SRW Alpha 3 Lightning Round: Selena Stage 8 Invisible Intruder

Sorry for the delay... I had hoped to finished this section last week but it took a lot longer than anticipated. The stage starts off with a story event first. Once it switches back to the stage map, the stage will begin. Since I wanted to upload this video as quick as possible, I might have not done a good job proof reading all the dialogue that was translated. Let me know if I missed anything.

The stage itself is not too difficult as long as you use all the character's spirit commands. Once you defeat 4 enemy platoons, reinforcements will arrive for the enemies. There are a few characters to watch out: Heero, Quatre, Duo, Kamille, and Kira. Kira in particular will require a 100% hit rate spirit command to hit him as he has a very high evade rate. When the reinforcements arrive, I suggest using Elma's spirit command which decreases all the enemy's hit rate. Use any defensive spirit command for all characters and you should be able to destroy all enemy units before turn 6.

A few notes for this video:
 - A 'cleaner' mentioned by Selena is someone that does 'wet work' for the organization (ie. assassination, infiltration, spying, etc.)

 - At around 36:57 in the video, the battle dialogue of Selena gets skipped when she evades. Before Elma's dialogue, she is supposed to say "Elma! Re-calculate enemy range and speed!" This is the game that cuts that dialogue and I can't do anything about it.

 - At around 45:25 in the video, Murrue's audio dialogue gets cut off halfway when she get's hit. Same thing as above.

 - As usual, the markers for the stage is in the description. You'll notice there's a lot this time around. Probably the most number of markers to date so far.

Here's the video:


As mentioned, this video is long (Just about an hour long) and will take some time uploading. It's at the 1116 minute mark right now as I'm typing this. I will update again once it's finised uploading. Video is uploaded.

On a side note, I think a lot of you would like to download the video instead of watching on youtube. I'm considering uploading it somewhere but could use some suggestions on where to upload it. Let me know in the comments.

UPDATE: KitsuneRagnell has pointed out the audio on the left side is missing. I have found the whole stage 8 recording was missing the left audio. Unfortunately, I can't fix it and will need to re-record the whole section. I might go back and do it when I come back from vacation but for now the video will need to be as is. This applies to Stage 8 Prologue and Stage 8 Epilogue (yet to be posted) as well. Sorry for the sloppy work.

SRW Alpha 3 Lightning Round: Selena Stage 8 Prologue

I really think Murrue is such an idiot. Asking Emma what they should do even though she's a lower rank than Murrue. I know she's a newly graduated academy officer but even Bright wasn't this much of an idiot or desperate. I just can't like her at all.

My opinions aside, here's a few notes:

 - Gamow is another Zaft ship that is under Creuset Fleet. It doesn't look like we'll ever see any other ship except the Vesalius under Creuset fleet though.

 - The Hawk of Endymion is Mu's nickname after successfully defeating 5 Ginn mobile suits with just his Moebius mobile armour in the Endymion Crator battle. He was also the only surviving Moebius pilot after that war.

 - White Shooting Star is Amuro Ray's nickname in the Super Robot War's Alpha series.

Enjoy the video:

UPDATE: Some of you might notice the left side audio is missing. Unfortunately, it was recorded by accident this way. Refer to Stage 8 Invisible Intruder post.

SRW Alpha 3 Lightning Round: Selena Stage 7 Epilogue

I'm happy to report that stage 7 is completed.

The Epilogue is quite short. Probably because of the long stage end event that takes place before it.

There's nothing really to note for translation wise. Nothing really complicated. I'm sure most of you probably know 'Legged-ship' is referring to the Archangel.

On with the video:

SRW Alpha 3 Lightning Round: Selena Stage 7 One's Justice

Sorry for the delay. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the last few weeks have been busy with holidays and catching a cold. I'm finally feeling better now and happy to say stage 7 gameplay has been completed.

This stage was annoying to play. You can't let any of your characters die and none of the SEED gundams have very good armor or evade. Athrun in particular kept dying over and over and caused me to redo the stage 3 times before I finished the first turn without a gameover. Thankfully, the third try let me playthrough non-stop.

For the strategy for this stage, make full use of the spirit commands and make sure to save at the start of each turn. Athrun can still die even if you use the spirit command that increases his evade and hit rate which can really cause you problems when trying to complete the challenge mission.

Since you need to finish the stage within 3 turns, you will need to move Wufei or Athrun to their maximum distance each turn to reach the destination point. If you want to get the skill point for this stage, I suggest using Athrun's spirit command to increase his evade and move him as far as he can towards the destination point. This will trigger the enemy reinforcement event and will make it easier to kill off all the enemies within 3 turns as you can counter their attacks during the enemies first turn.

A few things to note about the video:
- You'll notice that the stage objective window closes very quickly. I think I was frustrated and I kinda quickly skipped it. That's why I left the stage objective translation up even when the window had already closed so people who want to know it can still read it all.

- The stage end event is very long. This is due to the fact that it actually has a story event and a second stage map which is all entirely events and no gameplay.

- I've done the usual procedure for proof reading but since I'm still a little sick, there might be a few things I might have still missed. If you notice anything, let me know.

Without further ado, here's the video:


At this point, the video is uploading at 444 minutes remaining. As usual, I'll update this post when I see the video has finished uploading.

Video is uploaded!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone!

It's been a busy past two weeks with holidays and a cold I caught. Unfortunately, that has caused some delays on subbing the stage 7 gamplay of SRW alpha 3. It's a fairly long section and I'm hoping to finish it within this week. I also plan on trying to catch up for the one week I couldn't upload a video so I still stay on track of one video per week.

Reflecting back on last year, it was a fairly good year for me. I finally got myself a capturing device and convinced myself in doing some kind of gameplay video and I'm happy to see a lot of fans supporting my project.

I was also able to finish a few games in my collection so it's definitely been a good year for me. The games I've finished are as follows:

Batman Arkham City
Darksiders
Killzone 2
Monster Hunter Freedom
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario Galaxy 2

Keep in mind that when I say "finished" it doesn't mean just getting the ending. I try to get every collectibles and get a 100% completion rate on everything I can. The only thing I don't care for is the multiplayer part of games (like Killzone 2) and I usually don't care if I don't get 100% on that part.

Monster Hunter Freedom has been a long endeavour. I hadn't been able to get too far with it until 2 years ago when I started a position that put me on the road most of the time. The PSP was my constant companion and enabled me to get back into Monster Hunter again.

With the amount of games I have in my collection, it really is a small amount that I've completed. But for myself, it's definitely a big improvement as I tend not to finish a lot of my games. I'm hoping I do better this year by completing at least one game each month. But we'll see how I'll do...

I hope everyone has had a better start of the year than myself. Starting a new year with a cold is not very fun and I'm hoping I'll get better soon. May the new year bring more gaming fun to all gamers around the world!