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Nights of Azure Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Nights of Azure is a Japanese role-playing game set in a world where demons are taking over the night. As with any JRPG, there’s a lot of lore to get your head around – so buckle in. The game is set after the defeat of the Ruler of the Night, who, once beaten, showered the world in his blue blood. Those who came into contact with the blood turned into demons, and are stealing the night from the humans. The game centres around protagonist Arnice, who somehow resisted the blood, and as a result is half-demon, half-human, and she’s been tasked by a mysterious organisation, Curia, to reclaim the night. Arnice fights using weapons that she summons using her demon blood alongside assistants known as Servans, which she actualizes from collected fetishes – that is, she makes creatures out of inanimate objects. There are some interesting concepts thrown into the game, but there are so many different bits and pieces to understand that it can sort of seem like you’re drowning in information. Arnice has a friend, Lilysse, who is a Saint, and is destined to seal the remains of the Ruler of the Night. It’s heavily implied that there’s definitely something more than just friendship between the two, but the game is actually surprisingly subtle about it; beyond the girls’ obviously ridiculous proportions and jiggling, the fanservice is pretty toned down.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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It’s because of this relationship that Arnice seeks out an alternative to ending the Ruler of the Night once and for all, without Lilysse having to sacrifice herself. These are just two of the main plot points, but past that there’s a lot of other stuff going on, which all seems to get bogged down in the weight of the main story without having much bearing on it. As it’s the night-time that needs protecting, Arnice does all of her exploring during the moonlit hours. Leaving from the hotel base, a 15-minute timer starts counting down, and you select an unlocked region of the town map to visit. Walking into certain areas triggers fights with enemies, where you can choose to unleash your Servans – of whom you can have a maximum of four in your party. These brawls are fought within the existing environment, which makes the exploration flow seamlessly. It’s a pleasant experience. The hack and slash combat is fun, if not a little easy. Arnice possesses the ability to generate different weapons using her blue blood, so once they’ve been unlocked, you can easily switch between them using the directional pad. The game tells you that each weapon has its benefits, but honestly, it’s not overly obvious what these are, so the need for switching isn’t great unless you’re up for some experimentation.

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What’s more, there are no enemies that pose a particular threat, and even boss battles are easily dealt with without too much thought. Each Servan has its own strengths, weaknesses, and skills. Once you’ve found the right combination for your team, there’s little incentive to actualize any more Servans – unless you really want to check out every single one of them. With the right team behind you, the already easy difficulty level drops even lower, and defeating even the most formidable of bosses will seem like a relatively simple task. It’s a shame, in a way, that the release doesn’t reward you for trying to get more out of the Servan system, but at least it’s there for those that want it. Levelling up, meanwhile, is a strange task. While your Servans level up the traditional way – experience points gained through battle serve to make them stronger, and each level comes with its own perks for each of the creatures – Arnice’s levelling isn’t quite as straightforward. Using one of the in-game currencies, the blood collected from enemies after defeat, Arnice visits a sacrificial alter in a sort of dream world that’s accessible through the elevator in the hotel. There, she buys her upgrades while wearing what’s an incredibly revealing outfit because, apparently, the more skin on show, the more blood that you can offer.Blazblue Cross Tag Battle

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Honestly, the whole thing is a little convoluted, but does offer an interesting tactical question: will you spend the collected blood on upgrading Arnice herself, or spend it in demon shops on fetishes for actualization and booster items? Unfortunately, the question kind of answers itself. Fetishes and booster items are easily acquired through looting treasure chests or item drops, but there’s only one way that Arnice is going to level up. Outside of combat and exploration, a lot of the action takes place in the hotel. There’s a fighting arena in the basement, where Arnice is invited to complete challenges for rewards, be it blood, coins, or items. There’s the previously mentioned sacrificial altar, too, though beyond levelling up when you’ve got enough blood, there’s not much need to visit, unless you’re prompted by the game. A lot of parents give their children curfews. Mine certainly did. They advised me to return home before dark, lest risk being eaten by one of the mountain lions that patrolled our neighborhood after dusk. That grim warning, the memory of which I’ve successfully managed to suppress for twenty years, bubbled to the surface during my time with Nights of Azure, a new role-playing game whose cast of characters risk life and limb every time they dare set foot outdoors after sunset.

