as: New Game Continue Option Special (I can view characters here) Selecting New Game gives you a choice of either Story or Action Mode. I jumped straight into the latter. Bar these selections, all text is Japanese, as is all voice acting. I was expecting this, but it makes things very difficult. >_< I've basically blagged my way to the tutorial (not difficult, you just have to interact with everything in the first room - Icons appeared on the various things I had to interact with). Anyway, the tutorial ran me through the process of combat. Controls are as follows: L analog - move R analog - rotates camera Circle button - action X button - jump Square button - attack Triangle button - triggers attack sequenece (during battle) L 1 - block L 2 - view map R 3 - evasive move (during battle) Combat fixes the camera on to your enemy and has you moving around it as the centre. You can perform a chained slash attack by hitting square repeatedly, and jumping up and hitting attack sees you strike your sword downwards. If you hit square three times mid-jump then you can unleash a powerful downward stroke on whoever is beneath you. The tutorial will not let you progress until you perform each of these things including dodging attacks, quick recovery etc.. Anyway, a gauge builds up until the enemy is weakened, at which point a command attack comes into play. Hitting the triangle button instigates a button command attack sequence, a little video is played before you have to tap buttons successively inorder to build this blood gauge on your sword. There is a time limit to it (usually ten secs) but it's relatively easy. Pull it off and you get to see 'em crystallize and crumble. Beyond that first tutorial and a few cutscenes I got to play the second character, the dude with the elvis hair (forgive me, I don't know his name). Now if you've seen the trailers this guy has a shotgun as his weapon, and it seems he controls similarly to the first character (with no chained attack during battles, but just the gun and a simple kick attack). Anyway, my game ended here because I died. I'll post some more impressions later. It's weird being in a game that resembles Killer7 yet has "free" movement controls.
Ok, gotta mention from the get go that I have never seen the anime, so cannot comment in that respect. I've only just played it for 30 mins through a tutorial of sorts, but here are my impressions so far. The title screen appears as: New Game Continue Option Special (I can view characters here) Selecting New Game gives you a choice of either Story or Action Mode. I jumped straight into the latter. Bar these selections, all text is Japanese, as is all voice acting. I was expecting this, but it makes things very difficult. >_< I've basically blagged my way to the tutorial (not difficult, you just have to interact with everything in the first room - Icons appeared on the various things I had to interact with). Anyway, the tutorial ran me through the process of combat. Controls are as follows: L analog - move R analog - rotates camera Circle button - action X button - jump Square button - attack Triangle button - triggers attack sequenece (during battle) L 1 - block L 2 - view map R 3 - evasive move (during battle) Combat fixes the camera on to your enemy and has you moving around it as the centre. You can perform a chained slash attack by hitting square repeatedly, and jumping up and hitting attack sees you strike your sword downwards. If you hit square three times mid-jump then you can unleash a powerful downward stroke on whoever is beneath you. The tutorial will not let you progress until you perform each of these things including dodging attacks, quick recovery etc.. Anyway, a gauge builds up until the enemy is weakened, at which point a command attack comes into play. Hitting the triangle button instigates a button command attack sequence, a little video is played before you have to tap buttons successively inorder to build this blood gauge on your sword. There is a time limit to it (usually ten secs) but it's relatively easy. Pull it off and you get to see 'em crystallize and crumble. Beyond that first tutorial and a few cutscenes I got to play the second character, the dude with the elvis hair (forgive me, I don't know his name). Now if you've seen the trailers this guy has a shotgun as his weapon, and it seems he controls similarly to the first character (with no chained attack during battles, but just the gun and a simple kick attack). Anyway, my game ended here because I died. I'll post some more impressions later. It's weird being in a game that resembles Killer7 yet has "free" movement controls.