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About a few months ago, I reviewed a game called Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Soulless Army. Yep, that name still doesn’t roll off the tongue too well. I enjoyed the game, despite the many faults it had, with its story pacing, bosses that offer insane difficulty spikes and pretty lacking battle gameplay. Despite that, it had a ton of style and I loved the story for what it was and the characters. So when I heard that the story continued later on in a sequel, I was down for that. Thankfully, the game is far less expensive and costs about the same price as most SMT games. Back then when I played the first Raidou Kuzunoha game, I was but a mere baby to the SMT franchise, having only played the three Persona games and Nocturne. But now having played SMT IV, Strange Journey, Soul Hackers and the Digital Devil Saga games on parte superior, arriba of that, I feel like I am a bit más experienced with the franchise and can understand where this is going much better. And I may already be spoiling my critique, but let me just say that Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. King Abaddon is everything a sequel should be.



Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. King Abaddon takes place some time after the first game, with Gouto having come back, even though that makes no sense dado the context of the ending of the first game, but whatever. Raidou is told por the protectors of Tokyo that there is a new threat found in a village just outside of the Capital involving locusts that steal people's luck, the town sacrificing their leader’s daughters to the gods of the village, and a group of masked assassins that use the luck stealing locusts to try and obtain godhood and become King Abaddon. So, Raidou, being the spry youth that he always was, goes on another wacky adventure to put a stop to all this madness with the help of the demons along the way. So first off, let me just say that this was pretty much the point where I felt Atlus was finally starting to get the right idea for game design. I amor the SMT games, but holy shit, the older games had some serious issues that almost felt like they didn’t want tu to finish them. Even Nocturne, for as much as I amor it, has these issues. And the first Raidou was no exception. The way it takes forever to grind, the dumb demon ally AI, and much more. But now, this game has added convenience since the first game. All the minor issues tu may have had in the first game are gone, even some issues that I neglected to mention. Like how every time tu wanna fuse demons to get a stronger one, tu have to go to the same one area to do so, so if you’re stuck in a dungeon, too bad. Now tu can fuse demons at any save point, which there are many. Every time tu want to travel to a new area, tu have to pay to do it. Not a lot of money, but to do it a lot when backtracking is a pain. Now there is an item tu can unlock that makes it completely free. No más having to pay ludicrous prices to heal your party. tu can now heal right at healing stations. No más mana for all your demons. tu all share one bar, which would sound like a mistake, but tu get so much mana in this game that it’s almost an afterthought. And luck actually becomes a useful stat in this game for once. In battle, tu have a few new additions. First off, tu can now summon two demons onto the field instead of one, and they are way smarter this time around. No longer do they just screw about and waste energy. If tu hit a demon with the right spell that they are weak to, tu will get a big mana bonus and practically recharge it all for free. The AI can still be a bit iffy, but compared to the anterior game, it’s so much better. But the addition of luck is with the Luck Roulette. In battle, there’s the chance of a roulette wheel popping up that could display either good luck o bad luck. tu can get things ranging from más experience and money, demon negotiations going in your favor, o halving enemies health right off the bat, to bad stuff like your attacks missing, certain demons being sealed, no way to escape from battle and more. There are also plenty of Locusts on the field for tu to collect to raise your luck a bit. There’s also a feature in the game where if tu lose too many locusts, tu will lose all your luck and have to pray to the gods to get it back, but I hoard locusts like a mad man so I never did that aside from the one mandatory story reason at the start.
One issue I do have with the battles though is when enemies do an Area of Effect attack, o an AoE if tu will. Pretty much most attacks can surround an enemy in a general part of the fighting area, and since this is an action RPG, tu can run away from it to avoid it, but if your demons are doing physical damage, they won’t know. tu can block, but your demons can’t, so tu gotta get them away yourself. Thankfully, another feature that was added since the last game is a button that just hides your demons. The L2 to be exact. Before, if tu wanted to save your demons, tu had to go to your menu, select Return, and put them back in their tube, and once the attack was over, go to the menu, select Summon and bring them back onto the field, and just hope they can get a few hits in before the enemy does that attack again and tu gotta repeat the process. In King Abaddon, tu just hold L2 to hide them, and when the attack is done, let go. It’s so much easier. But my problem with the AoE attack is that tu have to wait for the attack to go away completely. If tu block the attack with your sword, it’s no problem and you’re seguro from the attack. But if tu let your demons out after that and there is still some semblance of the attack there, even a little bit, your demons will get hit and it could be as minimal as them taking damage as big as them getting a status ailment. Or, tu know, dying. tu could say that it’s my fault for that, but I blocked the attack and once it deflects from your block, whatever is left there is no good. There are times where the attack ends and my demons still get hit por it. It creates a sense of paranoia and end up holding the L2 button for longer than I’d like to. But that’s pretty much my only gripe with the battle gameplay. Other than that, it’s a big improvement to the original. All bullets do the same damage as others now, so no más buying bullets, tu can do way más damage to enemies when they are affected por an attack they are weak to, and hey, King Abaddon actually did it. They added side cases for tu to do on the side. Did this game answer my prayers twelve years before I would want them? King Abaddon is genuinely everything I wanted the first game to be and then some. The cases aren’t too amazing, they are not the most cinematic stuff ever. tu aren’t exactly getting side quests that rival Fallout New Vegas when it comes to deep stories and stuff, but they’re something. tu get tons of interesting side characters from it, some personality from the demons tu run into and even big rewards for your time. They are a step in the right direction and would make a third Raidou game a big improvement. But… ha ha, this is Atlus we’re talking about. We’re never getting a new Raidou game.
