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Which will undoubtably have Destiny, Super Freedom, etc. I spent some time this afternoon unlocking MS & Pilots though, all the Zaku varients seem to be there (Phantom is awesome), Lunamaria is indeed unlockable, as is the Destiny version of Athrun with Savior, Chaos, Abyss, (forgot what the other was) and their respective pilots, Rey, and there are still some slots for additional pilots. The SEED meter is actually better than I thought it would be. Aside from doing the usual thing that the meter does, it turns a regular beam weapon into a rapid fire one, a heavy beam cannon into a Mega Launcher style one, and refils your ammo if you're out before you activate it. Also, all MS can boost like the transforming ones in the Zeta games, now simply done with a double tap of the X button. One strange thing I've noticed is the lack of free floating space stages. I know they weren't terribly popular, but now all space stages have ground components to them (Junius 7 has what's left of the colony, Debris field has what I assume is a meteor to walk on, and Genesis takes place in a Colony Laser style interior). I suppose that's one way to fix the problem of getting lost in the space levels, but I never minded them much. And while the entire game is pretty much arcade & vs, the stages have the "feel" of the U.C. mode stages in G Vs Z. That is to say instead of the 3, 4 hit kills of the U.C. vs Arcade mode of the past, the SEED arcade mode's stronger MS will take 5'ish hits to take out the stronger MS (including yourself if you're in a stronger MS). I guess it's almost a fair trade off. The major improvement to this game, aside from larger MS models, is definately the increased play speed. If they could blend the engine of this game with the MS & variety of the U.C. VS games.....

Not sure how many are going to pick this up, but I just got mine an hour ago. I've only had a chance to play it a bit, but so far my first observations: Good -Not significantly, but it does appear to kick the graphic's up a notch from G vs Zeta -Good assortment of MS, including unlockable Impulse, Sword Impluse, Blast Impluse, and from the looks of it, the other 3 stolen Gundam's from the beginning of Destiny (you fight against them at least). Also looks like Lunamaria's red Zaku may be there too (though maybe just as backup). As of yet though, I've only unlocked Shin & his various Impulse incarnations. -Pace is definately faster. -Sword Impulse has unlimited beam boomerangs, a killer melee, and limited beam burst attack (in addition to it's Vulcans). Definately the only way to play Impulse, as Force is just a slightly improved Strike. -Some nice funky diagonal & sideways camera angels during battles help add a sense of intensity -For those who hate Cagalie (sp?), slicing up her & the Strike Rouge with Sword Impulse as your team mate occupies Kira & Freedom (though I've never had a problem with her myself). -Freedom, 'nuff said. -Faster recovery time occasionally when you take a hit, hell, sometimes I've been knock'd back & then jump right back up to attack again. -Fighting against Blitz and seeing it use the Mirage Colloid -Ease of pilot selection, this time it's just scrolling through picture's, no having to translate names. -And of course, the hope that Lunamaria will be a playable character :::crossing fingers::: Bad -This game is pretty stripped down, maybe I was just spoiled by G vs Z & it's insanely fun U.C. mode & unlockable extra's menu, but all you get her is arcade mode (though picking different characters seems to be the only way to vary up the stages), Vs mode, 7 options. -No Campaign or U.C. style mode....what the hell were they thinking? -No (as of yet) music selection mode. In fact the only songs in game seem to be Invoke, that vocal that play's during some of the episodes when someone dies, and Find the Way. I was really hoping they'd include Believe instead of Invoke, but alas it's nowhere to be found. -The awaken mode & all its awesomeness is gone, and in it's place is the older style Newtype boost (or in this case "SEED mode." This time it's achieved by holding down L2 & R2. I really do miss being able to pop back up after being taken out, with a missing head or leg. Hopefully it'll return in a later incarnation. -No apparent online mode, though I don't have a broadband connection, PS2 modem, and never played online in the Zeta games, it still seemed like a cool feature to have. -Melee attacks don't quite feel right. In the U.C. games when you conected a beam saber attack you got the nice sound & feeling that you were slicing into something. Here you pretty much just get a cheesy clang when you connect a meleee. -No huge MA battles (at least that I've seen). Would have been nice if they through in Destroy. While I do enjoy the game, I don't feel they should have stripped it down so much from Gundam Vs Zeta's copious features. Though I'm sure we'll get a sup'd up Destiny version game within a year, and that it'll have many of those feature's re-instated, there's no reason why they couldn't hav e taken the time to add in a U.C. or Campaign style mode here.

Galbaldy B with ballute's for atmospheric entry. Pilot is Lila (Jerid's first obsession).

Yes it is, flying the flag of freedom, sailing the sea of stars...

If you go for the 7 disc HK set be warned, while it is complete, and has both the original Japanese, and u.s./australian dub, it's also highly compressed & looks on the low end of the spectrum.

Yup, episode 27, before the assault on Bodolza, specifically when Britai & Laplamiz charge their ships into battle, the Arcadia is right along with them.

You know...if HG actually used that in-joke as a new idea, that would be pretty sad... 344340[/snapback] Sad, but now highly in the realm of possability. Hell, the Arcadia may be the main bad guy's in Shadow Chronicles....with Orguss Valkyries flying out of it

No, that's the VF-1O, coming next year from Toynami! BTW, if you watch the scene where Britai charges his ship into battle with Laplamiz in ep 27, you'll also see the new Skull Class Fokadia coming next year from Toynami!

Yup, fun show so far, not quite enough singing in it yet though....

