I really should have looked at the rules for War of the Glorious Riders before I tried it!
Super Sentai Legend Wars - VS Enter
Mar. 24th, 2019 10:32 pmI have no idea why, but for some reason, since getting to the point in the main story were Enter joins in as the villain du jour, the game will only let me play one stage at a time - it just loads indefinitely. I can't even return to the main screen. A "system" message pops up, but it disappears too quickly for me to read it.
I play at around the same time every day and I wonder if that's when the game does a daily reset or maintenance or something and I'm just running into that. I'll have to experiment.
Anyway, this should have been a much longer video, but in the meantime, enjoy the defeat of Enter.
(You know what? When I wrote "du jour" above, I wasn't even thinking about Enter's quirky, random use of French!)
I play at around the same time every day and I wonder if that's when the game does a daily reset or maintenance or something and I'm just running into that. I'll have to experiment.
Anyway, this should have been a much longer video, but in the meantime, enjoy the defeat of Enter.
(You know what? When I wrote "du jour" above, I wasn't even thinking about Enter's quirky, random use of French!)
I've decided to periodically post recordings of Kamen Rider City Wars and Super Sentai Legend Wars gameplay. There will rarely be sound, so... I dunno... maybe play some toku music in the background?
In this video: Imagin Quest Level 2 and Chapter 7 of Story Mode!
Phoenix is a fun baddy.
After recording, I found that a card I thought was for Kamen Rider Decade is, in fact, a form change card for Kamen Rider Zi-O. I've given it to him now and he's become my strongest Rider, so when I try War of the Glorious Riders tonight he'll probably be the one I use the most!
In this video: Imagin Quest Level 2 and Chapter 7 of Story Mode!
Phoenix is a fun baddy.
After recording, I found that a card I thought was for Kamen Rider Decade is, in fact, a form change card for Kamen Rider Zi-O. I've given it to him now and he's become my strongest Rider, so when I try War of the Glorious Riders tonight he'll probably be the one I use the most!
Super Sentai Saikyou Battle Episode 1
Mar. 21st, 2019 10:28 amThe main team we follow in this series is the kawarimono team. I'm seeing this translated all over the web as "weird" team or "oddball" team, but that isn't what that means. (It's close, but not quite right.) Kawarimono is for things which don't fit into other categories. It doesn't imply strangeness or weirdness any more than it implies being special.
Think about the members:
GoukaiRed - a pirate. What other group might he belong to? The vehicle group? No. The swordsman group? Maybe, but he's equally proficient with a gun. The strong group? That's for the rhino/bull/bulldozer characters.
AkaNinger - he could go in a "ninja" group, but there isn't one. The Kakurangers and Hurricangers are split onto different teams, which makes sense, otherwise the theoretical ninja team would all be from those few shows.
SasoriOrange - an orange scorpion alien. Could go with the Dairangers and Changemen but again, they're split.
JyuohEagle - can't be on an animal team, because his whole schtick is that he's human (as opposed to his Jyuman teammates).
ToQ-5 - her whole thing is being uncategorisable!
So it isn't that they're weird or oddball, just that they don't fit into the other 31 teams. Which is of course quite arbitrary - Rita could have based the teams on other things, where they may well have fit.
During the opening battle against the Goukaigers, I immediately thought that Gaisorg was a possessed Luka, but when we see Gaisorg unmasked in the preview for the second episode, even though we only see him from behind, it clearly isn't Luka. It actually looks a lot like AkaNinger to me, but that wouldn't make a great deal of sense at this point.
I was really happy to see BoukenSilver in action. It made me wonder how actors remember their characters don't know each other, even though they've acted together before. BoukenSilver's actor, playing the character Roy, met SasoriOrange in Kyuuranger VS Space Squad. But there they are, fighting like strangers.
I noticed something that I think will be important with the music: during each battle, it plays the henshin/roll call music of the eventual winner (if there are multiple characters on the winning team, it will play all of their music at some point). I thought I may be wrong during AkaNinger's battle with Go-OnRed, as he looked set to lose, but he ultimately won...
JyuohEagle and AkaNinger have both aged really well. I wish they'd get a team-up movie.
I loved Kagura's reaction to Captain Marvelous, and Yamato smirking in the background. He knows Marvelous is a big softy, but poor Kagura...! I also really liked how Kagura and Takaharu are immediately friends. It fits their characters perfectly, and also reminds me of the smart alec PE teachers sitting up the back during every school curriculum day I've ever attended...
