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...and updated! Just checked it out, all seems fine, even checked May's stage to make sure all was well and, lo and behold, the not!Madoka characters are in the background instead of the not!Haruhi ones... ^_^ Will mess around with this when I get home... :3

Here are the match videos from last week's LGC1 GGXXAC tournament in London, UK. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDB40EA9E4C643D23 Top 4: Ryza Tab Mac Pawndriver Top 8: Firei Moko Fuzzyness dobiqwolf Enjoy! O-O~

London's niche fighting game monthly has returned in the form of London Gaming Centre, and we had quite a heated AH3 tournament nearer the end of the day of its return. With my new recording setup, my captured vids are now in glorious 720p! ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL663CAAE664393900 Top 4: Frost Moko Tu101uk / Firei Top 8: Fuzzyness Rayokarna AngelDarkSong Pawndriver Look forward to some rather enthusiastic commentary with the Fiona matches... XD Enjoy! O-O~

Both of them are very good characters, and it shouldn't be too difficult to do their basic stuff (though some of Saki's slightly more advanced BnBs can be a bit tricky... :S). Of course, if it's your first time touching an Arcana Heart game, it'll definitely take some time to get used to the mechanics, as there isn't really anything out there that's similar (specifically in regards to homing and using your arcana effectively). Look at some Youtube videos, there are plenty floating around. Look on the Mizuumi wiki as well for more info. Most of all, have fun and keep at it... :3 O-O~

Top 4 for AH3 side tournament @ Super Vs Battle, the UK's largest fighting game event! 1st - Pawndriver (Scharlachrot) 2nd - Frost (Clarice / Nazuna / Heart) 3rd - AngelDarkSong (Eko) 4th - Spring (Kira) Match videos are finally up! Too bad no commentary, but the recordings were actually pretty last minute... :S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT3ii_32sXU Winners Finals - Frost (Wind Clarice) vs Pawndriver (Wind Scharlachrot) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDpE4Vy0Ew Losers Semis - Sprint (Metal Kira) vs AngelDarkSong (Plant / Tyr Eko) Shoutouts to Sprint repping low tier!!! ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxea0LdvCOQ Losers Finals - Frost (Wind Clarice / Luck Nazuna) vs AngelDarkSong (Plant / Tyr Eko) Look out for Frost's BLATANT counterpick. UK is still very free to his Nazuna... >.> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92LjXZIP1v4 Grand Finals - Frost (Wind Clarice / Plant Heart) vs Pawndriver (Wind Scharlachrot) Frost tries to run it back with his Heart sub but Pawndriver was just on point that day... Good games to everyone I played (AngelDarkSong knocked me out of losers just before Top 4 >.<), and cheers to everyone who turned out to play! Thanks again to Zen United and Frost for organising everything, and Rayokarna for using his setup for recording Top 4... UK scene is alive, well and full of hype!!! ;D O-O~

Another month passes, and another LTGxPGC comes and goes in London, UK. I've got the Top 8 videos right here, for anyone interested... ^_^;;; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL639B444599BAB64B Top 4 Fuzzyness (Angelia / Catherine) AngelDarkSong (Eko) Tu101uk (Fiona) Rayokarna (Lilica) Top 8 LordSpectreX (Lieselotte) DalaiDan (Scharlachrot) Pawndriver (Scharlachrot) Firei (Kamui) Enjoy! ^_^ O-O~

LTGxPGC, a monthly niche fighting game meet in London UK, came and went about a week ago and here are the recorded match videos from the GGXXAC+ 16-man single elimination tournament there, including all Top 4 and Top 8 matches (and a random Top 16). Yeah, there are a couple people here still playing GG... :3 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLDE5D624D03414194&feature=mh_lolz Top 4 Ryza RobocopTwo Aion Fuzzyness Top 8 Pawndriver Firei Bido DalaiDan Excuse the lack of overlays (framerate and sound sync would mysteriously mess up when I rendered >.<) and the slight anomalies with the framerate (the EZcap I was using doesn't like recording NTSC stuff really well >.<)... Otherwise, enjoy! O-O~

For the few UK/EU heads around here, Zen United announced a special "Fan Edition" for their AH3 PS3/360 disc release scheduled for 30th June 2011... ;D http://store.blazbluegame.com/arcana-heart-3--sugoi-oppai-fans-edition-pre-order-462-p.asp On top of the usual stuff from the already-announced Limited Edition (OST, Japanese Artbook, character cards), you also get an official artwork Mei-Fang booby mousemat... XD Europe going in with the animefag loot... And I just preordered one... ;3 O-O~

Heheh, thanks for the tips... Sadly, I didn't even touch BlazBlue that day and I've never actually faced Fuzzyness before in it (not that I remember anyways)... I was actually more focused on commentating and recording for that event (as well as scrubbing out in the Arcana Heart 3 tournament that followed >.<)... But yeah, all the same, cheers for the advice against Hakumen... ^_^ O-O~

Nice pics guys... ^_~ Anyways, some nice copy-pasta of match videos from a recent AH3 tournament at my local meet... O-O~

Oh most certainly not... XD Seriously, few people had an answer to Fuzzyness's Hakumen at that monthly meetup on that day. He also reached the finals of another local bi-monthly tournament, Ultimate Clash, only six days previous to this... ...however, IIRC on both occasions, two strong London players (Kyzertron, who reps Lambda, and HurricaneRev, who uses Taokaka) were not present (Kyzer and Rev were certainly not at LTG3) and I know Fuzzyness can't beat them and Kiba consistently yet. O-O~

Bear in mind that casuals (people purely buying the game for the animu looks who won't be interested in more competitive play) will be looking to purchase this game, and for them a 16:9 mode is very modern (plus if they find the sidebars annoying, 16:9 gets rid of them XD) compared to the rather old-school 4:3 ratio. As the website puts it, the widescreen mode is for consumer use, not for the real arcade experience. Of course, if they ever enter Ranked Matches online randomly, they'll be in for a shocker with 4:3 and sidebars... :D O-O~

It's all in the spacing. Combo starters and certain special moves that rely on horizontal spacing are affected drastically, and you lose quite a bit of vertical space as well with the change to widescreen, which will affect timing for homing and homing cancels. By all means, feel free to play widescreen for casuals, but bear in mind that because the arcade format is 4:3 (along with all of the combos found in that format) and because online ranked matches will also be in 4:3, this will probably be the format that most tournaments will adopt. It's just less hassle in the future, especially if bigger events get to invite Japanese players (who are predominantly arcade players). O-O~

I hope you're good at reading dem moonrunes... XD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ve9iPMmcg&feature=player_detailpage#t=83s Dangnamit, it's gonna be a real pain to set up them online lobbies for all of five minutes... >.< I should have the menu items for netplay memorised after a few times methinks... :S O-O~