7.17.2008

1.1 Playnotes

MINUTES:

0:00 - Game Start

0:02 - The intro video has some light boomin' beats and many flying character portraits. I don't know who these characters are or why I should be bothered with them. The game doesn't seem to worry about that either, since it offers names under the portraits with no other context.

0:04 - Basic introduction of the setting: there's a floating world above Japan connected by what looks like the 9/11 light pillar memorial.

0:06 - We are introduced to the main characters - Hyoma, Shizuka and Hayatemaru. They are all precocious and have anime hair.

0:07 - With no prompting, the game shifts to two other unrelated characters: a MOE girl being threatened by a man that is sure to be the nerdiest nazi I've ever seen.

0:08 - The game offers me a tutorial, but warns me that I need to read the manual anyway. More on this later. The MOE girl, now named Rin without provacation, is fighting some Wherther's Original-looking monsters in what must be a library south of the Mason-Dixon considering the fact that it has a total of 3 bookshelves (just kidding, Southerners (but seriously, though))

0:14 - The tutorial ends. I am no more educated. Hyoma from the intro is here now, for some reason. Long story short:

























Sometime between this, a female knight with a scythe shows up.

0:19 - The second part of the tutorial starts. More on this later.

0:27 - The battle ends. Our heroes runs away to a beach somewhere away from the bad guys and end up at a house. They discuss whether or not to go in.

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