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The citizenry of the fictional kingdom of Ruswal isn’t boarding up the windows at sunset for fear of cougars, though. No, in the evening hours, a legion of monsters descends upon the land, discouraging all but the most tenacious (or perhaps foolhardy) individuals from walking the streets at night. One such person who braves the dark is our protagonist, Arnice, a half-demon knight charged with defending Ruswal from its demons and the apocalyptic ambitions of their unholy master. Unfortunately, we soon learn, the only way to save the day is for Arnice’s old friend, a priestess by the name of Lilysse, to seal away the evil lord through self-sacrifice. It’s a far darker premise than we’ve come to expect of Gust, the studio best known for the decidedly more cheery Atelier series, but it’s also one that is undermined by inconsistencies in tone, anime tropes, and unwelcome amounts of comic relief, hypersexualization, and melodrama. The world and sapphic romance at Nights of Azure‘s core are promising. Its a tale of two young women forced to accept cruel fates, where one prepares to become a martyr, as the other slowly succumbs to demonic corruption, wrestling with her waning humanity and newfound hunger for human flesh. Sadly, much of that potential goes unfulfilled.Masquerada Songs and Shadows

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The story is marred by beats that seem inappropriate for such a dire situation. Whether it’s ancillary characters joking at length about their incompetence and perversions, or the designers shoehorning Lilysse into a revealing maid outfit to pander to the otaku crowd, a parade of missteps muddy what could have been a beautiful tale of doomed romance. The game itself is a peculiar amalgam of action and role-playing mechanics that begins as a simplistic hack-and-slash-type experience, where Arnice must carve her way through droves of monotonous enemies en route from one location to the next. Our heroine’s arsenal of abilities is limited to a finite repertoire of simplistic attacks until she gets a little help from demonic familiars. Players can assemble a team of up to four support characters called “Servans,” each with unique offensive and defensive powers. These guys will level-up and grow more powerful depending on how often you take them into battle, and can even change how Arnice handles. Depending on the composition of the team, she can unleash one of a few different types of transformation attacks, which, in addition to being devastatingly powerful, provide buffs for the rest of the squad. There are a myriad of Servans to collect, but I ultimately didn’t spend much time experimenting with them, since they take a long time to train and purchasing new ones isn’t ideal.

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As most merchants only accept demon blood as currency — the same substance Arnice uses to level-up. This creates an unfortunate negative feedback loop, where for players to make the experience more engaging and rewarding they must first suffer through a lot of plodding repetition. By the time the credits roll, Nights of Azure is very different sort of game than it is at the outset. It piles nuance little by little to make the ride more enjoyable as it nears its conclusion. But this regrettably comes at the cost of adding many more banal moments en route to getting there. A few frustrating design decisions also drag down an otherwise serviceable experience. While Nights of Azure isn’t overly respectful of your time in the first place, it exacerbates this issue with poor signposting. Even when you know precisely where on the map you need to go and what you need to do there, it can be difficult locating your current objective on the ground, which is something that had me frustrated, aimlessly running around in circles far more often than seemed necessary. The tale told in Nights of Azure is reminiscent of another story I have heard, but I just can’t seem to place it. The demonic forces of evil are attempting to plunge the Earth into eternal darkness and it is up to the sacrifice of a heroic Saint to stop the vile plan.

After a fierce aerial battle, the Demon King is impaled by the first Saint. This gory deed sends tainted demonic blue blood raining down upon the hapless populous of a small island community which results in twisting them into fiends and demons. Now, once every ten years a new Saint must be sacrificed in order to keep the evil sealed away or the world will be plunged into endless night. The story picks up with the half-demon protagonist meeting up with the next sacrificial Saint, her friend from the past. Together, along with a bratty stray black cat, they head to the hotel which will serve as their base of operations. This is where they will stay on this mysterious uncharted island where there really could be a monster in the closet at night. The first thing I have to say about this game is something I usually leave until the end, but this time I figure it’s best to get it out of the way right off the bat. I always play a game I plan on writing about with its default controls as that way I am able to experience the game as it was intended and comment towards that. You can’t rightly say a game has refined controls if you yourself spent a lot of time setting them up precisely how you wanted them. Likewise, you can’t say the controls are bad if you adjusted them away from the intended layout in a way that made it difficult to control (such as maybe setting movement controls to the right-hand action buttons and using the thumb stick to control your actions instead).

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That would just be preposterous… and something maybe I will try next time. With that said, the default gamepad controls for this game are questionable. I was stuck on the start screen for at least a minute trying to figure out if my gamepad wasn’t being detected properly because when it told me to press Start nothing happened. This was when I actually pressed the traditionally centrally located and actually labeled Start button. I even tried the less common but sometimes used actions A and X buttons but it turns out the Start button the game was looking for was the action B button. I suppose if you had never played a similar game or if this was your first time playing a game in general that these controls could work. It might also be the most optimal configuration of buttons in the history of button configurations, but to me, they were just downright wacky. Luckily the configuration screen lets you rebind the controls. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exactly tell you what buttons you are binding to what controls. It just shows an image of the individual gamepad buttons of an XBox One pad and then tells you to select a button number for it. Setting the X button on the pad to Button 1 in the menu doesn’t exactly tell me what it is that I am binding that button to do. Is Button 1 Attack?Blazblue Cross Tag Battle

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