![]() The new colors will be offered for 16GB Kindle Paperwhite and for the 32GB Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition. Amazon releases new colors and covers for the Kindle PaperwhiteĪmazon has just released two new colors for Kindle Paperwhite: Denim and Agave Green. You can find out more about The Ink Book and all its services by visiting its Facebook page here.2023. The Ink Book now offers its tattoos in various modes, including a glow-in-the-dark, fluorescent option. They should not be expensive and everyone should be able to afford to keep using them or change them at any time they wish.” ![]() Our quote is ‘everyone can wear a tattoo’ because we want our products to be the most accessible and cheapest in Malaysia. When asked to describe The Ink Book in his own words, CF simply states “We are a fast-growing temporary tattoo provider who is working hard to strengthen our services for all our customers. In addition to designing the tattoos for The Ink Book, CF also keeps its Facebook page well-updated, with a consistent, carefully designed theme of inky brush strokes as seen in all of the image descriptions for their products. “I am currently preparing to launch some of my custom designs for fashion events as well.” The tattoo designs are done by the fashion designer himself, who shares a strong passion for his work. We are also supported by several printing factories which helps keep our business running smoothly.” “Our tattoos are created in a printing factory using a soybean-based ink which is FDA approved and a hundred percent safe for the skin. When we asked CF how The Ink Book makes its own tattoos, he offers us a brief idea of the manufacturing process: The Ink Book is currently run by CF and his team of two other associates, who are in the midst of launching this startup in neighbouring Singapore.Īlso read: Top 10 Malaysian Graffiti Artists Who Rule Street Art The Creative Process This is when I thought it would be a great idea for a business.” “When I first discovered temporary tattoos just as they were becoming trendy, I instantly fell in love. It is with this belief in mind, coupled with the rising trend of smaller, “hipster-looking” tattoos, that CF saw a wonderful opportunity in making temporary tattoos for people who felt the same way. “When I was young, my elders told me that getting a permanent tattoo was a bad omen, and that it would somehow chase away our luck.” ![]() The Ink Book was founded in March this year by CF, a Malaysian fashion designer who told us all about the story behind his startup venture: From meaningful, sentimental words to tempt your inner Tumbler-er, to beautiful shapes and symbols on par with popular hipster chic, these tattoos subtly compliment a modern sense of fashion, and lasts for typically three to five days. With The Ink book as your metaphorical first dip to test the waters (of, well, tattoos), you can be sure there are designs catering to everyone’s taste. Remember when you had that great tattoo idea for a Halloween party that would just go so well with your outfit? But you didn’t do it you didn’t want something so permanent for something so temporary. ![]() But what if there is a way to experience lasting tattoos without having to worry about the permanent nature of the tattoo?Įnter The Ink Book - a popular, new startup which offers its growing fan base on Facebook with a large and inspired selection of temporary tattoos. From strong social conventions on painted flesh, to the air of permanence after being inked for the very first time, these experiences are all a part of the thrill that comes with having what some have coined today as body art. Tattoos are often seen as taboo in most contemporary societies. ![]()
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![]() If you miss a checkpoint or a flag, it doesn’t matter that much, because you get a grade for each course. I guess that is a testament of how easy the game is. I feel like there is an issue with hit detection, like I couldn’t touch a flag around a rock wall between my dragon and the flag and it still counted. Just fly through the checkpoints or touch flags and then make it to the end. When its time to play the game and not just do chores in it, you’ll visit the flight club where you get an adult dragon to pilot. Not just that, but you can shine a torch light like a laser pointer that gets your dragon to chase after it. You are playing fetch with your own dragon! Having an enslaved beast bring you back a ball for your amusement might be fun to apartment dwellers who are allergic to reptiles. You need to exit the farm back into the main world to click on it to bring up a first person view that lets you feed and play with it. Want to feed your dragon the crops you just grew? Well you can’t do it in the farm even if the dragon is sitting right there. It incorporates the addictive bring you back chore work of Farmville with the thrill of flying through rings like Superman 64! Feeding your dragon might be one of the joys a child gets from this game. You’ll spend gold on the seeds or just buy the plant itself from the guy standing next to your farm. Then if you want to keep your dragon happy and level up, you’ll grow plants on your farm over real life time and be there to harvest them or they die. First buy bait then it is just a simple button mashing or mouse clicking I should say. You’ll need to feed your dragon fish by doing the fishing mini game. Since its a baby dragon, the game needs you to grow the dragon over time by participating in chores that I wouldn’t call fun. You get to