Lost Fragments

Battle Fantasia Trophies: 62/62

After all the hard work I put into this game, I can finally say that I have completed / mastered it. The few final parts of mastering it for me was completing the story 100% with every characters, getting End Of Deathbringer and Gatchi / Parrying his Apocalypse Flame and defeating him with 100% life.

After getting the End Of Deathbringer as a playable character, I started to train with him to gatchi his apocalypse flame which lands 22 hit. After some training, I managed to beat his apocalypse flame in training mode, but when it comes to the real deal, fighting him in the arcade mode is a whole different ball game.

In Arcade mode, and at the highest level of difficulty (very hard), Deathbringer would execute his normal routine, that is, when you are far away from him, he would either joust which connects 8 - 10 hits depending on the character you are using. Or he would power up his apocalypse flame 1 time. The third time he power up, he would execute the move.

Playing as Urs, I once managed to parry his 22 AF hits, but then playing the chicken game, running away from him and waiting to parry his joust (to recover heat) he would then perform the AF again!. For the first AF it is pure luck that I managed to parry it all, but for the second, I ate it at first hit to all the 22 hits...

I took sometime off, and play other games to loosen up the tension felt. Played some Castle Crashers with my daughter, and some Final Fantasy XIII just to take my mind of Battle Fantasia.

Once I came back, I played around with Urs and Ashley. To my surprise, these two characters has different gatchi timings. For Urs, the timing is strict, you cannot just pound the gathci button hoping it would work, you need to hear the sound of the parry. But for Ashley, you can tap the button in a melodious manner, if you are a musician, or have some musical timing skill you would notice that the tap required has a unique timing and if you attune yourself to it, you would gatchi the attack with breeze.

Nonetheless, I still have the problem of EoDB performing the AF more than once. What I would do to overcome this is... I denied EoDB's chance to perform AF during the first 10 - 20 seconds of the fight. If I see him charging the AF up, I would go and perform a throw, if the throw is successful, it would reset his current charge, example if he charged at 1 and you perform a throw, the next charge would also be 1. Whenever he perform his joust I would gatchi all the 5 - 9 hits which would recharge my heat to level 3, then I would punish him by heating up, performing super special, and repeat the step while at the same time resetting his AF charge. After I got his health to a critical minimum (one you could finish with 1 heated super special) I would let him charge his AF to level 3 and try to parry it once he performed it. I know it sounds easier said than done, but I did tried and tried again, without giving up, I knew that I would eventually be able to get the "you want me to what!?" trophy.

Parrying the AF 22 hit and finishing EoDB, the top right off the screen pops up the first gold trophy, and then shortly after, the second trophy which is the platinum. It was an emotional experience to obtain that Platinum trophy and I am glad to be one of the few person in this world to obtain it. Once PSN is up, I will know whether I am the first to get it on Gamespot. And I don't know of any other achivement (home t shirt, or other) that comes with it.

And with this I conclude my journey with this game. Time to finish all the other games in my backlog. Maybe I'll start with Final Fantasy XIII.

And last but not least, I dedicate this Platinum Trophy to Japan....

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Battle Fantasia Trophies: 60/62

Finally, I managed to obtain 100% story completion for every character in story mode. Although not that hard, its very time consuming. There are 2 path for every character and to unlock it there are certain requirements to be met. Like for example urs, he needs to win the match againts olivia by time out. And did I tell you that you need to win and lose every battle in Path01 or Path02? I always fell asleep when I had to do this time consuming task, waiting for the computer to beat me. But the stroryline is interesting though, there are some characters which dwelve into storyline completely different from the original story. Like Deathbringer's for example, the storyline changed to Battle Sentai Fantasia where all the character that he would fight seems to use gimicks from popular Sentai (Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, etc) and there are storyline that tells the true story of the game, like for example the real reason for Deathbringer's current state and who is Dokurod, and characters relationship with one another... man, this truly feels like an RPG game rather than a Fighting game as the storyline (Path 01 usually) gives more depth to the character's background story and sucks you into their adventure.

Anyway, all that has passed now, the requirements has been met, and I was happy to unlock alternate costumes for all the characters as some alternate even changed the whole appearance of the character giving it a fresh new look. Of all the unlockables I get from the story mode, the best is The End of Deathbringer, which is the final boss of the game. Its like Deathbringer, but with a completely new powerful moveset with the most powerful final attack in the game, the Apocalypse Flame. The move which I need to learn to gatchi in order to prepare me for the final battle against him in the Arcade match.

