Mognet

Cristian Molina has “a little blurb about 7D 2020″:http://mognetcentral.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/7th-dragon-2020/ over at Mognet Central, a little site I’ve been following for years (since it was called Majoria’s News and linked to from insertcredit).

Nothing new, but always good to see 7D getting a little more PR from someone cool. :)

Android shmupping

Some new ports for Android

“Infinity Gene”:https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.taito.am.siInfinityGene $7.81 USD

“R-Type”:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dotemu.rtype $4.13 USD

Exciting times, but I don’t actually have any free space on my Nexus. And not a fan of touchscreen joysticks for the most part — wonder how well R-Type will play on an Xperia Play?

Keyboard Enhancements

!https://pent.semilunar.org/images/28.jpg (Simeji keyboard skin for Android)!

Browsing the custom skins for the Simeji Android IME, I came across this…

I suppose this is one thing the iPhone can’t do!

Diva Mode

“Soundtrack apparently has a ‘Diva’ option which is entirely composed of Hatsune Miku versions of the existing BGM”:http://jrpg.jp/news/?eid=16&nid=220.

I’d like to hear some samples!

*Slight addendum 9/18*

Looks like the site updated with a partial “list of producers for Diva mode”:http://jrpg.jp/news/?eid=16&nid=221 – namely,

“(PAwLaboratory.)、8#Prince、kiichi、sasakure.UK、そらいろくらぶ、nak-ami、whoo、baker、millstones、monaca:factory、Wonderlandica”

Not sure how they pulled this one off…

Chibi-chara quest

Wouldn’t be a 7D game without some chibichara action on the website, I guess!

“http://dragon2020.sega.jp/quest/”:http://dragon2020.sega.jp/quest/

Apparently you pick a class, then you fight it out with some dragons on yon twitters for exp. No idea if there is any bonus at the end yet. LOL twitterspam. Website is crawling atm

Also, “have some photos of TGS merchandise”:http://jrpg.jp/news/?nid=211.

Sekiranun Graffiti

Sekiran-un Graffiti (積乱雲グラフィティ) by ryo (supercell) is “available on the US Amazon MP3 store for $5″:http://www.amazon.com/Sekiranun-Graffiti-Feat-Hatsune-Fallin/dp/B005HAOSXS/.

Kinda catchy. The B-side is pretty decent, too.

New video, and release date postponed

“Release date pushed back to 11/23″:http://sega.jp/topics/110901_2/. :(

This week’s video – a brief shot of the party management screen.

Notable points include the ability to class change at level 30. Equipment seems to revert to the basic equipment for the new class, too.

Really getting a _Persona_ vibe from this game. Not that that’s a bad thing!

Deathsmiles iOS v1.0.3

DS 1.03 update

* Lock shot freeze bug fixed
* Scroll bar response bug fixed?
* Rain boots fixed (just tested this on the old version, i think it was giving +3x instead of +1x … not certain, though)
* Minor item corrections

Downloading now, we’ll see.

Destroyer

*Destroyer*

A technical yet powerful class. They’re S-ranked in exercise, or something. Skilled at countering and stuff like combination attacks.

For what it’s worth, here’s what I could pick out of the movie.

|Tsurube Mach|鶴瓶マッハ|Moderate damage to a single target, increases D level to 2|
|Quintetta|クインテッタ|(D3) Massive damage to a single target|
|Drill Crawler|ドリルクロウラー|(D3) Massive damage to a single target, life+mana recovery|
|Interception Stance|迎撃スタンス|(Acts first) Moderate damage counter when attacked|
|Interception Stance: Heavy|迎撃スタンス・重式|(Acts first) Heavy damage counter when attacked|
|Fang Bender|牙折る也|Nullify and counter fang attacks. Damage reduction even if skill fails.|
|Claw Breaker|爪砕く也|Nullify and counter claw attacks|
|Breath Splitter|吹裂く也|Nullify and counter breath attacks|
|Alter Fate|凶転ず也|Chance to nullify and counter status effect attacks.|
|Anger Explosion|怒りの重爆|Damage to single enemy, greater when at low health|
|Destroy React|デストロイリアクト|For four turns, increasing D level has a chance of granting an extra turn|
|Near-death Courage|瀕死のド根性|Survive attacks that would have been fatal.|
|Parrying Shield|パリングシールド|Damage reduction for the entire party lasting one turn|
|Skyhigh Meteor|スカイハイメテオ|Extreme damage to entire party maximum D level effect|

Although seriously, is that a Gespenst Kick?

Milking

Deathsmiles iOS *iPhone / Hard*: 412,931,447 (#32 of 5,167)

Made it close to the end of Gorge then ran into some bullets and died ;(

Debating if I should skip Gorge entirely since I’m bound to gameover to the boss at the end of the stage without a decent stock of bombs.

Maybe I should try actually practicing the stage…