STORY MODE: This is kind of silly, but perfectly acceptable for a fighting game. You go through as a character, and see a text-based story between fights! Sometimes you get to make vague text-based plot decisions that near as I can tell don't actually affect anything. This is how you unlock new characters, too. This mode gets you a shit-ton of gold to unlock things with.
Speaking of which, CHARACTER SELECTION: Hot damn. Looks like they have all the good characters in it, mostly preserved so that you can use them about as well as you could in 2. The new characters are also all awesome, TO THE MAX! Tira is evil, and Zasalamel isn't as hard to pronounce as it looks. Oh, and Sigfried is back, and not just as an alt-skin! I've yet to unlock all the characters (I have all the important ones though, which is to say, Lizardman), as I've had the game for like, five hours, most of which has been spent in not-story mode.
CHRONICLES OF THE SWORD: This mode is...weird. It's kinda like a story mode for custom chara--
Ok, wait, first: CUSTOM CHARACTER CREATION: Thought I should talk about this before that one up there. Whoever designed this system deserves a goddamn medal, fo' real. I haven't even unlocked a whole lot of the parts yet, and it's still incredibly awesome. You select gender, then class. "Class" determines what weapons they can use, and how they can use them! Yeah. Lots of customization here. So far I've been able to make things from tarzan-wannabes to ninja-folk to paladins to guys in tuxedos with tophats and monocles.
Ok, back to CHRONICLES OF THE SORD: This mode is...weird. It's kinda like a story mode for custom characters, only an attempt to mish-mash it with a strategy game. As far as strategy games go it's pretty stupid, but there's nothing like beating a level 60 Astaroth with a level 2 theif.
There's also a few more of the old-standbys (quick play, tournament, survival mode). Those aren't really worth covering.
Anyways, since the custom characters are just SO DAMN AWESOME, I'm going to talk about them more.
When customizing a character, class doesn't affect appearance at all, so you can be a barbarian in a tuxedo if you want, just as an aside. Anyways. There are two meters that you see when making a character. Different items/articles of clothing/etc affect the positioning of these two meters. The top one measures how "good" or "evil" your character is. The bottom one measures how "light" or "dark" said character is. The lighter your character is, the more joking he is. The more evil your character is, the more downright mean he is. So, if you have a dark, evil character, his pre-fight saying may be "I'll tear off all your limbs!", whereas a light, good character might say "Come now, can't talk this out over a nice cup of tea?" instead. Coloration of things doesn't change the light/good bars.
Anyways, classes DO affect the weapons you can use! I haven't unlocked any of the extra classes yet, though I've unlocked a few weapons.
BARBARIAN: This class starts off being able to use a greatsword, so my "paladin" character is a barbarian! The other weapons I've unlocked for them is the "grieve edge", which is blades...for your feet! Amazing.
MONK: Starts off using nunchaku. Haven't unlocked anything else with them.
THIEF: These guys start off using a "knife". Sort of. That's what it says they use. While they do have a knife that they can stab things with if they want to I guess, I just end up throwing bombs at people. The other weapons I've unlocked for them are the Wave Blades. These are two curved swords they hold across their forearms, like tonfa. Not like Talim's weapons, these look like actual swords. Curiously, my ninja character is actually a thief using these. My favorite weapons. :D
SAINT: These guys start off using what the fuck? I don't even know. It says "staff", but it looks like a small stick, but gets bigger depending on what move you do. It wierds me out, dude. On the other hand, their default outfit has a pope hat.
NINJA: These guys are awesome, seriously! They start off using kunai, and they can like, roll around, jump around, teleport everywhere, and stuff. Woah. The other weapon I've unlocked for them is the Shuriken and Katana (both at once!). Yeah.
I forget if there are any I'm missing, but you get the idea. I know that the Barbarian can end up using Nightmare and Astaroth's weapons at some point, too.
Last but not least: In Versus mode, you have the "random character" button that selects a random character. Typical. You also have the "random custom character" button, which selects a random class, random weapon, and a completely random appearance. It's absolutely hilarious. Nothing like having it come up with a green ninja in her underwear wearing a clown hat and a monocle. <p>
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at: 10/31/05 16:45
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