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The cel shading gives Battlecry a leg up on every non-sprite Macross game, aesthetically speaking. Battlecry tried to balance that by peppering ground missions about. Gravity makes the battroid useful, especially with the "roller-skate" foot thrusters. The problem THOSE ran into was that a lot of them were too crowded to use fighter mode(though I tried at just about every opening). I think it was at it's best in the non-urban ground stages. There was enough room to fly, but still enough level ground to run. The QRau duel in the not-really-a-lake was the showcase for that, IMO. You could pick any mode you wanted and make an effective combat strategy. Especially with the combination of rubble piles and tall columns scattered about. Flying the fighter between the columns was just too fun to NOT do. The groundless stages I usually stuck to fighter, and the urban areas were mainly battroid or GERWALK, depending on the situation.

If that's the one I think it is, it's the one where I wound up flying directly above the Cat's Eye doing nothing but dropping flares. My hatred of that stage knows no bounds.

Half the reason I bought Hot Rod was for the matrix tease, honestly. And Bumblebee's been tortured by Shockwave for quite some time over here. He kinda snapped, and now that he CAN hold guns, he's latched onto the biggest possible.

Honestly, if I were BB, I'd be worried about self-inflicted injury. Recoil on Powermaster Prime's rifles is probably pretty bad. And in the retake of that scene(which I may wind up using photobucket to post), Starscream and 'Bee both have one gun on Megs and one on each other. I <3 the backstabber. Edit: Gogo photobucket. Retake, part 1. Retake, part 2. Mainly because I couldn't let part 1 stand as-is. And this is why Hot Rod never shows up in these fights.

Added Hot Rod and Starscream to my collection. I now have all the Classic bots except Astrotrain, who really doesn't do much for me. And thus, I had to photograph a battle scene or 2. Edit:And the board is being beligerent. I never even hit submit since I couldn't get my files uploaded. Don't know what this post is here for. ... And now one shows up 1.5 times? ARGH!

Thoughts on Classic Megatron: He's too small. I was crushed to realize he wasn't sized properly for an adult to use the gun. Too much purple. I keep catching myself thinking "When did I get another Shockwave?" Too much neon green too, even though it's ALL in the wings. They desperately needed to apply some paint on the inside as well as outside. The gun needs flippable decepticon logos, or the ability to move on top of his arm. Having the logos hanging upside-down is lame. Overall, though, he's a pretty good design with an interesting transformation. And the presence of several prominent decepticon logos makes a strong character statement in a line where everyone else has no affiliation logo aside from a single rubsign.

My first thought on seeing the thumbnail was "Why is he photographing Shockwave?"

Plot isn't always the guiding principle behind game design. Case study: Asteroids. The LOGICAL thing to do would be to fly out of the asteroid field, not blow every rock in the universe up. I have no real objections to defensive missions, but Battlecry had too many very hostile ones. Less Cat's Eye, more celebrity Valkyrie plzkthx. ... Acutally, I wanted to see more Destroid Rage. But I'm a shameless destroid fanboy.

I disagree. Mode swap is to be loved. My advice: Screw flares. They're for escort missions. When she launches missiles, go to battroid and use secondary fire to shoot 'em down. Battroid is also good for getting turned around when she flies by you. Don't be afraid to take a few potshots at her with the battroid's primary fire, but don't really count on doing a lot with it. Lacking cover or gravity, battroid is a sitting duck, so don't stay in this mode. Personally, I found GERWALK... err, guardian... missiles to hit with far more dependability than fighter ones. But in space it still lacks the speed and agility of fighter mode. I say use fighter to move around, guardian to deal damage, and battroid for missile defense. The sooner you get rapid mode swaps down, the happier you'll be.

Well, the cockpit doesn't leak underwater...

Am I the only person that remembers BOTH versions as being Kawamori designed?

The saddest example of that in Macross is the VF-22 losing the flexible shape-changing wings of the YF-21. ... C'mon, those were awesome!

I'm fairly serious. That seems more or less how every episode went, though I admit my memories are more than a little fuzzy.

Ummm... that just says the VF-0 was never intended to be deployed in a combat capacity, but was anyways because the VF-1 wasn't ready. There's nothing that even implies the VF-0 was intended to use fusion engines. The VF-1 is a fighter first. Battroid mode makes far more concessions to the fighter mode than fighter does to battroid. If it'd been designed as a battroid first, you'd see something more like MOSPEADA or Gundam, where fighter more relies mainly on brute force to stay up.

*laughs* You've summarized the show so well.

The yellow was the only part on Classic Prime that really bothered me. I'm tempted to repaint his headcrest and codpiece. But on the other hand, I'm lazy.

Even if the Alternator instructions ARE complete(enough), they still get VERY vague at points. I've been left several times wondering "What the HELL did they do there?" Someone needs to tell Hasbro that a static picture with a colored arrow isn't always enough, and a static pic with 3 seperate arrows going in diffrent directions is NEVER adequate.

google.com Gee, aren't we a bunch of friendly helpful people.

The Gundam one at least isn't melting.

I picked Prime up earlier. The smokestack mounts are too fiddly. Mine, at least, "stretches" the stacks a bit when mounted in "shoulder cannon" mode. One part or another isn't lined up quite right. So no shoulder cannons for my Prime. The back sucks. But then, most Primes seem to have crappy backs. At least this one has some play value. The rifle can be mounted back onto the mounting peg for the round thing. Doesn't fit perfectly, but it works well enough, and turns the hinge assembly on the back into a gun turret, which I find a more appealing configuration than anything official for the back.

If the VF-1 were designed today, it'd be a shameless Eva knockoff with wings.

Nonsense doesn't equate with humor. Okay, so I forgot a step. It's still stupid. But now I'm laughing at the YTMNDtards that think they've guaranteed they're in the movie, and hoping the producers have a dash of taste.

"Do a barrel roll" was NEVER more than random stupidity. I've laughed at some of the retardedness those 2 sites have spawned, but this one was never more than an "WTF?" moment.

Yes. It is. I would've done it anyways, just in a desperate attempt to add A redeeming feature, but everything I would've submitted was a signifigant character quote, and thus guaranteed regardless.

Finalists for the new movie's "Make Prime Speak" contest have been unveiled. Predictably, promises that Prime's character would be a factor in choosing submissions seem to have been totally ignored. If you'd like to see Prime utter something OTHER than "Do a barrel roll!", I suggest you vote now. And hope the Transformers fans rally harder than the YTMNDtards. Second place right now is "Megatron must be stopped... no matter the cost." I'm voting for that because it's the closest to being competitive. It wasn't my first choice, but it's the strongest and thus in the least bad position right now. I'm not gonna sit by and let total nonsense get stuffed down Prime's throat. ... Or maybe I will. You have to have submitted a line to vote. I hate people. Really. Almost as much as I hate this movie. I apologize for ever saying it had a chance to be decent.