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Yggdra Union Free Download Unfitgirl Sting is definitely a developer to keep an eye on. The minds behind the Evolution series and a ton of games that never made it to US shores got some due attention last year with their Game Boy Advance role-playing game Riviera. That game was a peculiar amalgamation of game types, wrapped up in solid presentation and lush character art. But its abstract gameplay and unconventional navigation made it as off-putting as it was interesting. Their new game, the less-pronounceable Yggdra Union, cranks everything from Riviera up a notch. It’s a crazier, more exciting adventure that combines aspects of real-time strategy and card-battle games. But like Riviera, it’s a little too abstract to recommend to all gamers. The story revolves around Princess Yggdra of Paltina, who is lost in the woods after a siege on her castle. She hooks up with some thieves and warriors, and the rest of the game is spent with her working her way up the enemy food chain. It’s not a particularly interesting story, and tends to focus too strongly on chatty banter that will leave most players a little apathetic toward these characters. But the story moments aren’t overbearing and are mixed in well with the action. For example, when Yggdra’s unit is moved adjacent to the primary enemy unit, there will usually be a short scene between the two, mid-battle. Little triggered moments like these do well to sell the believability of the situation, which is pretty necessary because this game (like Riviera) uses abstract maps and environments. Rather than place the characters in dense settings filled with sprites and objects to interact with, everything is played on a blurry, vacant map with almost nothing other than the characters on top of it. Villages and houses are indicated by tiny icons. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

But navigating the lifeless environments bares more similarity to playing Risk than Advance Wars. This approach was obviously a stylistic decision on the part of the developers, but because of how abstract the environments and the characters are, it’s a little hard to get sucked into this world. During battle sequences though, this is possibly the busiest GBA game ever crafted. During a typical scene, the screen will include: animated character sprites of both combatants, their names, their fellow soldiers, animated mini-sprites of each with score, a cutscene portrait of each, dialogue word bubbles, the battlefield, rage meter, unit health, attack strength, current card with stats, unit weapon type, unit names and passive/aggressive meter. Screen space is used very economically, although on the other hand about half this stuff isn’t really that useful during a battle. But this game is all about visual overkill in warfare and necessary or not, it’s pretty interesting to behold. The game uses a unique morale system in favor of relying only on hit points. When two units do battle, they fight until all soldiers from one side have been vanquished (so a unit with 5 soldiers starts the battle with 5 hit points, essentially). Once the battle is over and the results are tallied, the morale of the losing side depletes. Morale is like a broader health meter that carries over between battles. It is affected by how much a unit is shamed during a fight, and a team of soldiers won’t go away until their morale is completely defeated. So barely overtaking an opposing unit will win the battle, but might only drain 10% of their morale (meaning at that rate, they’d have to be beaten ten times). But completely decimating an enemy unit while taking almost no damage to the heroes may eradicate enemy morale in a single battle.

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Morale unfortunately does not replenish between battles or even chapters. Instead, objects found and earned during battle must be applied to the characters before the next fight in order to patch them up. This is a shame, since it’s somewhat of a morale killer (for the gamer) to load up a save file and find the princess saved at death’s door. The developers are definitely stressing the exhaustive journey aspect of the game here, but it’s a little merciless. Weapons affinity works in a rock/paper/scissors fashion, so that characters wielding a spear are better against those wielding a sword, sword beats axe, and axe beats spear. This sounds pretty trivial but turns out to be essential to winning battles. Going in on the right or wrong side of these combinations is often the single biggest determinant of which side will come out victorious. A meter at the top of the screen can be adjusted to make the currently-controlled band of characters more aggressive or passive during battle. More aggressive warriors stand a slightly better chance of coming out victorious, however making them more aggressive depletes a meter with finite resources. The game recommends making characters more passive during battles that are going to be easily won, although I must’ve missed those moments because Yggdra Union is pretty consistently difficult. Success in even the early levels hinges on making only smart decisions with all units. The most interesting gameplay element is unit formation. Taking a single unit into battle will result in only that unit taking on the enemy. However, lining up other units behind them allows those other units to come in for a second attack when the first one is done. Street Fighter X Tekken Complete Pack