But of course, this is just stuff from the gameplay. And while the gameplay is fun and all, this is an RPG. tu will be playing this game for a good 40 hours. And if my culo is going to be sitting in my Office Depot chair and start losing sensation, that story better be good. And is it? Well, I’d say it is. Unlike the first game, King Abaddon introduces a feature common in the SMT series, the Law, Chaos and Neutral system, a system that puts tu down a certain path depending on your decisions of the game. Do tu wish to unite everything as equal, then tu support Law. Do tu want a world where the strong can choose their own destiny, then tu support Chaos. o do tu have no side and just believe in humanity as a whole? Then that’s probably Neutral. Now of course, in Soulless Army’s defense, it’s not like it was the only SMT game to lack that feature. Soul Hackers’ preguntas barely mattered, and Digital Devil Saga lacked it completely, along with the demon negotiations, and that’s considered the peak of the franchise por fans. And I will say, the feature in Raidou Kuzunoha isn’t too spectacular. What it will mostly do for tu is open a few side quests for you, make some bosses appear and some null and void, and change the ending. But aside from that, tu don’t really get much. Honestly, the most interesting thing it does is bring back Rasputin from the first game as a hostage rather than best girl Tae. Seriously, Rasputin is still allowed to walk the streets. Didn’t he super kill a man in the anterior game? Now he’s going around trying to hit on women in a super perverted manner? Forget the assassins, Rasputin’s the fucking threat to the Capital! But seriously, though the Law, Chaos and Neutral pathing isn’t the best, it does offer variety in the gameplay. I did find myself really enjoying the story, however. I was already familiar with the cast of Raidou, Gouto, Narumi and Tae, but I did enjoy the brand new characters we got along the way. I enjoyed the dynamic between Akane and Dahn, I thought Nagi was an interesting character, and I thought Geirin was an absolute badass. But like all SMT games, I thought the big god enemy was kind of obnoxious after a while, talking about, “This is what humanity desires. For me to save humanity, I must end it”. The fuck is this fucking Seymour Guado, “If all life were to end, all life would be saved” bullshit. I know it’s absolute heresy to say anything positive about the Persona games when talking about SMT, but at least the human villains in Persona were interesting and not going on and on about humanities desires and all that. I’ll take a flawed human over some perfect deity any day. But that’s just a personal issue I have, really. Nothing to take to heart. But what can be taken to corazón is this, my biggest issue with Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. King Abaddon. It’s way too easy. I’m not complaining too much since my backlog of games is piling up and for an RPG, I’ll take that any time. I choose to play games on easy not because I suck at games and need a challenge, but because I have too many games and want to get to them all. I know, first world problems. Poor me, poor me. But damn, Raidou Kuzunoha is super easy. I think I only died like twice in the whole game, and only one of them was to a boss, and it wasn’t even mandatory. Any SMT fan can tell tu that the most intimidating enemy ever is Lucifer… and then Minotaur… then Reaper… then Beelzebub… But somewhere in there are the Fiends. The Fiends are some of the most intimidating enemies in the series. They come out of nowhere with no warning and when they put up a fight, tu better bring your best o tu will die. But in Raidou Kuzunoha, even when I felt like I met my match with one that could do a full heal, I just had my demon Rai-Ho do Glacial Blast and before I knew it, I won. Even the final boss wasn’t hard. Long as hell, mostly because your magic will be practically drained at this point in the fight since it has three phases, but even still, it was not that difficult. Just hide your demons, run around the attacks and be ready to use Luck Locusts when it brings out the roulette wheel. But hey, I’ll take long and easy over long and I wanna fucking kill myself like the first games final boss.
But still, despite the easy difficulty, I amor Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. King Abaddon. While I consider the first game to be a guilty pleasure that only die hard fans o someone who likes that style will enjoy, Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. King Abaddon is genuinely a good SMT game. The style just adds to it all. The gameplay is even más fun than before, the story is más interesting, and the side cases just puts a big grin on my face. If tu have any desire to play the Raidou Kuzunoha games, I would suggest starting with this one. Don’t worry, tu don’t need to play the first one to understand this one. Some minor characters will go over your head, but that’s about it. But sadly, this was it for the Devil Summoner subseries. After King Abaddon, the series was put to rest aside from a 3DS remake of Soul Hackers later on. But after that, no más Devil Summoner, no más of the Kuzunoha Clan. Would I personally want another Raidou Kuzunoha game? Well… I don’t know. I can see tons to do with this world. tu can have all sorts of adventures with Raidou. This is a series where potential is brimming from it to just create a brand new story and cases. But I feel as though I am satisfied with this game. If we get más Raidou in the future, I’ll be down to play that. If not, that sucks, but I’m satisfied with what we have. But, again, Atlus. If it ain’t Persona 3, 4, o 5, it didn’t happen.
(Let's get this out of the way right now. If you're taking this articulo even remotely seriously, then tu probably aren't as smart as tu think tu are. Enjoy! XD)

