TYPE-MOON reviews: Melty Blood

[NeutralDrow]

I like fighting games and I rather liked the game other than the fact, the last boss was near impossible for me. Actually I liked Kohaku the best and for some strange reason I liked all the voices. I usually don't have fondness for cutesy or high-pitched squeals.

Oh god, G. Akiha, right? I feel your pain.

Since I use the joystick anyway I didn't have much problem either. Probably the only major problem I had with this was story. I couldn't follow it at all despite the fact that I already read the manga. Still I found the story not satisfactory. It had a novel idea. Great review.

Yeah, Melty Blood isn't quite on the incomprehensibility level of, say, Kara no Kyoukai, but I can see how it can be pretty confusing. Worked fine for me, but I like usually like trying to wrap my brain around convoluted stories (with exceptions, but this isn't one), so I might not be the best judge.

And thanks!

 

[tomtom94]

It's always good to get a heads up on games that I'd never hear about otherwise.
And your reviews are a great mixture of informative and amusing, as ever.
(That said, when I initially saw the game's title in the review header I was slightly perplexed)

 

[mikev7.0]

Thanks for linking me to this it was a great review. This is why I wish we all got the same games. This fighting game/story series has apparently gone on for years and my two favorite genres are fighting and rpg!! Geez, I know nothing when it comes to fighting games that just don't make it here. Oh well needing to do more research is never a bad thing so thanks for taking the time to help us out!

I didn't know it was a PC game, but it sounds like something I would play through just for the story so I could probably make it on the keyboard. From what it sounds like though the boss might make me go buy a controller.

 

[NeutralDrow]

In the first game, there's pretty much no difference. They have the same attacks; their Arc Drives just look different because Nanaya doesn't have Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

They're more distinct in <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gsGCKFMV-c>later titles. Shiki Tohno gets more close-range, sweeping attacks, while Nanaya gets more speed-based (while keeping that Chun Li-style lightning slash). Also, Nanaya gets a version of his move from Kagetsu Tohya that he uses to kill Shiki.

This might be a little late to still be relevant, but Nanaya doesn't have the MEoDP? I never got around to playing Kagetsu Tohya, but I assumed since Nanaya was just an extension of Shiki, he would also have the eyes.

Nope. He's roughly the same here as he was in KT (exactly the same once White Len takes over the villain role), where he was Shiki's manifested fear of becoming a killer. Ultimately, that meant that he became what Shiki might have been had he stayed with the Nanaya family and started to enjoy killing people.

That's why he's so different in personality from the Shiki Nanaya in Tsukihime, and why in KT he's vastly superior to Shiki in terms of fighting ability...and why (as Shiki himself realizes) Shiki's only advantage is that he has the MEoDP.

Also really great review. Gonna have to re-install Melty Blood at some point.

Thanks! I need to get around to reviewing Re-Act and Act Cadenza, myself.

...and I still haven't gotten to play Actress Again. >_>