Female-led units (like Yggdra’s) must align reinforcements in a + formation (keeping the other units above her, below her or at her sides). Male-led units must align reinforcements in an x formation. Adding even more complexity, these rules go for the enemy units, too; enemies aligned in a + or x formation (depending on their sex), can send multiple waves of soldiers at the player. So to fight effectively, it’s important to not only properly line up the hero units, but take on isolated enemy units that won’t bring an onslaught of troops with them. Unit formation adds a chess-like strategy element to the game, and also gives greater importance to the card-based mobility system, which is used to line up reinforcements and not just move the attacker. It’s a shame the other gameplay elements Sting came up with for this game aren’t as cohesive and effective as unit formation.There is a very robust (and at times overbearing) tutorial structure that occurs over the first few stages. This is necessary due to the complicated structure of the battles. But the game does a nice job of walking the player through every aspect of gameplay, and rations up the introduction of new gameplay elements over the first few levels. Although deep, the tutorial mode can be a little too chatty at times, with characters far more verbose and witty than they need to be. And none of the dialogue can be skipped, even if it’s being read for a second or third time due to losing a battle. Luckily this only affects pacing in the first few stages. Yggdra Union is an unabashed port of a two-year-old Game Boy Advance game. Its move to the PSP doesn’t herald an overhaul of the rudimentary battlefield display nor does it spice up the skirmishes with graphical flashes. With a strict reliance on strategic battles over fancy visual flourishes, it has nothing to hide behind when the combat falters. There is a severe lack of depth in the battle dynamics, which makes this game more grueling and repetitive than a handheld war should ever be. Getting caught up in the rhythmic motion of combat can be hypnotizing at times, but the repetitious confrontations become predictably uneventful after a while.

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While Yggdra Union offers a unique spin on tactical combat, it lacks the creative spice that makes other games in the genre so captivating. Trouble rears its ugly head in the kingdom of Fantasinia, and Princess Yggdra is on a mission to right the wrongs of her fallen world. As Yggdra, you amass a small group of plucky individuals to help you conquer the dark foes who hound you at every step. The core element pushing you through beleaguered towns and crumbling mountain passes is a holy sword that promises to bring justice to those who have hurt your people. The idea that this holy sword is guiding you on this quest to decimate anyone who opposes you proposes a dark question that you must answer for yourself: Is the sword truly special, or are you acting on your own accord? The story is told so inexpertly, though, that this ominous decision feels slight. The characters are devoid of personality. A few crass comments interject some energy into their dialogue, but the characters predominantly settle on bland cries of either outrage or acceptance. Twists occasionally throw a stick in your spokes, veering you down a path that couldn’t have been anticipated. These turns are not always for the better, though. During one maddening detour, you’ll momentarily lose control of Yggdra and watch in horror as she undoes hours of your hard work. The turns the story takes are often illogical and serve to artificially lengthen your quest instead of provide much-needed substance. A good third of the game is devoted to all-too-long story interludes that fail to provide the proper motivation to continue fighting, while the rest takes place on battlefields. Here you’ll navigate your troops around a grid as you attempt to quickly quash your enemies. The Last Hero of Nostalgaia

The battles are strictly turn-based, but unlimited preparation time is unnecessary since the battles are fairly simple. The most important strategy is setting up unions before battles. Unions are formed depending on where your allies are stationed. Battles can often be won by sheer force so taking as many people as possible into battle with you is the key to winning. If you overwhelm your enemies with numbers, you’ll be able to quickly vanquish them and claim victory before they can make a dent in your plans. As the game progresses, you’ll often find yourself severely outnumbered on the battlefield, so smothering your foes under your massive weight isn’t always possible. There is a rock-paper-scissors dynamic in effect, which means swords are strong against axes but weak against spears, but there are often too many skirmishes going on in one battle to let this strategy play out. The most important in-combat skill is knowing when to fight passively and when to let loose with all-out aggression. This is the only direct control you’ll have over your troops in battle, and it’s the key to swinging more difficult duels in your favor. There isn’t much thought required as far as when to be passive and when to be aggressive, though. You’ll need to fight passively at first, building up your combat meter, and then switch to aggression for the rest of the battle as you recklessly tear down your foes. When your combat meter is full, you’ll have the option to let loose a special attack. Before battle, you choose a card to play for that turn. The cards determine how strong you are, how far you can move on the battlefield, and which special attack you have access to. Unfortunately, the restrictions are so severe on the special attacks that you’ll often have to fight battles without them. For instance, you can use your healing ability only at noon during the in-game day, and many cards are restricted to just one character, so the stealing card.

