This survey made me realize how little anime I actually watched this year. I can't even fill in all the categories! The few shows I did watch were really damn good. At least it makes it easy to pick my favorites!
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My pick for the best starter. Volt's got it all! A very cheap 1st ability that does enough damage to nuke low level enemies with ease while also stunning them. Speed boost that makes running through missions easier without being a master of parkour. An invincible shield that boosts your damage while shooting through it, that can also be picked up to provide solid personal defense. A nuke powerful enough to stay relevant even in ESO that can also give you all the shields you could even want with it's augment. Just a damn good frame, easy to build, easy to use, versatile kit and an amazing early game passive that lets you build up precious extra damage by just running around. If I was to start the game again, I would 100% pick Volt.
I watched LemonLeaf/Fauna before she joined Hololive and will continue to do so now that she's out again. While I'm sad for her as she genuinely seemed to enjoy her time there and was sad to leave, I'm also excited to see what she will cook up without the corporate oversight hanging over her head at all times.
I played my fair share of Excalibur and I Volt was my go-to AoE nuke before I got Saryn but I never really touched Mag much. She's definitely strong with all the buffs she's gotten over the years but she just never seemed all that fun to me. Magnetize is definitely her signature ability, shooting projectiles with infinite body punchthrough into it and watching them spin and obliterate everything inside is what she's known for. Her biggest weakness is her dependence on specific weapons and mods to really make her shine, not something that's ideal for a starter warframe.
Companies realized they can sell cheats as microtransactions instead and people will pay for them. They will likely also include some cosmetic microtransactions like their previous game, which they definitely don't want people just cheating in. It's why so many single player games require being always online as well.
You are in luck then, Xaku has a customization option now to always be in either fully armored or skeletal form!
Poor bot got confused by the strange release schedule of this season. No episode today, folks! The show resumes on 5th of February.
The end? What do you mean it's the end!? There's still so much more I wanted to see! You are lucky you were cute manga, or this would be a reckoning!
I really wish we got a little bit more, just two more chapters to wrap up Nishida and Tairazuma (although now that I've re-read the last chapter, it kinda looks like Azuma might have confessed to Taira in that behind the school scene). Here's hoping for some 65.x chapters! There is also the anime announcement, I don't actually really care about that one. I find that most of the time when I read the source material, adaptations are just not really that interesting to me. I'll give it a try when it comes out, at least.
That's awesome! Don't let my jaded veteran ramblings discourage you, Excal is great and Exalted Blade is still a really awesome ability to use. It's a sword that releases waves of energy with every swing, that's just plain cool!
They can't manage the glory that is Dark Souls 2!
I've been kinda busy this week and I haven't really touched the game in a while (waiting for 1999) so I thought I would just go back to the basics and bring back the starters! Also 1999 is bringing us the proto versions of these frames so there, that's my excuse!
Excalibur is still a pretty damn solid frame, despite all the yeas. His Exalted Blade shows it's age the most, being worse than your average melee weapon these days, but the rest of his kit stays solid. Slash Dash is weirdly enough his best damage dealing ability, as it scales with your actual melee weapon mods and procs guaranteed Slash. Blind remains a solid panic CC while also massively boosting your melee damage. And Radial Javelins with it's augment is a Roar that applies to melee only, not bad! He's probably the weakest of the starters late game, but I would still rate him as 2nd best choice for new players. Mag outscales him lategame, but her kit requires mods and specific weapons to really shine, something a new player won't have. Volt is still the strongest starter, very cheap decent damage 1st ability, very cheap speed buff to get through missions faster, invincible directional shield that makes defending much easier that you can also pick up to provide yourself with great defense (it also boosts your guns damage while shooting through it) and to top it off a good AoE ability that remains competitive all the way until Steel Path.
Nice comfy low-stakes slice of life isekai. Nothing mind-blowing here, but a good enjoyable watch to relax to after a work day. Enjoyed season 1, looking forward to this one!