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1.04 update constant crash, fix your game dumas

GAME STILL LOADING SIMULATOR
YOU OPEN DOOR? LOAD TIME

chill

Overall fun but not amazing. Lacking in polish and has way too many little annoyances.

fun with friends

good

no custom lobby

Finally I finished this game with 100% achievement, I reviewed this game based on what I experienced and felt, I don't want any debate like "I don't feel the way you feel when I play this game" one more thing, I'm not an expert in a review and therefore I know that my writing is far from perfect. So I started with gameplay.

Gameplay
Ahhh the gameplay, somehow I like or not but heres the thing, here you play 5 types of ships namely CL, CA, DD, CV, and BB with a total of 29 playable characters and 35 support characters. The basic battle is quite simple, you choose the character you want to play along with an additional 2 playable characters that you can switch during battle and 3 support characters, shoot enemy ships with predetermined skills and avoid attacks, oh yes on side note you don't use ships the same as your enemy, I can't say much about this. All types can do dashes except BB, your dash will be given a shield instead and also the speed of this BB run is very slow compared to others (yes I know this makes sense). Honestly I like the dash in this game but I expect the character to be able to jump too. There is an oddity that I found on DD / CA / CL gun, where you can shoot enemy aircraft with this gun even though you have AA as your gear, quite strange right? To shoot the aircraft, the distance is very far and you have to wait until the aircraft approaches even more so in a condition you have to shoot as many as 20 aircraft but the spawn is only 16 and this is enough to make me very angry, then there are other things like battles that have arena stage the small one with an invisible wall (uhh I'm quite annoyed with this, yeah I know it's made like in the mobile game).

The actual battle is short you know, this RPG element is not so hardcore, farming items and xp are quite easy and there are no challenges which is its pretty chill ((I can awaken and oath all ships are not so difficult and easy enough to complete especially with the help of DLC). Uhhmm I expect after the battle there will be a scoreboard like how much damage you do, how many ships and aircraft you sink, etc. Many people say that this game has no gameplay, yes, I quite agree with these words and I admit that only 70% of visual novels and 30% actual gameplay, even if in a condition of a fairly short battle, you just simply stay in place and let your party party complete the task and the battle will end on its own.

For VN here all are full voice for all ships from main story to side story (I really like the story in this game and for the story itself it's decent compared to the mobile version). One more thing that I really hate is, THERE IS NO CAMERA RESET FEATURES. Lets say there are enemy ships on the right and left, you have to shift your camera many times moreover you don't get a sign like where the enemy torpedo will attack you (often I get damage from enemy torpedoes from behind where I know it). On my prologue I have a bug where I have completed the conditions needed when fighting, I was stuck there.

Graphic
This game uses Unreal Engine for graphics, 3D character modeling is not too bad (you can peek * cough * pantsu when in photo mode), I don't like the color of the sea water is too dark and the worst is when there are sea waves where the physical waves are not affect your character, Lets say there is a wave high enough to pass through you, your character will penetrate the wave (here you can see the bottom of the sea and it's empty), the mountains are plain, there are no extras like trees as well as map battles in the morning I expect there are birds Flying, for the battle map at night looks good there is aurora, the effect of the skill when the battle is quite satisfying to be seen like aircraft and barrage. As for the map when free roam is not very extensive but there are things that make me disturbed, that you can't distinguish events to main stories with side stories.

The game itself has a bad port where for some graphics cards having fps drop (yes I have tested it on the graphics card red and green), the absence of these graphic settings is a nightmare for gamers who have low-end PCs (don't worry, you can find graphic settings in% appdata% by changing all settings to 0 or what you adjust), for the screen resolution above 1920x1080 the picture will be cut off or have a defect (maybe they have fixed it? And strangely again the game version * pirate * much better maybe I'm wrong but this is what my friend said (?)). I hope they add dlc to their costumes in the future, so in the future there will be some new characters but the fanbase of this game has a lot of * cough * degens you know? Xd The UI itself is pretty okay but there is one problem with the main menu, THERE IS NO BUTTON FOR CONTINUE !!!.i mean for real?

Music
As for the music itself, I can't say much, the songs are suitable during battles, main menu, VN, etc. its pretty chill and intense. But I often get bugs when I load my game, the opening song is often stuck on me where it is very annoying, I often restart my game many times until the opening song is not stuck (eugh i foking hate it).

Others
Scam pre-orders (pre-sale 20% off, and then sale at release 35% off), they promise to give free DLC when pre-order but when the game is released they release a new DLC. And then we live in 2020, I still encounter RPG games that don't have an auto-save feature, i mean seriously wtf ?! I often have achieved very long progress stories but suddenly my electricity went out and I lost my progress. Why does your power fail so often? It's the rainy season, sorry I have a lot to say about this but I'm really upset about this absence of auto-save.

