Hope you get it man - the game is wickedly fun,

You get that Godtracks soundtrack CD included aswell, I thought it was something they were selling on the side.

I havent got anything to do this weekend - this game is getting CANED!

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Cool vid Saur, I did that exact same thing with the three God Reel attacks as soon as they came for me. XD I used the rapid punches into clothelines attack as they were doing the Giant Swing though...DEAD! XD

Started to play through the main game again last night and came up against the...Devil Hand. This fight was HARD, but I found a nice skank and easy way to destroy him. XD

Its got this part where the Devil Hand guy comes at you with the rapid punches or Kicks, but what you can then do is start rapidly pressing O and you end up punching or kicking him at the same time. It looks so ROUGH, proper FOTNS stylee...winner is decided on the final hit. xD

Oh...and wait till you see the new Demons that are unleashed from standard bad guys. :jawdrop: ...nothing that a 3 God Reel Attack and 2 God Hand meters didnt sort out. XD

Gonna cain through the game tonight, i have a few issues with the game but they are minor. [spoiler]Let me know how you get on against the 3 boss characters fighting at the same time. [/spoiler]

I have been taught well.

http://www.opensenses.com/media/godhand/godhand03.avi

Well... ok... I'm just proving a point.

I'd best apply some of these techniques, outside level 1 I suppose.

The rest of the game won't know what hit it. (hint, it smells of cabbage)

Nice one Jib. I would make a vid too, but its a pain in the ass hooking up my ps2 to my pc. Ill do one once ive got the game finished and on my 2nd playthrough.

Still using my custom punch combos and leg sweep, It just works to well, the high speed attacks ive given Jean make him dish out plenty of punishment when I need it, especially after a stun.

The one thing that really lets the game down, is the RELIANCE on making money from the Casino, it is total ass. I havnt upgraded in a full stage now (one Stage is broken up into about 10-20 sections...not short by a long shot.) because I cant be arsed sitting at the slot machine hoping 777 comes up, and running back to save before going back up and farming more gold. I honestly dont want to know the amount of time ive wasted there, but ive managed to save 80,000 gold and Im gonna try and go into the high stakes room at the top.

The worst thing is, when you do finish the game, I heard all your CASH AND SKILLZ are reset. FUCK SAKE! Its not all that bad, as you can save quite a bit of cash in the levels, but you just wont get your choice of God Reel attacks soon. That said, you cant use them till you get enough cash to buy a God Reel dot, so it kinda evens out...i guess. ;/ Also, I am kinda regretting gettin the JPN version as I keep messing up selecting the God Reel attack I want at times. X|

Anyway, thats enough moaning from me, but I just had to say it!

Loving the characters in this game, and some of the special effects such as the God Hand supers and exploding demons (reminded me of the blood explosion in Killer 7) are awesome. The boss characters are genius...check this Guitar Zero. XD and his side kick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93qMRclG1fQ

at his run up to exit...and then his ONE MAN BAND side kick! adnsfdnknasbdjkbasdhjfty! "R-R-R-R-REPRESENT!" WTF!? XD

Oh and also, Elvis is just TOO good a character to be just a boss in this game. Capcom need to give him his own one! This is a REALLY big spoiler, so dont watch the cutscene below. The stage you fight Elvis here looks really nice and there are alot of nice lighting, explosion and flame effects. (just a cutscene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmOQGTdjGbg

"SAY HELLO TO VIEWTIFUL ELVIS....HENSHIN!"

As far as scrolling beat-em ups and other action games go, God Hand is easily one of the most intense games in the "genre" (totally different, but hey, pigeon hole ftw) ive played. Easily up there with Viewtiful Joe and DMC3, and I havnt even unlocked Hard mode yet :jawdrop:. Bashing your way through will get you no where at all. With multiple enemies on screen you have to either go all out and dodge every attack like no tommorow, or decide to split enemies off and use them against eachother. Meaning that you can either slowly go through them one by one, or position them in a way that when you knock one dude flying, it hits and damages the surrounding bad guys leaving you enough time to run up and catch them on the floor for some more beats.