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For example, can be used only by the thief. This means that the majority of your fights will boil down to how you use the passive/aggressive meter, with only a few duels fully using the special abilities these cards offer. There are neither towns to visit nor side quests to partake in. You are shuttled from one battlefield to the next, with no chance to wander down an uncharted path or to go back to previous battlefields to level up. This strict focus could have been an advantage if the strategy was deep enough to be constantly engaging, but instead it serves as a detriment because of the repetition of the battles. It’s hard to distinguish one battle from the next, so the experience amounts to mindlessly forming unions and unleashing aggressive attacks, without any notable moments to make the experience memorable. Still, it is possible to be caught up in the rhythmic motion of battles. The sway of battle is almost soothing, making it easy to get lost in the rock-paper-scissors battles to decide the fate of the world. Despite the game’s lack of any real strategy, it’s rewarding to take down a particularly troublesome foe or deftly plow through a battlefield without losing a single person in battle. Yggdra Union is a different take on the strategy genre. It places an emphasis on forming powerful unions on the battlefield while letting you manage your own aggression during fights. But the game doesn’t evolve from its simple roots and unfortunately casts you in the same basic battle over and over again. The intoxicating rhythm is easy to get lost in, but it’s impossible to ignore the archaic graphics and poorly developed story. There is a certain charm on this simple battlefield, but those looking for a serious challenge from their strategic endeavors should look elsewhere.

“War is an ugly thing,” said some guy off the Internet called John Stuart Mill once. He could have been talking about Yggdra Union (which, you may be interested to know, is apparently pronounced ‘yugudora yunion’ according to the spelling on the Japanese box). The best thing about the best turn-based strategy games is that they reduce the messy chaos of the battlefield to a series of uncomplicated elements; a series of building blocks out of which tactical and strategic complexities emerge, simply and without fuss. Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Disgaea, Civilization, X-COM, Final Fantasy Tactics – they hook you with their accessibility and then reel you in with their intricacy in a really good way. The worst thing about Yggdra Union is that it is unnecessarily impenetrable, ingesting the messy chaos of the battlefield and then puking it back up with crazy, histrionic graphics and weirdly unintuitive game rules that make very little sense. Ostensibly, the game is quite pretty, with attractive anime-style character art and all that, but actually, once it’s moving, the densely-packed hubbub of stats, gauges, icons, shrieking slashes and scratchy text-balloons end up obscuring the action instead of enhancing it. Meanwhile, the stark, characterless battlefields have none of the austere charms that characterise, say, the Fire Emblem series. More confusing than the pictures, though, are the game rules. Once you’ve made it through the boring bouts of plot-exposition via talking heads (fleeing princess, ragtag band of saviours, evil empire, blah, blah, yawn, yawn, etc.), you choose a number of cards to take into battle. You then choose one of these cards during each turn of the ensuing battle, and it determines how many squares your units can move, how powerful their attacks will be, and if any of them can use any special skills during that turn.

That bit’s actually pretty basic (although made more complicated by the over-elaborate menu graphics). It starts hurting your head when you get to the rules of forming ‘unions’, and that’s because these rules turn the game into more of a puzzle game than a strategy game, with the battlefield having become so abstracted that much of what follows feels counter-intuitive. Unions are what happens when you choose to enter combat, which you can do once per turn. Any other units standing around your lead attacker in diagonally adjacent squares (if your lead attacker is male), or vertically and horizontally adjacent squares (if your lead attacker is female) will also join in. And the same rules apply to your opponents. It gets confusing because it’s difficult to track which of your units will end up attacking which enemy units, and it gets boring because the combat is semi-interactive, which means that it can’t be skipped, even though you can potentially have to sit through 18 separate encounters, each with their own outcome screen. It’s also annoying that units are eliminated from the map when their morale has been sapped, but sometimes they’ll still hang around till the end of combat to attack other members of your union (it’s even more annoying that it’s difficult to replenish the morale of your units, even between chapters). Which isn’t to say that the game doesn’t redeem itself at all. What John Stuart Mill actually said is this: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.” Again, he could be talking about Yggdra Union. It is a turn-based strategy game, after all, and, by and large, that’s a pretty good thing. It does get some of the basics right, like the paper-scissors-stone-style weapon tree, and a fairly interesting roster of unit types, and while it’s frequently confusing and difficult to work out what’s going on, it’s not actually a terribly challenging game – which means that it’s easy to find yourself zoning out and settling in to an easily-paced distraction.Arietta of Spirits

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