SMT X Fire Emblem

This is the weirdest crossover yet,I think,the last one that surprised me was Pokémon Conquest.

Crossing the modern Shin Megami Tensei series with the fantasy Fire Emblem feels weird,and I will give my thoughts on this,even though this game's been announced like 2 months ago.

On the Fire Emblem side of things,I played Path of Radiance,Radiant Dawn,Shadow Dragon and Awakening.
On the SMT side,I played 5 hours Devil Survivor Overclocked.I really want to play Persona 4 Golden but that's all the experience I have with the SMT series.
I'm sure you can find someone else that put a lot more time into both series than I have,but whatever,I still want to talk about this.

To my limited knowledge from only playing Devil Survivor Overclocked,I'd say that the Shin Megami Tensei characters would kill the Fire Emblem characters.

I personally like Fire Emblem more than the Devil Survivor game,but I can't ignore the fact that the SMT characters fight demons as common enemies as opposed to the generic soldiers from Fire Emblem.
In Fire Emblem,only mages can use magic and pretty much any character in any SMT game at least has some form of magic,and while I never finished Devil Survivor,I assume you fight bosses way above the level of Fire Emblem.

Based on the power difference,we can assume the jumbled mess of a story will be the everyone fighting against a common enemy or they will have to nerf the SMT characters by making some bullshit about "This dimension weakens our power".
I can honestly see both happening.


Also,I wonder if thee crossover will just pick out the tried and true mechanics of their respective series or if they will include stuff like the Pair Up option from Fire Emblem Awakening or if the Demon Fusion will be in this game,or maybe the social links in they really want to get in depth,but I feel that's too ambitious,so I feel the developers would want to play it safe and are betting that the crossover in itself is enough for people.

Ok,this game will be for the Wii U.While I am happy that the Wii U will be getting some JRPG love,I'm not sure what justifies it being there instead of the 3DS,since Japan love gaming on the go.
There's not really any RPG's on the Wii U at the moment,and I assume it's because no one knows how to take advantage of the Touchpad instead of just being a second screen,since the 3DS has the same thing,but it's non intrusive compared to the way the Wii U would do it.

Aside from the improved graphics,I see no way how it would benefit the game.
Maybe better online or something,who knows,maybe they just want to move units in Japan and this is the best way to do it.All of the recent Fire Emblem and SMT have been for the handheld systems,so I don't think I'm wrong in this regard.

I'm know Atlus and Intelligent Systems are working on it,so it should be a quality game with both of them backing each other up.

We didn't really get much info from the teaser trailer,they just basically announced it.

One thing to note that the game will have will probably go for the Teen rating,since I can't imagine Nintendo approving one of their games with a Mature rating but for all I know,maybe they will because the game might be more centered on SMT and less on Fire Emblem.

There's not anything else to speculate on except for the effect this might have on the respective series.

Fire Emblem Awakening sold pretty good,the best it's ever done over here in America and did pretty good in Japan as well.

Devil Survivor 2 sold ok over here I assume,by Atlus standards,and that game is getting remade for the 3DS.
SMT 4 is coming out in a couple of months for Japan and I assume it will be a year until we see an English release.
Soul Hackers is coming out next month,and I assume that game won't break any records.
Persona 4 Golden is Atlus' killer app even though it was on the Vita,I heard it did good all things considered.

Atlus' games usually sell a small amount and Fire Emblem at its weakest can still barely beat the best selling SMT games,in America at least.

Maybe this crossover will help the SMT series here in America,Awakening is the pinnacle of the series in terms of sales and pairing a somewhat similar RPG game with Fire Emblem has to good for said series.

As long as the crossover game has a casual mode,I'm almost convinced that Awakening sold as well as it did because the permadeath aspect intimidated many people from trying the games out so it's in the best interest for SMT to have an easy mode,if they want the series to sell well in places besides Japan.
Japan loves to grind apparently,everyone else in the world can't tolerate it as much as they can,so make it more accessible and you should be good to go.


