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Fate/Unlimited Codes is basically the Fate series' fighting game where you can play as any of the characters from Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Hollow Ataraxia in the classic fighter-style genre. Melty Blood Actress Again is the most recent game in the Melty Blood series, which is a distant sequel to another prominent Type Moon work: Tsukhime. Melty Blood is basically "Tsukihime: The Fighting Game," but unlike Fate/Unlimited Codes, Melty Blood expands on Tsukihime lore.
I've never owned those games myself, but I remember watching some gameplay for the former and a lot of gameplay for the latter a long while back. Melty Blood was a pretty fun game from what I've seen. One of the unique aspects of Melty Blood AA is that each character has three movesets that you can choose from. I even delved into the story and some characterization a bit. The knowledge came in handy by the time I watched Carnival Phantasm in 2011. It's been a while since I last watched some gameplay of those games though, so most knowledge I have about Melty Blood's characters have become fuzzy these days.
I gotta read the Tsukihime VN one of those days...
Melty Blood Actress Again is the most recent game in the Melty Blood series, which is a distant sequel to another prominent Type Moon work: Tsukhime. Melty Blood is basically "Tsukihime: The Fighting Game," but unlike Fate/Unlimited Codes, Melty Blood expands on Tsukihime lore.
I've never owned those games myself, but I remember watching some gameplay for the former and a lot of gameplay for the latter a long while back. Melty Blood was a pretty fun game from what I've seen. One of the unique aspects of Melty Blood AA is that each character has three movesets that you can choose from. I even delved into the story and some characterization a bit. The knowledge came in handy by the time I watched Carnival Phantasm in 2011. It's been a while since I last watched some gameplay of those games though, so most knowledge I have about Melty Blood's characters have become fuzzy these days
Well... That explains why my brother still plays it even though it has been so long...
I also give some tips on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 combat here... Just saying
Never played Unlimited Codes, but I have played Melty Blood a fair bit. Basically a standard 2D fighter featuring characters from the visual novel Tsukihime.
The older revisions of the game had a pretty in-depth story mode, but newer revisions like Actress Again don't focus so heavily on it.
For those who might just started Xenoblade Chronicles 2, this video might help you getting rare Blades more quicker, and don't worry this video is basically spoiler-free, main story at least.
It's always funny how he imply Floren as a "she", LOL. Even though he mentions in his comments that he know he was saying it wrong after the recording.
And I actually didn't look at this video until recently... but I already got plenty of rare Blades... and I got over 99 common core crystal after many battles and salvaging....
As for how do you open that door in the lower level of Mor Ardain... well...
Technically you don't really have to, just go to the upper level and go to the Old industrial District, you will see a stair that goes down, after going down a few stairs, avoid the Arachno and you will reach to Chansagh Wastes. Just beware... this area has plenty of high level monsters, so proceed here with caution.
To open the gate you need Anangham Gate Key, I am guess it's located in the old factory and at the Buldge Harbor.
Around here
The video basically just helped me get a Blade called Kassandra, you can actually know by getting the info...
Which says, "A monster that at e a famed driver has been seen in Chansagh Wastes", not really care if the famed driver is a he or she but I am curious whether we get to know about the famed driver a bit... and I though the famed driver's fate was a bit unfortunate. However after looking at one of Kassandra's awaken intro and one of her field skills... I am not surprised...
Here's more tips on combats...which are just merely my own experiences, some also applies to original Xenoblade as well
Try to lure enemies, this way you can avoid hoards of enemies.
I understand those who have played the first XC will criticize how inconvenient and sloppy the battle lock-on system is in XC2. I recently found out that you actually don't need to press A and engage in battle in order to choose which enemies you need to attack, simply press R and then hold R while press A or Y button. That said you still have to engage in battle and then cancel your engaging.... or just press X or + button to go into menus... unless the enemy has already targeting you... just... RUN...
Avoid combating against multiple enemies, even those that are 10 levels lower than you, if it's same level as your crew, without enough healing driver and if the enemies have blowdown attacks chances are you will die quickly... that said here's a tip for dealing with hoard of enemies though... go for the enemy with the lowest level first...
Pressing arts at the right time to trigger the good ring can be a bit tricky sometimes, trigger the ring will boost up your art effect, raise your special art faster and even give other arts some boosts. Rex's using Aegis is easy to grasp, but other weapons take time to grasp though...
Before gauging in combat, don't forget to press ZR to switch Blades, picking which Blades to start is very important, and then which arts you use first. Etc, I sort of use Nia mostly because she has break art and it's easy to grasp the right timing.
Pick your Blades wisely, it's not always inappropriate for one party member to have Blades with the same element, but it's better for every party members have different elements of Blades.
It's even better if one crew pairs up a Blade with one element and other pairs up with the opposite elements, I'll explain why later
Blades combos aren't hard to do once you memorize the paths, I recommend taking a screenshot once you do your first Blade special on every elements.
In order to do Blade combos successfully and more quicker, once you memorize the path, pair up your starting Blades on each party members to make it easier to perform the combo. And once you finish a Blade combo the enemy will have certain arts or abilities sealed and has an element orb surrounding it.