I reckon I am on the last leg of finishing the game off on Normal, been taking my time and taking breaks from playing it because at times it gets TOO much and you got to take a breather. XD

LOL

Oh man, just done the maddest gauntlet in the Egyptian stage. 3, 5, 7 bad guys teleport in after the previous set has been beaten. All of them hard dudes and bitches with loads of health unless you stun them, and some of them with hammers and swords. :wacko:

Just about get through that after a few retries and 1337 skillz. ;p THEN, remember that Samurai dude I was talking about who comes after you randomly through the cloud door? Well I met his master as a boss! Cool music comes on, the door slowly appears with clouds and a dragon etched into the door. An old wise Samurai resembling Pai Mai (*Singho Strokes Beard) appears from the darkness... :ph34r:

He then takes a step forward and trips over the door step. :xd: :xd: :xd:

Stopped playing it after I hit the next gauntlet of bad guys, my brain was in meltdown a few hours ago and I am still recovering. x|

Glad you're getting well into it man -

I'm breaking it down into little chunks with loads of saves. The system has finally clicked and I'm FINALLY able to deal with Level Die - it's all down to scoring Critical Hits to knock enemies down, I usually do this by using the front-evade into something fast to stop one strike when they do into a flurry attack. Once knocked-down or after side-stepping a move with heavy delay frames I use the Tension Building Punch a lot more now - being able to go activate the Godhand so frequently makes this punch VERY important for me to get through!

I cant agree at all about what you said about the Casino - I've not touched it once yet and have earned over 70000 points per stage so far (I have more money than I need already). If you want lots of money - dont use Continues and make decent kills on Level Die.

I'm working on the 3 Divas - that fight is incredible! I can perfect the first two of them but the woman ALWAYS manages to bang me up a bit! Loving that Jojo style Godfist where Jean erases all space between him and a target (even if they're across town) then SMACK! That's just like The Hand from Jojo series 4!

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Have to say im loving this, i thought i was getting a bit bored of gaming then i started this up on Saturday and been playing it all weekend.

The comedy is so random its brilliant, and the combat is great, i kept restarting the game when i was first playing, just to tryout new bits i had figured out

One thing i would have preffered would have been for the camera to be a bit further out, but thats mostly as im crap with the radar.

Jean will auto-lock onto the nearest target when you evade forwards or side to side (like you can actually get Jean to turn round almost 180 degrees WHILE evading), TBH the radar isnt actually useful while fighting as you know full well what's going to happen next due to the audio cues.

You dont have to be facing an enemy to be safe during evade, plus having your back turned opens the option for Counters against some enemies.

Just wait till it becomes second nature - you'll swear by this system!

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I wish I didnt have to work!!!

Proper trailing behind on this game, manz are already banging over Hard Mode on Level Die!

You MUST watch these, the technique is SICK! (blatantly already teefed the Tension Punch method )

Godhand vs Devil Shannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex_ZO6mXBnM

Godhand vs Devil Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eFs8Sv-HzI

Arena Battle 51 - no damage clear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjHt0TByR_0

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Devil Shannon is such an awesome boss to fight, because you can totally just stay right on her, and there is no need to even use the L.Analog to position yourself because her moves can be seen coming from a mile off and all you need is attack and evade. Rapid combo to one side,*leg stomp* evade, rapid combo to other side of face,*headbutt* evade, rapid combos to other side of face again *duck* carry on with rapid combos and then unleash the god hand till she gets out of stun and then back into stun as your meter runs out. QTE and punch her in the gob. \o/

Also, believe that Tension Meter trick is stolen! XD Thats obscene! XD I used that punch as one of my very first bought items, but swapped it back over to the standard as it never registered on day 1 that every attack animation can be cancelled so you dont have to wait for the overly long animation to end on that move, and the fact that it gives as speedy meter like Chuns B+HP. XD

Just got Okami yesterday, gonna give God Hand a rest for a day or two...after being so close to getting through this one section I just didnt have it in me to continue. XD Too intense. \o/

Considering on getting the US version of this later on, because unless someone FAQS all the god reels, I will have no idea which is which. Did a stupid one and and accidently changed all the yellow god reel attacks without knmowing. :S Ive got a few Blue Reels which I know which are which, but the yellow ones...I need to go into the training ground and go through them all on the training dummy.

God Tracks 2, 9, 17 and 19 are being rinsed here.

This guy is a genius and a legend and I need to bite EVERYTHING he's doing!

Arena 47 - no damage clear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7j1eaN23ik

Arena 47 - no damage clear part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR38_UIeDwc

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CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP! - pffhear my l33t biting skillz!!1 XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54HzUn7n6g

I've ripped-off everything that geezer does, why? Cos it WORKS baby!
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looking tasty.