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul." -Elder Uchtdorf

The desire to create actual GOOD content though is a completely different story, it'd seem. So get out'cher popcorn, soda, and whatever the hell else humanity gives people nowadays, because I'm about to teach your pathetic lowlifes how to make a good fanpop article! ^_^

(Safety Not Guaranteed o_O)

First off, tu need to think of a good title. Y'know,...
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Welcome to my complete character index! Basically, over the years I've made up a lot of either my own characters, o added existing ones from shows and whatnot for the sake of entertainment and imagination.

And in this one, you'll see all of them from A-Z, as well as their history. So without further ado, let's get this night off right!

AnimuLuvr21


First Appearance: A día In The Life Of A fanpop User


(The character above is Konata Izumi from Lucky Star)

A character I made in one of my skit articles, and I do plan on using her in más articles, as long as the context fits well.

Personality is...
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posted by TheMagicLoki
Unfortunately, I have been caught up in other issues for the past week and there is thus no new tortuga emparedado, sándwich de this week. But I am escritura this to establish many things, seeing as although I didn't have much "doing stuff" time, I had plenty of time to think.

1. Despite delays individual to this week, I will have time in the future to make this work on a weekly basis, and so it will stay that way.
2. I have thought más about how video games would work with this, and decided that they actually wouldn't.
3. Between cine and TV shows, I want there to be some schedule for the order of them. But I also realize that I watch cine far más often than entire seasons of TV shows, and that a lot of people are probably the same on that. Therefore, for every month, I will select the last Tuesday to be for TV shows, and the rest will be movies.

