Reseña de Selector Spread WIXOSS (Sin spoiler)

Reseña de Selector Spread WIXOSS

Negante 1: Esta es una reseña sin spoilers para aquellos que quieran verlo sin arruinarse la historia.

Negante 2: Esta reseña está basada en mi opinión personal, si no estás de acuerdo conmigo tienes todo el derecho a diferir al respecto.

Disclaimer 3: This is a review made for the Spanish audience, if you want to see the review in English, a link to it will be made when the translation is done.

 Por si acaso no has visto la reseña de la primera parte de este anime Selector Infected WIXOSS, aquí está el link: http://segadordeltiempo.blogspot.com/2014/06/resena-de-selector-infected-wixoss-sin.html

 Ahora que ya se ha leído, voy a proseguir:

 Sinopsis: La historia inicia unos meses después de los eventos ocurridos en el torneo de WIXOSS, Ruko está afectada por lo que sucedió, haciendo que ya no quiera entrar en mas duelos de WIXOSS, pero al averiguar que puede volver a ver a Tama, Ruko decide volver al juego de WIXOSS para reencontrarse con Tama.

 Cuando vi el final de Selector Infected WIXOSS (que ahora empezaré a llamar SIW para hacerlo más rápido), mi mayor preocupación era que ésta nueva temporada, terminaría siendo innecesaria y aburrida... y me alegra anunciar que este no ha sido el caso.

 La Presentación sigue igual de bien, la animación se mantiene al mismo nivel de calidad que la temporada anterior y a veces parece que deciden ir un poco más lejos a lo usual, la música también sigue siendo tan buena como siempre, y si tienen dudas, el opening fue hecho por la misma artista que hizo el opening de la temporada anterior (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-oWnjAiXcU ) así que no hay problemas acá.

 La historia tiene un inicio lento, pero con la sensación de que estás viendo los restos de una pelea (que fue el caso),  la historia nos muestra qué ocurrió con los personajes de SIW y qué es lo que hacen ahora en esta nueva temporada, con uno o que otro personaje nuevo olvidable/inútil/molesto que solo sirve para hacer que la historia avance.

  

¿La extrañaron? ¿No?
que mal, porque volvió

El ejemplo perfecto de inutilidad

¿La extrañaron? ¿No? que mal
 porque volvió

¿Saben quién es? ¿No?
No se preocupen, no importa.

 El lado positivo es que no todos los personajes son inútiles, ya que casi todos los demás personajes que vuelven no solo reciben un mejor tratamiento, sino que si logran tener desarrollo hasta convertirse en alguien importante y para el bien de este anime, los que reciben mayor desarrollo son sus protagonistas, muchos animes siempre terminan teniendo al co-protagonista siendo mas interesante que el protagonista (DBZ, siendo un muy buen ejemplo), pero aquí los protagonistas son los que recibieron el mayor desarrollo.

Otro aspecto que me gustó es que terminó cerrando tantas preguntas como fuera posible, si hubiera terminado en SIW, nos hubiera dejado preguntándonos muchas cosas (como quién estaba detrás de todo esto), pero esta segunda temporada se enfocó en no solo darnos la conclusión de la historia, sino en responder preguntas que SIW no tuvo tiempo de responder, solo una o dos preguntas se dejaron al aire, pero no eran ni muy importantes ni se arruinaría la historia si no lo averiguamos y aún así, deja suficientes pistas para que puedas llegar a esas conclusiones por ti mismo (lo cual hace la historia más enganchante).

Al final, esta historia logró dar lo prometido y terminó en una nota alta, algo que otros anime no logran hacer (Te veo a ti Dog Days'').

9/10

Un anime que se debe ver

Ahora si me disculpan, tengo que ir al mundo digital.