I'll have to pause that vid to get the name of that god reel item.

then I'll have to buy it... and use it... over and over and over and over and over

I have actually ventured off level 1, stage 1... I'm still not happy with my skillz, but I have added a nice finish to the [] combo... its a double twist 4 and then 4 thing in one hit, real classy like.

I always have that double move equipped aswell }:) -

One thing I have found though is that upgrading the initial combo to increase the number of slots available, it's not helping! I find if you have a really good shorter combo (4 windows max) it's better as it's quicker to reset it back to the start.

That Godmove is called Piyohand >Kana > 'ぴよハンド'

You get it on Stage 2 - you get to a bit (near the entrance of the final section before the 3 Divas) where you open up a section of the floor and you see two women stepping on someone, save that girl and she gives you the move.
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Didnt bother going to work today - been playing Godhand! ^^

I'm starting to get used to Level Die now, still get overwhelmed when it's a group of enemies though, need to work on either keeping track on them - or just making sure they dont bunch up.

Got a couple more boss vids done - cant wait to get started on the Viewtiful Joe spoofs! XD

3 Divas -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrrhw_O0_ic

Maksed Gorilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghLAjepajs
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You should use Google video so I can view your skills at work

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"And I'm Barry Hercules, Doc"

How dare they block YouTube? - That's a basic human right! Make noise and bang buttons man - dont have it! XD
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October the 10th for the US version, so not long to wait now. Should have got the Japanese release shouldn't I. I don't even remember where I ordered it from it's been so long .

Hopefully I should have Prime finished by then, which will leave plenty of time to build up some God Hand skills.
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Any news on a UK version - I know, I'm scum!

30th of March '07 I think Waaaaaay too long to wait...

Damn, why do they do it? I know there hasn't been a huge amount of internet buzz over this title (despite Saur's (sorry I mean Alexander's) best efforts) but will anybody even remember by end of March 2007?

Capcom hate me!

i read the thread over at rllmuk (which I never read, it was in our stats as a referer) anyways, that contains some utter comedy.

If I wasn't so restrained I'd ban them from the Internet.

I proper cannot stand any game forum apart from this one. It must be really disheartening for developers with way the gaming community refuse to grasp anything they come out with that requires a little Heroness.

If any of you manz go to any other forums please post links to the stuff I'm doing.

Them peope drive me up the wall, I cant even check forums for news without feeling to go on a destructive rampage, so I stay well away!
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Please go to the ntsc-uk wii thread in the headlines forum, you'll wet yourself, at some of the statements.

Btw the day people like the_dude come to open senses is the day i'll retire

the_dude is one of the reasons I just cant deal with that forum, I'd get banned if I posted there again - manz wouldnt know what hit them. People like that are so sad, they appreciate fuck-all about gaming yet spend ALL DAY going on and on about it on the internet!
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Hey I was just posting up in there o_O

The other day Venom got driven out of his own Impressions thread. Couldn't believe it.

I like venom's posts.... I mean he's as hardcore as Saur

Take a look at this old skool post:
http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread.php?t=25765&highlight=gigawing

I had a run in with him (the_dude) a few months back over something stupid. He's like sidez, but without any good bits

Saur Where possible I try to throw a lifeline to the good peeps who are showing genuine interest on other forums and post links to your stuff. Now you're putting some stuff out on Youtube it should be easier as opensenses is basically banned as an entity from ntsc-uk. You can't post links or any reference to this site even if it's 100% in context. It all goes back to a falling out over one of the earliest threads that we refused to moderate (one of the founding principles of this site).

I believe the good chaps over at greenhillzone suffer a similar fate.

Still it's not a popularity contest and the reason I love this place so much is because it's made up of the people I want to talk to about games: people who I respect and you can't beat that even if you have a thousand 'the-dudes'

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Go to NTSC-UK and check my profile they've manually edited my profile to remove the homepage link to here Someone even left a cheeky message saying "bored with removing this" or something.

bumbacluts

I wonder if I can leave a manual sig at the end of my posts saying opensenses /cheeky

Btw I dont think it's an us and them thing... I'm sure we can live in perfect harmony.