color your dragon, but you can’t chose the style or anything. Then you get to hatch your own baby dragon after you answer a few questions. After that, you get to pilot the dragon Toothless from the movie through an easy course to get the hang of the controls. Then you get dropped into the world after a lengthily update that could have been downloading as I was making my character. You can setup an account or play as a guest. When you start the game, you create your character, male or female with a few frills. By the time I was done with a one minute race, I had heard the same loop a noticeable amount of times. The music is good, but there’s not much variety. ![]() There are a few voice overs and a few things are fully voiced, but for the most part its one line of voice with an entire paragraph in text. Its still the controls without a touch screen that make it bad. This is a game for kids given the license and the easy difficulty. Its good for computers with lesser graphics cards. Its somewhere between and they can’t get adjusted. The graphics in game are bright, bold and colorful, but I can’t call them good or bad. Skip is good, but each clip gets followed by a question about what you just watched. The game makes great use of its movie license and has clips from the movie with the ability to skip them. There are a few hot keys in the world map. Yet there is a shooting gallery mini game that uses the space bar. ![]() That would be an okay way to do things if there was controller or hot keys. The speed up isn’t like a throttle, you need to keep pushing the speed button to keep a higher pace. This is great if your entire screen is a controller, but if its not you need to mouse click each button. There are no hot keys or controls when flying. You have a speed up, slow down and fire button all on your screen. These controls are meant for a touch screen. The glaring issue that I have with flying through the rings are the controls. ![]() There is even a button mashing fishing mini game to get fish to feed your dragon. Other than that, you can tend to your farm, planting crops, watering them and harvesting all in real time. There is a lot to do here, plenty of fetch quests and mini games that center around flying a dragon through checkpoints. School of Dragons: How to Train Your Dragon is a free to play, third person massive multiplayer online game based on the animated movie up the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overcharging or short circuiting a lithium battery must therefore be avoided at all costs. Short circuiting can occur when the battery is wet, particularly in saltwater, and this is a realistic possibility within the confines of a kayak. In this scenario the battery starts to pump current back into itself almost unrestricted and with no where for the current to go it will rapidly heat up leading to failure and combustion of the lithium cells. Short Circuiting - this is where current is allowed to travel between the positive and negative terminals of the battery through a low-resistance conductor.Overcharging- if the battery is continually charged then the excess charge will have no where to go and dissipate as heat, potentially leading to failure and combustion of the lithium cells within the battery.not a good scenario on a kayak! There are two main ways you can overheat a lithium battery: Lithium batteries can also be potentially dangerous with a risk of fire or explosion if overheated. The price of these alone puts many off using these batteries for kayak fishing applications. Lithium batteries are expensive and require a specialist charger to safely charge the lithium cells. ![]() Whilst having several advantages, Lithium batteries do have some disadvantages. So why are they not widely used on fishing kayaks? Safety Concerns and Disadvantages of Lithium Batteries they are lightweight and they hold a lot of charge for their size. There are several types of Lithium batteries available, including Lithium Polymer (LiPo) and Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion). Lithium batteries are great. Your phone will have one, so will your laptop and various other mobile devices. Lithium-based batteries are used widely in modern electronics. It is a highly reactive alkali metal with a wide number of applications including use in rechargeable battery cells. Not only is Lithium a great song by grunge rockers Nirvana, it is also number 3 on the periodic table of elements. This may not sound a lot but when you have to manually haul your fully-laden fishing kayak to and from the water to your vehicle, often several hundreds yards away or involving steep slipways or paths, then every 1kg of weight is very noticeable!! I built a waterproof battery box using this battery and in total it weighs in at exactly 1.825kg. It was inexpensive at around £20-25, but it is heavy. Due to this higher capacity, they also are more durable and sturdy to provide better protection for your multiple batteries and chargers.My 12V 7Ah Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) battery has served me well over the last 5 years. Types of Leisure Battery Boxes Cabinet Style Battery BoxĬabinet style boxes are best suited if you have more than one battery in your caravan as they have a higher capacity. However, battery boxes tend to be very affordable across the board unless you’re looking to purchase a smart battery box (like the Bison). The more features it has, generally, the more expensive it will be. The price of your battery box will vary depending on the size, the type and the number of features that