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What determines this is all about positioning, if the player is standing near a wall or elevated surface that would block where the camera is meant to be positioned during the animation it won't move.
Staircases are now my favorite character in Warriors All-Stars, everyone say thank you staircases!

Normally when using both hero skills and special attacks the camera is locked into a short cutscene until the animation fully plays out. But sometimes, at what I'd previously assumed was random, the camera won't lock and you'll still be able to activate hero skills while the animation is playing.

I'm still pretty far from the end of Warriors All-Stars and finally being able to have fun again, but at this rate I *should* be able to complete WAS before December 16th!
Unforchies I also wanted to finish Utawarerumono Mask of Deception before Zan but I don't think I have the time for both ;-;

Use this guide to quickly and easily set up proper captions that are pretty clearly intelligible: saralene.tv/guides/capti...
Make sure you don't set it to an audio track that also has game audio, though, or it could still have trouble understanding you. Albeit less than "Captions (Experimental)".

Sonia's 2nd game is at least kinda neat! It was a cancelled 3D game that got leaked like 4 years ago, BUT IT WAS ON THE DREAMCAST AND I LOVE THE DREAMCAST!!!
Castlevania Resurrection isn't even a real finished game what am I supposed to say about this WHY DID OUR QUEEN SUFFER SUCH A HORRIBLE FATE???

Even without Burning Mode most rooms are really simple, with 2 or 3 slow enemies and maybe a small platforming challenge. Definitely the easiest Classicvania and in a bad way. Super disappointing unforchies, I was hoping this would be the best of the GB trilogy, but no it's barely above Adventure.

Castlevania doesn't *need* to be hard, Rondo of Blood is pretty easy and that's tied for my favorite in the series, but this game is easy in really dumb ways. Why does Burning Mode make you invincible for like 10 full seconds and why does it fully recharge every time you die? It's way too abusable.

Super boring level design, annoying enemy placements that are almost always above or below the player with no vertical attacking options. Way too easy, enemies do almost no damage, losing a life or even a continue usually puts you back at the same screen you died on, and Burning Mode is so broken

HALFWAY THERE! which may not sound great since I've been on Warriors All-Stars for 3 months and only have 1 month until Utawarerumono Zan releases, but with the major efficiency improvements made in the past week alone, I think I'll make the deadline.
And if I don't I'll cry ;-;

Monday's stream will probably be back to Warriors All-Stars unless I end up doing some grinding off-stream over the weekend, in which case I may play Castlevania Legends and the Resurrection prototype
Anyone who doesn't like Sonia Belmont isn't my friend we LOVE Sonia Belmont in this dark damp cave!

The Game Boy sequel (NOT port/remake this is a sequel it's very different) is way better than the Famicom game tho. Both are great, but I think this one is one of my favorite Game Boy games now, and is another contender for a top spot within the Castlevania series too. It's SO fucking good!

It's closer to Mega Man than Castlevania gameplay, but it's super cute, and it's a pretty solid 2D platformer. I think it's neat :)
Kid Dracula controls surprisingly well for a Famicom title too, I've gotten used to NES Castlevania controls, but it feels odd how snappy they are in this spinoff.

Yet another super helpful mechanic in Warriors All-Stars that 100% feels like an unintended interaction between systems that don't mesh well. They could've easily made it so the 2nd hit doesn't activate Dragon's Oracle again, but I'm very happy they didn't! Sometimes this game's a mess in good ways.

Every time you use his special attack you're effectively using 2 at once with a slight delay. Combined with Dragon's Oracle (which lowers hero skill cooldowns for every special attack use) he gives you a ton of extra hero skill uses.
This doesn't feel like an intentional design choice, but it works!

William is the fastest playable character to max regard as inherently. For every other character in WAS special attacks are a single large attack, but William's special attack instead has 2 activations, 1st it augments his weapon, then around 10 seconds later it automatically fires a huge strike-

This is the same method for all characters, it maximizes the number of hero skill uses you get per stage, which is what determines how much regard experience you gain. Most of the time save just came from me getting better at that rotation, however William has something that sped things up even more

The typical rotation for getting as much regard experience as possible is using all 4 hero skills whenever available, bringing Honoka as a support character for her 1/3 chance to insta reset all skills, and using special attacks constantly with the Dragon's Oracle card effect equipped.