Chou or CC (senshi@ALL.COM.AU)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:13:38 +1000
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:13:38 +1000 From: Chou or CC <senshi@ALL.COM.AU> Subject: Re: My Thoughts of ST vs ST2
MoonPrince wrote:
> Sakura Taisen no spoiler
>
> > > - Animation is mediocre at best. Colors are really pale, anime and CG
> > > seem to clash.
> >
> > Colour looks good for me, it really looked like I was watching some anime
> > show. BTW I'm using a Japanese Saturn.
>
> I dunno. I remember watching the opening and it was really...
> bland. I mean, yeah... the colors were pale. I remember how there were
> only a few colors on screen at one time. Like how the background was
> yellow and stuff like that. I just know that when I popped in ST2 for the
> first time, I was like "Man, this is how the first one should have been"
> but I know that ST2 had a bigger budget since ST became so popular.
> Still, even when I played the game the first time(ie late Feb), i
> noticed the quality of animation wasn't as good as I'd have hoped.
Hmmm, for that matter, I thought the colour for ST was a lot brighter than ST2. But
that could be me, but I think the colour was darker in ST2, maybe to suit the
atmosphere better.
> Spoilers below
>
> > He wasn't that hard to me, the only annoying thing he has is that sonic-boom
> > like attack that sweeps all your ppl to the bottom of the screen.
>
> True, but everytime I fight him, I lose at least half my party
> killing him. Never happened anywhere else.
I usually only loss one member, if you arrange your members in the right way, you
just use Iris' special to heal everyone at once, that way you don't die as easily.
> > We are running into taste here....But I loved the songs on ST vocal too. The
> > thing turn out to be I like less songs on the ST vocal, but if I do like that
> > song, I REALLY loved it. However for ST2 vocal, while I like most of the
> > songs, I don't love them as much (just slightly less) than the songs I love
> > for the vocal 1.
>
> Really? Well, yeah, you're right in that its a taste issue. Of
> the Sakura Vocal, I liked Hanasaku Otome a lot as well. I also liked the
> two duets. My fav song on the CD is Ai Yueni which is weird because not
> too many people I know are fond of it and because it differs from the
> stuff I normally like.
Ai Yueni is different, most people I know don't like it due to Maria's singing. But
I think the duet was pretty good, sung with a lot of passion. The other favorite
will have to be "Sakura", I like it due to it's pureness and cleaness, nothing but
piano. Probably one of the few songs today that won't change if you turn up the
bass setting. :)
> However, in Sakura 2 Vocal, I can honestly listen to it w/o
> skipping a track. I really didn't like half(or more?) the songs in ST
> Vocal. But in Sakura 2, some are a little boring... I think tracks 2+3
> shouldn't have been placed together. The Kouran and Maria songs aren't
> bad, but they're a little boring. But my favs on this CD go to Haru ga
> Kuru, Aishi no Jean Paul, and esp. Kiseki no Kane which is an awesome
> song. Some I talked to also mentioned that the difference in music
> between ST Voc and ST2 Voc is great. ST Voc sounded like synthesizer
> music while ST 2 Voc was better composed.
Well, that's what I thought too. But like I said before, although I like more songs
on ST2 Voc, I tend to like them less than the songs on ST Voc.Maria's song was a
definite improvement over "Only Man" IMO. I was never really fond of the Koran
songs because I think the "pretent-chinese-style" really don't hit me. The others
you mention I liked too, but it took me a while to like Haru ga Kuru because I kept
comparing it with Sakura. Koi no Hashia Alright (sp?) was a really cool jazz song.
And Orihime's song wins my heart with its music composition.Also, I thought that
Yume no Tsudsuki wasn't as good as Hanasaku Otome.
> But I have to say that the 5 second pause between supers in
> ST2 was so annoying that I avoided supers if I could. Later when I
> replayed Sakura Taisen, I realized how fast the ST was in comparison.
Was it that long? It's been awhile since I played ST2, maybe I'll go back and
check.But yeah, the load time did hit on me a bit when I first started playing, but
eventually I got over it.
> Sakura Taisen 2 Spoilers
>
> > > - Sure ST2 has combined normal hits, but they were nowhere as amusing
> >
> > What about the critical hits for the characters? I'm was mouth-droping when
> > Maria decided to shoot people with the big cannon she had.
>
> I was under the impression that there were no critical hits for
> Sakura Taisen 2 koubu... If there was, I really don't recall it. I
> remember the big cannon you mention, but wasn't that the standard attack
> for the 2nd set of mechs(or was it 3rd?)? At any rate, I always
> remembered the assisted attacks replacing the "critical" attacks of ST.
IIRC, there where. But it was a while since I played it, I think I better go back
and check. ^_^;;
> > And the other friend of mine was a completely lost as to why we had such
> > confidence in there going to be ST3.
>
> Sega's going to throw away their #1 license of all time? I don't
> think so... Heck, with a fan-disc here and there(like upcoming Teigeki
> Graph), I don't see Sakura Taisen dying until Sega itself goes under. I
> would be willing to bet everything I have that we'll be seeing Sakura 3 on
> the DC.
Yes, but that was WAAYYY back during April, when the rumors of the DC was floating
around, and the sales of ST2 wasn't as good as Red had hope it would be.
> > I've only got 3 endings for ST2 (Sumire, Iris and Orihime) But I think the
> > endings are cornier than ST......
>
> true! I thought Sakura's ending was horribly corny in ST2. I've
> gotten only hers and Orihime btw. I didn't think Orihime's was that
> bad... a lot better than Sakura's... but it seems like these endings don't
> conclude/prelude anything as Sakura Taisen's endings do.
Exactly, I was really disappointed with ST2 Sumire's ending (I won't spoil it ^_^).
It was nowhere as good as the ST ending of Sumire. Orihime was a little bit
disappointing as well, as it reminder me of ST ending of Sumire right away, and it
was a little less romantic as well. :)
> > I think the mini-games are about the same for ST and ST2. I could also
> > remember for ST my friends where playing Sakura's sweeping the floor mini-game
> > and see who could actually reach the end of it first ^_^
>
> Really? I could played Trump Taisen forever! Well, I haven't
> gotten it in the One Long Day option but a variant on Deuces is cool. I
> found both Sakura's mini game + Orihime's mini game very amusing. My
> housemates and I played both of these for hours competing for score.
> Simple yet fun. I haven't gotten Reni's, Kanna's or Maria's yet.
To activate Trump Taisen you'll have to answer questions just like ST, took me a few
goes to actually answer the question since I didn't get any help. Reni's is
supposed to take place in the pool, doing something like picking up the most stuff
in the least amount of time or something, but I've heard that Sumire's one is quite
fun too, Sumire dances on the stage and you have to keep the spot-light on her at
all times. :)
> > ST was undoubtly great. But you have to give credit for the Red for bringing
> > out a sequel that is BETTER than the original. Load time wasn't much of a
> > problem for me, and I loved the movies for the special attacks cos I get
> > really into them ^_^
>
> The supers in ST2? Nah... i didn't think ANY of them were that
> cool looking. Why? Because really.. they all looked the same. IMO, the
> ST supers had more personality. In ST2, every FMV for the supers were the
> same, w/different color koubu, and different background.
But it had more varity, it had different shorts from different angels. Where as in
ST, they where all on the 3/4 view. But that's my opinion.
Later
Chou