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Ashes of Equestria Alpha OverView

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game play footage Ashes of Equestria is a fan made first person RPG game, based off a cross over story called Fallout: Equestria by Kkat. The story was first published in 2011 and completed Christmas of that year. The story was based on the four generation of My Little Pony, 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' and the video game series 'Fallout' particularly Fallout 3. The game first started development in 2012 and is only at wave 5 demo; still far from completion. Ashes of Equestria has many mechanics it uses, some you can turn on and off. You can change from first to third person view. Customize you character at the start of the game. You have two different stat systems, one for your main stats called 'SPECIAL' and one for skills which are based on your special. These two stat systems give you advantages or disadvantages depending on how many points are in eat. Too low of points can prevent you from doing an preforming an activity or make you fail

Sunset Overdrive

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Sunset Overdrive is an Xbox One exclusive game, released in North America on October 28th, 2014 by Insomniac. The game is set in 2027, Sunset City. Fizzco was having a pre-release of there new energy drink but it goes wrong quickly. Everyone at the event who had drunk the energy drink turns into a monster known as OD. You a Fizzco employee working at the event flees to there apartment to survive. After a cut scene of OD breaking into your apartment, Walter comes and saves you only to throw you into a battle with OD after giving you the record launcher weapon. After you defeat all the OD you start the first part of the main story line of the game. Once completed you can then do side quests, challenges, and collect items to upgrade or acquire new badges. Following the story line is rather optional but beneficial. Though your role as the character is to figure out why this apocalypses happened and escape the city, while helping or killing other factions that get in the way. You

Animal Crossing Series OverView

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Animal Crossing is a simulation game originally released in 2001 for Nintendo 64 in Japan before later being released in North America as an updated version for the GameCube. There are currently four main games and two spin-off games. The main games being Animal Crossing released in 2001, Animal Crossing: Wild World released in 2005, Animal Crossing: City Folk released in 2008, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf released in 2012. The two spin-off being Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer released in 2015 and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival also released in 2015. Animal Crossing core mechanics you can find in every game start with creating a character and to do so you  must answer a series of question but not all of them matter and there is one answer that randomizes it. How you answer the questions determines how you look in the games. Once you arrive in town you greeted by Tom Nook, who you buy house from taking out a mortgage you have to pay back. Once you pay off one mortgage y

Pokemon Ranger Series OverView

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Pokemon Rangers, a spin-off series of Pokemon, focused most on the care of the region and keeping wild pokemon safe instead of catching and training them. There are currently three games in the series 'Pokemon Ranger', 'Pokemon Ranger : Shadows of Almia', and 'Pokemon Ranger : Guardian Signs'. The Pokemon Ranger series makes heavy and good use of the ds stylus with the main tool of the game called a capture stylus. In all games you use it to capture or calm down pokemon. When you run into a pokemon you have to circle it a number of times with the stylus without taking it off the screen, to catch it. Or you can run away from it. The series also using a rank system level 0-10 which determines where you can go and what upgrades you can get. The upgrades all pertain to the capture stylus you use in game. The rank system also affects how many pokemon you can have with you at once besides your partner pokemon who is always with you. You use the extra pokemon