I'm heartbroken, I've been a fan of Rieko Kodama for many years. Her talent and idea were so great and she always put her everything into every work she made. Especially the Phantasy Star series, that was really her baby. Phantasy Star IV and Sonic left a great impact on me, I'll forever be grateful to everything she gave us.
@Tsuchinoko Japanese VAs sometimes have the opportunity to sign contracts specifically to play their characters which allows them to continue playing them for years and years. It also earns them royalties which English VAs sadly don't get that opportunity in the west.
Tbh seeing Tenta Missile hate is what I love since the special is so frustrating to deal with and it's directly connected to Flyfish in Salmon Run being the worst boss to take on. But yeah this is completely justified because it should not be acting like that in those videos. Hope it gets patched soon.
Splatoon is basically Japan's Call of Duty in terms of it's popularity with the shooter genre. Except the game trancends the shooter genre. It's still absolutely unique and is open for pretty much anyone to play. Splatoon 2 was the sole reason I bought my Switch because I was that intrigued by Splatoon 1.
It's a combo of the gameplay, design, world building, aesthetics, fast matches and music that just pulls everyone into it. The game still feels like a breath of fresh it when it was especially needed when the first game released among the aftermath of the PS3/360 shooter dominated era with only included the colours black, brown and grey.
So happy to see that Alisia Dragoon is in the top 10. Absolutely lovely and gorgeous game with great gameplay and an outstanding soundtrack. It is hard but if you search for all of the hidden power ups for Alisia and her creatures it does help a lot. It's really satisfying when you defeat the final boss and are treated to the wonderful rendition of Alisia's Theme for the credits.
Suikoden II is one of my favourite games of all time. I'm so happy to see that these two gems will be available on modern platforms again. I'm surprised at the quality of how they look, very good!
Yeah the victory numbers completely diminishing for the defending team is something that should easily make them go, "Okay, we gotta fix some stuff." but we'll see. I agree with what you said, the design is completely there and can work. They just gotta adjust balancing. I wouldn't mind unique maps being made for tricolours. If the Shifty Stations existed just for splatfests in Splatoon 2, then tricolour can have their own maps that best suits their needs.
I was on Team Scissors and I love the chaotic nature of the tricolour turf wars. But actually playing as the defending team? Not fun at all. Not having a choice of regular turf and being constantly thrown into tricolour was frustrating.
Then just the thing itself? It's clear that this mode needs it's own unique map and using Sturgeon Shipward was a poor choice to test this out on. Team Scissors spawn areas could be completely covered by the enemy teams, no cooldown on the ultra signal after it had been successfully defending, the reach of those sprinklers that can't be destroyed just to name a few things that drastically need overhauled for it. Probably the biggest flaw is how when telling us about it is that they focused on how you absolutely had to defend the middle of the map, but then forgetting that you actually need to ink the rest of the map. Took me a few games to realise that lol. It defo hampers the experience since I was playing alone, if it was team matches where you could discuss what was going on then it might of been different.
Did anyone else find it weird that they placed a big focus on how the team in the lead halfway through would then defend in the tricolour turf wars didn't get anything in the final results for it? I thought being in the lead halfway through would net at least one point but we got nada.
In all, the concept of it is cool and there is fun in the chaotic nature of it (Pearl would be proud). But it drastically needs overhauled for something to benefit the defending team because child that was not a good time.
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I'm heartbroken, I've been a fan of Rieko Kodama for many years. Her talent and idea were so great and she always put her everything into every work she made. Especially the Phantasy Star series, that was really her baby. Phantasy Star IV and Sonic left a great impact on me, I'll forever be grateful to everything she gave us.
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@Tsuchinoko Japanese VAs sometimes have the opportunity to sign contracts specifically to play their characters which allows them to continue playing them for years and years. It also earns them royalties which English VAs sadly don't get that opportunity in the west.
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Tbh seeing Tenta Missile hate is what I love since the special is so frustrating to deal with and it's directly connected to Flyfish in Salmon Run being the worst boss to take on. But yeah this is completely justified because it should not be acting like that in those videos. Hope it gets patched soon.
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Splatoon is basically Japan's Call of Duty in terms of it's popularity with the shooter genre. Except the game trancends the shooter genre. It's still absolutely unique and is open for pretty much anyone to play. Splatoon 2 was the sole reason I bought my Switch because I was that intrigued by Splatoon 1.
It's a combo of the gameplay, design, world building, aesthetics, fast matches and music that just pulls everyone into it. The game still feels like a breath of fresh it when it was especially needed when the first game released among the aftermath of the PS3/360 shooter dominated era with only included the colours black, brown and grey.
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So happy to see that Alisia Dragoon is in the top 10. Absolutely lovely and gorgeous game with great gameplay and an outstanding soundtrack. It is hard but if you search for all of the hidden power ups for Alisia and her creatures it does help a lot. It's really satisfying when you defeat the final boss and are treated to the wonderful rendition of Alisia's Theme for the credits.
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Suikoden II is one of my favourite games of all time. I'm so happy to see that these two gems will be available on modern platforms again. I'm surprised at the quality of how they look, very good!
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Lol yeah this is not a good 'fix' to their problems at all. It's basically, "Well it's your problem now."
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It's not on the list but I'll be forever proud that I have finished Dragon Quest 2 and Phantasy Star 2 considering their reputations.
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Yeah the victory numbers completely diminishing for the defending team is something that should easily make them go, "Okay, we gotta fix some stuff." but we'll see. I agree with what you said, the design is completely there and can work. They just gotta adjust balancing. I wouldn't mind unique maps being made for tricolours. If the Shifty Stations existed just for splatfests in Splatoon 2, then tricolour can have their own maps that best suits their needs.
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Re: Poll: What Did You Think Of Tricolor Turf War In Splatoon 3?
I was on Team Scissors and I love the chaotic nature of the tricolour turf wars. But actually playing as the defending team? Not fun at all. Not having a choice of regular turf and being constantly thrown into tricolour was frustrating.
Then just the thing itself? It's clear that this mode needs it's own unique map and using Sturgeon Shipward was a poor choice to test this out on. Team Scissors spawn areas could be completely covered by the enemy teams, no cooldown on the ultra signal after it had been successfully defending, the reach of those sprinklers that can't be destroyed just to name a few things that drastically need overhauled for it. Probably the biggest flaw is how when telling us about it is that they focused on how you absolutely had to defend the middle of the map, but then forgetting that you actually need to ink the rest of the map. Took me a few games to realise that lol. It defo hampers the experience since I was playing alone, if it was team matches where you could discuss what was going on then it might of been different.
Did anyone else find it weird that they placed a big focus on how the team in the lead halfway through would then defend in the tricolour turf wars didn't get anything in the final results for it? I thought being in the lead halfway through would net at least one point but we got nada.
In all, the concept of it is cool and there is fun in the chaotic nature of it (Pearl would be proud). But it drastically needs overhauled for something to benefit the defending team because child that was not a good time.