it has. To stop the case from slipping or sliding, you should opt for a mountable battery box. Most older models of battery box are unnecessarily large, which makes them cumbersome to carry, which means they need to be mounted securely. Easy access to the terminals can save a considerable amount of time, making the whole process easier. ![]() It’s also essential that when the terminals aren’t being accessed that the box protects and covers them. The best leisure battery boxes provide easy access to the terminals whenever you need it. Just because you have a battery inside a box, that doesn’t mean that you never need access to your battery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quick Tip: Make sure to close all running applications, including My People from the taskbar on Settings > Personalization > Taskbar to prevent seeing error message 0X80073D02 during the process.Type the following commands to re-register the missing apps and press Enter on each line:.Search for PowerShell, right-click the result, and select Run as administrator.The steps below explain how to just that. Oftentimes this can be fixed if you can reset the profile setting, which happens to be located in the user profile 'Tile Data Layer' database folder. Because in this post I will share tips about how to fix missing start menu in Windows 10, in ‘simple & easy way’ of course. If you are a Windows 10 user and have the same problem as I am, and landing here in my blog. The two methods outlined above are more suited if you only have a few apps missing, but if your Start menu has a lot of apps missing, it's recommended to re-register them all in bulk using PowerShell. As I mentioned above: when the windows 10 start menu stops working, it is usually because of a corrupt user profile, or user profile setting. In Windows 10, the Start Menu was suddenly stopped to work Disappear, vanish missing from it place. Right-click an app tile on the Start menu and select Unpin from Start. ![]() Pin the Tiles to the Start Menu Again First, unpin the blank app tiles on the Start menu and pin them back on. How to re-register apps using PowerShell on Windows 10 Open the Start Menu Troubleshooter Run a System File Scan Reset Start Menu Apps Set Up a new User Account Restore Windows to a Restore Point 1. Once you've completed the steps, the app should now appear in the Start menu again. ![]() ![]() ![]() The remaining table rows pertain to web traffic and must be configured in the Web Proxy server. In networks where a firewall and Web proxy server are deployed, the table rows indicating “IP Supernets” must be used to configure the firewall.Table 3.2.1 must be taken into account for firewall configuration when MVP Mobile Application is used on an enterprise WiFi network. On a mobile operator network, firewall configuration is irrelevant when traffic only traverses the Internet to RingCentral communication services. The RingCentral MVP Mobile App may be used on a mobile operator network or a WiFi network.Other IP addresses and ports may not be opened on the firewall unless involved in other calls from the same site or for business applications. For a given voice or video call, a stateful firewall will open only a small subset of the IP addresses and ports.If multiple endpoints are deployed which require the same domain to be whitelisted or a set of ports to be opened, then only one whitelisting or access rule instance needs to be configured in the firewall. In addition such multiplicities are needed to ensure that each endpoint can be deployed independent of other endpoints types. This is necessary because some port ranges may be shared among hard or soft endpoints. Different endpoint tables may contain the same domain names or port ranges.According to QoS traffic prioritization, the port table rows are generally organized from top to bottom, with media requiring the highest priority and supporting data service traffic at the lowest priority.Table rows indicating Signaling/Media (without the Secured modifier) can be ignored when RingCentral has administratively configured the customer account for ‘secured signaling and media.For firewall configuration, only the tables for the set of endpoint types that are deployed need to be considered.The tables for a) RingCentral Video Mobile, Desktop, and Web, b) RingCentral Video Rooms, and RingCentral Video with Rooms Connector are specified in separate tables because a) may be deployed independently of b) and c).Therefore, a separate table is specified for RingCentral Video Mobile, desktop, and Web, which factors out the specific firewall requirements for video service. The tables do not necessarily match 1-1 with RingCentral product definition since, e.g., RingCentral Video can be used as a stand-alone product and with RingCentral MVP. ![]() The tables provide modular sets of requirements for firewall control to support different mixes of RingCentral endpoint deployments.Source ports are not specified since the port range is operating system dependent, and ports are dynamically selected. The endpoint tables specify the use of domain names, supernets, and a range of cloud destination ports for various purposes, including media, signaling, and registration traffic.Analytics and Live Reports Portals may be country-specific to comply with data-locality requirements.The Live Report Portal gives access to an add-on service and can be used with RingCentral call queues to create a basic call center based on the MVP system.The corresponding domains only need to be whitelisted if this functionality is used. The Analytics Login