J.A.F. Team

I was really looking forward to this, but the resoundingly very negative reviews were a huge turn off. :/

It's been getting slammed in reviews... But I've heard it's not terrible,"for a $15 game." Which is a worrying thing to hear. I mean, mark of the ninja is a $15 game, and that game is honestly one one of my favorites. I also think Azure Striker was $15, and that one's good too, so I guess I just don't understand what they're trying to say.

Critics are rubbish. I'd go to the Steam reviews if you want real talk. Or if you want my opinion...
 
Yes, it's a $15 title, but it's a good $15 title and worth every penny I spent on it. Yes, the port is lackluster in the sense of rebinding keys and graphics options. P* hasn't done a lot of PC ports. As for the controller, I've been playing with a wired 360 controller and I imagine the incompatibility with your Logitech controller is a port over-sight. It's actually not too hard to find a free piece of software that will make your controller emulate a 360 pad though.
 
As for the gameplay, yeah, I won't say it's perfect, but I've got close to twenty hours already. I've beaten the story on normal, I'm partway through on extreme, and I've beaten Ace level Pro-Bending. I'm actually kinda suprised at how much I like the pro-bending mode and it really makes me wish there was a multiplayer component to it.
 
That's my tl;dr review. As for actual tips, well, you can always just ask or maybe I should just make a steam guide. In any case, it sounds more like you're on the second-to-last level. The final boss is a doosey; you'd know if you were there.

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Spirit Pro-Bending match. "Hey, they're not following the rules." I think I gotta up my counters. So final level, but not the final boss yet?

 

 

Hm, maybe it's time to invest in a new controller. I've had my current ones for maybe a decade or so.

 

I've always found the Triads/Mini bosses to be difficult to counter. Water is hard to see, earth can only be dodged, and fire is hard to see coming. As for what works best against them, there's a couple ways you can go, but the key thing is to have level 3 charged chi. Water I don't recommend, but fire at max chi makes you auto-target and zip around at really high speed making you hard to hit, earth (preferably at max chi) can be great for stun-locking and even moreso if you can get all three grouped up, and max chi air is pretty good at just constantly dealing out damage without worrying about getting tunnel vision on one opponent.

 

 

Honestly, after I lost my save file the first time and had to start over with normal difficulty, the three items I found most useful are the half damage/double money, health regen, and half health/double XP purchased in that order. Buying the healing item is a waste IMHO and unless you're in a boss fight or having a lot of trouble I wouldn't have a revival item equipped either. The health regen talisman is actually pretty good. After you've maxed out your bending, replace the health/xp talisman with the armor that negates stuns/disables during fully-charged chi. Finally, get the really expensive half health/always full-charged chi talisman and the half-health/double damage talisman and you'll be nigh unstoppable. Like, I'm not even kidding, the extreme difficulty is beans easy compared to my first run on normal and even the final boss on normal became so much easier that I never died once.

 

One last thing: You can counter more moves than you probably think. I know they get it across relatively early that lightning = no block/counter, but I guess I figured certain really big dudes making attacks that could probably crack a planet in two couldn't be countered. I was wrong. I can think of only three things that can't be countered: Anything with electricity/lightning, earth-bending (unless you're in pro-bending), and that weird stream-of-spirit-snakes attack (I can't say that last one for sure, only that I've never managed to counter it).

 

 

 

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There's apparently a different Korra game being developed for 3DS that's some sort of turn-based-strategy game. On the one hand, I love the few turn-based-strategy games I've played. On the other, that game is being developed by a developer with little-to-no renown, I have no idea how the genre would suit an action cartoon like Korra, and the fact that we've heard so little about it doesn't fill me with hope that it's something the creators would be proud of.

Oh yeah, another thing I forgot to mention in regards to a controller. I would honestly grap a 360 controller. They're not too expensive if you grab one off of Amazon or something and they're pretty much the standard when it comes to PC gaming so they're the most commonly supported controller. Heck, a lot of times they're the only supported one.

 

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