The Kamen Rider Battride War Thread
 

Well, I don't know if this is the proper place for it or not--sure hope so (mods feel free to correct me if I've placed this wrongly)--but since it's out, I thought I'd set it off.

My copy just landed stateside and I hope to have it in a few days, but in the meantime I've been watching this series of longplays, trying to get a feel for what the game will be like, and I thought I'd share some of my impressions.

-Ultimate forms are strictly timed--Climax Form, Blade King Form, Cyclone Joker Extreme, etc. They're very effective, but short-lived, maybe 10-15 seconds? Not sure how this impacts the Infinity and Beast Hyper DLCs (the footage of Infinity didn't seem to have this time limit, which would be . . .interesting.)

-Blade King Form destroys all in its path. :) The initial Royal Straight Flush will slash a quarter of life off bosses it looks like, even at a low level. That thing is insane.

-The early missions seem to follow a two-part structure--in the first mission you meet future ally Riders and fight them. After that mission, you take control of the Rider you just fought and complete a mission that's story-centric to that Rider and they can then be unlocked and used for any mission.

-Kabuto can spam the hell out of Clock Up, but it's VERY brief. You also have to hit the "special" button three times to trigger his Rider Kick.

-The missions are an interesting combination of tasks. In some bits you destroy enemy generators, in some you're racing on the bike to a checkpoint. In some you're trying to avoid a all-range spam attack (El of the Water and the Weather Dopant love this trick) and you have a few fights with them in between it all before the last battle.

-It looks like a lot of fun mowing down mooks on the bike. :)

-It also looks like this game is not very hard on normal difficulty--the missions take awhile to complete, but for pure challenge, there's hard difficulty or the Rider Lord Missions, which are survival-style missions.

Soon as I get my hands on the game, I'll try to have some hands-on impressions for you all.

Now that I've got my copy, some hands-on impressions:

Played through the first tier of Chronicle Mode, unlocked Wizard, W, Blade, Agito, Den-O.

It's an easy game to pick up and play--the language barrier wasn't as much of a hazard as I thought and mastering the controls really doesn't take that long. The bike physics won't win any awards and the camera occasionally has some trouble keeping up with the action, but man, it's a lot of fun to pick up and play. :)

Are you having any problems with the upgrading? Also is there anything special you need to play this on the PS3?

Nope! I have a PS3 slim, and it plays fine right out of the box. :)

Though you have to remember that Circle confirms and X backs out--it's exactly the opposite of a North American game. That can be hard to recall in the heat of things, but you'll get the hang of it.

Knowing some Japanese will help, but you can trail-and-error your way through. It's very forgiving so far.

The upgrading isn't too bad--I'm still trying to work out what store-bought items do what--you can buy BGM and figures which give various effects (more HP, higher attack power, etc) but in general, just grinding works OK too.

My Wizard is on Level 15, and one of the changes I've notices is that my Triangle + Circle move has changed from Kick Strike to Flame Dragon's Flame attack. This is good, because Kick Strike can take a bit of time to set up, and the Dragon burst does a LOT more damage and is a lot more controllable.

grrrr...not fair no US version though...

Yeah wouldn't hold my breath for the possibility of this game coming out in the states.

I'm hoping someone subs the cinemeatics I'd be interested in knowing what's going on in the game's original story line at least.

From what I've been able to parse watching the longplays, it's very interesting stuff. :) Couple things that weren't expected happen.

Yeah I atleast need some subtitles version of the story. Is it enjoyable even without knowing the dialogue?

I think so--you can kinda pick up on the gist of things without being fluent, and all the "memory missions" (the ones you have to play to unlock the Riders for use in all missions) have plenty of fan service-y stuff you've seen before.

I love that whichever Rider you beat a mission with the screen does the closing "eye catch" from the show (The bug wings for Kabuto, Chains for Kiva, Medals for OOO, etc)

Also: For those of you wondering about the TV Sound edition--all the songs are TV sized--maybe 1-2 minutes long. It's not as disappointing as it might be and the game allows custom soundtracks so you can slot the full versions in if you like.

Been working on the second tier of Chronicle Mode this morning--have unlocked Hibiki, Kabuto, Kiva, and OOO. About to wrap it up with the last battle for this tier. :)

I have ran into a stange issue while trying to stream the game. The game seems to want to override the current resolution set and go to a lower while while the PS3 is connected to the (RBGRW) component cables, but if I have it hooked up to an HDMI cable it stay at the same resolution. I am wondering if this is being encountered elsewhere and if so how can I fix it.

So you have to pay more for the version with shorter songs? Either I'm missing something, or that sounds like a major ripoff.

I've heard of a few graphical glitches, but nothing quite that. I think it should be OK if you keep it with just the HDMI or the component input, but both might be what causes it to judder, possibly?

That's why I settled on the normal version.:lol

I'm not sure the standard version has any of the songs besides "Go Get 'Em," (though the non-show music in the game is pretty good, it must be said) so it's more an exclusive bonus for the premium edition. Since they're not doing any first-run bonus or early DLC codes (everyone gets Infinity free at the same time next week) this is all they're doing.

But again, given the options with the custom soundtracks in this game (it's insane how customisable it is) you can slot in anything you like.

Ah that's good, I want the game but I want to enjoy the story too.

I think you'll be pretty pleased and able to follow it unsubbed.

The story so far is that Wizard finds himself in a place attacked by all the previous Kamen Riders, none of whom seem to know him, nor does he seem to know himself. He's soon met by a being known as Canary, who tells him the Riders have had their memories wiped and are chained up in a place called the Birdcage.

