Monday, February 15, 2016

My Awakening to Fire Emblem

Sup guys, Storm here. Today my good friends came over and let me borrow their 3DS along with their copy of Fire Emblem Awakening. I have never played a Fire Emblem game before, so I was excited to start playing. I have only played for a little bit less than an hour, but it has already hooked me. So now I will share with you my first impressions of the game.
Fire Emblem meme
So first off, creating my character was pretty cool. I always think that it is fun when you get to design who you want to be. I wish that there were some more options for you to use, but it wasn't a big problem. I also like how you can be strong in one ability of your choosing and a weakness in one ability of your choice. For example, you can choose to have more HP and choose to be weaker in magic.
Picture of male and female Robin in Smash for Wii U
Second, the gameplay itself was cool. I haven't really played many strategy games, but I do like them. Even though I have just started, I have noticed that it really makes you think about your strategy and where you should place your characters and who you should attack. I like how when you go next to the enemy and attack it, it zooms in to the battle for better graphics and cool fighting.
Gameplay
Third, the story is compelling. I don't want to spoil it for people who want to play, even though I just started. But I will say that it brings you along with interest. I wish that there was more I could say on this subject, but I don't want to spoil anything and I would just be writing out the first part of the story, so there is really no point.
Chrom... He is so epic...
So those are my first impressions of Fire Emblem Awakening, If you want to ask me a question, tell me how awesome my play on words was in the title, or just simply want to talk to me, contact me or tell me in the comments below. I read all of my comments and I will be sure to reply. Have a nice day. :)

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Improve Your Smash Play with Anther's Ladder

Hey guys! This is my first post. Today I am going to talk to you about a website that has helped me improve in Smash 4 a lot. This website is called Smash Ladder.
Smashladder
Smash Ladder (also called Anther's Ladder) is a website that is designed to help Smashers play online, improve their techniques, and meet other people like them. From the time that I have been on, most of the people are nice. Every once in a while though, you will find someone who is a jerk or just not friendly. But most of the people who are kind will tell you things that you are doing wrong in your gameplay and tell you how to improve those flaws. Anther's Ladder is set up in sets, like a tournament, not individual battles. They even do striking stages like how tournaments do. Every Smash game is available to play here, even fan projects like Project M and Super Smash Flash 2.

They also have a ranking system. The more battles that you win, the more your rank goes up, and the more battles you lose, your rank will drop down. There are three levels of ranking in one general rank. For example, in the bronze level, there is bronze III, II, and I. Same goes for all of the rest of the ranks. Also there are points in each sub rank that go up from 1 to 100. When you hit 100 you will go up a sub rank. The ranks go in this order from least to greatest: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Master, and and Grand Smasher.
The cool part about the ranking system is that higher ranked players cannot just beat lower ranking players for lots of points. For example: If someone who is ranked Bronze I fights a player ranking Gold I, the player who wins will gain no points and player who loses won't lose any.

You also have the ability to put in your location, so that you can fight players close to you. Don't worry about people finding you in real life, however, as the site protects your privacy, and only shows your state and city. And you can change the settings later if you want to only show your state and country.

So if you guys are looking for a good challenge against experienced Smashers, then Anther's Ladder is definitely the website for you! I hope to see you guys on there soon.