Portal provides Account Administrators insights into the RingCentral MVP system with actionable data.Service Web Portal provides access to administration and unified communication services after authentication has been completed via the Administrator/User Account Portal.After the Administrator/User is authenticated by the Login Service, the Discovery Service is used again to determine the appropriate API domain based on the configured account data. The Discovery Service points to the Login Process service. The API Discovery Service is used for client applications to dynamically discover their correct.The Administrator/User Account Portal is used to authenticate administrators and users to access any of the underlying communication and administration services, including MVP and Ringcentral Video (RCV).The RingCentral Company Website provides general information about RingCentral and products and does not require login.The RingCentral Website, Administrator/User Account Portal, API Discovery Service, and Service Portal Domain must always be whitelisted to allow administrators and users to access general information and RingCentral services.For example, if the Live Reports Portal is not used, the domain does not need to be whitelisted. Only the actual set of services that are used must be whitelisted. ![]() ![]() ![]() If a darkwraith dies, the other members of the party have a huge chance to aquire this diseases. The Darkwraith Mod comes with two unique Diseases:īoth Diseases could be apllyed if you use the cursed consumables wich can bee found by Darkwraith after combat. Prophecy of the Serpent Primordial Rites Vol. The last scream ecchoed in the minds of the ones who heard him, driving them into rage and madness.They wanted to free the pitty thing called mankind but cursed them with the eldriitch abyssal blood and the never ending whispers of certain insanity in the backs of their uncomprehending minds." Will drop a certain quest key or a Crimson Court trinket. Forgotten Strongbox: This chest holds a key needed for this adventure/You are sure this box holds something worthy of your accomplishments. Use Medicinal Herbs on it for loot (food and gold). This drop of eldritch truth culminated prolifered and grew. Forgotten Delicacies: An anachronistic mixture of both rotted and fresh victuals adorn the cart. The expedition location you select will impact on the curios you encounter which are randomly spawned although some general themed ones can be found across all locations. It is said they tore apart his heart from its body, unable to kill this perfect being they sent his body to the rift, the world between worlds, but as he left he spilled a drop of blood and left a scream of rage deeper than the pitchest of black. These include strange altars, library books, fountains, chests, piles of bones and everything in between that has been left behind by past adventurers or part of the scenario. Those praying to "the flame" decided to rise against the first one. But some of them clinging to their fading delusion of light, blinding them making them unable to see the true nature of the world. ![]() This was the time they spoke to the first one a being older than the thing that they called time. ![]() "Once the humans where one with the dark. ![]() ![]() Sometimes last-minute plans get in the way, but I generally stick to my schedule once I’ve put it in ink.Ĭount calories””at least in the beginning Hopefully, my tips and tricks are helpful to you and you’ll share some of your own secrets and successes with me too.Įvery Sunday I jot down my exercise goals on my Google calendar. I didn’t realize just how many calories I was consuming, so tracking what I ate helped keep me aware of what I was putting in my mouth. I don’t count calories anymore, but I track what I eat (and when I exercise) on my blog, which keeps me accountable. Plus, fruit is low in calories and good for you! It’s such a small thing to do, but it sets a healthy tone for my whole day. Read a lot of health and fitness magazines This might seem like a “duh” tip, but just eating less of my usual servings helped me lose weight. These types of magazines are constant motivation and keep healthy eating and fitness interesting, especially when I really don’t want to get on the elliptical! Plus, I get tons of a great ideas for meals and workouts from them.Įvery Sunday I sit down and plan a week’s worth of meals. I almost always make my own lunch, which means I have more control over how many calories are in my meal. I’m also able to save money by making sure I use up all of my fresh produce. Maintaining my weight is all about balance. ![]() ![]() Spike Balls of Doom: The Spike-o-Pult launches large spiked balls that can pop up to 18 bloons.Siege Engines: Spike-o-Pult and Juggernaut have the monkey switch out their hand-thrown darts for a slower-firing catapult which launches giant spiked balls.Recursive Ammo: The Ultra-Juggernaut fires one Juggernaut ball which splits into six more.Pinball Projectile: Juggernaut shots can bounce off of walls that would block other projectiles.On the other hand, the Spike-o-Pult can pop up to 18 bloons in one go, and the Juggernaut can pop up to 104. One-Hit Polykill: A Dart Monkey can upgrade to pop 2, then 4 bloons per shot if fired down a straight line.Multi Shot: Triple Shot allows the Dart Monkey to throw three darts at once.If you can afford the Paragon upgrade, the Apex Plasma Master, you get a rapid-firing tower that launches heavily-damaging projectiles that cover nearly the entire map. The Ultra-Juggernaut throws a gigantic spiked ball