You have to fight the Riders for Canary to make contact, then the freed Rider has to complete a "memory mission" to regain their memory and join up to help sort all this out.

But there's someone else around who's brought his own group of Riders (New Den-O, Skull, and Eternal) and a whole bunch of bad guys and seems to be able to able to cross dimensions and memories at will.

That's where I am at present. Today I plan to work on the third tier of Chronicle mode, and the first mission is to free Faiz from the Birdcage.

Well, quite without meaning to in one day, I've managed to unlock all the Riders (non DLC) in the game.

The bad news is, only the secondary Riders from W forward (Accel, Birth, Meteor, Beast) are selectable. G3-X, Knight, Kaixa, Garren, Ibuki, Gatack, Zeronos, Ixa, and Diend are in the game as allies, but aren't playable, sadly.

The GOOD news is that the secondary riders (and W FangJoker) are incredible--hard-hitting combo machines that just WRECK enemies and clear fields wholesale. Beast especially is really awesome. :)

EDIT: oh yeah, and someone's doing a translation of the game's text here.

Of course, they need something for sequels.

Or DLC. ;)

That sucks...I would love to be able to play as Zeronos. Are any movie Riders playable? (New Den-O, Skull, etc...) I'm watching some gameplay videos...I kinda don't like how easy it is to spam Clock Up with Kabuto.

I thought Japan isn't big on DLC.

The secondary riders make for better sequel bait.

Positive I heard that they'll be doing Showa Riders as DLC.

I plan on getting a PS4, so I REALLY hope they make a sequel for that.

You need to worry more about Region locking than anything else.

Not big on DLC, not completely against :p

They're still making games for the PSP even though it's long since dead here.

It's safe to say that whatever sequel to Battle Ride War that comes out will end up on the PS3. Same if they make a Sentai version of the game.

I wonder how a Sentai would work.
It's not like you can just make an entire team playable, and unlike KR, there wasn't a huge gap where there were no series being produced, so who would be the arbitrary cut off point?
I imagine you'd play as Red, but would your entire team be delegated to assists? Would 6ths be playable?
The entire point of Sentai is that it's a team, not one man against the world.

There's so much you have to consider for a Sentai version. You can't just reskin the game with Sentai characters.

Clock Up does next to nothing, so it's not as abuse-able as you imagine. It's his medium attack, and lasts barely any time at all.

Really, Put On/Cast Off and his Rider Kick are far more exploitable in terms of doing massive damage.

The movie riders, sadly are not playable (I'd love to have played as Skull), however . . .there's a plot-relevant reason as to why.

EDIT: As to DLC--The only DLC officially announced is the free download of Infinity of June 6th and Beast Hyper on June 20th. Everyone assumes the Showa Riders will be DLC, but it'll be interesting to see how they incorporate them in the game.

Wait, what?

I see. I did like how you could use Cast Off as an attack. That was indeed cool.

The DLC's region-locked, but that's easy to fix. But if you're in North America, you ought to be OK insofar as region-locking

It's a great crowd control attack, as us Kabuto's Rider Kick. I didn't like that you have to his Triangle and Circle four times to pop out the Rider Kick, but you can actually do the "ONE TWO THREE" at a safe distance, run up, and then activate the Rider Kick.

Doesn't hurt that Kabuto's Rider Kick does siiiiiiick damage. :)

Ok...because being able to get Japanese games that won't come out over here is a pretty large factor in me choosing the PS4. (Yes I'm in North America).

I did find that interesting how you don't just go "1,2,3" all at once.

I think it was meant to evoke the show--there's a little of that with each of the Riders.

Each Triangle + Circle, counts as a button press. Hit it once and it does "ONE," again for "TWO," again for "THREE" and then the last press freezes everything for a split second while Tendou says "Rider . . .Kick" then demolishes everything in front of him. :)

I kinda wish they'd given you attack option for all three triggers, but then I wish PunchHopper and KickHopper had been in the game too.

And that's not even mentioning when he goes into Hyper Kabuto mode.

Speaking of which, how powerful are their powered up forms? Because they seem to only be useable for a limited amount of time.

INSANELY powerful. Typically, when you activate Super Mode, they automatically go into an attack (All Dragon does Boisterous Dance and ends with a Flame Blast, Cosmic States unleashes the Galaxy Cut, Hyper Kabuto fires the Perfect Zecter, etc) THEN you get 15-60 seconds of unleashing untold whoop-ass on the bad guys. The best thing I've found with Wizard is to activate All Dragon, finish the initial chain, then freeze them with Blizzard and follow up with Gravity or Lightning--it covers a huge part of the field and multi-hits near constantly.

Very quickly, if you find a good stage to level up, your standard attacks will become pretty formidable too. For example--Agito turned into a beast pretty quickly, especially with his charge attacks.

I wish I had a PS3 to play this game...

Ditto.

I'd settle for finding gameplay on youtube for now.

How about this?

It's the whole game, the Rider Road missions, and a few other things. :) SPOILERS, obviously.

Yeah, unfortunately, there's only one ones for Wizard, Kabuto, Decade, Den-O, Accel, and OOO.

EDIT: Oh, thanks Kagezuno. I'll check those out.

You're welcome. Guy uses every one of the Riders eventually, so you'll get to see them all strut their stuff.

Sweet!

Aw thanks man! AND in HD? Wonderful!