{"id":12600,"date":"2014-10-23T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:51:32","slug":"the-silly-female-fighters-of-arcana-heart-3-love-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/the-silly-female-fighters-of-arcana-heart-3-love-max\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silly Female Fighters of Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ARCANAICON2\"<\/a>I just got done reviewing a game called Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!! It\u2019s a 2-D fighter featuring a cast of anime-styled female characters.\u00a0 A lot of times when I play a new fighting game, I like to write a blog about the characters in that game.\u00a0 At first I wasn\u2019t going to do that with this one, but once I played it, I discovered that there a quite a few neat characters in it, and I thought it would be fun to write a little blog about them after all.\u00a0 Keep in mind that I may miss secret characters and leave out details here and there.\u00a0 But I\u2019m just writing this as a fun, filler blog so you\u2019re just going to have to deal with my nonsense.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a look at the characters in this silly fighter.<\/p>\n

Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think she\u2019s supposed to be the main character. Fighting game main characters are usually pretty boring, and she\u2019s no exception.\u00a0\u00a0 She\u2019s just a generic anime schoolgirl.\u00a0 When she fights, giant, flashy hearts come out of her fists and such.\u00a0 Each character in the game is paired up with an Arcana, a magical being based on an element, material, or emotion.\u00a0 This character\u2019s Arcana element is \u2018love\u2019 and is supposed to look like an angel.<\/p>\n

Weiss<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s German for \u2018white.\u2019 One of the few things I remember from taking German in high school and college.\u00a0 She has mean-looking red eyes, though, and uses lots of sword attacks.\u00a0 Her Arcana is even a sword, which explains why she can materialize swords from her fists.<\/p>\n

Saki<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s another schoolgirl, and this one fights with electric attacks from her thunder Arcana. I promise the characters get more interesting, folks, just keep reading.<\/p>\n

Scharlachrot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah I\u2019d like to see anyone try and remember how to spell that name, much less pronounce it. She\u2019s an evil looking girl who reminds me of a Disgaea character.\u00a0 She uses a chain to attack.<\/p>\n

Petra<\/strong><\/p>\n

She wears a short, princess-like skirt and uses guns to attack. She reminds me of Devilot from many of Capcom\u2019s games.\u00a0 So yeah, Devilot with guns.<\/p>\n

Elsa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing interesting about this character, really. She wears a dress but has bad looking posture in her fighting stance.\u00a0 She uses a cross-shaped fencing style sword thing to attack.<\/p>\n

Clarice<\/strong><\/p>\n

She dresses like a nun, but I don\u2019t think she\u2019s on God\u2019s side since she has demon bat wings and her Arcana is associated with sin.<\/p>\n

Eko<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite characters. Eko is just a little girl, but she doesn\u2019t do any of the fighting.\u00a0 Instead, she has a child\u2019s drawing come to life, who carries Eko around like a baby, do all the work.\u00a0 In fact, one of the moves she has is to make the drawing turn his hand into a notebook, and then she draws on it and a little picture of a flower or house comes out and falls to the ground.\u00a0 Not sure what good that does, though.\u00a0 Her Arcana represents \u2018luck\u2019 which may explain why one of her attacks is throwing a big pair of dice around.<\/p>\n

Zenia<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s kind of a cool character. She uses a weird extendable fist sword thing as a weapon, looks pretty strong, and she\u2019s not an underage girl like a lot of the other characters are.\u00a0 She has a lot of ice attacks, and I read that her Arcana is a penguin.\u00a0 I was hoping it would be a cute little waddling penguin, which would be perfectly possible in this game.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a more mean-looking penguin and you hardly ever see it, so I was disappointed.<\/p>\n

Lieselotte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now this is one of the more creepy characters in this game. She\u2019s a little gothic girl who carries around a huge suitcase.\u00a0 But when she opens it, a disturbing-looking legless puppet pops out and comes to life and crawls around the screen.\u00a0 You can make it attack, or she has a shadow that can pop out and fight, too.\u00a0 I think her Arcana is even called a shadow.\u00a0 The puppet is just really weird.<\/p>\n