My First Impressions on Pokemon Shuffle

I really didn't wanted to do this, but I really had to see what was the big problem with this, so I downloaded Pokemon Shuffle, but right before I start with this "review" (I prefer Fisrt Impression, but that doesn't mean a thing), I want to rant on a REALLY BIG DISCLAIMER:

I don't like Candy Crush, Bejeweled or any of the like (Basically any Line-up Puzzle game), is not in my zone of interest and I couldn't care any less about them, but when I started to hear the backslash from this game (that it sucked because of the Microtansaction instead of the game itself), I had to download this game to see if people was right about this one, especially because:

A) I never liked the idea of talking crap about a game that you never played, even if it is justified (reason why I'll end up playing eventually E.T., Sonic '06, Sonic '14 and the likes), for me, ou'll only have 100% right to talk about a game when you had played it, because then you can truly tell where did it sucked and where did it shone, or if it wasn't worth it to begin with.

B) I am a man that lives with the saying of "Give credit where credit is due" and since this game is Free-To-Play that means I can actually play it to see if this was in the end a FTP or a Pay-To-Win videogame (Great, people is gonna compare me with the idiots who defend Sonic '14), because beign this game for free, I have no excuse to not go and play it in this moment of Devil's Advocate feeling I have right now.

And now with that said, lets talk about the darn game (First I'll talk about the gameplay and the music, if you're not interested on that, scroll down to read the part of the microtransaction):

You only need 686 blocks to use it, just in case you want to use the space as an excuse to to crap on the game.

Gameplay:

Every stage basically consist on having to defeat a Pokemon in a 6X6 square space that is filled with pokemons that you have captured (at the beggining you have default pokemon) and every time you line-up 3 Pokemon of the same type you cause damage to the pokemon on the Top of the Screen and you have to deplete its life bar before the amount of turns to move given to you runs out (Example: You have to defeat an Espurr in 7 moves or less), a bigger line (like a 4-line of pokemon or more) or a combo line (after making a line you manage to make another line) deals more damage to the pokemon in the Top of the screen, if you make a line of pokemon that are Super efective against the Top Pokemon, you deal doble damage (i.e.: the Charmander in the Top of the screen is fire type and if you line up 3 squirtle (water type) you deal doble damage to it) and the less moves you take to defeat the Pokemon the more bonus points you get.

How to catch a Pokemon: When you defeat the "boss" you enter in the "catching" of the game, when you defeat the "boss" you go to the "catching" moment, here the pokemon shows the rate (%) of Catchability that shows how big is your chance of catching the pokemon, but to make things better for you, the less moves it took you to to beat the The Top Pokemon, the bigger will be the bonus ratio given to you to catch the pokemon (i.e.: if you defeated Eevee (That has a 20% catch rate) in less than 7 moves you will get another 36% to boost the catch rate).

How to "move": you get an amount of "hearts" to move (a move is when you go to fight pokemon), you use 1 heart every time you move and before you attack you can choose wich pokemon you can bring with you (up to four pokemon that will fill your 6X6 square... thing...) to beat the "boss", each pokemon has an ability that migh help you out in the "fight" and right before you fight you can choose some items to use in the fight, like extra moves or extra experience for your pokemon (yeah they level up, evolve and deal more damage when they do, but I'm pretty sure nobody will ever care)

The Music: The game use music that comes from a VERY FAMILIAR GAME but at least it does sounds good it always relaxed me and helped me to keep cool so I could think of a way to make the lines.

And now to the Part I'm pretty sure you decided to read first and hence you skipped all I just wrote because You don't care for any that:

THE MICROTRANSACTIONS:

And now I already said that you get hearts to move, but to refill those hearts you can:

A) wait for 30 min to restore one heart

B) Use Crystals to buy more Hearts.

And about those coins you can use to buy Items (With the minimal price is 300 but bigger items are over 1500) before the fight, to gain Coins you can:

A) Win a "boss"/Stage whatever and get 100.

