PS2 Namco X Capcom- RysioGenre: tRPG with action battlesWatch game oppening here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCm2L-Gn5Q&feature=related Watch battle gameplay here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67U6FKCJ_0 Basics As the name suggests, NxC is a crossover game with characters from Namco and Capcom universe, like Jin and Heihachi from Tekken, Shion and KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, Mitsurugi and Taki from Soul Calibur, Klonoa and Gantz from…Klonoa, Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter, Stan and Rutee from Tales of Destiny, Megaman and Roll from Megaman(surprised, aren't you?) , Regina from Dino Crysis, Bruce from Resident Evil Outbreak, even Mr.Driller (named Taizou here), are present here. NxC is different from the other crossovers, because of its genre (yeah, it’s not a fighting game ), and for its good story . It was relased in Japan only, but it has full English fan translation made by Transgen crew. System NxC game system is divided in two parts – the turn based action on the map and dynamic battles . Lets focus on the map system first. The map screen You begin each level on a 3d map with some 2d characters on it (similliar to Disgaea). You can command up to 25 units, and your objective is always the same- kill all enemies , and protect certain units from getting killed ,or it’s game over . The game is turn based, which means you move your units one-by –one, with order decided by their current AP (action points, the max is 10) and speed skill. When it’s your turn, you can perform 5 basic actions- attack, MA (multiple assault), use skills, move or wait. All actions other than “use skill” which costs you MP(magic points), cost some AP, like attacking costs you 3AP and moving costs 1AP. Once your turn is finished, it comes time for another unit, and when all units have finished their turn, another phase begins and all units on the field gain 1AP. You can also gain AP by killing foes or defending their attacks successfully, that brings us to fighting system. Multiple Assault When an enemy is in your unit’s attack range you can attack him. The battle system is almost the same as the one used in Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier (NDS), but better. Unlike EF, you can choose which attack to perform during the game, by pressing certain direction button along with circle button, instead of choosing it from the menu before battles(which is kinda lame in my opinion). Also, you get rewards by performing good aerial combos with bonuses like branch(combos) up, damage up, special up or item get. Also, all units here have elemental weaknesses and resistances, for example Scythe Weasel is weak against fire attacks, and resistant to dark, so it’s good idea to attack them with units who have fire attacks, like Reiji & Xiaomu or Ken Masters. There also are MAs (multiple assaults), a cool-looking and very poverful moves which can be performed when certain ally units are near in position, like Ryu and Ken, Shion an KOS-MOS, Reiji and Xiaomu. When you are being attacked, you defend yourself by pressing certain direction buttons rhythmically, when successfully performed , will give you up to 2 free AP – it's a nice bonus, but it takes too much time, enemy turns can even take 15 minutes of your precious time – that’s wrong. King and Felicia united? Why not~!? Story Ten years ago, two organisations were fighting. Shinra, organization sworn to protect humanity from non-human, mystical threats, and Ouma, organisation devoted to bring chaos to the world. During the fight, one of best Shinra agents, Shougo Arisu was killled protecting his son, Reiji. The boy was shot in the head, and almost died. During past ten years he was raised as Shinra solider by his father's old partner, Xiaomu. Now, the world suffers from mysterious Sleeping Sickness, which makes people fall in eternal sleep, and never wake up. But the situation is even worse. Space and time disortions (called Quakes) started to occur all over the world, teleporting monsters and demons to our cities. Unussually big Quake happened in now isolated city, Shibuya. Reiji and Xiaomu were sent to investigate this mess. Once they get to their destination, they are attacked by Ouma troops and Gnosis, transported by Quake to our world. Agents are defensless aggainst them, but KOS-MOS and Shion come to the rescue... After the fight, heroes go to Mishima Corp. building, where Reiji was ordered t meet with US army agent, Bruce, to share information about the sickness. During their walk, Xiaomu tries to contact their HQ, but she cannot make any contact. Simmiliar events happened 10 years ago - Ouma monsters, Quakes, and impossibility to make any radio contact, it looks bad... When party arrives to their destination, they meet Bruce with his companions- Regina, King, Jin, Bravoman, Momo and Felicia. They don't have time to chat, because they are attacked by Ouma troops, led by mysterious woman, Saya, who has something to do with events that happened ten years ago. It was her, who killed Reiji's father and shot him in the head, but she died during the fights... And now she's back, telling heroes to follow her to their HQ. When party gets to the enterance of Shinra base, they meet Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Sakura, Karin, Hideo and Kyoko, who have been told to come here as well. They quickly realise it's a trap, but it is too late. Saya placed Dimensional Seal in the Shinra HQ, teleporting all people there to other dimensions. Heroes can't do a thing to escape the trap. Reiji sworns Saya his revenge, and gets teleported into unknown, along with Xiaomu, Shion, KOS-MOS, and other people on the place... Accidents from the past happen again, but this time, Ouma succeeds... Dialouges are many, long and full of jokes. You get to know many interesting things, like Saya tells you her breasts size (36 inches ).You also get to see a lot of funny situations, for example, after important plot evolving scene, where Xiaomu and Reiji have secret talk about his father last moments, they are getting accused