Dorothy<\/strong><\/p>\n

This little girl looks more like a boy and dresses like a magician. She uses giant cards to throw at the opponent, and even surfs on a card as her dash move.\u00a0 Her Arcana is Mirror which she uses to copy the opponent\u2019s moves and sends it back to them.<\/p>\n

Kamui<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another one of the few characters who isn\u2019t seemingly underage. She has a cool outfit and sword, and uses her Time Arcana to speed herself up and slow down and even temporarily stop her opponents.<\/p>\n

Konoha<\/strong><\/p>\n

A little girl who wears school gym clothes and uses ninja attacks and plant-based moves.<\/p>\n

Nazuna<\/strong><\/p>\n

She rides a white wolf and has a bird fly around her, so she reminds me of both Capcom\u2019s Okami and Nakoruru from Samurai Shodown.<\/p>\n

Akane<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing really unusual or special about this character, but she\u2019s one of my favorites because I like her attacks and fighting style in the game. And she doesn\u2019t seem annoyingly underage either.<\/p>\n

Mei-Fang<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of my favorite characters also because I like her fighting style and she\u2019s one of the few fighters who doesn\u2019t look underage. She\u2019s a well-endowed android lady who has a funny creator (also a woman) who rides around in a Segway that has the Ying-Yang symbol on the wheels.\u00a0 She uses a lot of fire attacks, so her Arcana is a fire wolf.<\/p>\n

Kira<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another one of my favorites. She\u2019s a little girl wearing a bathing suit, and her Arcana is a giant blob of water.\u00a0 She swims in the blob of water and the blob does all the fighting moves for her, growing muscular water arms to punch and throw and whatnot.<\/p>\n

Catherine<\/strong><\/p>\n

For some reason, she reminds me of a young Blue Mary from the Fatal Fury games. But the cool thing is that here, she pilots a giant robot that looks like something Dr. Robotnik would\u2019ve created!<\/p>\n

Angelia<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s just an angel girl with a halo. Naturally her Arcana represents light.<\/p>\n

Fiona<\/strong><\/p>\n

This girl wears a maid outfit and carries around a sword that\u2019s way too heavy for her.<\/p>\n

Yoriko<\/strong><\/p>\n

This unusual girl wears witch clothes, and carries around a staff with an ugly face on it. But the staff appears to have a life of its own, and she can\u2019t seem to control it.\u00a0 The staff looks like it drags her around and it does all the attacks and work while she makes annoying whiny sounds.\u00a0 She does have a funny throw move where the staff\u2019s head grows big, swallows the other player, and spits them out!<\/p>\n

Lilica<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s just a rollerblading girl but she has little bat wings. Her Arcana represents wind but looks like a whale for some reason.<\/p>\n

Maori<\/strong><\/p>\n

She dresses like a Japanese Shinto priestess, so she reminds me of Pocky from the Pocky and Rocky games.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And those are all the characters. I have to note a couple of non-playable characters, too.\u00a0 First, the last boss is just a giant metal robot statue come to life, and you defeat it by destroying a certain number of targets on it in the time limit, so that was a little different.\u00a0 Its name was Ragnarok or Fenrir I think.\u00a0 Also, there is a ditzy green haired reporter lady who tells about some of the actions going on in Story Mode, and she cracked me up, too.\u00a0 I wish she was playable.\u00a0 Anyway, let me know what you think of my list, and tell me if you have any favorite characters from this game.\u00a0 That\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got done reviewing a game called Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!! It\u2019s a 2-D fighter featuring a cast of anime-styled female characters.\u00a0 A lot of times when I play a new fighting game, I like to write a blog about the characters in that game.\u00a0 At first I wasn\u2019t going to do that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}