I am sorry for failing this city (or whatever city tu might live in) this week, but I will attempt to make más time for this in the future.
I've been meaning to do this for a while. This is a countdown, meaning that number one is the best. Also, this is just my personal opinion so keep your rude comentarios to yourself. I hope tu like it and please tell me what tu think.
 10. Gilda Radner. A talented lady.
10. Gilda Radner. A talented lady.
 9. Maia Morgenstern. Mother of jesús in Passion of the Christ.
9. Maia Morgenstern. Mother of Jesus in Passion of the Christ.
 8. Robert Shaw. Ole Quint.
8. Robert Shaw. Ole Quint.
 7. Divine. amor him o hate him, you've got to admire his guts.
7. Divine. Love him or hate him, you've got to admire his guts.
 6. Natalie Wood. Soooo pretty! I've got a crush on her.
6. Natalie Wood. Soooo pretty! I've got a crush on her.
 5. Lionel Barrymore. A wonderful actor.
5. Lionel Barrymore. A wonderful actor.
 4. Sharon Tate. What a woman! My ultimate girl crush.
4. Sharon Tate. What a woman! My ultimate girl crush.
 3. fred Rogers. Big part of my childhood.
3. Fred Rogers. Big part of my childhood.
 2. G.W. Bailey. Aww, amor this guy!
2. G.W. Bailey. Aww, love this guy!
 1. Sal Mineo. Oh my gosh, I amor amor amor this man! The first time I saw him was on ‘Escape from the Planet of the Apes’. I’ve been in amor with him for many years. He's the stuff dreams are made of.
1. Sal Mineo. Oh my gosh, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this man! The first time I saw him was on ‘Escape from the Planet of the Apes’. I’ve been in love with him for many years. He's the stuff dreams are made of.
added by 0YouCanFly0
I'm not saying this is a perfect movie.
But it's actually a surprisingly GOOD movie.

It starts off on On October 29, 1993 where the parents of Charlie Grimille record him as he is part of the SCHOOL PLAY.

During the play, Charlie is put on a fake noose, as part of the play. But suddenly the trap door opens, like tu see in real noose sets, but it is soon revealed that this was NOT be part of the act. And Charlie is accidentally hung for real.

20 years later however, students at the same school resurrect the failed play as a misguided attempt to honor the accident.

A student named Reese Houser...
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1-Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper o self-confidence.
(Robert Frost)

2-The roots of education are amargo, amargos but the frutas is sweet.
(Aristotle)

3-Education is the most powerful weapon which tu can use to change the future. (Nelson Mandela)

4-Education is not learning of facts , but the training of minds to think. (Albert Einstein)

5-Education is not preparation for life, Education is life
itself (John Dewey)

6-Education is the movement from darkness to light.
(Allan Bloom)

7-The highest result of education is tolerance.
(Helen Keller)
When a guy flirts with other women.while out with his girl, it. may be he is just trying to be funny and charming o seem polite. o he may secretly be feeling insecure. Maybe he fears his gal is still.into her ex, o worries she may be seeing simeone else besides him. He wont come out and say his fears, so rather he tries to appear más of a stud flirting with ladies. What he may not realize is this drives a gal away and makes her feel unimportant. How would a guy like it if a gal behaved that way toward him? Does anyone have any suggestions how to deal with this obnoxious male behavior? Does a gal call him out on it? o simply walk away, as I did from a guy I loved a lot, and not call him out on it, just simply tell him, "You hurt me."?
posted by deathding
 Let's do this.
Let's do this.
-When I go off to a restaurant/store and the lines are longer than the amazonas, amazon River

-When I'm hungry/thirsty but am too lazy to do anything about it

-Doing the same chores every día of the week

-Waking up when I'm REALLY tired

-40% of the current generation for being senseless jerks with little to no knowledge of courtesy o grammar

-When someone spoils a movie I wanted to see

-When I bite my tongue/lip

-Random black-outs that interrupt EVERYTHING

-When I go somewhere just to find out that it's been closed for an hour

-Being forced to go somewhere when I REALLY don't want to

-School Days, both the anime...
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(I made this around two years hace and never finished it so..... HERE tu GO. XD)

(By the way, this was originally going to be a video so expect to see some *Insert Here* moments. :P Not that it matters, I doubt anyone will even read all this anyways but WHATEVER. ENJOY.)