If they do just that,the SMT games will get a bigge fanbase,which means more money for them,which means more localized titles for us,so I hope everyone goes smoothly.


Hopefully we'll get more info on E3,but remember,this was announced thorugh a Nintendo Direct,which was announced like a day in advance,so we might be getting more details at any given time.

Breaking the ice with a nintendo ds

This entry is just about how my borderline obsessive hobby helped me with my social awkwardness back then,I'm better now than I used to be,but I still have a long way to go before I reach my ideal status.

I used to be a little more outgoing and loud in middle school but for some reason,I became more introverted in high school,maybe I became more aware or something,I'm still not really sure


Freshman year was the year when I didn't make any new friends,I just talked more to some of my old friends.I was bored in the classes where I had no friends but at that point,I got used to being alone and often thought about deep stuff,and I was content with that.

Sophomore year,I talked to some of my classmates from freshman year and became friends,but a notable thing was that I started to bring out my DS Lite,at least in elective classes.
I was a little shy about playing my Nintendo DS in high school but nobody seemed to give a shit or thought differently of me,so I went on doing my thing.

In my pre-law class,that helped me make a new friend,Luis,who for the life of me I can't remember his last name but he sat next to me because he wanted to see or whatever and after sometime,we got to taking about RPGs,mainly Tales of Symphonia.
I lost touch with him after that year because he graduated,but he was pretty cool.

In my junior year,I pretty much did the same thing,my law 1 class I at least managed to make small talk with a dude named Brandon,and while we really didn't hit it off,at least we're on good terms.
Later on in the year,a new student suddenly appeared,his name was Alex.

He pretty much outright said he sat next to me because he wanted to see what I was playing and of course I let him,I had plenty of games to show off.He's pretty cool,we're also on good terms but I wish I had him for other classes

Now my senior year,the year I'm currently in right now.Again,in Law 3 class,my ds...I mean my Zelda 3DS helped me.
I made a friend in Hector,and we're pretty good friends.He's into video games and anime,and he's well versed in the internet.Yes,even on THAT side of the internet,the side I actively try to avoid.
It's a wonder we didn't meet sooner,considering how similar our hobbies are.

Anyway the point was is that my DS did help me out sometimes but I didn't mention that there were always classes that I never talked,and maybe that's a good thing,because maybe they could've been bad people or something but I can't ignore the fact that maybe it was my DS that prevented people from talking to be because I was busy or something.

Being quiet is pain sometimes,you know that your shy but other people may see you as arrogant for not talking to everyone else and that just hurts your chances to talk to people.

Anyway,for college,I plan on doing the same exact thing,because that's pretty much what I do.


I won't post this on Twitter,but I don't mind having it on the blog though,so if you found this,then congrats.

Oh god,this sounds like a bad school essay paper or something,I hope you never find this.

A new possibility for Pokemon...maybe...?

As you know,Pokemon X and Y are coming out on the 3DS later this year,details have been scarse since the initial reveal trailer,all they only revealed one other Pokemon,and alot of people are keeping busy trying to figure out what the hell Sylveon's type is.

Since the 3DS is more internet friendly than the original DS,some people have speculated that Generation 6 will be the "last' generation of Pokemon.I don't mean that the franchise will die off,I mean that they won't release anymore more paired versions of Pokemon because it won't be necesary.

Game Freak could make Generation 6 the perpetual generation and just release new regions and Pokemon as expansion pack DLC.
In the past,Game Freak had to hide the event Pokemon data in the game carts,so people always hacked the games and we know what Pokemon will be events years before they come out.

If Game Freak embraces the internet,they could just not include the event Pokemon on the game cart and release them later on as DLC,hopefully for free.

The concept has never been done before,at least to my knowledge,with any franchise,so Pokemon might introduce a new thing to the video game world.

