#wolfmaw

It's pretty good and outrageously ambitious, the premise of which I would normally say "oh this game is going to be halfbaked, ok" except Uchikoshi is involved so I believe anything can happen whenever that madlad is involved.

It's mainly a visual novel with SRPG elements. It plays less like a traditional SRPG and more like a puzzle game with resource management: Your economy of action per turn is very limited, via AP, but can be extended by killing stronger enemies in the map, which grants +1 AP. AP carries over from turn to turn, so basically, any AP obtained is an action even if you don't use in that turn, you can use it the next, and it's key to actually being able to fight the huge numbers of enemies. There's no terrain whatsoever to consider and it all amounts to enemy type, formation, and your own counterparts. It's done well, it's fun.

The VN aspect is the main meat of the game, and, mm, I can't really talk about the game much without spoiling, but basically, you have what basically is a 40 hour 'prologue' before the game really opens up in the Select What Happens And See The Consequences Of Your Decisions department; That 40 hour prologue is basically an entire game in and of itself, which is very very fun, because it doesn't skimp or try to rush itself, the pacing is exactly right: There's always something happening, but it doesn't overwhelm you, either.

Imagine if Persona 3 was less of a simulator and more of a story-driven experience and that's a pretty accurate way to describe Hundred Line, in my opinion.

Mind you, I've mainly played Uchikoshi games, and I'm a big fan, of the other guy, the Danganronpa guy, I've only played Danganronpa 1, which I liked very much, so I don't really KNOW much about his writing, but it is very much his DNA in the writing as well as Uchikoshi's, and in the presentation: The entire setting is presented as a subversion of the way the first Danganronpa opened, and it was very cool to experience: Buncha high schoolers wake up in a classroom, a mascot tells them they have bombs in them, and the windows are closed.

Then, the mascot tells them that they gotta work together and become tight as hell, and then he opens the windows: There's a huge wall of fire that surrounds the school... But it's not to keep them in, they can freely leave whenever they want. It's to keep something out. The high schoolers are functionally immortal as long as they are in school grounds, but can die for real if they go out. The mascot initially withholds information for one day, but then fully agrees to divulge everything, and had been withholding information not because he wanted -- he did want to reveal everything -- but rather because he couldn't if not all the characters were on board with fighting.

It's a very knowing subversion of everything that made Danganronpa, Danganronpa. Add to that deeper character writing that can count of not having to thin the headcount by necessity due to the very nature of a Killing Game setting, and you got some robust writing for some bigger than life characters that feel surprisingly organic and like someone you could possibly know in real life, with their fun quirks that, depending on the character, might define them or not, but even those defined by their quirk, are not just their quirk. In this regard, I can tell you that's a signature move of Uchikoshi, but there's enough that I patently can tell isn't Uchikoshi to know the other guy is also writing his pussy out and having a good one, I assume because he finally gets to write a cast that doesn't need to get 80% Killed for the purposes of the genre.

You cannot Mikiri Lady Butterfly at all because Mikiri Counter is exclusively for thrust attacks, which Lady Butterfly lacks.

Perilous Attacks (red attacks with the sound cue that are unblockable) have different rules depending on what kind of attack they are. There are four types:

Thrusts can be parried, can be sidestepped, cannot be blocked, and can be Mikiri Countered. They come out fast but tend to be predictable as part of a set combo, or by simply looking at the enemy animation. Their best counter is the Mikiri Counter, which has a generous window of opportunity well past the i-frames of a foward step. This deals significant posture damage and resets neutral.

Sweeps cannot be parried, sidestepped (unless you were well out of the way in the first place) or blocked, and must be jumped over. Their best counter is to jump over them and then jump off the enemy using the sweep (press jump again while above them) to deal significant posture damage.

Grabs are a case to case basis, and have poor tracking or outright whiff if you use the option they are weak against. You have to sidestep or jump, depending on the grab. It goes without saying that they cannot be blocked or parried. Unlike the other types, there’s no real counter to deal big posture damage, BUT grabs tend to have a lot of recovery, letting you land a fair amount of hits or a Shinobi Art after successfully dodging one.

A number of them do, mostly when you tap them as a direct acknowledgement of you having interacted with them, but a few do so without interaction, like Akafuyu or Rosa.

wolfmaw asked:

On a more serious note, I'm glad you've been enjoying it 'cause the zany bullshit that happens basically every other episode is well worth reading if you're looking for a good laugh, and the story and lore are actually surprisingly good for a game that doesn't take itself so seriously.

To deal with Pocket Sea Crawlers, avoid clustering your units and ideally engage without blocking if you can't kill them fast (which I assume you can't given your levels).

Huh. Wasn't expecting to see this on my dash.

Yeah I’ve been following the development for this for like the last 2 years or so ever since their first game