that can pierce through tons of Bloons and split into even more projectiles the Plasma Monkey Fan Club can transform other Dart Monkeys into powerful Super Monkeys with plasma vision temporarily and the universally useful Crossbow Master shoots giant armor piercing drill-bolts halfway across the map eight times a second for six damage with a ton of pierce, can see and hurt anything, and does massive fifty-damage hits more than once a second. The basic version throws a small dart a moderate distance about once a second for one damage. Magikarp Power: Because the power of the basic Dart Monkey is low, the difference between it and a fully upgraded version is immense.The Ultra-Juggernaut is nightmarishly strong in maps like Moon Landing and Cornfield because of all the obstacles the balls can bounce from. While it's a niche utility for the most part, it's good for maps with a lot of obstacles, especially after an update that allows a bouncing spikeball to re-hit a Bloon. Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: In BTD6, the Spike-o-pult and its upgrades throws spiky balls that can bounce around obstacles.Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Juggernaut deals five times the damage to Ceramic Bloons.This ability gets enhanced for the Crossbow Master Critical Hit: The Sharp Shooter upgrade in BTD6 causes one out of every few shots to deal much more damage.Composite Character: The Spike-o-Pult was one of the new towers in BTD3, but BTD4 fused it with the Dart Monkey due to their similarities and has remained one of its upgrade paths since then.Boring, but Practical: Cheap, simple, yet undoubtedly effective, with its upgrades surprisingly carrying over well into the lategame.Automatic Crossbow: Bottom path Dart Monkeys in 6 equip a fast-firing crossbow.All Your Powers Combined: The Dart Monkey Paragon, the Apex Plasma Master, rides a gigantic ballista crossbow which rapidly fires three plasma Ultra-Juggernaut balls, combining the attacks of the Ultra-Juggernaut, Plasma Monkey Fan Club, and Crossbow Master.The Crossbow Master wears a black one in 6. All-Encompassing Mantle: x/4 Dart Monkeys have green ones in BTD5. ![]() Its Paragon upgrade is the Apex Plasma Master, which rapidly fires bouncing, splitting, spiked plasma balls to decimate everything on the screen. ![]() It also adds the Crossbow upgrade path, which specializes in popping multiple layers at the same time and culminating in the Crossbow Master, dealing high damage at a rapid pace from long range. In Bloons TD 6, it keeps the Spike-o-Pult and Super Monkey Fan Club upgrade paths, respectively adding to them the Ultra-Juggernaut which can split into even more Juggernaut balls, and the Plasma Monkey Fan Club which converts nearby Dart Monkeys into Plasma Monkeys. Its upgrade paths in BTD5 are the Spike-o-Pult, which launch spiked balls that can pop a very large number of bloons before stopping, and Super Monkey Fan Club, which temporarily transforms it and other nearby dart monkeys into Super Monkeys. Shoots a single dart that pops a single bloon (except in 6, where it can now pop 2). ![]() ![]() ![]() You create a set of microservices and modules instead, and each of them will communicate with a lightweight mechanism and run its own process. Node.js spares you the need to create a large monolithic core. NodeJS vs Python: 2 – 1 Scalability NodeJS But again, it depends on personal preference.īut in the end, because Python's syntax is easier to understand and learn for beginners, Python wins a point here. ![]() In fact, Python code is so readable that it can be understood by clients with some technical background. Python's syntax is very simple, and it is free of curly brackets.īecause of this, the code is much easier to read and debug. While coding in Python, software developers need to write fewer lines of code than if they were coding in Node.js. Python’s syntax is often deemed its greatest advantage. Therefore, if you are familiar with JavaScript, you are not going to have any difficulties with Node.js. In fact, Node.js syntax is quite similar to the browser's JavaScript. If I start saying that one is better and the other is worse, I know I'll face a lot of criticism and skepticism from our readers. Syntax, for the most part, is a matter of personal preference. Since Node.js is faster, it wins a point in terms of performance and speed. Therefore, Python web applications are slower than Node.js web applications. So, Python is not the best choice for apps that prioritize speed and performance or involve a lot of complex calculations. Unlike Node.js, Python is single-flow, and requests are processed much more slowly. Python is beat out by Node.js in this case. Pythonīoth Python and JavaScript are interpreted languages, and they are generally slower than compiled languages, such as Java. Third, the event-driven non-blocking architecture enables several requests to be processed at the same time, which accelerates code execution.Īnd finally, single module caching is enabled in Node.js, which reduces app loading time and makes it more responsive. This also allows you to use features that cannot be used in a browser, such as TCP sockets. Second, Node.js executes the code outside the web browser, so the app is more resource-efficient and performs better. This event-driven architecture brings Node.js its first point.