Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 1+2 Dual Collection

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虽然在确定要出三代的情况下马上出一加二合集有点难绷（三重合辑再来一次） 不过在有一和二的情况下价格还行 本来没买的DLC都打包进来了 追加了一个无尽模式 强化了一代和二代的角色性能 还可以接受

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If you're not a fan of iX 2 and you were hoping the changes save the game: Don't. It's not what you're hoping for. If you already own both games and want to check out the changes, wait for a sale. If you're new to Gunvolt and want to give these games a spin, go ahead. Not to imply that the Gunvolt Trilogy was any sort of gold standard for collections, but this collection is sorely lacking in extras in comparison. No fun little bonuses like translated drama CDs, or art gallery, or music library, or conversation viewer. It's pretty much just the two games. Kinda disappointing. I've already played both of these games extensively, and they both ran on the Steam Deck just fine, but this doesn't. You have to go into a menu to turn on the DLCs for the two games. They're off by default. That's pretty weird.

Great action. First game had better movement, but the second game had better levels. Too anime for me though, but if you can ignore the mostly terrible story, it's super fun to play.

Not any real changes besides FPS Ix 1 amazing (~$15) dlc (~$4) Ix 2 still offensive (~$25) decent value overall, you'll probably want more after ix 1 and buy ix 2 anyways

Good collection if you've never played these games before. I got this with the discount for owning both games previously. iX 1 has 120 fps support now and iX 2 is pretty great with the improved saw damage. In iX 2, you can unlock a skill called D Burst through a DLC boss as soon as you begin the game which will let you air dash frequently like iX 1. The endless boss mode is pretty boring since I kept fighting repeat bosses instead of cycling through them all. Looking forward to iX 3 when that comes out.

=== YES??? But... === ===More of a NEUTRAL review.=== I'm very confused. First let me say that I thought this was the OG GunVolt series. (As I've never paid attention to INTI aside from Dragon Marked for Death.) So I certainly came in post that series, and apparently Ive been spoiled finishing the first game here in IX. How-the fakk-ever. How is there 0 world building at all? From the studio I love that gave me the MMZ series, (eat sh1t ZX) what am I playing? This game feels very, light in combat and depth. Even DMFD had a hub world of some sort. Bland Title Menu, Bland stage select. Bland World. Looking through the catalog of what INTI makes, it's really pathetic for them as a studio to spam random ass ideas for a game, and crap out...whatever the fakk. Reading other reviews, and checking INTIs library, it seems they are very much a game mill with little to no actual vision. Which is tragic because their art style is 11/10. Tank blaster? You got it! RPG with loot grind? Heres one. Grid based Card Battler? Of course we thought of that. Metroidvania? Easy, got one of those too. Tacky Megaman? Here's GV. Spam speed runs? First iX. Back to a more traditional MMZ? Second iX. Like WDF is the vision of this company? >> Actual review. >>First IX is what happens when you build a megaman game around speed running. Dashing between enemies to clear levels as fast as possible. Enemies are very much set up for you to chain dashes and boost between them clearing the levels as fast as possible. Bosses are another thing, with the default game settings, bosses are virtually a joke since you have conditional invincibility. (Which can be chained and extended easily.) Just lock onto a boss, mash your main attack and sub attack, wait till their last 1/3 hp and activate finisher move. Dont even bother learning attack patterns... UNTIL THE FINAL TWO BOSSES! ! Assuming there is an in lore reason for electricity to bypass Bullit Pavise. Only two bosses you need to slightly learn as they're the only actual threats in this game. If you want a speedrun game it's good, but after a single playthrough, I'm not motivated to play it again. >>Second IX is what I mentioned about whiplash. There's no more chaining and speed running. your gun isn't a gun, it's a saw blade...but like with ratchet and clank disc gun? Combat is entirely different as were back to more MMZ style and it feels...wrong. The levels are better, but they don't work with the new move set. If it was still a dash/gunner game like the first I think they would work better. Bosses are more tactful in how you need to physically approach them, but I can't say if they're better or worse than the first game's bosses. Story is once again, feels like 2 sentences out of a 1000 page book. Thing's just happen and are contrived just enough to set up the game. >>Conclusion: I feel like Ive done all I want for these games, and Im very EH at the end here. I had fun, but I doubt Ill remember much if anything. It's just sad how far this studio has fallen from the MMZ days, and the time I enjoyed grinding DMFD. (Even if it was a horribly grinding mess.) I would pick this up on deep sale 30% or more, and only if you're looking for a specific itch. IX games are a collection that is -fine-. 5/10

