#Demons Crest

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Immerse yourself in the atmospheric GamePlay of this action-packed platformer video game adventure! 👹🎮

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List of Video Games Turning 30 Years Old in 2024

Aggressors of Dark Kombat (what if Mortal Kombat was made by the KoF devs?)

Alone in the Dark 2

Art of Fighting 2

Beneath a Steel Sky (a highly influential point and click adventure game from the same team that would go on to make Broken Sword)

Blackthorne (a 2D platformer made by Blizzard)

Breath of Fire (the 1st one)

Bubsy 2

Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales

Bust-a-Move (known as "Puzzle Bobble" in Japan)

Castlevania: Bloodlines

Contra: Hard Corps (the first game in the series to have multiple endings)

Cosmology of Kyoto

The Death and Return of Superman (a side scrolling beat 'em up made by Blizzard)

Demon's Crest

Donkey Kong (the Game boy version of the arcade original)

Donkey Kong Country

Doom II: Hell on Earth

Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (as opposed to a beat ‘em up like the other four games were, this one was a fighting game)

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom

Dynamite Headdy

Earthworm Jim (with music from Tommy Tallarico. His mother is very proud.)

Ecco: The Tides of Time

The Elder Scrolls Arena (the very 1st one)

Final Fantasy VI

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (the 3rd one)

Ghoul Patrol (the sequel to "Zombies Ate My Neighbors")

Heretic

The Horde (a hybrid action/strategy game made by Toys for Bob, who are known nowadays for making Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time)

Illusion of Gaia

Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures

Killer Instinct

The King of Fighters '94

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

Live a Live (the original version, which went unreleased in North America. We wouldn’t get this game until the HD-2D remake 28 years later)

Majin Tensei (a strategy spin-off of the greater Shin Megami Tensei franchise)

Marathon (one of the earliest games made by Bungie)

Mega Man 6

Mega Man Soccer

Mega Man V (on the Game Boy)

Mega Man X

Mortal Kombat II

The Need for Speed (the very 1st one)

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (as an empath, seeing Pac-Man in pain makes me feel sick)

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Pocky & Rocky 2

Policenauts (a visual novel and one of the earlier works from Hideo Kojima)

Rise of the Robots (often considered one of the worst fighting games ever made)

Robotrek

Samurai Shodown II

Shadowrun (the Sega Genesis version)

Shaq Fu (also often considered one of the worst fighting games ever made)

Shin Megami Tensei II (which, to this day, has never been officially released outside of Japan)

Shin Megami Tensei If... (also never officially released outside of Japan)

Shining Force II

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (just in time for the third movie)

Sparkster

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

Streets of Rage 3

Super Adventure Island II

Super Metroid

Super Punch-Out!!

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (this release saw the first playable appearances of T. Hawk, Fei Long, Dee Jay, and Cammy)

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (saw the series’ first secret character, Akuma)

System Shock (a remake came out very recently. It's quite good!)

Ultima VIII: Pagan

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (the very 1st one)

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

X-COM: UFO Defense (the 1st game in the series)

Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (one of the last first-party releases for the NES)

Zool 2

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TFW all of your crests and credit get stolen and your banned from hell cause of some winged skeletor looking dude

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Demons’ Crest 1

Author: Reki Kawahara (Author of Sword Art Online)

Illustrator: Yukiko Horiguchi

Label: Dengeki Bunko

Release Date: 10 November 2022

My Score: 4/5

There’s a new amusement park being developed that utilises capsule units and a technology called “Crest” in order to thrust players into a full dive VRMMORPG experience. When the class 6-1 are chosen as testers for the new game “Actual Magic”, they are ecstatic and the game is everything that they dreamed. But class member Yuuma wakes up in his capsule with his last memory being falling into darkness at the end of the beta test. He finds his classmate Sumika whom he has a crush on but something’s wrong. Some kind of fluid is dripping from her and she’s holding a dismembered hand. He’s saved by his twin sister Sawa who used magic from the game to attack Sumika. Furthermore, Sawa looks odd: instead of wearing the school uniform, she’s wearing a red bodysuit, horns have appeared on her head, and bat wings are growing out of her back. She tells Yuuma that this is the real world and that the game world and the real world have merged together. Yuuma and Sawa, together with their friend Konken, must find out what happened and escape this situation.