Hmm maybe. I'm not too sure. The crux of it is we didn't moderate one of our earliest threads which contained a lot of anger and biterness towards JohnB. I think we would have to fix that and post an apology before any reconcilliation occured and that simply isn't going to happen, not through any malice on our part, but because of our no moderation stance. Mercifully Charlesr and I are old enough and wise enough not to let this get in the way of our eight year friendship .

I presume JonhB is the person who added opensenses to the word filter on the forum so ********* replace the string.

although their Reg. Expressions aren't powerful enough to keep up with my random chars in the way of string order (just this once for personal tastless humour).

Just peeped that - genius !!!!1!!

Aaaaaaaand Edited!

Nice one bruvski - dont let this game slip! It's not one of them games you play through the story and leave it, it's like a beat em up; you can take it WAY further past what you initially think is high-level.

Venom is PROPER safe man! I still keep in contact with him via email and I hooked up with him a couple times in Tokyo. That's how I want to be living - he's SET, I dont understand why he still posts there, what's the point? He's totally in his element where he is regarding gaming and works for a major developer - it's pure charity what he writes for them plebs and he dont get appreciated.

Thanks a lot for the pimpage Madbury - what I'm hoping is that I can at least show them these games WORK and are proper fun!
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Its worth pointing out, that bitterness was not posted by anyone involved in running this site, just people registering and posting. There is nothing for us to apologise for, and no point it deleting or removing those posts - its not our business.

Ay yeah, sorry that wasn't clear from my fuzzy post.

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I never realised he was in the games industry, shame his posts aren't being valued over there. I did enjoy his translations very useful section that ntsc-uk have created.

Hopefully through the grape vine he'll hear about this site, as his insight would be very welcomed here.

Chalk me up as another former ntsc-uker who had enough of all the moaning. I'm more of the postive minded type and listening to people still moan they can't get over the dreamcast's death after 6 years when it took me 6 months to get of the death of my mother makes you want to leave fairly quickly and lose faith in humanity in the process. For me ntsc-uk now is just gamefaqs with good grammer. I'm a action, shmup and RPG gamer for those that didn't know me from ntsc and i'm 27 and live in Ipswich.

Anyway am really looking forward to the US release of god hand next week just want to finish off okami before it get s here.

Welcome -

Remember you've got Final Fantasy 12 in English now aswell! I spent well over 200 hours on the Japanese version - cant recommend it highly enough, might even play through the English version too (I can skip the dodgy voice acting!)

Far too many good games all coming out at once - the new Jojo game is out in a couple of weeks too O_o

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Yep really looking forward to it as well. I'm currently playing VP2: Silmeria and have Tale of the Abyss and SMT: Devil Summoner next week plus the DS RPGs next month really busy time for us RPG fans. Then Godhand as well need more free time.

Is that canned laughter I hear on those videos? ^_^

Yea man there's loads of it and it's class! XD

When the game gets too hard - you can get on your knees and beg for it to be turned down. The audience (and enemies) start creasing up when you do that, or kick someone in the sweets, or if something lands on your head etc - the game is pure comedy.

A quick heads up; US version ships today.

Wicked, I'd forgotten about that. I had a quick bash on the Japanese version when Cacky came over last week. Brilliant stuff, I know I'm going to love this game to bits.

I was a bit concerned over the evade being on the right analogue stick, but I need not have worried as the controls are superb, I was evading like a legend within minutes and started to dish out some pain

I'll probably trawl through this thread to pick up some tips when it finally plops through my letterbox.

I really haven't a clue how to get people to fight in the arena between stages...

Anyone know also, what those red/black angels are for? I can't say I've successfully pwned the amount of dudes in that area... (not that I really tried)

Speak to the ladies in the booths - one of them starts a training match and the other lets you access the Arena Menu. There are 50 fights - and then you unlock fight 51 after you complete the rest.

These are for challenges/bonus stages within the stages themselves, right option is to decline the challenge - left is mochiron/ofcourse.
You get MONEY for doing these challenges, the most important thing if you want to be rich is to not use continues and beat lots of enemies in Level-Die but the challenges (both stage and arena) are good little earners.

Did another little vid here hopefully showing technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PASyzxLprA

I've gone from Level-Die making me want to cry to not being able to play anything else! The difference is that on Die - the enemies are not affected by move properties UNLESS it's a counter-hit. You have to either anticipate the Guard Crush or interrupt an attack with one of yours causing the counter property for the first hit. On all modes the enemies throw a sequence of cues - from the audio cues to let you know about an on-coming attack, to little visual cues; like for example if an enemy jumps you must backflip because the next hit will be mid.

