Since I've basically completely skipped the story so far, here are some emails from R to explain the various factions that make up the future world of Armored Core.
Let's start with Murakumo Millennium and Chrome themselves:
From: R
Chrome and Murakumo
Zam City was one of the very first cities built in the underground city development program, so redevelopment is proceeding in various areas of the city.
Armored Core is a game series by From Software, who are best known for, well, the Armored Core game series. While still somewhat a niche title, Armored Core is a fairly successful "mech" game. You play as a mercenary, called a Raven, who pilots an Armored Core: a giant customizable mech.
This is an incomplete list of references found in 3D Dot Game Heroes. If you want to help complete it, post additions as comments - I promise I do eventually get around to checking the moderation queue!
My brother and I have started playing through Commander Keen 5, a relatively well known old DOS side-scroller.
And one that really hasn’t aged well, nor does it play as well as some of the more well-known console-based side-scrollers like Mario.
I’m not going to upload the video quite yet, although it looks like we’ve got a working system. Before I get to that, I want to finish my Commander Keen 4 Pyramid of the Forbidden video, which I’ve finally got a “finished” version of that I still need to upload.
The Eidolon battles in Final Fantasy XIII are stupidly hard. These are the battles where you fight against a summon monster in order to gain the ability to summon it in battle.
Now you might be assuming I'm complaining about them being challenging. Except they're not, they're basically just rapidly switching between Paradigms and mashing X. (Or A on the Xbox 360.)
No, instead they're needlessly hard because of the way they're designed.
One of the things in Final Fantasy was a "magic spell" taught to you by a broom that told you to Tceles-B Hsup - "push B-select" backwards. It brought up the world map. How can they do that on the iPhone?
Hm... I may need to add an iPhone section under games.
Whatever. In any case, Final Fantasy (both I and II) are out for iPhone. Here are some screenshots from my first 15 minutes (yeah, I know, not very interesting):
