i dont understand the battle mechanics at all
Reviews for "Advanced Rogue Intelligence Assault"
Vortex00 responds:
I will make the tutorial better.
for now this walkthrough might help
http://spiralvortexplay.com/svp/2015/03/16/aria-walkthrough/
Honestly speaking, this has a lot of potential. You can code rather well, and pinoytoons makes some really hot art.
However, I can't really give this that great a score because it just feels... incomplete at the moment. In terms of how the game plays, at least. Maybe it's just me, but I also can't seem to do any of the battles normally at first, and only have to rely on Jeo. That's fine and all, but the divide in power levels among the girls, the bounty hunters, and early game Jeo is just insane. It also doesn't feel like I'm really progressing towards anything here. Nothing feels like I really achieved it, because I don't really know what I'm trying to achieve.
Either way, good art, varied voice actors and a lot of potential here. Hopefully I'll get the hang of this in the future.
Vortex00 responds:
Thanks for the feedback. Yes it seems like you just don't have the hang of it. or don't yet understand how to play the other girls. many others that are more familiar with the game says Jeo sucks pretty bad, especially towards the end. You should probably assign the girls the train order a few times before just hopping into combat. That are not every experienced at the start.
Too Complex, combat unbalanced A.I either reacts too fast or seems immortal eg. Giant eye bots on raids. I will admit vandread's mini battles where a lot easier but I gotta say the artwork and animation is by far superb.
Vortex00 responds:
sounds like you have you no idea about how to play this game. I don't expect everyone will like this game or understand everything here, but maybe in the next update things will be easier to understand if you decide to try it again.
stats doesn't inrease at all from training or doing battle.
Notes from "hard mode". The biggest thing you can learn is what these girl are actually good at versus what they like.
Ari is good at raids, not necessarily battle, send her to train often and every time you see "raiding" under the enemy ship on the main action menu, click on the hanger button and have ari fight them. Click the little targets that pop up around ari until her cannon is fully charged and then click one of the enemies. It will kill a few and knock the rest down to half health, do it again and they're all dead. This is at least until you get amp who you let charge up and then recharges so fast you only need click each one in a row and they drop like flies. You can also invest in bombs (at least 6 until you figure out which ships have less than 6 doors you need to blow up) and raid enemy ships from the map to get rid of them. She also seems to appreciate you talking to her so when she get rebelious, just click ok and talk to her a few times. punishing her on the spot just injures her and makes it difficult to deal with raids before you get amp because phia doesn't have a "kill everyone" ability and you have to take out each one individually in a slow, but similar way (full charge click).
Phia is actually one of the most useful support characters. setting her as your support (the little picture under the current girl's ship when your giving them orders) means you will regularly have ships coming to your side and increasing your total ship count during the battle. Using in conjunction with Tiffany's shield and reserve abilities and you basically become immortal in space battles with a slowly expanding "creep" (like as in zerg creep) of points. She also gathers mercenaries during her free time so setting her to free can get you more and more resources when combined with the mercenary work force upgrade. If she's getting rebellious, just have sex with her.
Tiffany is basically the tank of the group. I'm not sure what she does in her free time (tend to the ship? maybe it means she makes resources, something redundant after you research mercenary workforce and set phia to "free" a few times) but where she shines is in battle as a wall of shield and reserve spam while phia slowly captures points or you send out ships to capture them and then use shield and reserve to keep them... forever, they're yours now as long as the shield spam never stops. She's also the picture you see while you make upgrades in the research part of your ship so I guess you could sort of say she does that too.
Bri is the girl that looks/acts/talks like a 13 year old loli girl but is actually 18 so it's ok I guess. She's also kind of a psyker on the alpha plus level with her ability to clear a space battlefield of ships with her mind and mentally slow them down as well. I guess you can talk to her to make her happy and she has some story relevance. You can also fuck her if you're into that but she doesn't seem to like it that much. The only place I find she is really useful is the resource gathering missions on the map. Her collection field is so big that you almost never see the resources themselves, you just float around and try to find new areas and watch your resource counter go up. A decently skilled moon lander player could probably get 2000+ resources on average per run jut by floating around through the tunnels and she makes it fairly easy since you never need to get close to the sides of the map. just keep in mind that she's a bit weaker in health then tiff so you can't crash a lot.
Other things you should know:
the special agents button allows you to talk to and fight as a few other characters. There is also a "girl" you can have sex with there eventually as the story progresses.
The containment area is where a few more side characters you can have sex with eventually hang out.
using the punish order (while giving orders, not after they refuse an order) will allow you to increase their obey stat when a girl gets rebellious. just don't click the punish button while they are on the ground in front of you or it will hurt them... because abuse is a good thing when your order them to be abused I guess.
Over all, a bit clunky in the mechanics department but ultimately better then most other games who have tried to mix an RPG and RTS into a sex game. The dialogue sometimes feels as though it's triggering at weird times and it makes the girls seem a little bipolar but ultimately you can still get some story lore out of it if you focus on what they say and not whatever weird context they say it in.
Vortex00 responds:
sorry for the late reply. good analysis. Thanks for the feedback.