Received my copy yesterday and spent a few hours in it's company last night. Initial impressions are very promising.
I've passed all the preliminary introduction and tutorial missions and about to embark on the main meat of the game and so far it's looking good. The game kind of plays a bit like Phantom Crash - fast moving arena based action - but with a whole heap of strategy involved, and looks to be very deep. As for the story and setting, it reminds me a lot of the Battle Angel Alita manga.
Visual this game is stunning, probably one of the best looking games I've seen this year. The main hub of the game where you spend your time between missions actually looks pre-rendered at times (this is helped greatly by the light blooming effect). I've only played a handful of arenas so far but they all look pretty nice (amazing cloud effects), but what has impressed me the most is the destructable scenery. There's the usual stuff like collapsing bridges and whatnot, but what is really nice is the way you leave craters in a manga stylee when you jump off anything high. It really gives the impressions your character is hard as nails.
The whole package just feels highly polished. It would be a crying shame if this game didn't get a release outside of asia, at least MS should allow another publisher to pick it up. My only gripe so far is the lack of 16:9 support, other than that looks to be an excellent game.
Anyone else picked up a copy yet?
I've passed all the preliminary introduction and tutorial missions and about to embark on the main meat of the game and so far it's looking good. The game kind of plays a bit like Phantom Crash - fast moving arena based action - but with a whole heap of strategy involved, and looks to be very deep. As for the story and setting, it reminds me a lot of the Battle Angel Alita manga.
Visual this game is stunning, probably one of the best looking games I've seen this year. The main hub of the game where you spend your time between missions actually looks pre-rendered at times (this is helped greatly by the light blooming effect). I've only played a handful of arenas so far but they all look pretty nice (amazing cloud effects), but what has impressed me the most is the destructable scenery. There's the usual stuff like collapsing bridges and whatnot, but what is really nice is the way you leave craters in a manga stylee when you jump off anything high. It really gives the impressions your character is hard as nails.
The whole package just feels highly polished. It would be a crying shame if this game didn't get a release outside of asia, at least MS should allow another publisher to pick it up. My only gripe so far is the lack of 16:9 support, other than that looks to be an excellent game.
Anyone else picked up a copy yet?
). 300 skills to choose from the combinations are huge, which is probably great online as you'll never meet anyone with the same setup.
You said arena based action, something like Armored Core or Virtual-On spring to mind here...
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