Following the release of Gunvolt 2, the writers of the Gunvolt franchise had written themselves into a corner, putting the series in a state where it simultaneously where continuing the series would be impossible while having a massive cliffhanger thanks to the secret ending, so, as a way to give the writers time to come up to a solution to this issue as well as keeping Gunvolt fans fed until GV3 came out, Inti ended up creating Luminous Avenger iX, a spin-off series set in an alternate timeline to GV2&3 following everyone's favorite racist, Copen (don't worry, he's not racist anymore in this timeline), and Inti's (and my) favorite Muse, Lola. Currently there are two games out (with a third dropping next year), both of which (including the DLC of these games) are included in this collection as the name implies with some balance changes (most of which aren't documented officially), so I'll cover them individually. iX1, in the kindest way possible, is a glorified GV2 level pack for Copen, and I'll say that's a good thing since now the levels are tailored to him and his moveset rather than both him and Gunvolt. If you liked how Copen played in GV2, you'll like iX1 even more, you get a bunch of new toys to play with set of EX Weapons, as well as the new Devil Trigger-esc Darkness Trigger, which causes Lola to go berserk and amp up the power of the EX Weapons (and Copen's regular gunshots, which was added in the release of this collection), at the cost of Lola constantly draining Copen when not locked onto something. The barrage of plot twists that reveal the true nature of the story towards the end of the game was neat, especially back when iX1 came out. Good stuff and all that. iX2, in contrast to its predecessor, is probably the most contentious game in the Gunvolt franchise with Inti's attempts to mitigate the issues only causing more issues when it first released. Rather than iterating on what made GV2/iX1 Copen great, Inti decided to go in a new direction, giving Copen melee combat, which should be a good thing, Zero and Kirin are two of the best feeling action platformer characters and both are largely focused on melee combat, so adding melee combat to Copen, who is among the best characters Inti has made, should be a slam dunk, well... Copen's base combo is a bit slow and lacks directional inputs that Zero and Kirin have that you can use to form combos, but that's not the main issue. The main issue is how the Bullit Dash got nerfed, Copen can only do one air dash in his base state, only when you get to 1000 Kudos, making his base state feel quite sluggish and not very acrobatic in comparison to its prequel. This is fixed by the Yang Yumo boss fight, which can be activated in the collection's top menu, beating her gives you a power up that returns the Bullit Dash to how it was in iX1 and Copen feels much better to play, it's a major improvement that makes the game much more fun and would later become a part of iX2 Copen's base moveset when he's playable in other games such as Gunvolt 3/Connect iX, Gunvolt GX, and Cogen... however, it was $8 DLC in the original release of iX2, which added more fuel to the fire of discourse surrounding iX2. Another thing that's been a constant subject of discussion with this game is the difficulty in two ways. In the base game, there are two things that make this way too easy, Lola's infinite healing and Hyper Guard. First the healing, it's infinite, it only cashes in Kudos, it's not good, especially when the heal Copen had in GV2 was fine, this was also fixed in Connect iX as well, but it wasn't backported for whatever reason. Next is Hyper Guard, which nullifies almost all damage when standing still, while there are comparisons that can be made to the main series damage nullification thing in Prevasion, however Prevasion was still limited based on a resource (EP for GV, Bullits for Copen, Talisman for Kirin, and Feathers for ZedΩ), the Hyper Guard isn't, all you need to do is stand still and not attack. Though since you're usually constantly moving and/or attacking, this isn't much of an issue for making things too easy... until you get to the bosses' Desperation Attacks, none of them punish you for relying on Hyper Guard aside from Vespa, who is the only boss who changes the battle field, creating bottomless pits, and Brigade, who's DAs change his moveset for his first fight and set a death timer in for his round two. On the flipside there's the hard mode, which is more like the first game's score attack mode (you're forced down to level 1 and can't use powerups) but you also have limited lives, you're forced onto Fearless (one hit and Kudos drop to zero), bosses have different patterns and new weaknesses, and you don't have any access to healing. You might be wondering why I'm bringing this up, sure it sounds like an extra challenge but nothing too note worthy... well, here's the thing, Hard Mode is required to get the true ending, it was so much of a hurdle that Inti went back and added an assist mode that gives you back the ability to heal and 200 extra lives, by the way, you can't use DLC skills, including Yumo's skill that makes Copen play good, in Hard Mode or Assist Mode. Yeah... I have mixed feelings about iX2, having the DLC skills from the get go makes the game much more fun, but there's too much here that leave me conflicted on it. As it is now is much better than it was at launch and I did have my fun with this version, but iX1's still a better product. On a miscellaneous note, for some reason, the talk dialogs and audio dramas aren't available in the launcher menu like in the TE which is a strange omission if you ask me. Both games are fun, just be sure to enable the DLC for iX2, here's to GX and iX3.