RE: Asura's Wrath - Dude - Mar. 28, 2012
Those DLC episodes are really not worth it, but the game itself is (Not really sure if that's what you meant...)
The game has awesome graphics, so I don't mind the QTE when it happens. Beside, the game is mostly actual gameplay, not mostly QTE.
The DLC episodes ARE ONLY QTE, though, and that's unforgivable.
RE: Asura's Wrath - Dude - Apr. 25, 2012
Okay, Take 2: DLC Time!
GREAT DLC, this time. That's right, as if to create some ironic contrast to the carp mid-episodes DLC we got, those four extra episodes are AWESOME!!! I'm serious, too!
Naturally, it takes place where the game left us: Asura and Yasha just defeated Vlitra and the Golden Spider somehow took a hold of Mithra's mind. He apparently only wants Asura himself, though, using Mithra only to awaken his powers which he plans to pass on to Asura so he can essentially become god himself. Asura wants none of it, though, and the Golden Spider uses Mithra's power to take his true form: A fifteen feet tall eigtht-armed woman-man(?) that totally talks like a man!! Apparently, his real name is Chakravitran (If I recall that right) and he figths Asura and Yasha. This is pretty interesting because this boss is actually really, really hard! There aren't as many QTE to easily fill the Rage Bar, so you actually have to fill it with Melee attacks. I died a couple of times for real! After a long brawl against the giant golden woman, Asura even turning into his more wrath-ful form, Asura and Yasha get blasted to Earth and Chakravitran is saddened that Asura is 'Another failure' and decides to destroy the world and rebuild it anew 'Like he always did' implying that the world in the game is certainly not the first one he created.
This is AWESOME!!! Seriously much, muuuuuch better than those sucky DLC episodes from before. And that was all just the first episode! I'm saving the other three for later.
EPICNESS!!! Totally worth the measly seven bucks!
RE: Asura's Wrath - Dude - Apr. 26, 2012
Holy... carp...
With the ending of this DLC, Asura's Wrath has officially taken a spot in my top 5 favorite games. I'm not really sure where, exactly, but it totally deserves a spot. Listen, if you will.
After being sent to Earth, Yasha tries to find a way to wake Asura, whose badly damaged after trying too hard to kill Chakravartin. Yasha soon realizes that the only way to wake him up is to not only sacrifice the Mantra Reactor (7 TRILLION souls) but also his own life energy, which he does. After Asura wakes up, he knows he doesn't have much longer to live and asks Asura for a final battle. Before they can exchange a last punch to each other, Yasha stops suddenly and Asura realizes what he did. Accepting his sacrifice, he bumps his fist and says 'You were always a brother. Never an ennemy.' in one of the coolest, most emotional scene of the game. And Yasha then fades away, a smile on his face, knowing that Asura will win. Asura then blasts off into space where Chakravartin has taken the form of a GIANT HINDOU GOD THAT'S LIKE TEN TIMES BIGGER THAN THE EARTH ITSELF!! But then, awesomeness happens.
Asura turns into a metal, six-armed version of himself that's as big as the Earth called 'Asura, the Destructor' He even protects the Earth from a giant laser shot by Chakravartin. Asura the Destructor then blasts into the giant gold Chakravartin statue, which throw NEWLY-CREATED SUNS AND PLANETS TO DEFEND ITSELF and finds the real Chakravartin inside a Limbo-like zone. After beating it up, the god adopts his true form and this is where it gets really, really cool. He turns into Chakravartin, the Creator and he, by far, is the coolest-looking guy in the game. Imagine one of the Anti-Spiral from Gurren Lagaan with partial silver body armor. he looks incredibly badass and this fight is also by far the best in the game. It's both challenging but not cheap, a perfect match.
After beating the living carp out of Chakravartin the Creator, Asura proceeds to kill him, even if his daughter warns him not to, because he's the wheel of Mantra amd Mantra is what was keeping Asura alive. Glad that his daughter is safe, Asura vanishes away, along with all the Mantra everywhere.
This is simply spectacular. I recommend this DLC to anyone that has the game, it absolutely worth the seven bucks, I would even pay 20 bucks for this.
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