įirst of all, since JavaScript code in Node.js is interpreted with the V8 engine (in which Google invests heavily), Node.js's performance is remarkable. But this library is not built in most Python frameworks, and it requires some additional hustle. Modules like asyncio make it possible to write asynchronous code in Python as it would be done in Node.js. You can use it to build an asynchronous and event-driven app with the help of special tools. Pythonīy contrast, Python is not designed that way. The event-driven architecture of Node.js is perfectly suitable for the development of chat applications and web games. A certain process is called as soon as the respective event occurs, which means that no process blocks the thread. Node.js is designed as an event-driven environment, which enables asynchronous input/output. NodeJS vs Python: 0 – 0 Architecture NodeJS Also developed by Google, the App Engine lets you develop web apps with Python and allows you to benefit from numerous libraries and tools that the best Python developers use. Python mainly runs on Google’s App Engine. The latest version is Python 3.8, and it was released in October 2019. ![]() It was first released in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. Python is an open-sourced high-level programming language. V8 is well-known for its high speed and constantly advancing performance. ![]() The purpose of this engine is to compile JavaScript functions into a machine code. Written in C++, this engine was designed by Google to be used in Google Chrome. It is a virtual machine with built-in interpreter, compilers, and optimizers. The most outstanding thing about Node.js is that it is based on Google’s V8 engine. The latest version – NodeJS 12.6.0 – was released in July 2019. It was initially released in 2009 by Ryan Dahl. NodeJS is not a programming language but rather an open-sourced runtime environment for JavaScript. The criteria that I am going to consider are:īefore I jump into a detailed side-by-side comparison, you can have a look at this infographic to get a general understanding. Yet, in this article, I am going to be brave and claim that one of these technologies – NodeJS or Python 3 – is winning. Common knowledge holds that there are no better or worse programming languages, and that everything depends on each developer's preferences. Node.js and Python are among the most popular technologies for back-end development. The question is: which one is it? Let's jump on in and find out. In this article, we'll be bold and claim that one of these technologies is winning. ![]() ![]() ![]() The better an officer does while slaughtering enemies in this mini-game, the better the special items, power-ups, or advantages your team receives once the skirmish is over. ![]() Selecting "Support," for example, will allow your guys to create a favorable situation for nearby allies, while selecting "Samurai" allows you to send an officer into a group alone to participate in "Rampage Mode." Rampage mode is the most action-oriented segment of the entire game as it requires you to go up against the enemy forces in one-on-two hundred Dynasty Warriors combat. Officer Skills are unique to each commander at your disposal and enable you to attack or manipulate large groups of enemies at once. ![]() Triangle brings up the Troop Skills menu, which allows your group to use specialty attacks like Ninja Strikes, Katana Deathwheels, Spear Walls, and Cavalry charges for a more powerful blow to your enemy's forces, and Circle offers one of the most important techniques, the Officer Skills. Pressing X at any time, for example, commands your units to retreat from their current positions, while a tap of the L1 key tightens the formation of your group to improve their defense (indicated by a dynamic nine-slot grid positioned next to your troop count). As the story progresses, however, the tactical benefits become more apparent. At first, this kind of approach gives the illusion that Kessen III is an all-out action title - especially since the first few levels rarely ask more from you than the annihilation of your enemies. An easy to use Samurai Warriors-like mapping system illustrates where you are on the map, where your party is, and where your enemies are, so getting from point A to point B shouldn't be a problem. Accompanied by the traditional "R-Stick Camera" controls, these few commands are pretty much all you'll need in the early parts of the game to succeed. This ragtag army can then be moved together with the left analog stick while the Square button hacks and slashes at anything that gets in their way. Once the introduction is over, players are armed with 2500 soldiers represented by 21 horse-mounted warriors. Veterans of Omega Force's Dynasty Warriors series should instantly feel at home here since the control scheme and physics are almost completely identical to those titles (or to any other 3D actioner, for that matter). It all begins with the franchise's usual abundance of story-based CGI (and a few in-game videos), followed by the relatively short battles of the Kira Seashore and Inuyama. Essentially a memoir of the life and times of the great Japanese leader, Kessen III tells a story that spans 13 different chapters and more than 50 different levels. Beginning with the death of Nobunaga Oda, the game goes back in time to the beginning of Nobunaga's ascent up the military ladder. Needless to say, the changes are immediately noticeable and depending on your opinion of the second installment and the strategy genre in general, is either a grand improvement or a terrible disaster. I had the opportunity to sit down with the final Japanese version of Kessen III today so that I could see just how different it is from its predecessors. ![]() |
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