In practice mode, you can record a move for the cpu to do and when you play it back, it will repeat the same move all over again. I entered the button combination for the apocalypse flame which is Down Back B / D, and do it 3 times. The third time, EoDB will perform his apocalypse flame. Training with him I've managed to gatchi all 22 hits of the AF about 70% of the time. However when I fight him in arcade, I never manage to perfect the gatchi... stage fright perhaps? Anyway, this is the lask task I need to do to complete this game.

While finishing the end task for Battle Fantasia, I am also casually (read: devoted) playing the new Mortal Kombat. As PSN is still down as of today 26-April-2011, I think I will set the Battle Fantasia's task the first priority before I delve into MK online mode which will definitely take away 90% of my gaming time.

And, I really need to update my Backloggery

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Battle Fantasia Trophies: 55/62

I have managed to complete the storyline for all the characters, and I can say that some of the characters have a very interesting storyline. Anyway, looking back at the character select screen in story mode, I saw that the completion for a character's story that I've done is only at 30% at most 50%.

It seems like in order to complete a character's storyline at 100%, you would need to loose every fight and continue, then you must choose a different path in the storyline by performing a move / taunt during "Gachi Battle". This is the battle that would change the path of the character's storyline. Like for example when using Ashley, in a fight with Coyori, successfully perform a taunt, and this will change the outcome of the battle (should you win). After getting to 50%, you would get an alternate costume for the character. And at 90%, you would get another alternate costume for that character.

Completing the story mode for all character at 100% is benificial to me as I want to unlock the character The End Of Deathbringer. And I want to practice parrying / gatchi his attacks in practice mode so that it would be easier for me to do the almost imposible task to complete this game. That is, ehem "In single player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health." Firstly, the move is like 20+ hit, and Deathbringer (The End) is the final boss of the game and you are expected to parry (not block, coz it will chip of your health) every move he got including the Apocalypse Flame and win the round with full health.

I know its not impossible, but for now, I think I would unlock Deathbringer (The End) and spar with him in practice mode until I understand all of his move set and how to defeat him flawlessly.

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Battle Fantasia Trophies: 46/62

After some gaming time hiatus (actually, I got bored and don't know what to play) I've decided to continue my endless backloggery of unfinished game. I chose to play Battle Fantasia and complete this game.

As we all know, Japan, the country where chrono cross, final fantasy, metal gear solid, kingdom hearts and many other great games hail from, have been hit by an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude leading to several aftershocks afterwards which latest is the 27th Of March's (as of this writing and to my knowledge).

Many people from around the world rallied together to provide a helping hand to japan. The Gaming industry had also take part in this mission of kindness, namely some of the game composers have proposed to develop an Album in which the profit gained from selling this album would go to the AID Japan fund. A Theme for the PS3 have also been developed and which you can buy at $2, $5, $10, $25 and $50 from your wallet at playstation store. I have yet to buy this theme.

Alas, for me as a gamer, seeing how the industry is taking part in this noble endeavor, I have decided to dedicate one of the hardest (if not, impossible) Platinum trophy of all time to Japan. I will platinum Battle Fantasia and at the same time pray that all is well in Japan and that they can muster the strength and willpower to get back on their feet and their industry mainly the gaming industry would continue to provide us with excellent titles that they had always been.

Before tears start flowing in my eyes, I leave this post with something to ponder.

I cried when god gave me rain in such a bright day, But I smiled later knowing that god was actually showing me a rainbow.

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Battle Fantasia
Trophies: 38/62
Currently fighting online in ranked or player match. Not alot of people online nowadays. At first, I was trying to win a requested amount of ranked match, but after seeing someone in the leaderboard who is about 700 wins, I've decided to go for number 1 in online ranking as well. I would also try to aim for the win in player match.

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MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 20/43
Currently trying to complete the Kombo Challenge. I seem to have some grips on how the move / special move initiate and my execution successful rate for this game has somewhat doubled. I have managed to complete some of the combo challenge that I have had hard times with. Such as Captain marvel's, Sonya's, Jax and even DarkSeid. Maybe this is due to my intense activity on the Street Fighter IV .

While working on the MK Vs DC Title, I am also working on Battle Fantasia . Maybe this is due to my sudden interest in fighting mechanics, as my try on COD: Modern Warfare2, is of to no avail as I find myself lacking or maybe lost skills needed to play First person shooter games.

Battle Fantasia
Trophies: 34/62
Currently trying to find some people to fight online. After that I will complete all characters story mode.

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