Game Freak has been ambitious as of late,so I could see this happening.
The Dream World/Pokemon Global Link in Gen 5 is an example of this,how many games also have the ability to connect to a webpage that allows you to get more stuff in your games like Pokemon with different abilities and items to help you on the main games?

The Dream World was forshadowed all the way back in Ruby and Sapphire back in 2003,and the concept of DLC was sort of touched upon with Mew way back in 1995,on the Game Boy.ON.THE.GAME.BOY.

I have no idea how likely it is,but just thinking about it makes me look forward to the future of Pokemon,I've been a fan since the beginning and the future for the pocket mons has never looked so bright.

Throwaway lines could have more meaning
than we initially think.

Early thoughts on Naruto Storm 3

Alright,as you may know,I played the first one and aside from the boss battles and how pretty the game looks,nothing really stood out.

Then I played Storm 2 two weeks ago,Feb 23 to be exact.I don't know what happened but I loved the game a lot more than the first,maybe it was because I never seen Shippuden before or the fact that I didn't have to play tree mini games to advance the plot but it left a better impact on me.
Due to time however,I didn't get to play Generations because Storm 3 was coming out in 2 days,so I wouldn't have the time or money to get though that game.

Now,I'm about 3 hours in and it's pretty much what you would expect from a sequel to Storm 2.The sandbox like story mode is there,the gameplay is pretty much the same with the exception of the substitution gauge.

And one of the most important annoyance got fixed in this game.You can smash the pots to get items as opposed to slowly taking the lid off and placing on the ground while the character collects the item!
This really bothered me in Storm 2,especially since you smashed stuff in Storm 1 for items,so I don't know why they changed it in the first place.

In the story,there now seems to be branching paths,you can chose the easier Hero path or the harder Legend path at certain points in the game.I don't know how significant the changes,if any,will be,but it was a pleasant surprise.

The last new thing is mob battles in the story mode,Dynasty Warriors but using the Ultimate NInja Storm engine is the best description I can come up with.

I may or may not give my full thoughts on this game since it seems to be mostly the same,but who knows,I might rant or praise something in the game later on.

This costume is less random now with the addition
of Mob Battles.

Getting back into Naruto

The last time I watched Naruto was on Toonami and I stopped watching because of filler and because Shippuden was so daunting,that I swore I would wait until the series was over and then watch it at my leisure.

In 2012,I finally bought a PS3,and one of the games I always wanted to try out was Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm.I enjoyed it,but that was more nostalgic for since I haven't seen the series in a while.

For months,I really didn't do anything with the series until Toonami brought back Naruto.Funny how everything came full circle and that got me even more into the series.

 After I discovered the magic that is Crunchyroll,I came across Naruto SD.



Great times are had as Neji loses
ALL of his dignity.

The show is amusing and I like how some other characters get screentime like poor Tenten,but it's ultimately a fun distraction,nothing more.

 Watching these characters again post-time skip in comedy situations really gets you interested in the main story again,so I tried the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 demo and I realized just how much I missed.

Not to mention that a few of my friends were still watching the series and it gave me extra incentive to get back into it,for more conversation opportunities,because I really need that.

So I went to Gamestop and bought Ultimate Ninja Storm 2,and I'm in the middle of playing it.I love it,I'm able to get the gist of the story and it's pretty much like watching the anime due to the awesome graphics.

I pre ordered Ultimate Ninja Storm 3,although the demo was cool,the Goku costume gave me incentive to pre-order,as scrawny as Naruto looks in Goku's Gi,I still wanted that because I'm a hopeless Dragon Ball fan.





I bet he can't even use the Power Pole!
 

So here I am,back into the series like I was when I was 11-13ish.I doubt I'll get as into it like I did back then,I can't exactly play the Naruto CCG at the comic book store because I'm more into games than cards and because the players there had questionable moral values.
And because everyone used the same cards and made matches feel too similar,but the other reasons just sound better.

Anyway,I wanted to share my "story" on my return to the series,so I hoped you got a kick out of it.