Planet Nemesis reminds me of the Golden Saucer from Final Fantasy VII. I was waiting for Cait Sith to come out.
Rita's name cannot be a coincidence. She's a sorceress with a staff. Or is she? SasoriOrange and ToQ-5 both described what they saw as "appearing like magic", not necessarily actual magic. I don't think she's what she seems. Also, Sakamoto Koichi is the director, and he has a strong connection to another sorceress named Rita.
This is so well directed. It's essentially flawless. I know Arakawa Naruhisa has a tendency to stick his nose in and push for things to be consistent. I vaguely remember an article during the airing of Goukaiger where he said they suggested updating the 1970s and 1980s special effects and he strongly resisted. Why would their guns sound different now? They're the same guns.
I like how they've added the voices for the non-returning actors. Some were wrong, sadly - BoukenYellow, the blue Jetman - but many seem lifted from the characters' own shows. I'm pretty confident the grunts of the Goukaigers in their battle with Gaisorg come from the episode of Goukaiger where they battled Basco in a forest after he defeated Marvelous. Which just goes to show how many times I've watched Goukaiger over the years...
The only real concern I have is why they'd all so willingly fight one another. JyuohEagle explained it in his battle with Patran-1, I guess, when he said they should pit their techniques and skill against each other, not try to hurt each other. But I still can't imagine characters who are friends fighting one another. The only time we really saw that, though, was the fight between the yellow OhRanger and the yellow Carranger, but I don't know if they were actually friends after their versus movie, since I've never seen it.
There's also no mention of teammates trying to contact one another. BoukenSilver mentions he can't contact SGS, but did he try contacting BoukenYellow?
I think the show did address those issues. I'm just inclined to think there'd be more characters who are suspicious of what's going on than there seem to be.
All in all, though, this was basically perfect. Can't wait for the next episode.
Think about the members:
GoukaiRed - a pirate. What other group might he belong to? The vehicle group? No. The swordsman group? Maybe, but he's equally proficient with a gun. The strong group? That's for the rhino/bull/bulldozer characters.
AkaNinger - he could go in a "ninja" group, but there isn't one. The Kakurangers and Hurricangers are split onto different teams, which makes sense, otherwise the theoretical ninja team would all be from those few shows.
SasoriOrange - an orange scorpion alien. Could go with the Dairangers and Changemen but again, they're split.
JyuohEagle - can't be on an animal team, because his whole schtick is that he's human (as opposed to his Jyuman teammates).
ToQ-5 - her whole thing is being uncategorisable!
So it isn't that they're weird or oddball, just that they don't fit into the other 31 teams. Which is of course quite arbitrary - Rita could have based the teams on other things, where they may well have fit.
During the opening battle against the Goukaigers, I immediately thought that Gaisorg was a possessed Luka, but when we see Gaisorg unmasked in the preview for the second episode, even though we only see him from behind, it clearly isn't Luka. It actually looks a lot like AkaNinger to me, but that wouldn't make a great deal of sense at this point.
I was really happy to see BoukenSilver in action. It made me wonder how actors remember their characters don't know each other, even though they've acted together before. BoukenSilver's actor, playing the character Roy, met SasoriOrange in Kyuuranger VS Space Squad. But there they are, fighting like strangers.
I noticed something that I think will be important with the music: during each battle, it plays the henshin/roll call music of the eventual winner (if there are multiple characters on the winning team, it will play all of their music at some point). I thought I may be wrong during AkaNinger's battle with Go-OnRed, as he looked set to lose, but he ultimately won...
JyuohEagle and AkaNinger have both aged really well. I wish they'd get a team-up movie.
I loved Kagura's reaction to Captain Marvelous, and Yamato smirking in the background. He knows Marvelous is a big softy, but poor Kagura...! I also really liked how Kagura and Takaharu are immediately friends. It fits their characters perfectly, and also reminds me of the smart alec PE teachers sitting up the back during every school curriculum day I've ever attended...
Planet Nemesis reminds me of the Golden Saucer from Final Fantasy VII. I was waiting for Cait Sith to come out.
Rita's name cannot be a coincidence. She's a sorceress with a staff. Or is she? SasoriOrange and ToQ-5 both described what they saw as "appearing like magic", not necessarily actual magic. I don't think she's what she seems. Also, Sakamoto Koichi is the director, and he has a strong connection to another sorceress named Rita.
