Tuesday, May 31, 2016

PS4 Memories - Chatting with Friends

My PSN friends and I are chatting in a room where we talk about random stuff. It was a big room that welcomes users. It is one of the things I missed the most. On my PS4, we chatted and chatted until it's my bedtime. The weight of chatting helps me communicate with friends. Yeah, the better way to commnuicate with friends. No other tastes could beat that nowadays. Since the 3.50 MUSASHI update, the chat bubbles get bigger depending how many words or sentences, as well as the Friends list looked futuristic and clean.

After 3 years of ownership, chatting becomes a shooting star and have fell apart for a while. And now, I'm going to miss chatting with my friends until after a while. My friends also became shooting stars of mine, but not on other systems. The family has never been this apart for this long. This means I will no longer chat with anyone for a long time. I can still chat with my friends on PSVita, but it is hard to do and it'll never work out well. Or is it?

This one part goes for the next PS4 Memories article.

Monday, May 30, 2016

PS4 Memories - Gems of War

Gems of War is a half puzzle, half RPG game that allows you to fight enemies with puzzles. It's like Puzzle Quest, which is also half puzzle and half RPG, but better. The colored gems will allow you to build up magic for your troops, depending which troops have the specified mana color. In Gems of War, the object of the game is to play on a gem board and there are skulls. Match three or more skulls and your troop will attack your opponent's troops, one by one.

As you all know, Gems of War is an enjoyable puzzle game. It is better than some other puzzle game, like Candy Crush Saga for example. I play every day to earn more rewards. The more I play, the more rewards I get. There are kingdoms in the game to open up with money. The more kingdoms open, more money will be rewarded. Any kingdom will be your home kingdom and the income will be rewarded ahead of time, as well as a tribute rewards in Keys, Gold, Glory and Souls. Some can be stolen and it can be brought back in a revenge battle. If victor, your money will be recovered.

Now, I've been enjoying Gems of War a lot. Souls allow me to strengthen up my troops to win. But, I don't play to win, I play to have fun and it's a darndest of a puzzle RPG. I find Keys in some gem matches and they are needed to open chests to get various rewards, Troops, Souls, Gold and Traitstones. They are capable of unlocking my Troops' traits. Their traits harness the power within them. Getting a certain number will unlock them.

I'm currently on Lv. 22 and my play streak on Gems of War has been broken because of my PS4 being taken in for repairs or a replacement of a refurbished one until three weeks roughly. Suddenly, this article is making me sad.

Warning: This part of the article above is a tearjerker. Please do not read this if you are feeling sad.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

PS4 Memories - Onigiri

Okay, so since the release of the MMORPG game, Onigiri, I went on ahead and downloaded it after realizing it is a fun game to play. The game was alright, I do have a taste in MMO games. There are some slow parts in Onigiri, though. New Japan sounds like a distinct place where it takes place. Don't get me started on their hair just because they are fluffy, Dorkly-wise. It is an alright MMO, overall. With every nook and cranny, Onigiri will be more enjoyable.

I was having trouble advancing through the story because the enemies are a tad stronger than my character's level, so I get back and train a little. Using Magatama is always important to carry when taking on missions. There are a few changes made to Onigiri; the story extended by the islands for example. You know, since Onigiri is big in Japan, it is very nighttime evident, like others. They say Onigiri is a Japanese masterpiece to enjoy since Warhammer. It is a fact on the part, but one part is my opinion. I've been livestreaming it to get attention to viewers.

Onigiri was used to be a PS4 exclusive, but now, it is also for the Xbox One. This doesn't make any sense! It was big in Japan because it is an RPG game! Sorry, I must have stormed off in the wrong direction too quickly. Dang it, almost had a heart attack there. Anyway, Onigiri is still available on PSN and you can get it anytime.

Friday, May 27, 2016

PS4 Memories - Skullgirls 2nd Encore

Last year, Skullgirls 2nd Encore has been released for the PS4. It is an ultimate version to Skullgirls that has extra single-player content, like fully voiced Story Mode, Challenge Mode, Trials, Survival Mode, Cross Play between all PlayStation systems and a platinum trophy set. I've been enjoying it so far! Story Mode with a full VO makes the game lively! Survival Mode is also fun! Players also enjoying it, too. It has great online play and netcode. Previous gen versions didn't have any of the 2nd Encore content and they are not going to be in them, even in DLC.

The PSVita version is finally out after 8 months of waiting since the PS4 release. It took snags of optimization and I'm also enjoying every second of it, like on the PS4 version! The PSVita version has 2D graphics and also a few glitches, like no double snap music, character names in the wrong position, unstable sound clips, PSN usernames in a wrong size and position and a trophy glitch. Fortunately, they are going to be fixed in the lobby patch. And speaking of the lobby patch, all consoles, including the Xbox 360 version are getting lobbies because we are sick of the old room holding two players. The lobbies are holding up to eight players and it is bigger.

