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Known to the chagrin of retailers nationwide as "Zettai Hero Project: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman".

Here we have yet another gem covered in excrement from our friends at N.I.S, this one a take on the classic "roguelike" genre; the player enters a dungeon filled with monsters and loot, and if they die, they lose all their items/money and go back to Level 1. However, Z.H.P. does cut you a break by adding your accrued experience to your "base level", so that you get a bit stronger each time you revert. This was a clever twist on the normally frustrating conventions of roguelikes, meaning you still make progress even after losing all that hard work.

Yet while I do enjoy the character designs and better writing over Disgaea, there are some niggling things that hold it back. Unlike traditional roguelikes, Z.H.P does have separate levels, each of which consist of only four or five floors, sometimes with bosses, whereupon you're transported back to base to save/heal up, and lose all your levels. This completely defeats the purpose of a roguelike, where the point is to try and push as far into the dungeon as possible before you die; a better idea would have been something like Persona's Tartarus, where escape is nary an option and enemies almost always still pose a threat. Heck, even Disgaea's own Item World is more akin to a roguelike than Z.H.P, which devolves back into standard N.I.S. level-grinding/worldrunning of under/overpowered dungeons, instead of the ceaseless challenge and near-death tension of a real roguelike.

In other news, I found out recently that Power Rangers was made up mostly of recut footage from an unrelated Japanese sentai show. How both brilliant and disheartening.

Drawn in a little over one hour, a time limit posed by over MSN. Special thanks for keeping time and providing references on that shiny effect that always happens whenever they pose. I really should try this more often; it's much more harrowing, knowing there's a certain time you'll have to stop, and it makes you think on a broader scale, instead of obsessing over smaller details that you could just change later on. Go check out his newest comic, drawn concurrently with this piece as a race of sorts: [link]

Man, these descriptions just get longer with every PSP adventure...do you guys even read these things? Add the word "frog" to your comment somewhere if you read these things.

FUCKING COMMENT IF YOU'RE GOING TO FAVE. Thanks.

Description
Known to the chagrin of retailers nationwide as "Zettai Hero Project: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman".

Here we have yet another gem covered in excrement from our friends at N.I.S, this one a take on the classic "roguelike" genre; the player enters a dungeon filled with monsters and loot, and if they die, they lose all their items/money and go back to Level 1. However, Z.H.P. does cut you a break by adding your accrued experience to your "base level", so that you get a bit stronger each time you revert. This was a clever twist on the normally frustrating conventions of roguelikes, meaning you still make progress even after losing all that hard work.

Yet while I do enjoy the character designs and better writing over Disgaea, there are some niggling things that hold it back. Unlike traditional roguelikes, Z.H.P does have separate levels, each of which consist of only four or five floors, sometimes with bosses, whereupon you're transported back to base to save/heal up, and lose all your levels. This completely defeats the purpose of a roguelike, where the point is to try and push as far into the dungeon as possible before you die; a better idea would have been something like Persona's Tartarus, where escape is nary an option and enemies almost always still pose a threat. Heck, even Disgaea's own Item World is more akin to a roguelike than Z.H.P, which devolves back into standard N.I.S. level-grinding/worldrunning of under/overpowered dungeons, instead of the ceaseless challenge and near-death tension of a real roguelike.

In other news, I found out recently that Power Rangers was made up mostly of recut footage from an unrelated Japanese sentai show. How both brilliant and disheartening.

Drawn in a little over one hour, a time limit posed by over MSN. Special thanks for keeping time and providing references on that shiny effect that always happens whenever they pose. I really should try this more often; it's much more harrowing, knowing there's a certain time you'll have to stop, and it makes you think on a broader scale, instead of obsessing over smaller details that you could just change later on. Go check out his newest comic, drawn concurrently with this piece as a race of sorts: [link]

Man, these descriptions just get longer with every PSP adventure...do you guys even read these things? Add the word "frog" to your comment somewhere if you read these things.

FUCKING COMMENT IF YOU'RE GOING TO FAVE. Thanks.