Conclusion
Is this game worth to buy? Yes if you are a big fan of the Azur Lane franchise, surely you will feel satisfied if you listen to the sounds and stories of your favorite waifu and fit to be used as a collection in your steam library. Conversely, if you are casual weebs who are looking for RPG elements in this game, I recommend not buying this game. The essence of the game that I got was like the neptunia franchise but it's far worse. Review with image you can find here [www.facebook.com]

The visual is beatiful, the characters looks cute, if you love Anime=style JRPG you can’t go wrong with this game.
I only have good thing to say about the animation too. From the attack animation, skills, moving, or even standing flows seamlessly and it doesn’t feel clunkY.

Especially the world, it’s diversity and uniqueness makes it a treat to explore. You have a gambling town styled like a china town, a technologically advanced city that invented an airship in a fantasy world, or even a city in a small island that forbids love (sex). Also god bless fast travel with a very short loading screen.
The sounds are not Square enix level, but it’s not bad. Some of the tracks are very nice to listen to, but I have a lot of complaint about it. A lot of the music is too aggressive, loud, intense, and has nothing to do with what’s happening. Not to mention there aren’t a lot of variations. Some of the song can end up sounding like that annoying car alarm that sounds EEKK EEKK EEKK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdsuUlEP57g ) There was one point in a dungeon where the song is very similar with that one in World of Final Fantasy ( another game I dropped ), and it brought up my PTSD that I just muted it and played my own music. NNK2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCsWgfNscE (The song isn’t bad, but the fact that it reminded me of WoFF and I had to solve some puzzle while listening to that really puts me off ) WoFF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3YNsLfUJY&t=23s
Another thing I have a complaint about, for a AAA game, the developer seems to cut a lot of budget from the voice acting. Only like 25% of the game is voiced, you can have someone with 2 paragraph dialogue text but the voice actor only says a single word or two that most of the time doesn’t have anyhting to do with what was actually said. Some example I can make:
Line 1: Oh my goodness
Line 2: gosh
Line 3: Roland!
Line 4: Uurgh
I can keep going, but I think you get what I mean. The awkward gesture they do also doesnt help.
Now we get to the best part about the game, the gameplay. The gameplay is divided into a lot of parts, let’s get into it one by one.
The combat is pretty okay, it feels very responsive, bosses also have various attack patterns that’s fun to figure out. You have 4 skills you can bring into combat, and each of these skills can be strenghtened when your weapon in charged up. You can have equip 3 weapons at a time, and you can switch between each of them in battles according to which are the most charged. To charge weapons you need to receive damage or attack normally. You also have ranged weapons in case you can’t reach your enemy in melee range.

In combat, you also have higgles, little cute monster that helps you during combat. You can gather them in various parts of the world, each types offers different utilities in combat, such as healing, buffing, or outright damaging the enemy, adding some more varieties to combat.

Next you have Skirmishes. This part shouldn’t be unfamiliar to those who’ve played Suikoden games, you gather your armies and battle enemies in a big scale battle. There are multiple types of armies, each type is strong against another type, or weak agaisnt another, like rock paper scissor. Each different armies also have different skills, so you can choose which army you like. You can recruit armies by recruiting citizens. I personally enjoyed this part of the game, although I can understand why someone can’t get into it, as it can get repetitive or slow.

Last but not least, Kingdom Building. Similar to Suikoden, early on the game you can have your own kingdom. You can develop it with a special currency called Kingsguilder you get from your citizen, meaning if you have m
ore citizen, you’re gonna earn it faster ( it’s basically tax money ). Some stuff you can develop includes but not limited to: Weapon development, upgrading magics, Higgles development, item shops, upgrading skirmishes, or even exploring the world.

You can recruit citizens by finding them all around the world, and doing some menial side quests for them. Each citizens have different skills and specialties, and you can assign them on different buildings. For example you can assign someone who’s good at making weapons work at weapon development.
While I enjoyed this part quite a bit, I wish the research process can be faster, because at the current pace it’s just too slow. There is also one more part about it that I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate which I’ll mention later. All in all, I enjoyed the gameplay variety and I think it’s the best part of the game.
All the things I mentioned above would make the game pretty amazing, right? Honestly no, howeer much I’d like to say otherwise, all things above doesn’t ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matter, because the game is TOO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy. This game desperately needs difficulty option. You can have a really well designed boss fight that have a lot of different attack patterns, or you can have multiple skills which you can use in different situations, but it’s all irrelevant when your last ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss dies in under a minute . Yes I legit beat him in under a minute. Granted I was a bit overlevelled, but still.
Now let’s talk about side quest. I saved this for last because this needs its own section. It ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks. All of them are fetch or kill quests, you know, the usual mmo-esque quests. To recruit citizens, you need to do a task for them. Most of the time it’s killing a monster for them, winning a skirmish for them, or finding them an item. One of the most frustrating part of this is that most of the time, the item you need to find are really vague. Like for example “Find me a flower that looks like the sunset.” I’m paraphrasing, it’s usually a lot more vague, but you get my point. It doesn’t help that item names are really “fairy-tale-esque” like Gotta-Fly-Flakes ( buffs your attack damage ), Three-leafed Soreaway ( basic healing item ), etc. And that doesn’t even include mundane items like cooking ingredients.