B) Buy more Coins using Crystals

And Those Crystals that you need to buy Hearts or Coins? You pay money for them, so basically if you want to move more you have to pay them up with real money, or give them real money to use the items that could help ou out a lot (like extra exp.) and while I don't mind the hearts (because while their refilling you/I can go to play another game) it does grate me with the coins because then you have to be VERY picky of when and how to use the coins the game gives you (and since I'm a greedy bastard I'll never use them).

How much money do you have to pay to use those crystals? IDK, I don't have any Dollars since I live in Venezuela, so I never took bother to look into it, which basically means that I am forced to play this without paying any amount of money whatsoever.

So, is it a PTW in the end? well, to be a PTW you have to lose in some way because you aren't paying them anything (something that most FTP MMORPG tend to do) because when you don't pay, you cannot get the super powerful equipment (which means you're screwed when fighting against those that DO pay and can get that Super equiptment, darn whales), or you have to waith ridicilous amounts of time to actually keep playing (like FF All of the Bravest, Dungeon Keeper (the one from 2014 done by EA) or almost all of the Facebook games that were the reason of why I joind Facebook to begin with... and then I got burned), but with this game I haven't payed a single dollar on it but I haven't suffered so far and after I run out of Hearts, I just go to play another game that I can enjoy more.

Overall: the game plays well, is obvious that Nintendo decided to use Pokemon into their design (along with the other stuff that they copied from Candy Crush) to make their game fresh and different from other puzzle-line up games, so it plays well, and if the microtransaction are a problem for you, don't worry, I have zero Dollars so I cannot pay for Crystals, all I can do is go through waiting 30 min to get a new heart and play another Stage and ignoring the Items, and if I, the one that is forced to play without any money can enjoy this, then this game is a FTP done right, now let's just hope Nintendo donesn't decide to Copyrigth the word "Shuffle".


7/10

And now if you excuse me, I'm gonna play some HarmoKnight (My second pick to redeem from Club Nintendo and also done by Game Freak).

My First Impressions with Metroid II

So I played Metroid II (My first pick to redeem on Club Nintendo before it shuts down)‎ 

It was something unexpected, to be a game that is many times told that it needs a remake, it does, but surpringsingly, it still plays well enough (in Metroid I got lost even with a guide, but here, I only used it once and shortly after I never needed it again, and I used it almost like, at the beggining), I thought I was gonna end up struggling with the jumping and aiming my shots... and I did... for about the first 5 minutes, after that it went well for me, what surprised me the most was the soundtrack, its SO SMALL yet so effective, I mean just listen to the title theme while remembering that you're going to a world infested with Metroids to destroy them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=453temu5BIg 

And yeah, there isn't much to listen, basically when you're in caves the music practically disappears, to the point that when you listen something else you know you have gone somewhere or you're in trouble (in case you encounter Metroids), Oh, and let's not forget the star of the game: The Metroids: they start easy, I kid you not, the first encounter with an Alpha Metroid is easy, but the more they evolve (Gamma Metroid onwards), they start to become more viscious, to the point that the first time you encounter a Gamma, Zeta or Omega Metroid, you might die if you're low on energy or low on missiles, so always have those two in check.

Something that also surprised me is how revolutionary this game is for the franchise, not only by giving us the desing we all love from Samus in her Powersuit (Since the Gameboy didn't had any colors the game had to tell us somehow that we got a new suit), but also giving us the Spider-Ball (Which we wont see back until Prime), the choice to change beams at will (But you have to search for the statue that has the beam and again, not seen again until Prime), recharge rooms (rooms with Energy/missiles refills) and save rooms (Good bye to those annoying passwords), etc. And what surprise me the most: All of this in such a small game, if you get to play this you will understand what I mean.

Overall: for my first impression of the game, it leaved me very happy and satisffied with the result. making me wish even more for this game to get a remake on a 3DS. 8/10.

P.S.: Kudos for the designers for making the hatchlings just as scary as the other Metroid forms (except Alpha Metroids, too dumb and to easy).