Shifty look12/27/2023 ![]() Despite some liberties in the characters and setting that make this comic look and sound like G.I. How did he just now find out? Was she drafted really quickly? There isn't enough time and not enough panels to find out, because the next skirmishes are just around the corner. Oscar left his almost-fiance Eve to join the battle, but then discovers she joined up right after. Regardless, that doesn't seem to be the actual intent once you keep reading. The first strip has a tongue-in-cheek air about it, or maybe that's just the utterly strange dialogue coming from Oscar. And apparently the Argentinian air force are the ones who fly the Solvalou ships. The hero is Oscar, nickname "Mu," a young guy from Argentina who joined the national air force to fight the Xevious (why not "Xevians?" They're aliens from the planet Xevious!). The setup is familiar: aliens are attacking Earth, starting with Peru (so far the only reference to the Nazca Lines in the game), but everything else about the story seems to take a sharp left turn. ![]() One of Cryptozoic's strips is Xevious, which is pretty much my favorite Namco franchise, so I was drawn to this comic first. Maybe I'll revisit them here in the future.) (Note that I base all this on the first month of strips, so whatever I describe may change one way or the other as months go on. ![]() Given that, I was interested in what ShiftyLook was doing, and started reading what they have so far and thought I'd share some impressions. You'd have to be some retro game nerd who makes his own magazine to recognize or give a damn about Xevious, Bravoman and Sky Kid comics in this day and age. And these really aren't Namco games that the average comics reader or gamer would remember. ShiftyLook's current lineup re-imagines three old Namco games (and one new one) as twice-weekly webcomics. I bring this all up to frame a recent development in game comics that had me thinking of Valiant: ShiftyLook, a comics site/imprint/thingy owned by Namco Bandai, but with the comics themselves done by contributors from Udon and Cryptozoic Entertainment. Meanwhile, Archie scored Sonic the Hedgehog, which is the longest-running video game comic in the Western world. Their four books continued apace for just one year, when Nintendo parted ways, and Valiant continued on with their original superhero titles. That said, they were all better than you'd expect, with the Mario stories in particular being genuinely funny, sometimes even deadpan. It was potentially a great opportunity to get original stories from games that deserved them, but the comics were essentially extensions of the TV cartoons - obviously Captain N, but even Mario and Zelda took more elements from the shows than the games. If you have AI set very very low, the win like this shouldn't be an issue either.Īchievement unlocked during my podium celebration.You might remember the beginning of Valiant Comics, when their first big titles were under the "Nintendo Comics System " officially-licensed comic books featuring Super Mario, Captain N, The Legend of Zelda, and a few others. If you find upshifting and downshifting too much, you can just ponder around the track in 6th or 7th, just braking and accelerating as normal. I never had to dip below 6th gear for the corners i couldnt cut across, so it should be an easy defeat for anyone. At the race start, you just have upshift with. If you do a qualifying, you're already in 8th gear. Now, for driving - is downshift, and is upshift. You can also play around with the weather if you wish, and lower the AI driver level as you need the W. ![]() To 'Rules and Flags' and turn 'off' the rules, which allows you to cut corners and take short cuts which are pretty fun and easy at Monza. It's up to you if you want to do a one-shot qualifying (which counts towards another achievement), and select "Very Short" for 3 Laps. Play with your assists to best suit you, making sure to select MANUAL gearbox (the achievement also unlocks with "Manual with Suggested Gears") and then to 'Weekend Structure'. Select 'Italy' (Monza), and then to Advance.Ĭhoose your team, driver and then Advance. This is mainly for those who are new to F1, just can't drive manual, or just want this achievement done and dusted asap.įrom the main menu, to Solo, and select "Grand Prix".
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