Ilaiya 🎭

3 more Musou Modes left, and unfortunately despite there being less, but more focused Musou Mode campaigns in Dynasty Warriors 4 compared to DW3, I don't think I really like DW4's campaigns any more than 3's. I think it entirely comes down to stage design, 4 is even more mixed than 3 imo.

Nanman Musou Mode was somehow even worse than I expected... I could go on for way too long about how bad Meng Huo is without his C6, so I already expected that to be hell, but despite being a really short Musou Mode with only 4 stages, somehow 2 of them were some of the worst stages in the game ;-;

Ilaiyayaya - Twitch [Dynasty Warriors 4] We're Getting the Worst Campaign Out of the Way NOW (#7)

Awawawawa I haven't had much time for stream-related stuff the last few weeks, but I do have the free time to stream right now!
I'm doing DW4's Nanman Musou Mode campaign today :c

www.twitch.tv/ilaiyayaya

Maybe I should add a direct way to comment/ask questions on my website eventually? But I feel like that would probably be kinda hard to implement, especially considering that as of now it's entirely made up of very poorly put together HTML and CSS.

Maybe I could just link an e-mail or something...?

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It's really cool that someone went out of their way to comment on a silly little scuffed webpage I made, and I guess some people are finding it through neocities, but this is like finding a message in a bottle, I can't log into that account, I have no way of directly acknowledging this person lmao

[[REDACTED]] just commented on your site: it's so interesting that utawarerumono zan is one of the best musous in your opinion...!!! as someone who LOVES utawarerumono the vn i'm glad the zan adaptation stacks up. utawarerumono zan 2 finally got a localization in english if you ever want to give that a try too!!

I completely forgot that when I made my site last year I was originally going to host it through neocities. I ended up not doing that, but since I made the account I just had it redirect to the real page, but I guess neocities supports website comments, so uhhh... I can't respond to this lol 😭

The majestic Red Hare steed in its natural low poly Playstation 2 environment! Isn't it beautiful?

I still have 3 extra musou mode campaigns left (Nanman, Yuan Shao, and Lu Bu, as well as the Xtreme Legends campaigns later) but we're now done with all 3 of the main DW4 campaigns! 🎉 Now I should be able to efficiently get *most* rare items before next stream SO WE'LL FINALLY HAVE A HORSE! YIPPEE!!

Oopsies, I ended up having several real life things happen this week so I didn't really have the time to stream at all, I'll probably stream tomorrow, if not then Monday.
However I did have the time to finish a few more musou guidebook scans, so I'll have more of those uploaded by tomorrow!

AN ENGLISH RELEASE WAS CONFIRMED ALREADY??? AAAAAAAAA DISGAEA MUSOU!!!

I've considered getting a portable emulation system but I also still like physical versions of the games that I *really* like, and I know there are several games on the Vita that I want physically, so that's mainly why I want a Vita specifically, there definitely are better devices for playing games

I think those are candles??? Definitely not a Sony Playstation Vita though.

I should buy a PS Vita... I need Vita game recommendations... VN-Machine go bzzzzzzzz

(Please no musou recommendations btw I already know all of those (as far I'm aware 🤔) I already plan to buy Dynasty Warriors Next, the Senran Kagura games, and Winning Post 8)

So far DW4 has made stages even better than they were in DW3, but they seem to not have fixed any problems with a lot of character movesets and that's a bit disappointing. Most characters were fine to begin with, but I really dread doing high difficulty content with units like Zhuge Liang again...

What's worse is that it has recovery frames at the end, not a ton, but enough to be countered if the opponent takes advantage, and on higher difficulties they absolutely do take advantage of any openings. The main purpose of a musou attack is to get you out of a dangerous situation, not into one!

It starts fine, just a set of simple swipes, but it ends with a forward thrust that only hits the enemies to his right, nothing directly in front, behind, or to his left, so you have to position him super precisely to actually hit what you want, and it's borderlines useless when trapped in a crowd.

I'm talking about Sun Jian, he's a mostly alright character, not too different from Liu Bei's playstyle or presumably Cao Cao's (I'm guessing he didn't change much either from DW3) but his musou attack has always been one of the worst in the entire roster and yet it's completely unchanged in DW4.

Most characters have the exact same kit, or at least mostly the same in Dynasty Warriors 4 as they did in DW3, and that's mostly fine because I thought they were overall really well designed characters, but it also means that the few characters that really needed some adjustments don't get them.

It's just Dynasty Warriors 3 again lol, mostly the same movesets, a lot of reused assets, even most of the same modes, I guess it's not too surprising that 4 is just as good, but it *really* is fantastic!
SO FAR THE STAGES ARE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT OVER DW3 AND I ALREADY THOUGHT 3'S WERE GOOD!

Heh heh heh heh heh hehehehe 🤤 1 session in and Dynasty Warriors 4 is already just as great as I had hoped!

This will probably be the only game I'll be able to play for 3 or 4 months. DW3 was already a huge undertaking, but DW4 has so much more stuff to go through: several more modes, 11 weapon stages for each character instead of 5, a few more characters ;-;
But it's fine it'll be a fun few months

I'm so excited to start Dynasty Warriors 4 tomorrow after how good DW3 was last year!
It's been too long since I've had an actual significant musou to dig into, the last one that wasn't a super short side game WARRIORS ALL-STARS DOESN'T COUNT was Samurai Warriors 1, and that game wassss... something

haven't made a step sound yet so i'm using a clip of alucard saying "What?!" from castlevania symphony of the night with randomized pitch as a placeholder.

I didn't watch the Playstation Nintendo Direct but NEW 2D CASTLEVANIA AND NEW DEAD OR ALIVE?????? AND A METAL GEAR SOLID 4 PORT???????? HELLO????? 2026 YEAR OF THE PS3??????

It's so bad ;-;

Another new website update less than 2 weeks after the last woooo yay!!! 👏👏👏
I hated MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies so much I'm so glad I never have to think about it or its stupid long title ever again.
Worst Neptunia game.

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There are some other small things that contribute to combat feeling clunky too, like all missions averaging like 5 enemies, and large bosses having nonsense hitboxes, but those are less important.
Basically MegaTagmension Blanc is a prime example of subtle changes ruining everything THIS GAME SUCKS!

It's a super minor difference, a couple of frames per animation, but when those extensions are applied to EVERY action, it becomes really noticeable, and combined with those other 2 mechanical quirks that rely on fast attacks to feel tolerable it makes MegaTagmension's combat feel super clunky.

Attack animations for most returning characters in MegaTagmension U are *slightly* extended, either through entirely new animations that are much longer, or by adding extra hold frames and visual effects to recycled animations. Those new animations *look* nice, but many *feel* bloated.

In Neptunia U these weren't that noticeable when playing as most characters thanks to almost all attack animations being super fast, and most that are longer launch you into the air as well which inherently negates cancelling and queuing as mechanics anyways.

It's a combination of a bunch of small things of course, no big surprise there. Both games have a really heavy action queuing system that would take more characters to explain than Bluesky allows, as well as the lack of basically any significant animation-cancelling potential-

I've spent way too much time and brainpower in the last few days trying to deduce why exactly combat in MegaTagmension feels so much worse than in Neptunia U, despite sharing a lot of the same fundamentals, and after hours of labbing like a competitive FGC player I think I've solved the case!