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Escaform (エクサフォーム) (1999, PSX)

Escaform (エクサフォーム) is tactical roleplaying game by Image Works. It was released by Bandai under their Emotion label. You control a varying party of characters, which start off with their escape from a research centre. The game uses 2D isometric perspective. One of the aspects of combat (which I only found out after making this video) is that you can save some of your action points (these are spent to perform any action) in order to generate EP. EP are needed to uses special abilities, e.g. magic-like attacks, and also function as additional hitpoints, as any hit will deplete your EP first before taking down health.

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Bandai Fumina Bust ver.1 Review/Preview

Ranger_Chris61

Sticking with figures this week and looking at another one of Bandai's Figurerise bust kits with the first version of their Fumina Bust.

3 months ago

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1/12 Bandai R4-M9 Review/Preview

Ranger_Chris61

Looking at another Star Wars kit again this week, with Bandai's 1/12th scale R4-M9 kit.

3 months, 1 week ago

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Bandai Dragonball Kid Chichi S.H. Figuarts unboxing

Jellydinosaur

Figuarts is doing a great job on their Dragonball figures. Kid Chichi is my fourth figure from this line and like the rest the figure looks accurate and has the articulation you would expect from S.H. Figuarts. The helmet fits nearly seamlessly together and the helmet fin snaps in easily and stays in.

The hair can be removed from the helmet for some reason. I question the reasoning because there are huge holes in the hair where the helmet attaches to the front and back of the hair. It seems like the hair could have been properly sculpted and the helmet could have still been a removable shell while also being displayable without huge holes in the hair.

The fin action is my biggest disappointment with this figure. The method of clamping the fin to the stand to make it appear as though chichi is throwing it is extremely lame. It looks dumb and this effect could have certainly been achieved better with some special hand parts or a single clear post part.

Speaking of hands the nubs that attach the hand at the wrist are tiny. As soon as I saw them I was worried about them not taking the wear of swapping out hands well. I did not notice any stress marks and they have not broken on me but it is a concern that I have with this figure.

That all being said I am still very pleased with this figure and I expect to have her on display prominently. As you can see this item was purchased from Big Bad Toy Store. The box was a bit beat up but the packaging kept the figure safe from FedEx. BBTS bubble wrap sometimes looks more expensive and of higher quality than some of the cheaper items I have purchased from them.

I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Bandai Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) Review/Preview

Ranger_Chris61

Switching gears back to figure kits again this week. We will be looking at one of Bandai's Fate/Grand Order Petitris kits of Jeanne d'Arc (Alter).

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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1/5000 Bandai Imperial Star Destroyer Review/Preview

Ranger_Chris61

Looking at another very big boxed kit this week. This time we have Bandai's new 1/5000th scale Imperial Star Destroyer kit in the limited release lighting edition.

3 months, 3 weeks ago