Notice that your Blade combo gauge is running out? Try to perform Break > Topple > Launch> Smash, which is the Driver combo, Driver combos are mostly not that new for Xenoblade veterans but the Driver combos are important because it once you do driver combo after Topple, you will drop HP potions everytimes, and obviously successfully performing Smash will give you a huge HP potion. And what's more, is it will extend the time of the Blade combo's gauge.
Don't rush to perform the Blade special at the start... sometimes just wait for other members to charge up their special arts
Always go for the special arts with the lowest level first... because even if you go with level III special art first you will still need level II special arts next, it won't be slow to charge up level two arts normally but that still means you waste you level III special art and wast time as well. This tip doesn't apply to when the character has no element that fits that path though...
This is a better improvement from the original XC and that is the chance of getting another round of chain attack depends on how many element orbs you break. Every element orbs takes three hits to break, but if you perform special art that has to opposite element with the element orb it will break two (There are Aux Cores that one your Blade equipped it will instantly break the element orb if you hit the orb that has opposite element which can be very useful sometimes)
I know you will be asking on which element is the opposite of which, the Bravery, Truth, Compassion and Justice idea chart is sort of a hint. Fire<>Water, Wind<> Ice, Electric<>Earth, and Light<>Dark
There's also a gauge on the top left corner that racks up every time you break an element orb, once that gauge fills up the driver who breaks the element orb will do another huge special art attack, and the chain attack will end it seems...
Don't forget to press B every time you are starting another round of chain attack, it will let the Blade you just used be able to use again.
Switching Blades also has perfect timing and it will help racking up your special arts, and yes special art's level will still be saved even if you change Blades. And the Blade you switched will have all arts ready, so sometimes you can switch Blades to charge up your special art more quicker.
Here's an easy perfect timing when Switching Blades, once you switch Blade immediately press any arts will have the perfect timing ring appear. This may not help much when you try it... but really in critical situations this really helps a lot.
Classes really matters too, at least one party member must be all around healer... I go for Nia for most of the time, but I do give other members at least one healer Blade. That said, it's not always good for every member to be Jack-of-all-trades.
Don't under-use Poppi... she's actually a very handy Blade... go play Tiger!Tiger! once a while to get parts and ethers.
Welps that's all the tips I can give, I know some of these might sound obvious... so feel free to give out your own tips.
Now take this guide with you and roam Alrest freely... until you finish chapter 4 I guess...
New banner is cool but the only ones I don’t have from it are sigurd, innes, the new girl, and bride lyn and charolette. I wouldn’t mind charolette or innes but innes is four stars so I don’t know if he’s worth it. Maybe I’ll pull for him. I don’t have spring lucina though so maybe blues is the way to go.
Man my favourite thing in XC2 is getting to where I need to after 10 whole ****ing minutes just to get destroyed and respawing ****ing miles away from the spot and having to find the way back to where I need to just to walk near a monster that is 20 levels higher and it hits me with 5000 damage and I gotta do it again like 5 more times before I get to where I need to.
"A sensitive soul dwells within the angelic exterior of this young boy who volunteered for service despite his frail constitution."
Aww, he's such a cinnamon roll, he deserves tp be protec--
"Pain and misfortune yield blissful joy for this twisted cherub, a trait that likely explains his choice to join the war effort."
WHAT
YOU'RE TELLING ME HE'S A SADIST
EDIT: apparently, I misread that, he's actually a masochist, apparent by his personal trait called "Masochist" and one of his quotes "My body is yours to use" Pure Cinnamon Roll wants to be spanked
*Personnel tab has been updated*
Oh nice, let's see what it has
>Homer Peron
"A sensitive soul dwells within the angelic exterior of this young boy who volunteered for service despite his frail constitution."
Aww, he's such a cinnamon roll, he deserves tp be protec--
"Pain and misfortune yield blissful joy for this twisted cherub, a trait that likely explains his choice to join the war effort."
WHAT
YOU'RE TELLING ME HE'S A SADIST
EDIT: apparently, I misread that, he's actually a masochist, apparent by his personal trait called "Masochist" and one of his quotes "My body is yours to use" Pure Cinnamon Roll wants to be spanked
Yep, the last update to Actress Again came out in 2011. Only recently has the game been released and localized on Steam.
Funny thing is that French Bread, one of the developers of the game, have expressed interest in developing another Melty Blood game, but Type Moon are the ones preventing them from doing so. Nasu told the French Bread developers to hold off on the next MB game until the Tsukihime remake, and since that's been in development hell for a while now... I fear it will be while until we get another MB game.
I haven't gotten to the point in XC2 that you actually meet Tora, but I have a feeling that his voice won't bother me that much.
I guess I just see that as the way that Nopon talk, like how Moogles in FF end their sentences with "Kupo", even though none of the FF games I played have actual Moogles that you meet aside from maybe Cait Sith's Mog.
Rex's design also never really bothered me that much. My only real problem with it is the pants, and even then, that just reminds me of Sora, and I feel like Sora's design is kind of charming.
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Moving on to another topic, I have now bought the Ace Attorney trilogy on the eShop.
It'll be quite a while until I get to playing the games, but I'm looking forward to when I do.
I like how the blade list has the actual blade for each but as just a shadow so I know one character I’ve met already is gonna be a party member eventually.