Other thing thar’s frustrating is you can only track one quest at a time. People who played MMO would probably knows how it feels taking on a huge amount of quest. You go around the town accepting quests, preferably on the closest dungeons possible or 2 dungeons that’s positioned really close, then you go outside and do it all at once before returning to towns and turn it in. You can do that too, in this game, sure, but it’s 100 times more frustrating. Because in this game, you can only track ONE quest at a time. In MMOs, or basically any other games with side quests, you can track more than one quest at a time, they’re usually listed on the side of the screen, some of which you can scroll multiple times. Not on this game, you need to go to the main menu, open the Quest tab, then press R1 to cycle the tab to Side quests, then scroll through the big list of side quests to find the next one you want to do, then you press X to “Track this quest now”. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ THIS IS 2018 FOR ♥♥♥♥ SAKE, games has been doing this since forever, this is as basic as it gets, I honestly don’t see any reason at all why this is the way it is.
“Well if you hate it so much then why don’t you just skip it.” Gee, I WISH I could. I really do. That’s what I did when playing FFXV, or basically any other game. But I can’t, because at some point this game put a roadblocks of the main story until you recruit a cerain amount of citizen. Let this be on record: I was perfectly fine playing the game in a normal pace, doing a few side quests and recruiting citizens, I recruited around 25 citizens and got my kingdom to level 2, I just wanted to finish the game. Not possible, because I had to spend another 10 hours recruit at least 50 citizens and upgrade my kingdom to level 3 so the later part of the main story is “unlocked.”

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Devil May Cry 5 Review
Sebelum lo baca review ini gw mau ngasih suatu hal yaitu gw bukan seorang reviewer atau penulis yang jago.Tujuan gw nulis ini adalah untuk berbagi pengalaman gw bermain game ini dan berdiskusi bareng tentang game ini, gw siap menerima kritik dan saran. ok paham? mari lanjut. sidenote: spoiler alert

Devil May Cry 5 game yang ditunggu oleh para pemain dmc selama 10-11 tahun lamanya sama seperti para penikmat Kingdom Hearts 3 yang menunggu selama 13 tahun.Selama gw maen game ini banyak kepuasan dan kekecewaan yang gw dapat, langsung aja gw mulai.

Story
Untuk setting storynya diambil setelah DMC 4.di DMC 5 ini menggunakan alur maju mundur, dimana saat prologue bermain Nero flashback membantu Dante mengalahkan Urizen setelah itu kembali ke settings sekarang Nero yang membantu para tentara menghabisi para demons lalu flashback lagi Devil Breaker Nero diambil oleh ayahnya (Corrupted Vergil), sama halnya dengan Dante saat kalah melawan Urizen lalu tidur selama 1 bulan mengingat masa lampau bersama ibunya Eva, Dan V awal mula dia muncul atau lahirnya dan tujuan akhirnya. Honestly ini menarik dan seru tentunya dan diluar dugaan gw.Dan untuk keseluruhan cerita menurut gw itu cukup singkat jelas dan ada beberapa yang kurang terutama di bagian ending, Seperti Kyrie tak nampak sekalipun di game ini cuman suaranya dan Nero yang menggoda Nico.(well mungkin bercandaan teman kerja memburu demons jadi okelah)

Ending yang cukup singkat saat Dante memberi tahu bahwa Vergil adalah ayahnya, Nero langsung kaget dan binggung saat itu langsung menelpon Kyrie untuk meminta sarannya lalu terbang menggunakan Devil Trigger menghentikan perkelahian antara Dante dan Vergil.Nero yang menang melawan vergil meminta untuk menutup gerbang iblis, langsung dikerjakan oleh Dante dan Vergil.