After the lobby patch releases, North America is getting a physical run of the game. Digital ones had too much space, so some are excited for the physical copy. Frankly, I'm also excited for the physical copy. I think I'll get the PSVita one. Although I didn't do much on the PSVita version, but it is worth the wait.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

PS4 Memories - Nights of Azure

Are you familiar with Gust's RPG, Nights of Azure? If not, then this will be my first article on my PS4 memories to kick things off. Yeah, Nights of Azure was a great game. The Half Demon named Arnice is the female protagonist of the game. She lives in the Curia's hotel with Simon. The favorite part of mine in Nights of Azure is when Lloyd became a retarded person and Arnice becomes froggish after reading that awkward note. Stuntman: Ignition and Instructor Neithardt became out of the topic nowadays. In the final chapter, the final boss was tough and I was able to finally get it over with. Little did I know, the Night fills with pandemonium until the guardian is slain.

Mainly, Arnice has a best female friend, known as Lilysse. Lilysse is Arnice's best friend who takes travels with her. The game uses a search time. When it reaches 0, the search ends automatically. Extending it will not be a problem, when it comes to Warriors games. Thus, it is a pretty great game that I would recommend to anyone with such cinematic scenes and funny moments. Those were the good times.

Best part in Nights of Azure is when the Nights fill the world and all that Blue Blood drip from enemies. Blood is what Arnice needs to get stronger via the shrine. The max level is 10. If you realized something from any Warriors game, you'll find the secrets of the game. Now I know all that awesomeness and awkwardness from any other retarded person.

There's also one fun part, after my shortcomings of Skullgirls 2nd Encore for the PSVita, I have thought of wanting Arnice and Lilysse to join Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition as DLC characters together; Arnice as a playable character and Lilysse as a support/Blast character. I have their document here. I have written Arnice's moveset that has her specials, impacts, Climax Arts, Trump Card and her Potential.

First off, let's mention Arnice's Trump Card, Moonlight Overdrive. Her Trump Card is a blue type, which temporarily enhances the character's personality and using it will allow her to call the moonlight given by her Servans to shine upon her, making it bearable to unleash combos.

Next up, Arnice's two Climax Arts. Her Climax Art for half-circle toward is Demon's Inferno, which allows her to transform into a demon and rain flames at her opponent, similar to Miyuki Shiba's Climax Art, Inferno. Next, Arnice's another Climax Art for half-circle away is Azure Dance of the Night, which allows her to rush in and unleash a flurry of sword attacks and end it with a bang with a flurry of flames, if connected with opponent. These Climax Arts give it a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 feel for players.

And finally, her best friend Lilysse is a non playable character. Similar to Alicia's support, Lilysse's neutral support allows her to zero in the battlefield with a bag of cupcake bombs, taking one out of the bag, while similar to Iriya's support, her toward support allows her to set up her table with any type of cupcake randomly, one to heal, one to increase defense rate and one to increase attack rate if she is on a support spot. Like Arnice's two Climax Arts, Lilysse's toward support also gives it a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 feel. If Lilysse gets on the Blast spot, she will do nothing but enhance the playable character's type of Blast chosen from Combo, Power and Escape (Mainly with Arnice to enhance all Blast types).

This concludes the first PS4 Memories post with an idea of a DLC character. Stay tuned for another.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

PS4 Troubles

When I rented the two games and have came in the mail yesterday after coming back from watching The Angry Birds Movie at my local movie theater, I'm having an issue with my PS4. Yeah, disc reading is having trouble working well. I've came across a big roadblock. So I take my PS4 in for repairs or a replacement of a refurbished one after I owned it for 3 years. This means I will no longer stream my PS4 games and share my gameplay for a while. The subsequent issue is about the disc issues. I don't know how this happened, and now, I'm in trouble because of it!

You see, I've owned a PS4 for 3 years until the disc reading issues happened. It was out of warranty, so I had to pay a service fee of $150. The repairs or a replacement of a refurbished one will come in 3 weeks. In the meantime, since GameFly doesn't have any late fees and due dates, I'm going to keep my rented games. I still have my PS3 and I can play some games on it as I ordered one yesterday. Plus, I was finally able to buy Child of Light on the PS3. It was a great RPG with such a Grandia-esque action. Speaking of, there has not been a new Grandia game in the works for years since Grandia III for the PS2.

Being said, I'll be writing a blog about PS4 memories that associate games for the PS4, RPG and non and other stuff I had.