sry been busy.

Anyway previously I had written out this long comprehensive guide sort of thing towards fighting games that I never really finished. In the end I realize it’s for the better since it kind of defeats the purpose of learning how to play fighters by just reading some guide. Experience through trial and error and observation are much better means of grasping the concepts behind fighters so I’ll spare finishing the entire product. Instead I salvaged just a little remainder of what I thought was important, Chris Hu of East Coast’s thoughts behind fighting games and a little annotation of a MBAA fight that I thought displayed certain advance fighting game concepts well.

“Combination means mix up,anti mix up, mix up is a very comprehensive topic we are discussing about, mix up is about your style. let me have a example, SF4 once u knock down the opponent, how many options u have? basically, it’s grab,fake grab(walk front and then walk back!) cross up, fake cross up, do nothing trick the opponent do stupid shit. that’s the basic option mix up u can have, pirticular chacracters have pirticular mix up, like rufus, EL,etc. how to use good mix up that relates how u know about your opponent style during the match. Mix up is the shit u guys have to know and use it very smoothly.” – Fighting Game Concept

:01-:20 – General poking and spacing game to determine who will be put in pressure first.

:20 – Highspeed misses the anti-air katto and thus immediately starts to defend thinking Yuu will attempt to rush him down, which he does.

:20-:29 – Yuu pressures with quick moves with small unsafe gaps in between his pressure strings. Highspeed does not try to escape because he knows Yuu can bait and punish that.

:30 – Highspeed at this point is too tense to see the overhead coming due to Yuu’s unpredictability and gets hit with it, eating a 2k combo ending in knockdown thus resetting pressure.

:40 – Yuu purposely leaves a gap (this is called a frame trap) and Highspeed attempts to jump out, Yuu foresees this and tries to prevent it.

:48 – Highspeed manages to free himself of Yuu’s pressure and throws Yuu into the corner. Because of his low life he’s playing very safe.

:54 – Yuu dodge rolls out of Warachia’s 2C. Because dodging in MBAA has a bit of recovery, Highspeed could have reversal EX Katto’d to hit Yuu’s Sion if he was to attack, but knowing that Yuu could block it on reaction he chooses to play it safe and block whatever Yuu was gonna do next, however that happened to be a throw thus beating his choice.

:56 – Yuu fakes a 2A keeping Highspeed to play defensively. He runs in and successfully throws again.

:58 – This is actually a more advance technique called Fuzzy Guarding which is character specific to specific games. In 2D fighting games, if you block an overhead, your character’s hitbox will stick to its standing size when blocking the next hit allowing for some normally impossible moves to hit. Highspeed block’s Sion’s j.C, Sion jump cancels it and hits with a fuzzy j.A (you can see Warachia crouch blocks) which isn’t an overhead but keeps pressure going. He hits with another blocked j.A and immediately cancels into Sion’s unique j.214B which is slow but unblockable. Highspeed thought Yuu was going to land and hit low so he went back to blocking low. By the time he realizes that it wasn’t a low, he guards high on reaction to a possible overhead but forgets that the j.214B is unblockable entirely thus eating it and losing the round.

Next post coming: ?_?

Gift is producing a new Saber figure, and this time it’s Lily.
No price nor release date has been set yet.
But this figure is just amazing, the best word I can think of to describe it is just “wow”. I’ll definitely get this.

Source: Wcloudx Blog

Artist: Sufu

It’s been a while since my last blog post(again), so here’s one with a bunch of recent loot. I might have forgotten some stuff since I just picked up whatever came to mind that I haven’t blogged about yet. Recently I’ve found it too troublesome to take pictures of everything.

So, to start out.
Here’s Windows 7 Home Premium which I purchased at Amazon UK at a ridiculously cheap price. It was even 800 sek($108) cheaper than it would have been if I purchased one in Sweden.
Before this I had been using W7RC2 since August and I thought it was about time to get an actual copy of it as I didn’t feel like going back to XP.

Then we have a couple of novels I decided to pick up; And Then There Were None, Fafner: Dead Aggressor, Yukikaze and No Longer Human.
I’ve started out reading Yukikaze, or well, I haven’t really gotten around to it yet, but it’s the one I’ve begun reading a little at least.

In early January I received these; 3 doujins (1 non-h) and TYPE-MOON Ace volume 4 which also came with a 2010 calendar.

I finally also got my Azaka figure which I had been waiting for, for quite a bit too long. I had first ordered it from Play-Asia, but they didn’t get it in stock so I ended up canceling my order and went to AmiAmi instead. They shipped it one day after I had ordered it, which was on a Saturday – and I received it on the Tuesday after. The shipping price was also really cheap. Thus I’ve come to the conclusion that I will never order figures from any store other than AmiAmi. Also because I’ve never had anything to complain about there, compared to other online stores. Their customer support, prices, etc. Everything is splendid!
(The picture turned out bad, I don’t have enough lights here and it’s dark outside already)

And then finally I received these today; All DECO*27′s three albums and the Garden of sisters DJCD. Just like all the previous Rakkyo DJCDs I purchased this one because it has Azaka on the cover. Nonetheless after having listened to the other DJCDs, I enjoy them. So in the future if they decide to release more I might as well purchase them, even if they don’t have Azaka on the cover.

I was also given this dakimakura cover of Kaju and Momo from the manga and anime Saki for free from my friend, as he didn’t want it.