Untuk yang gw kecewain, Nero yang bisa mengaktifkan Devil Trigger, Kenapa dari awal tidak dipakai biar memunculkan tangan yang baru, Karakter atau Gameplay baru yaitu V mati di seri ini dan penutupan gerbang iblis masih belum dinampakan cuman Dante dan Vergil masih duel satu sama lain dan bersamaan membantai demons di sekitarnya.Sebuah ritual duel klasik yang tak pernah habisnya xd.Untuk story score gw 8/10

Gameplay
Gameplay pada game ini menggunakan 3 karakter yaitu Nero, Dante, dan V, gw akan mulai dari Nero. Setelah Devil Bringer Nero diambil oleh ayahnya Vergil, Nero mendapatkan tangan baru yang namanya Devil Breaker dibuat oleh Nico.Dengan tangan barunya, membuat kepuasan baru saat bermain Nero digabungkan dengan revolver Blue Rose dan pedang Red Queen.Devil Breaker Nero sendiri mengeluarkan tali yang bisa menarik demons kecil, hook ke beberapa object, dan ke bagian tubuh demons besar(boss).Devil Breaker bermacam-macam jenisnya bisa diatur sesuai playstyle kamu, Devil Breaker baru didapatkan setelah melawan boss dan Nico akan membuatkan baru untukmu.Dan di akhir Nero yang bisa mengaktifkan Devil Trigger,sangat satisfying dipadukan dengan Devil Breaker.Jujur gw perlu latihan di The Void untuk menguasai beberapa kombo dan playstyle Nero yang baru xd.Oh ya lo tidak bisa counter attack / block / parry menggunakan Devil Breaker, yang nantinya akan rusak jika kamu mencobanya.

Dante, playstyle hampir sama seperti sebelumnya, variasi senjata seperti Cerberus, Rebellion, Sparda, Shotgun, Ebony&Ivory,dll. dan stylenya Trickester, Royalguard, Gunslinger, dan Swordmaster.Memang senang melihat dan memainkan Dante kembali.Disisi lain, Dante mendapatkan senjata baru seperti Cavaliere sebuah sepeda motor yang bisa dijadikan pedang, Faust Hat senjata range yang bisa mengeluarkan meteor,dll.Untuk Devil Trigger Dante hampir sama di DMC 4, namun untuk pada seri ini Dante mendapatkan upgrade yaitu Sin Devil Trigger Dante dengan menusukkan pedang Rebellion ke perutnya. Untuk playstyle Sin Devil Trigger ini sangat powerful and fast memberikan pengalaman baru.

Dan yang terakhir V si misterius, playstyle karakter ini bisa di bilang boring dan seru.V ini mempunyai kemampuan untuk memanggil demons untuk bertarung, nama demons tersebut adalah Griffon, Shadow, dan Nightmare.Griffon adalah burung gagak yang menembakan projectile (range), Shadow sebuah black panther yang menyerang secara melee, dan yang terakhir Devil Trigger V atau Nightmare sebuah raksasa demons yang siap menghancurkan semua musuh di arena pertarungan dengan serangan area.Demons V sendiri tak bisa membunuh demons musuh melainkan V sendirilah yang bisa membunuh dengan tongkatnya.Kenapa Bosan? lo cuman butuh menjauh dari demons musuh dan tinggal memanggil demonsmu untuk menghancurkannya sangat mudah untuk mendapatkan SSS.

Di DMC 5 terdapat fitu baru yaitu Multiplayer, Multiplayer di game ini menggunakan sistem Cameo yaitu menggunakan replay seseorang untuk bertarung di sisimu.Agak sedikit kecewa gw pikir co-op seperti di Resident Evil 6.Dan untuk bossfight battle seru, menantang i mean its Devil May Cry no doubt about it. Favorite bossfight tentunya Vergil di final mission, Gw berharap next update or DLC playable Vergil Untuk score gameplay gw kasih 8.5/10

Visual (Graphic)
Graphic pada game ini sangat bagus dan indah, mulai dari desain kota,Qlipoth Tree, karakter, beberapa objek yang hancur.Sedangkan untuk desain atau model demons atau boss juga ga kalah bagus.Game ini menggunakan game engine yang sama untuk Resident Evil 7 dan Resident Evil 2 Remake yaitu RE Engine, selama gw memainkan tidak ada masalah graphicnya everything is fine and good.Animasi dan Cutscene itu sangat mulus dan rapi.Score 9.5/10

Audio
Music fight scene tiap karakter pas dan cocok dengan playstyle mereka namun terdapat cover atau remix pada lagu tersebut membuat suasana jadi tidak enak dan tidak pas lagi.Untuk voice menurut gw lebih pas pembawaan karakternya dan lebih nyaman pakai English daripada Jepang.Score 7/10

Others
Oh hello Capcom, kenapa kamu memasukkan microtransaction pada game ini? i mean wtf and why? ga kaget lagi sih beberapa game udah nerapin kayak gini. Grinding untuk mendapatkan Red Orbs ga susah susah amat Untuk Deluxe Edition yang berisi senjata-senjata Nero dan Dante, Soundtrack seri dulu itu 50:50 worth it, worth untuk senjata Dante tapi ga worth dengan membeli semua bundle dengan harga segitu.
Worth beli full price? NO, worth beli nunggu waktu diskon? YES