Totally changed Jean's setup now - he's ridiculously powerful but I have to re-learn everything again! XD

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I am gonna try and give Jean this custom attack string...

xD

I know all those moves are in there! ...I have been watching that for hours, and im still cracking up. >_<;;;

Pwned.

Didnt something like that used to happen in Zelda?

I need to lose the Tension Punch while on regular stages - but when faced with AAAALL those moves and I have the freedom to assign them to any slot I want, my mind cant handle it!

My Jean doesnt use physical force - it's pure willpower!

I know this new setup I've got is sick - but I need to train up. I might just spend a while smacking up that training dummy tonight.
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GAH! NOOOOoooooooo

Ballsacks.

Should of had this finished AGES ago...but spent most of my time playing through the challenge mode and against that Mokujin-a-like when I had a free moment.

So I sat down for the first time in over a week to play God Hand's storymode...and JEEBUS...just done 3 gauntlets in a row with non stop bad guys and stress! (Normal Difficulty)

(I had also managed to mess up my attack string and God Reels...took so long to find the ones I wanted again...so that didnt help having to trial and error all the moves. Damn...knew I should of waited for the US version )

The first gauntlet of bad guys was alright, but it was still tough. 3, 4, 5 groups of baddies spawning once one group is defeated, all with their own levels of difficulty to beat. Axe Women Punks, Knive throwers, Fat Dudes a whole assortment. Got them out the way then had to deal with opening a demon door with 3 heads on it. This stage has to be one of the hardest I have come across in the whole game so far...thinking about it again is making me ill. :wacko:

Finally did that with some strategic running away, and using the 3 weapons available in that stage and taking my time and spacing out the bad guys xD THEN...it was boss time. Why did I waste my God Reels on the level before!!!?

Anyway...BUZZ BUZZ.

THE FLY

This boss was a pure **** of epic proportions. I must of been trying to beat him for 2 hours! Boss wise he was standard affair, but I kept getting caught out by his 2nd form against a move I was wrongly inputting the wrong dodge.

The fact that the pots dotted around the level gave me hardly any help in the form of God Reel cards and decent energy...made these 2 hours a bit more stressfull then they should of been.

All I am saying is...thank god for the "Tension Bar Scam", cos without it, this boss would of been even more of a bastard! The first form wasnt even that hard, it was sometimes I would get caught out by one of his single strike attacks with his Right leg crashing from above. You can UP DODGE all his strikes, pukes and overhead stomp but sometimes his sigular attack would just catch me even though I believe I dodged at the right moment. The worst thing is trying not to get hit against this boss was the first time in the game where I would instantly shoot up to Level Die in about a minute. The dodges combined with the excessive beatings just sends the meter shooting up fast, and the damage you take also increases. So he just got more and more tougher. I just had to let him kill me to get the damn level down after a while for my next attempt, but it would soon shoot back up again anyway. o_O

Anyway, as I only had one God Reel, I had to sit down and experiment through all my Japanese God Reel attacks to find a decent one (The "Get over here" grab move into stun punch to help me against the 2nd form so I could get 2 sets of combos in without having to dodge). I ended up getting the first form in an infinite God Hand release loop where he would get dizzy...I would build my God Hand Meter again with 1 punch then *Cancel* it into the throw command, then running back up to him dodging a few more times and hitting him again with a charge punch cancel...activating God Hand...repeat. The 2nd form I eventually figured that the move where his arms go all pink was avoidable by UP DODGE as well...man I felt stupid. It is so fast and strong that I never caught on to it before, I kept trying to backflip out of it

I kicked the his ass hard after figuring that out on my next go though.

I just couldnt carry on playing after this ordeal...I am actually physically TIRED after this gaming session. :lol URGHHHH...I feel great for getting past it though, but a bit annoyed that I didnt figure out the dodge for the move that continually kept killing me...was the same for all of the moves...dunno why I thought it would be any different against him! ;\/

I have saved these final set of levels on my memory card, and I am gonna try and capture some footage to show how rediculous the difficulty shoots up when you start playing too good. ;\/

Oh, and apparently I am not Alexander for the 999999999999999th time...

Thats the the image of what the US box art should of been from an online advert. xD