MH4U: The Star Knight Blademaster Armor!

There are a few full armor sets in the whole Monster Hunter franchise that fascinate me and leave me in awe, a simple example of one of my all time favorite full armor set is the Golden Shin armor from MHFU, but in MH4U comes one of the most wanted full armor set of the game, the Star Knight armor!

As you know, I'm a fan of armor mixing which gets me the specific skills that I want but sometimes it just doesn't look good after you combine all the pieces and it kind of bugs me in a little way too.

But this armor set is just plain cool and fancy! The Star Knight armor doesn't just look good but the skill and the amount of slots it has is just absurd! Just look at it!

Star Knight Helm - OOO 

Star Knight Mail - O

Star Knight Vambraces - OOO

Star Knight Coil - O

Star Knight Greaves - OOO

Look at all those empty slots, 17 in total, you can gem in pretty much any skill you want. The innate skills it has are also good having Challenger +2, Rodeo God (A great skill for those that love to mount) and Steady Hand which is a compound skill of Razor Sharp and Mind's Eye! 

The armor even has 4 point towards Handicraft so getting that Sharpness +1 is easy if you've got the right talisman for it, or you could just gem in two Handicraft +3 jewels which is much easier if you don't have a good handicraft charm for the time being.

It not only looks good but since all the armor pieces are rarity 10, the maximum defense it has is through the roof! The initial defense is 500 but if you bump it up to the maximum limit it gets up to 755 without armor talons/charm!

Some of you may be thinking that "The defense may be high but I'm guessing that the elemental resistance it has isn't as good!" well surprise, surprise! The armor has +5 resistance to ALL the elements, yep, it's just that good my fellow hunter. 

I don't mind having to look like other players if we're wearing this armor set, I'll just think that we're part of the Star Knight army and we're ready to mow down monsters with our elegant but brutal armor set.

Plus we all have different armor skills that we want to work with this set. I, for one, will use this for my CB which mainly focuses on offensive moves. These are my skills:

Steady Hand

Sharpness +1

Challenger +2

Weakness Exploit

Rodeo God

Artillery Novice

Come on man, just look at those skills! It's just one of many variations that the Star Knight armor has! There are a lot of overpowered charms out there just waiting to be paired with this full set! It's all up to you and your choices! If you haven't gotten this set, I advise you to get it because it is more than worth it.

Oh yeah, in case if you're wondering what talisman I have with those skills, it's a Handicraft +5, Artillery +11 charm. With that charm you just need two Tenderizer +4 jewel, two Tenderizer +1 jewel and one Handicraft +1/2/3 charm and your good to go! Happy hunting!

Nostalgic Gaming: Legend of Legaia!

Released in 1998 I remember playing this game around 2000 or 2001 when I was just 9 or 10 years old. This was one of those types of JRPG's that'll leave a mark on you after you finish the game, it's so good that you sometimes wonder, "Okay, I just beat the game but I now don't know what to do anymore with my life".

The characters are so lovable and so are their Ra-Seru's and since there's only three of them it's so much easier for the story to revolve around them making them important cogs in the whole natural order of the game. Each one fighting for a common cause but with separate goals to which they want to achieve.  The world of Legaia is vast and holds a lot of exciting adventures for players to go explore and experience.

I, for one, love JRPG's specially back in the day where the PSX had a whole array of great JRPG's that was just waiting to be discovered. Luckily when we bought our PSX it had this game with it. I checked out the back cover and looked at the pictures and the paragraphs and I immediately noticed that it had an RPG element of having to level up. When I found out it was an RPG I tested it out and played for a good hour or two to get a good bearing on the game.

The battle system was a lot of fun especially when you discover a new art! Arts were the main source of damage that you could do to enemies and each animation it had was unique to everyone else, the arts looked so cool and awesome that it never loses its charms even after you finish the game, I even remember writing all the arts that I had already got on a piece of paper so that the next time I would play the game again I would have the whole art list filled up very early.

The game's journey made us players felt that we we're true martial artists trying to unlock our latent talent while the game progressed and it was surprisingly rewarding at the same time. The music theme for the battle sequence was also great! It get's you pumped up for a good fight especially the epic boss battle themes!

The game is a bit difficult but if you've got enough patience on how the game goes I'm sure you'll love and treasure this game as much as I do. It's always a nice trip down memory lane when I play this game, makes me think how much time has passed but regardless of my age, this game never grows old for me and I wish it was the same to you guys who've played it before like I did. Let's have another journey with Vahn, Noa and Gala to revive all the Genesis trees to save Legaia just like old times! Oh, and maybe another trip to the Muscle Dome sounds nice!