Muv-Luv is interesting in that, while it really wants to tell you a story, it doesn’t get there until you’ve already beaten the game twice.
MUV LUV BETA EATING SOFTWARE
Sadly, rUGP doesn’t play nicely with recording software (rUGP is infamously crash-happy), so the clip I’m about to show you (affectionately known as “takeru beasts 100000 beta by himself while everyone is just like who is this god.avi” since that’s what happens) doesn’t look anywhere near as nice as it does in the game, but it gets the point across: Muv-Luv is a series built around using the rUGP engine to tell a story, not a story simply dropped into an engine.
These are shot with a mix of first-person effects (viewing the battle from the cockpit) and third-person action shots (usually for long-ranging maneuvers), and do a fantastic job of keeping you on the edge of your seat. One of the main problems to overcome with a visual novel is actually using the fact that it’s a visual novel to your advantage, and nothing has ever done that as well as Muv-Luv does.Īll this becomes even more important once we get to Alternative and its high-speed fight scenes. Characters are also capable of moving from position to position without needing to be redrawn entirely, and they have back sprites. This freedom of expression lets Muv-Luv’s characters talk with just their body, and shows that Muv-Luv was really written with being a visual novel in mind – it wasn’t written first, then had graphics tacked onto it like so many visual novels are. In Muv-Luv, characters have a wide range of sprites, and their facial expression is separated from their body language – unheard of when Muv-Luv was originally made and uncommon even today. In many visual novels, characters only have a few sprites to represent them (Rin in Fate/STAY Night has about three, not including her wearing her uniform, and those appear to have been redrawn from Akiha’s Tsukihime sprites). Then there’s how the game really uses that engine. This is without going into the incredible number of built-in compatibility options, and the amount of control you have over both the way the game displays its text, and how and when it does. Why? “ Why not?” appears to be the only answer. But if you have a pentium 3+ processor and the RAM to handle it, you can also have rUGP perform real-time emulation of those noises in the current environment to create realistic sound refraction. You can choose to have it do this for voices as well. By default, rUGP uses a propriety 3D Sound tool called AGE-ACS which emulates 3D positioning for noises based on where the protagonist is in relation to the noise. The rUGP is a ridiculously extravagant engine to create visual novels on.
Capable of bringing nearly any topic to life, from the most inane slice of life, to the most soul crushing despair inducing action there is no challenge it can’t stand up to, be it Sports, Mecha Action, Fantasy Action, Musical Performances, Comedy, High-speed Downhill Races, and anything else you could possibly think of.” The only parts of this statement that are hyperbole are the first six words.
rUGP, the relic Unified Game Platform is, according to the Muv-Luv wiki, “An engine that makes miracles possible, and powers all things age. Before we get to talking about the games themselves, I’d like to talk about the engine they run on.
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