Well spring break was last week and surprisingly I did not watch a second of anime or read a single word of a manga though when I got back to school I ended up finishing Dive in the Vampire bund which is so short it doesn't warrant a review so it receives an 8/10, seeing as its a manga I can't judge it on normal standards so it is just judged on visuals, story, and personal enjoyment. Moving on from Dance in the Vampire Bund which will be done in another review once I finish the series (one more omnibus to go, already skipped ahead to the new series). I also started up Black Bullet again and will go through that in the next few days.
Now how did I spend my spring break I hear the uninterested crickets in the crowd chirp, well I spent it as any normal nerd would and spent the whole time playing games while talking with friends, save for a day when I toured a mall while bored and a day I went hiking because of the partial hippy I am. The games I played were WoW, OSU!, Minecraft Tekkit, and lastly Warframe. There were other games but these were the main ones. I spent the first half of break playing WoW, leveling a death knight and later a pandaren monk. Interspersed between leveling was me tending to my home in tekkit, making an automatic coal generator with a condenser, setting up hundreds of power flowers, setting up a shop, losing said shop 3 times, being raided, making a new base, etc. Also tossed in there was OSU! which is a rhythm based game for those who don't know, it is like guitar hero but with circles and lines.... wait that guitar hero, well instead of them coming down at you they appear all over the screen and go to the rhythm of the song. So that was my week up until Wednesday.
Wednesday was the day that I decided to play Warframe, I had the game downloaded for probably 6 months and had never touched it. Boy was I missing out, the game is loads of fun, it is like if destiny was actually good, I know amazing concept. The game came out in 2013 and is amazing, you are a tenno and you have a warframe which is essentially a body of armor, this armor has different abilities and thus you as a tenno can play whatever class you choose. If you want to be stealthy make the loki warframe, if you want to be tanky make the rhino warframe, etc. These warframes are made in the foundry with blueprints you find while playing the game, these aren't just given to you though, you have to work for them, which means playing the game a bunch. You have to find a total of 4 unique blueprints for each warframe and then you have to find all the ingredients, so it takes a bit. The game goes on a 3 weapon loadout system with you taking a primary, a secondary, and a melee. Now I spent 98% of my time meleeing because it is badass, I get to run, jump, parkour, and slice/mash my way through people while blocking like a Jedi master. You feel amazing, and the game has so much more, there are stealth missions, slaughter type missions, kidnapping missions, and assassination missions on top of other objective mission like mobile defense, defense, and survival (note the previous titles are not the real titles but a simplified layman's term for them). The game is exceedingly fun, hell it even has space combat with the archwings as well as pets and little sentinel companions that do more than talk to you (they are meant for fighting and don't talk like dinkle bot from destiny). The game is so much fun, the last mechanic I will mention is the Clan mechanic which is robust and adds more layers to this amazing cheesecake, the clan mechanic is like having an entire living population. You have a clan dojo which people can access if they make the key, it is a place where you construct a safe house if you may and make it as nice as you want with as many commodities as you want. You can have tons of research facilities which allow you to make a bunch of items only clans can make, one of which is a solar rail which allows people to access dark sectors around planets, the only negative being that you must pay a tax to use this rail which is a portion of all the loot you get in your stay at that dark sector. You can deploy spectres which are AI to defend your rail, as well as contract other people to defend it from rival clans who can start a war by deploying their rail in the sector. There is so much to the player economy and behaviors it leaves me awestruck. I one time needed polymer bundles on a brand new character and I was playing a mission on mercury to get it, when I told a dude why I was there he took me to neptune and did 20 waves of defense so I could get all the polymer bundles a man could ask for. The players are very nice and helped me when I had an issue. Now all that I have just covered is only scratching the surface of this game so I suggest you play it for yourself to see if you like it, it is free on steam and their website.
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