I am doing ok with sasuke's and young naruto's one but i have hit a brick wall with pain. He is a hard bastard to be sure. Can't do tonight cause of work and then the baby will most probably take preference. But i can do sunday so just hit me up on psn anytime and i will be ready to throw down.

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With pain, try to keep him at arms length, you'll do well to do hit and run tactics,

The chakra attack: unrelenting force can be used on the ground or in the air so be careful, he tends to substitute then chakra attack regularly so try not to substitute then chakra attack yourself as a parry as the hit radius for unrelenting force keeps him protected long enough to keep you from dealing damage. Practice on Neji as they have similar attacks chakra wise but neji being much faster will help you stay on your toes.

I stormed over Pain with naruto but admit - the fight between jaraiya and pain wasn't a breeze at all as jaraiya moves too slow.

Just speaking to a mate at work and he asked if i got extra charavters from save files from the last 2 games. Which i dont have. Can i still unlock them normally in the game? Cheers for the tips on pain. Will have a go tomorrow morning

Finally started playing Atelier Rorona again; taking me a while to re-familiarise myself with the game.

Walking Dead Episode 2 Starved for Help

Another tightly written and brilliantly acted episode. I continued playing as if I'm actually in the universe [spoiler]and refused to murder people/pick sides but in the end I changed my allegiances - sorry Kenny but Lilly has something of a military background and is a beautiful woman so I'm going to side with her[/spoiler]

To Answer you Devil: I have no idea, i got the extra characters from my storm 2 savefiles too :/ i think the majority of them are just support only characters though so not really missing out too much, there will be a way of unlocking them (i presume the sasuke storyline as that goes through the 5 kage meeting too (and as the majority of the support characters are kage's guards this would be likely)

Otherwise it'd be going through the tournies and survival modes.

That was a good few fights lastnight, don't worry about the quick depart - i know when a babies crying its not exactly something you can ignore lol (nor would i expect you to!) So thats why i don't use Naruto online anyway, you're getting much better with Sasuke. I was really hoping for a Susano fight but you didn't awaken him lol.

I feel like a little wise proctor, you've picked up the chakra attacks well and timing them with the substitution jutsu's has paid off, the next step is watching for how many subs the other guy has and timing them well: for instance you may have 4 subs, the opponent has 3, you keep subbing each others combo's until you end up winning the sub-off as you have 1 more to use.... this approach isn't the best way, as it runs you down to 0 and the next attack they use may be a chakra one - leaving you wide open with no way of getting out of the way.

Which leads to step 3: Once you've mastered the substitions and chakra attack timing it'll be time to combine volleys! so like i said before, cutscenes from support characters and chakra attacks linked into a volley that keeps the other person unable to attack.

Atelier Totori's guide has resulted in...



Which is world shatteringly crazy.

Once again thank you tachi for the info and the help. Hit a brick wall again on sasuke story with the red haired bitch. She is such a pussy needing someone to fight her battles with her!

Well my RuneScape clan is having a cooking skill week at the moment. So I haven't really had time to do much else other than cook and watch anime. Must get more exp and levels!

Still getting some time in on Last Window on the DS though.

About to start Syndicate which I managed to pick up cheap. Have heard it's good but too short, anyone else played it? Anyone available for the coop stuff (xbox)?

I'm also thinking of *finally* getting round to starting FF XIII-2, since I've cleared a few other RPGs from my queue.

Cripes. You know, while I appreciate all the hidden depths of the Atelier games and other JRPGs, it does bother me how easy it is to miss a lot of good stuff if you're not inclined to use a guide (as I'm not, at least for my first playthrough).

So, anyway, after a few false starts and numerous distractions, I finally sat down and put a few hours into Atelier Meruru. Aaaaand I'm hopelessly addicted once again. This time you play a 15 year-old princess named Meruru who desperately wants to follow in the footsteps of Totori-Sensei and become an alchemist. But the king isn't too hot on the idea, so Meruru has to prove herself by developing the kingdom and must increase the population from 100 to 5000 within three years. Seems fair.

It works similarly to Totori's adventurer licence: you do various alchemy, combat, and gathering tasks to help develop all the areas around the Kingdom, for which you earn points. Those points count towards the different stages of development (just like the licence), and can also be spent on building things like schools and accommodation, which confer bonuses such as population increases and various stat upgrades. It's all just insanely compulsive.

So far I'd say Meruru is on equal footing with Totori. It lacks the emotional pull that Totori had with [spoiler]the search for Totori's mother[/spoiler] but irons out other issues that bothered me, like there now being no time limit on requests; only having to be in the general area rather than a specific location to trigger scenes; and the container not being an absolute fustercluck.

ITSA GOOD

Been playing the Amazing Spider-man, haven't seen the film yet though, even though the game is set after.

It's pretty good, probably the best Spidey game I've played. It's got a very arkham combat system, but it still feels unique enough, the stealth gameplay is also much improved over previous spidey games especially the horrific stealth levels in the first movie game...

To coincide with yesterdays seventh anniversary of the European release, I started replaying Killer7. I hadn't actually played it on my Wii with component before and damn it still looks good. I still consider this to be Suda 51's masterpiece and a game of which quality he will unlikely to reach again.

I'm playing a lot of ME3 multiplayer at the moment. Just come out of a mission weekend (I hope I got the squad goal! I think I did.) and there is new dlc coming tomorrow so I need some more credits ready to go to try and unlock the new stuff.

Really? that kage was annoying, her combination of lava and water styles means your always playing fiddle to her attacks :/

Yeah you've got to just keep on the move and attack when an opening presents itself. think back to our fight when i was itachi and you were sasuke.... i susano'od up and you kept circling me to evade amaretsu but didn't take into account i'd chakra sprint and attack.... treat her like susano'o

Keep your distance but don't think for a second that she won't try and hunt you down, be adaptable and use chakra attacks (amaretsu's fire control) to keep her away long enough to ultimate attack.

I wouldn't advise you try to attack full on, she calls in support too quick for you to counter.