This is so well directed. It's essentially flawless. I know Arakawa Naruhisa has a tendency to stick his nose in and push for things to be consistent. I vaguely remember an article during the airing of Goukaiger where he said they suggested updating the 1970s and 1980s special effects and he strongly resisted. Why would their guns sound different now? They're the same guns.
I like how they've added the voices for the non-returning actors. Some were wrong, sadly - BoukenYellow, the blue Jetman - but many seem lifted from the characters' own shows. I'm pretty confident the grunts of the Goukaigers in their battle with Gaisorg come from the episode of Goukaiger where they battled Basco in a forest after he defeated Marvelous. Which just goes to show how many times I've watched Goukaiger over the years...
The only real concern I have is why they'd all so willingly fight one another. JyuohEagle explained it in his battle with Patran-1, I guess, when he said they should pit their techniques and skill against each other, not try to hurt each other. But I still can't imagine characters who are friends fighting one another. The only time we really saw that, though, was the fight between the yellow OhRanger and the yellow Carranger, but I don't know if they were actually friends after their versus movie, since I've never seen it.
There's also no mention of teammates trying to contact one another. BoukenSilver mentions he can't contact SGS, but did he try contacting BoukenYellow?
I think the show did address those issues. I'm just inclined to think there'd be more characters who are suspicious of what's going on than there seem to be.
All in all, though, this was basically perfect. Can't wait for the next episode.
Super Sentai Legend Wars Ryusouger Update
Mar. 20th, 2019 04:01 pmThe Super Sentai Legend Wars game just updated for Kishiryu Sentai Ryusouger - and it comes with a new campaign. You get RyusouRed, RyusouBlue and RyusouPink just for updating. Some awesome new stuff is available in the gasha using V-gems... and after logging in for six days you get a Legend Coin!
I'm excited.
But... uh... I'm actually more excited because I got a HebitsukaiSilver and Shaider today... :D
I'm excited.
But... uh... I'm actually more excited because I got a HebitsukaiSilver and Shaider today... :D
Kamen Rider Zi-O 1.5
Mar. 17th, 2019 06:50 amThat was informing.
I had already made the connection between Oma and Maou (thanks, in part, to the fantastic J-drama Maou, starring Ohno Satoshi from Arashi). And, of course, I realised that Zi-O (Ji-Oh?) was to be taken as "king of time", but I didn't make the connection that it was meant to look like the number 20. I think that's partly because I expect Japanese people to write numbers using kanji, but I should know better.
I had taken Tsukuyomi to have some meaning to do with the underworld (yomi), because she battles with the resistance/underground. I don't recall if we ever saw it written in episode one of Zi-O, and with all the homophones in Japanese, it's hard to know without seeing it. Of course yomi also makes sense as "reading" (a la kun'yomi and on'yomi), so "Moon Reader" is good.
Geiz... oddly, Geiz shows in this that he can act waaaaaaay better than he does in the show proper. Anyway. Did not know that the words pharaoh and mikado are related to the word "gate". Another case where it makes perfect sense when you see the kanji.
Part of me wonders, now, if Geiz is destined to become the king at some point.
I had already made the connection between Oma and Maou (thanks, in part, to the fantastic J-drama Maou, starring Ohno Satoshi from Arashi). And, of course, I realised that Zi-O (Ji-Oh?) was to be taken as "king of time", but I didn't make the connection that it was meant to look like the number 20. I think that's partly because I expect Japanese people to write numbers using kanji, but I should know better.
I had taken Tsukuyomi to have some meaning to do with the underworld (yomi), because she battles with the resistance/underground. I don't recall if we ever saw it written in episode one of Zi-O, and with all the homophones in Japanese, it's hard to know without seeing it. Of course yomi also makes sense as "reading" (a la kun'yomi and on'yomi), so "Moon Reader" is good.
Geiz... oddly, Geiz shows in this that he can act waaaaaaay better than he does in the show proper. Anyway. Did not know that the words pharaoh and mikado are related to the word "gate". Another case where it makes perfect sense when you see the kanji.
Part of me wonders, now, if Geiz is destined to become the king at some point.
Kamen Rider Zi-O Episode 1
Mar. 15th, 2019 11:28 amThat was pretty danged amazing.
Tokiwa is such an endearing guy (and very pleasant to look at). Geiz is really irritating - he's meant to be tough and whatnot, but he doesn't come across that way at all, just very full of himself.