by other characters of making dirty things in the hangar, and Xiaomu tells something like “Well,I hate to say that...He forced me in to the hangar and …” . Reijis face and other guys comments – priceless… Also the game is very long – there are 50 levels, an completing them all took me 95h 44m. All I can say about the ending without spoiling your fun - it's quite rewarding and romantic *sniff* :'( KOS-MOS in action Sound Soundtrack of NxC is very good. There are 66 music themes in the game, and almost every character has its own track. Voice acting is very nice too. Character talks before and after batlles, and their screams during them are and in good quality. It’s great shame that only few dialogs were voice acted…. Advantages NxC has many good sides. Menus are clear and easy to control, units on the field are recognizable from each other, graphics aren't amazing, but they are clear and detailed, gameplay is fun, music and voice-acting are cool, story is interesting, dialouges are funny... The best thing about this game, is proably that it's astonishingly long, but entertaining. I have played games much shorter, and got too bored to finish them (like Final Fantasy IV on DS), but NxC awards you with new units and with lots of text in every level, making it more enjoyable and fun. Disadvantages Ehh… most frustrating things in NxC are: enemies turn time, and how easy it is. During enemy turns I was thinking “C’mon, I want to play already, knock it off!!”, and I never had Game Over there , even last boss was piece of cake. That’s good if you are casual gamer, but I don’t belive any casual gamer would play game this long… Also, usually in the middle of the level, enemy reinforcements arrive, and when they do, I always felt overwhelmed – proportion 1-5, where the 1 is you, isn’t cool… But it was still piece of cake… There is Expert Mode when you finish the game, but I don’t feel like playing this game again from the beginning… Smoking is bad for you Overall If you liked Super Robot Taisen: Endless Frontier, you should play NxC, because it’s a lot like it, but better- the fights are more fun, story and music are better, and character sprites are more detailed. I don’t think these 95 hours of my life were wasted, I really did enjoy Namco X Capcom , and I recommend you to try it. + all your favourite characters in one game, fun battles, nice and clear graphics, cool music, interesting story, long but entertaining -time you waste on enemy turns, too easy, expert mode before finishing the game would be nice, Japanese only, you need a patch to play in English Presentation 9/10 Graphics 8/10 Sound 9/10 Gameplay 10/10 Lasting Appeal 10/10 46/50 What did you say? Thank you for your help, especially kamui
Re: Namco x Capcom Nice , there are only minor spelling and punctuation here and there... I'll start from the first paragraph for now. You may want to reconsider this edit. I'll continue to next paragraph once you do. Oh, you may also want to give bold letters for interesting points you find and for the headings.
Re: Namco x Capcom The review is really good on information but it isn't following our review rules, please check them and edit accordingly.
Re: Namco x Capcom You need to change the thread title too. Notice the spaces between pictures and texts, it has to be there. @_@ So many texts, I may have mistakes in my editing too... Oh, is that guy's name Reji? I think he is Reiji in EF...
Thanks again, I made some corrections. You are right about Reiji, it's a detail but I fixed it too. About part - NxC was relased far before Endless Frontier. And when I get to writing something, I can't stop, sorry
That's perfectly fine, as long as you proofread it after you finish it. Lots of writers do that to. Anyway, I'll check the rest later. You may want to proofread it first. Oh, there's dialogues (not dialogs) and frustrating (not flustrating) there.
I made some improvements to the text, but I'm not sure if it's perfectly correct. Rather not You don't have to rush with checking it, if you don't want to. I appreciate your help by so long
Umm... If you have problems in proofreading, I suggest you to use Opera 10 browser, it has a nice built-in spellchecker in it. I also find the story a little bit uninteresting the way you write it, but I haven't played the game so I didn't check much there. A detailed summary of their early journey and a little bit teaser (not spoiler, of course) is better than a very short summary of the whole journey for me. Oh, I prefer to use an empty line rather than a single space to show a change of paragraph, it looks like a typo for me. If you didn't like empty lines between paragraphs, you can use more spaces before the first sentence. Yep, something like this. But make sure it's consistently present in all of the paragraphs. Good luck with your review, hope it'll be approved soon!
Nice review, But something still missing there...hmm.... If there's disadvantages..there should be an advantages..isn't it?
Hmm...you should have advantages too if you will have disadvantages like Mega said. So please add that. Also this little section where you say "When party arrives to their destination, they meet Bruce with his companions- Regina, King, Jin, Bravoman, Momo and Felicia. They don't have time to chat, because they are attacked by Ouma troops, led by mysterious woman, Saya, who has something to do with events that happened in past ten years... [edit tomorrow, sleep time ] ".....are you gonna finish editing this? Otherwise in general I am pretty satisfied and will accept it upon you fixing up the above. Well done
Yes, I made some improvements right now. I completely rewrote story paragraph (it wasn't interesting enough), and added Advantages section. I think it's better now. If there is something I can still improve, tell me, I'd be grateful
Added two pics. Tell me if I should remove last one, it's uncensoral and in bad quality, but when I found it, I couldn't resist posting it
Double posts are not allowed on Romulation unfortunately. Please remember that for the future. But I am happy with the review now so I accept it Congratulations.