The main characters for this volume are Yuuma, Sawa, and Konken. Through their crests, they’re able to “change their classes” to gain the skills and stats that they had in Actual Magic. Yuuma is a beast tamer, Sawa is a magician, and Konken is a knight. The way that the beast taming magic was done was pretty interesting with the monsters that Yuuma captures being turned into cards and having their own unique skills and stats. There’s also Nagi, a healer and their friend. She’s revealed to be missing towards the start of the volume. Her capsule was empty when they opened it using the emergency lever which is strange because you can only use that lever once so it should have been impossible for someone to pull it and then close the door and put the lever back to the way it was. So searching for her is another primary goal for the cast. The rest of the class are also fairly relevant. There’s a class register with all of the class members names and a brief description of that at the start and end of the book which was a good way of giving them all some character, even if they have little screen time.

As you’d expect from Kawahara, this was a really interesting first volume with a lot of promise. I loved the mystery aspect and I’m really curious to find out what’s going on. In particular, there’s a lot of mystery surrounding Sawa. Unlike the others, when she changed classes, her body underwent an obvious transformation as well and how did she even know that she could access Actual Magic in the first place? It’s clear that she’s not telling Yuuma something but it’s not clear what or why. My personal theory is time travel but there’s not much evidence to support that here. Actually, something that could be a clue is the class register: the only descripter for Sawa is that she’s Yuuma’s twin. This could be nothing or it could be something but I want to find out.

The action is exciting, as you would expect from Kawahara, and the game systerm is interesting. The characters are fairly likable and I’m invested in their survival, particularly Konken’s. Yuuma and Sawa sometimes act in a calculated way that disregards other people’s needs for their own survival and it seems like they are looking at this more from the perspective of a game rather than real life which could lead to some interesting developments later on. All of the characters are around 11 years old so they’re younger than the typical light novel characters but they aren’t written all that differently than the teenagers that Kawahara usually writes. They might be a bit more naive and immature but I think Kawahara could have done more with that to make them stand out amongst his other protagonists.

All in all, I thought this was a great start to a series that holds a lot of promise so now I just have to hope that Kawahara is able to balance this series on top of his already intimidating workload. Regardless, I shall patiently await the next volume.

Adaptation Notes:

This series was adapted into a webtoon with art by Tomoe. Actually, the reason why this series came out when it did was because the publishers wanted to turn it into a webtoon. Kawahara says in the afterword that he wasn’t planning on publishing this one until he had finished at least one of his ongoing series but this is what ended up happening.

The first chapter is available as a sample on the HykeComic website so that’s the only chapter I’ve read but there are plenty of differences already. First off, the series opens with the gang inside Actual Magic during the beta test while the novel opens in media res with Yuuma waking up in the pod before later having a flashback showing the gang in AM. The webtoon shows the scene of the class learning that they are going to be beta testers for the game whereas, in the novel, this is only shown in the colour illustrations at the start rather than it being an actual scene. In the webtoon, Yuuma takes Muku on a quest to show off his ability but in the novel, the gang takes on the floor boss in the final half hour or so that they’re in the game because Konken made a bet with some other students about who could defeat it first. It seems like this might be included in the second chapter? I’m not sure but it’s interesting that the webtoon is spending more time inside Actual Magic and I’d be interested in reading more to see how else it diverges from the light novel. The art is solid too so no complaints there.

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Apparently out there in the world there is a Firebrand "Red Arremer" Gargoyle's Quest plushie and I desperately want it. I've been searching and I can't find anything.

References

https://x.com/VGPlushDaily/status/1748880117969846604

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Yen Press Starts Off 2024 with New Licenses

Yen Press Starts Off 2024 with New Licenses #manga #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Yen Press has announced nine new titles joining its June 2024 lineup, including seven manga (A Sinner of the Deep Sea; Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra; Sister and Giant: A Young Lady Is Reborn in Another World; Penguin Highway; Senpai, This Can’t Be Love!; Sword Art Online: Kiss & Fly; This Monster Wants to Eat Me), one novel (Demons’ Crest), and one artbook (Visions 2023__Illustrators Book). A…

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Demon's Crest Pt. 1 [Firebrand's Not Good At Dogfighting]

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DOG OMENS

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Absolutely no one:

Me:

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Dimidue comm I made for @murdertramp25 this month, featuring demonic beast!dedue...

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Is a date with your dream man worth it if you might get eaten??

A redraw of a drawing from two years ago

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- Gladiolus Harry -

[Gladiolus; strength, faithfulness, moral integrity, remembrance]

On his chest pinned a Malfoy family crest which was given to serve as a best wish charm to his long journey, to ensure he’ll safely return to the warm embrace of his love one