Ah, Atari. A classic game company that made so many classic titles. Among those were some of my personal favorites, ciempiés and Millipede. First off, Centipede, released in 1981, was a vertically oriented shoot em up classic designed por Ed Logg, who also made Super Breakout and co-developed the game Asteroids with Lyle Rains....
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#10: LUCY:
I haven't actually seen this movie, but somebody told me how stupid the ending is.
Lucy reaches 100% of her cerebral capacity and disappears within the spacetime continuum, where she explains that everything is connected and existence is only proven through time. Only her clothes and the black supercomputer are left behind.
And she herself suddenly disappears into thin air.
leaving only a text, saying, "I AM EVERYWHERE!".
It's bad enough Hellsing Ultmate pulled that line..

#9: TWO AND A HALF MEN:
I amor this show, but it become less and less popular after Charlie left. And the producers...
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I wanted to include some of my favorito! disturbing events in history. This is only a brief overview of the events, I encourage tu to go research them yourselves. I intentionally included a lot of the lesser known events in history.

0, Ant-walking alligator people of Hiroshima
I know this is an old articulo that probably no one goes to anymore, but I have something I need to take off my mind. I am a little hard to disturb when it comes to military history, but this... I've been struggling with it all morning. I'll just say this, don't look it up, don't look for the pictures, save yourself the...
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posted by slenderman777
Item #: SCP-509

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-509-A and SCP-509-B are both to be contained on-site, due to their immobility. Each is to be cordoned off, and any members of the public turned away. Outside of research and maintenance purposes, no humans o pigs, living o dead, are to be allowed into either structure. Personnel may safely enter and leave SCP-509-A and SCP-509-B within four minutos of activation and while inactive.

After testing, any living humans recovered from SCP-509-B are to be trained as Level 0 personnel and assigned to minimal security positions. Personnel...
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posted by chrystea
tu will need an object(you can carry),a yellow o white candle and pure honey(essencial).
note:this spell can be casted any time,any day.
okay,step one;light the candle and hold it in your left hand.
step2;put a little honey in your mouth(don't swallow)get a pitch of honey on the object,hold the object in your right hand,close your eyes and chant"i call upon the the dark god of magick to protect me from all negative energies and forces that may come my way,may this be my magic wand to make my wish come true so mote it be.
open your eyes,put the wand in the candle fire, let it burn for a minuto then after that use the honey to quench fire,BING BANG BOOM! it's done!have fun.
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1: Step Brothers:
The comedic duo of Will Farrell And John C. Riely, take tu on a ride as they protray two dimwits who still act like their 14..

2: Dumb and Dumber:
It's amazing to think Jeff Danials is usually a serious actor.
He and Carrey make a perfect pair.
As Jeff dose his best to match with Carrey's, almost childlike, slapstick comedy he became famish for.
Though. Sadly this series ALSO proves how WRONG it is, to have different actors, it only succeeds in "ruining everything"..

3: Anchorman:
Will and Carol are both at their prime in this movie.
And tu often find yourself repeating EVERY line...
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posted by Directioner3300
Once there was a ghost named Specter and he was very lonely.He had no friends o anymore family members.
He was really upset.So one día he floated outside just to have a nice look at the scenery when all of a sudden he saw another ghost.
She was floating close to Specter and Specter was very happy!
The femlae ghost introduced herself (Spirit) and Specter did the same.
They both floated around happily in the air holding hands.
Then Specter invited Spirit to his house.
After that they dicho goodnight to each other and became fast friends.
The siguiente día Specter and Spirit went flaoting around at the park.When they were floating around Specter asked Spirit if she'd like to be his girlfriend.
So she yes and Specter was delighted!
So now that Specter has somebody in his life he was no longer upset o lonely.He found someone who loved him.
The End
I amor Cartman's border breaking troll humor.
And his cruelity to just about ANYTHING., And hypercritical vistas to everyone (especially Kyle and Token)..
But there some moments, that Cartman goes WAY too far. And down right angers me..

#5: BEST friends FOREVER:
After one of Kenny's "comedic" deaths, Cartman learns that Kenny left his PSP to Cartman out of pity.
But wait after learning this, it is also learned Kenny servived.
Cartman proves his "loyalty", por pulling the plug on Kenny, JUST for the PSP..

#4: IMAGINATIONLAND:
Cartman saves Kyle's life.
Revives him with CPR..
But sadly.
He did it.
He dose...
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