Macross Ace Frontier

Where do their endless missiles come from?

I mentioned during my previous post that I’m busy playing Macross Ace Frontier with my PSP. It’s a 3D shooting game which I don’t like as I can’t control very well. However, I started to get addicted to this game after playing through a few stages. One of the reasons is that you can enjoy the songs from the Macross series while playing the stage, especially songs from Macross and Macross Frontier. Another reason is the graphic and the various mechanics. The graphic is well done and you can customize the colour of the mechanics. Also, you can enjoy piloting planes and robots, or even both combined. But the main reason that keep me playing the game is actually the homing missiles. As I’m not very good at playing 3D shooting game, homing missiles really help a lot. I also enjoy shooting plenty of missiles and watching how the missiles fly towards the target. Below is one of their videos.

You start the game by choosing the main pilot and partner. After that, you will play through different stages from Macross, Macross Plus, Macross 7 and Macross Frontier. When you finish the stage, you are awarded points for both pilot and mechanic to improve their abilities. You will also be given a rank, from E to SS. This is the part that pulls me down. The ranks lets you unlock some of the ace pilots, mechanics and extra missions. As some stages are hard to obtain a S or SS, you will end up replaying the stage again and again. Also, the extra missions are too difficult for me (I’m not a pro). T_T

I’m still playing the game now and I only left the extra missions uncompleted. I enjoyed the game even though i only watched Macross Frontier and a bit of Macross, so I can say that this game is a must have for Macross fans. You can visit the official website for more video and screenshots.

Another good news is that I can go to Danny Choo’s workshop next week. Yeah! Only thing left is waiting for my leave to be approved, which I hope that it can make it on time.

The New 108 Heroes Are Here!!!

Suikoden Forever!!!

After waiting for so long, Konami has finally announced a new game for the Suikoden series (Hooray!!!). However, the platform of the game will be Nintendo DS. This is a bad news for people like me who don’t own a DS. T_T

Above is the trailer of the game shown during the TGS 2008. You can see more videos and pictures from their official website. Through watching the trailer, the game will be a mixture of 3D and 2D graphics. It seems like there will be more 2D animation for this game compared to previous releases. The number of people involved during a combat had changed from 6 persons to only 4 persons, which is quite a small group in my opinion. Not sure whether there will be any true runes and a home base in this game. The idea of building a home base, recruiting heroes and even those that appeared in previous releases are the few reasons which attracted me to this series and became a fan of the Suikoden series in the end.

The release date will be 18 Dec 08. Currently, no information on the gameplay and plot are given at the website. Maybe you can get some idea of the story from here. As the game is not named as ‘Suikoden 6′, I assumed that this will be another side story of the main series. But, it will still be something to look forward to for the Suikoden fans.

I would also like to recommend this site to those who are interested about the series. It has a lot of info about the series and gives you a better picture of the Suikoden world.