Today's blog post is a two for one special offer, first off I've felt like constructing a move set for a character I hope will make it into Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Lucario! Secondly, I'll be explaining a little about my upcoming Clockday movie called SleepEasy.
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LUCARIO MOVESET
As you may know, Lucario is one of the more popular pokémon of the 4th generation, Diamond and Pearl, he was one of the few pokemon to be announced early and even features his own movie, along with telepathy and unique powers, as such I've taken some of these qualities into consideration, and designed a quick moveset for him.
A moveset, simply put is a set of actions and attacks that characters can do in a fighting game.
B - Aura sphere attack, charges like Mewtwo's Shadow ball, can be launched and then directed slightly with the control stick.
(This is Lucario's signature move, it features predominantly in his movie and he learns it at level 37. Mewtwo can also learn it at level 100.)
Forward B - Force Palm, hard to hit enemies with bunch successful hits leave opponents temporarily stunned, use to advantage, grab then, combo them, smash them, etc.
(A simple fighting type move from the game that can cause paralysis.)
Down B - Counter, blocks enemy attack with aura powers and repel it back at them, doubles % damage
(Another simple in game move)
Up B - Quick Attack, just like Pikachu's quick attack (but obviously, not an electric attack as mistakenly done in Melee)
(ANOTHER simple in game move that has already been translated for Smash bros)
Final Smash - Lucario manipulates aura to heighten his senses, which slows down gameplay for everyone except Lucario, doing so allows Lucario to make easy hits until he tires from using aura for the rest of the match.
(Watching the movie, the power of Aura makes Lucario extremely good at dodging enemies and landing attacks, he can see beyond greater distances that with his eyes and sense people quite easily.)
Throw Forward - Strongly jumps forward and throws enemy whilst in mid-air
Throw Backward - Flips over his shoulders and fires two small Aura spheres from his hands
Throw Down - Strongly jumps up, flips and kicks down with legs
Throw Up - Simply throw into air
Grab attack - Slaps foe with back of hand (given the large spike, that would hurt.)
(The throwing attacks take into consideration that Lucario shows extremely skilled jumping techniques in the movie, and according to Riolu's pokédex entry, which is his pre-evolution, they can easily scale mountains.)
So, what do you people think of my moveset for Lucario? I think it could be pretty good, additionally, Lucario is a sweeper in the games, meaning he has high offence and speed, but low defence, this would work in Melee was being able to move and jump fast, and being able to damage pretty easily but additionally be knocked away pretty easily.
And with that, this is why I think Lucario could be an ideal fighter for brawl, in addition to my 10 reasons which I posted in a previous news post of mine.
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SLEEPEASY
Ah, clockday, in celebration of the submission of B and how it started the clock crew.
As I did for clockday 2005 and 2006, I have made another movie for the event this year, this time I've decided to try and take a different angle on the animation.
This time, the movie is unrelated to clockday entirely, this is actually because the project was started several months ago but got put on hold because of personal life, it was never intended for clockday, but now I'm glad it did for a few reasons.
First off, this is one of my longest movies to date ranking in at over 7 and a half minutes! Whilst Tails and his GBA 3 is technically longer if you watch both optional scenes, SleepEasy will be a single uninterrupted playback.
Secondly, the movie takes a whole new style of animation for myself, I've decided to switch between my usual tweened animation style, and go for an attempt at Frame by frame animation, this means that a great deal of the animation is redrawn for each frame! :D
Not the entire movie is in FBF, there are parts that are just tweens, and just FBF, even then the FBF is tweened when appropriate.
Thirdly, I feel this is a great improvement in actual developmental story writing for myself, as opposed to being in the same damn location for the entire movie, which was the case for my clockday 06 movie, the location of the movie continuously changes for numerous reasons.
With that being said, I'm sure you're wondering what on earth this movie is about huh?
Alright then!
The basic premise of the movie is that RupeeClock is just sleeping as per normal like he would do any night, at home in his bed room, but whilst he sleeps, someone intrudes his abode, this mysterious person and his mystery accomplice do something to him as he sleeps, and at this time, we get to see inside Rupee's mind and watch as he dreams, and see what on earth these mystery people are doing.
The movie makes a lot of twists, I'm afraid to post anything about it otherwise I may end up spoiling some of the jokes!
As such, I feel this is one of my best works to date, I put a lot of effort into it and I hope you will enjoy it a great deal when I finally submit it on Clockday, August 15th!
In the mean time, you can view the alpha for this submission here. There's no flash demos, just some screen shots.
By the way, whilst I'm submitting this to NG, I've already uploaded the movie to youtube as well, currently the video is set to private on youtube and will be made public at the very beginning of clockday, the flash version will come sometime later in the day.
Now, i'ma end this post with a picture of Lucario, since I like him so much.
MetalDart
Cant wait to see your movie for ClockDay Rupee! I'm going to be sure to watch it, if I can find it under judgment that is. :P
Also, the Lucario moveset does sound cool, but I don't know about the whole "time slowing down" move. It seems like everyone would play as him and keep slowing down time. But now you've made me want to go back and play Diamond. I'm still trying to catch them all. :p
RupeeClock
You know it's called SleepEasy, that won't be hard to find...
And well, it's his FINAL SMASH, you can only do it once apparently, and everyone has the same level of opportunity to use a final smash since it randomly appears.