Sadly it took me this long to finally watch my copy, but I was surprisingly impressed. After watching the SEED movies, and being incredibly dissapointed by the rushed feeling of those, and watching the Turn A movies, and while enjoying those a lot more, still feeling there should have been 3 instead of 2, I really really liked what they did with this first Zeta movie. While it still doesn't flow as well as the 0079 movie trilogy (and by rights there's no reason why that one should have come out as well as it did, but wow), I didn't feel at all gyped like I did with the SEED movies, and the changes brought more than a few nice surprises. The MK II as expected looks incredibly sweet, hell, I even found myself wowing at the fight with Rosamia & the Gaplant. Emma's new design is perfect, and for the most part the TV animation doesn't look too bad compared. mind you it's still very different, but not so differeent as to suck you out of the movie. The only scene that looks terrible are some shots of Camille in the cockpit when he's fighting with his father. Strangly enough, that was also the only scene that I thought was meshed sloppily, as Whlie it could have definately benefitted by being either an hour longer, or being completely new animation, Tomino has again shown us that he's light years above anyone else trying to handle the Gundam.

There's no such thing as VR3, and the only games shown on the 20th anniversary DVD were VFX, VFX 2, DYRL, and VO. Also not sure what you mean by history of the game, but the general story takes place in 2050, with Aegis Focker joining the elite VFX Raven's, and a plot from a coorperation with rogue Zentradi as their militia to steal a New Macross class battle section, equip it with their new radar jamming weapon, and take down the U.N. Spacy.

I thought I was done....bought my VF-1A Hikaru, bought my fast pack, am restraining myself from getting the GBP-1S......but I absolutely have to have a 0S & Shin 0D....damnit!

My preduction: The production budget will fall completely through, and left with no other choice, HG will bootleg Space Gundam V, dub it, and release it as Shadow Chronicles.

That's SPACE GANDAM V!

Where did I get that point? From seeing both DYRL & Macross II. The scene structure for II is near identical to DYRL, the plot is "extremely" close, and anything that is different is superficially so. Consider Macross II "pimp my ride" in reverse. Taking a shiny suped up car, and turning it into a "hooptie."

That arguably wasn't a screw up on the YF-21's part....

There's no point in remaking II, the core of its story is sound because it's DYRL, II brought nothing oriignal to the pot.

It's a direct rip of the 8 disc (2 4 disc sets) FX release. Same subtitles, episode counts raised a bit per disc, and similar video quality. Only major downside is that it doesn't have Dynamite or the movie (which you can get on a seperate disc), and the version I saw at least had a picture slip cover, with a generic HK gatefold case (no art, just the HK company logo). The disc's have art, and all the extra's from the FX release are present.

More likely, they forced himt o work faster. Mikimoto does his best work when given time to put the detail he loves putting into it. With a falling budget, time would have grown shorter. Besides which, there are still some great shots of Ishtar in the later episodes, notably when Feff sends her off at the end of the 5th episode, probably the single best shot of her in the whole OVA.

When my AnimEigo set finally arrived after those dicks at UPS let it sit in texas for a week....

If Walmart wants to only sell certain things because of the convictions of the Walton family/the other higher ups in the company and/or their desire to appeal to certain demograph of customer, more power to them. If you don't like what they're selling, go through a store or source that sells what you are looking for. No one should hold a gun to their head for what they want or want not to sell. Psst, you'll note I'm not supporting their store, didn't purchase ep III there, and in fact have never set foot inside, or used their online site. And while it is their choice to carry or not carry something, it should "not" be their choice to demand watered down versions of things, and then not inform the unsuspecting consumer that they're being sold an inferior product. If they sell product that reflects their ideals (term used loosely), they should make it themselves, not infringe upon others. It isn't just Walmart that "stomps on the little guy". All the other retailers and electronic stores you mentioned are striving to be the biggest and best that they can be and guess what? There are smaller companies and stores that lay in their wake too. Perhaps the same will happen to any of them and even Walmart, too. For about a decade, Nintendo was THE only name in video games for nearly a decade and pretty much were a monopoly over the console market. A decade later, where are they now? No, there's a special kind of stomping involved there, not just the average big chain store style. The kind that kreeps into run down neighborhoods, crushes local business, and forces those who don't want to submit to illegal forms of employment to submit to their will. Oh, and they prop up old people at the door, that's just freaky. - Perhaps they are evil after all! What are the cicumstance for this? Is this an individual store thing or a company thing? If the store is doing an all store inventory and need to shut down during hours they would be usually opened, it would make sense to lock the store up. I don't recall what exactly happened the one or two times we did inventory at the Walmart I was at, but during the two years I was at this one major store that sold pet and farm supplies, we would usually do our inventory on a Sunday and we would have our doors locked to keep the public out (hey, we were closed!).\ Circumstances? Did you happen to miss the whole media blitz about walmart locking in their night clean up staff, pretty much consisting hispanics who weren't too fluent in english, and were arguably not legal citizens, in the stores, by themselves, no key to get out, etc until morning. Not isolated incidents, and nothing to do with inventory.

I was referring more to their practices of demanding studio's produce edited content versions of media in order for them to carry it, stomping out mom & pop shops, locking their employee's in the stores & forcing them to stay, etc. Nothing political about it.

No, despite the content, Mikimoto still delivered on quality designs, I definately blame the animation budget far more than him.

Hasn't happened yet, but it's nice to know you care....

Interestingly enough, Leiji Matsumoto apparently thought the same thing, as that's how he depicted Tetsuro's father in Adieu Galaxy Express 999 & Cosmo Warrior Zero.