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Sakura Taisen Marathon (con't)
Red Company likes to torture their fans don't they... out of curiosity after ST3 I wondered what ST4 was since the opening theme and scenes were of EVERY girl you've ever met and could date... Imagine that... 13 girls to run around with in Teito... 13 girls whom you have a history with... plus if you combine the system files of 1, 2, and 3... (well 2 and 3...). Its hell in a handbasket (where did that saying come fron anyways?). Chapter 1 consists of you back at Teito (probably shortly after your arrival from France... where you left said French girl...) and they are all wondering how you have been.

You the player are first off awed by the change from ST 1 to ST 4 believe me... I was gawking at the rendering. XD But more importantly... I was happy to see new character designs which make the characters a little less angular. ^^ Anyways... Yoneda asks you two questions that are key to the rest of the game (1 can be avoided the other can't... believe me... I tried ^^;;) He asks you if you were with anyone in France... you pick one of five... and then he asks you if you remember who you went out on a New Year's date with... who you choose from a picture.

In my case... I told Yoneda that I chose Glycine as Vice-captain and then Maria (of course!). Which you wonder why he asks you such a question. Either way... picking these two characters makes them (like in ST 2) happy as can be and pretty much gives them an edge in the rankings...

But... going on... I expected to hear chimes when I talked to Yoneda and Kaede... which wasn't the case... I kept expecting to hear chimes with Tsabaki too! (Wahhh ST 3 and its non-dateables...)

But the coolest thing... out of the entire game... is the ST3 battle engine with the ST 2 characters. Point based system with the Teito girls. XDDD Wahhhhh! My one point is that the point based system sort of invalidates the Captain's strategies. Since in the old grid based system you sacrifice something to be able to deal more damage, defdend, move faster/farther etc. With the point based system you don't get that kind of deal... instead you sacrifice something to have something else cost less points. Granted that's not a bad thing as Oogami who can switch strategies all the time as captain... but ahhhh its not a bad fault. I'd take the point based system over the grid system any day. =)

Secondly... since I had Glycine and Maria as options in Ch 1 guess who shows up from Paris? Yup... I don't know what is with blondes in this game... or the fact that I chose them... but I know why Glycine appealed to me first... she was very loyal to the Hana-gumi... she reminded me of a High strung, emotional, noble, Maria. (tho not as cool since she wields an axe and not a pair of guns.)

Man... you'd think I'd get tired of this game... but I'm not... I'm seriously fascinated at what happens next... who I can beat... what answers would please girls best... its amazing. Maybe I should try Haruka Naru after this... XD I wonder if they have battles too...

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