I really liked how easily Tsukuyomi was able to take care of Build and Cross-Z. It not only showed how capable she is (and her gun has such a cool visual effect), but it made me wonder: if she is so tough, why couldn't she and a whole army defeat Oma Zi-O?
I'm very impressed with the Zi-O suit design and the henshin poses for both Riders. The visual effects are all just quite generally very cool, too.
I wasn't overly fond of the little person who gave the Build watch to the basketball player. I think they will grow to annoy me very quickly. Woz, however, seems absurdly cool. I kinda want Zi-O to become the evil demon king just so Woz can be happy, 'cause he seems just so lovely.
A really good start, I feel.
Tokiwa is such an endearing guy (and very pleasant to look at). Geiz is really irritating - he's meant to be tough and whatnot, but he doesn't come across that way at all, just very full of himself.
I really liked how easily Tsukuyomi was able to take care of Build and Cross-Z. It not only showed how capable she is (and her gun has such a cool visual effect), but it made me wonder: if she is so tough, why couldn't she and a whole army defeat Oma Zi-O?
I'm very impressed with the Zi-O suit design and the henshin poses for both Riders. The visual effects are all just quite generally very cool, too.
I wasn't overly fond of the little person who gave the Build watch to the basketball player. I think they will grow to annoy me very quickly. Woz, however, seems absurdly cool. I kinda want Zi-O to become the evil demon king just so Woz can be happy, 'cause he seems just so lovely.
A really good start, I feel.
Intentions
Mar. 4th, 2019 04:45 amI now have some vague plans for how to deploy content here.
Mondays
My thoughts on films. For now, they will mainly be films in the Godzilla franchise.
Tuesdays
My thoughts on classic tokusatsu. For now, that will mainly be Ultra Q.
Wednesdays
Updates on writing.
Thursdays
My thoughts on current tokusatsu. Right now, it would be Super Sentai Saikyou Battle. I'm not sure if I'll follow-up with Kishiryu Sentai Ryusouger yet. I definitely plan to watch it, but I feel weird watching one part of Super Hero Time but not the other. I guess I could start Kamen Rider Zi-O! But then I fear I'd miss the references to past series. It's all so complex!
Friday
Fridays will be for me to follow up on other things, so there may or may not be anything posted here.
This'll begin next Monday (11 March 2019). I'll see how it goes in March and decide whether it needs any adjustments.
Writing updates
Feb. 27th, 2019 06:00 amI'm on holiday until 04 March, so I'm not doing a lot! That makes now as good a time as any to post updates on my writing plans - at least for the coming year.
Right now? I'm editing a tale for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonofgodzilla. I've been interrupted in the editing a couple of times, but he should have it by the end of the week. After that, we'll be putting the finishing touches on Bento Box #22 for Artifice Comics.
And then? There's so much - but the immediate things will be writing Stellar Guardian Southern Cross, editing and releasing Tetsuman Vol.1 forsonofgodzilla and publishing new editions of Doc Smith's Lensman novels.
(I promise, there is a detailed list, we're not making things up as we go along - but I'm sure we've all experienced times where we've published our plans, only to fail to meet them and look like chumps... so cards close to the chest now.)
Right now? I'm editing a tale for
sonofgodzilla. I've been interrupted in the editing a couple of times, but he should have it by the end of the week. After that, we'll be putting the finishing touches on Bento Box #22 for Artifice Comics.And then? There's so much - but the immediate things will be writing Stellar Guardian Southern Cross, editing and releasing Tetsuman Vol.1 for
sonofgodzilla and publishing new editions of Doc Smith's Lensman novels.(I promise, there is a detailed list, we're not making things up as we go along - but I'm sure we've all experienced times where we've published our plans, only to fail to meet them and look like chumps... so cards close to the chest now.)
I have returned!
Feb. 26th, 2019 05:16 pmIt's been a long time, Dreamwidth.
I was one of Dreamwidth's earliest members, having emigrated from LiveJournal as part of the events which led to Dreamwidth's creation. I eventually stopped journalling/blogging and someone else wanted my username, so I left.
But now... I feel I should have somewhere I can talk about reading, writing and tokusatsu, even if no-one will ever read it, so I'm back.
...
Hi.
I was one of Dreamwidth's earliest members, having emigrated from LiveJournal as part of the events which led to Dreamwidth's creation. I eventually stopped journalling/blogging and someone else wanted my username, so I left.
But now... I feel I should have somewhere I can talk about reading, writing and tokusatsu, even if no-one will ever read it, so I'm back.
...
Hi.
