Then there was my concern over the Halving Alchemist's who cuts enemy attack power in half but I was pretty sure Coral Wraith would snipe him from the get-go.

I like putting Djinn Oshannus in the back if my opponent's recently played doesn't show much usage of Sneak monsters.

I haven't used Venair Wavesmith as much as I used to but the prevalene of Weak Magic rulesets, where magic hits armor first instead of health, has made him and the summoner Keyla very useful.

My team: Thaddeus Brood, Harklaw, Creeping Ooze

My Abilities: Enemy Magic Debuff, Enemy Health Debuff, Shield, Immunity, Slow, and shared Blast

Opponent's team: General Sloan, Chaos Knight, Furious Chicken, Creeping Ooze, and Herbalist

Opponent's abilities: Friendly Range Buff, Shield, Slow, and shared Blast.

Round 1 ends with 1 monster loss for me, Creeping Ooze, and one monster loss for them, Furious Chicken.

Round 2 claims everyone else except for their Chaos Knight and my Harklaw.

Round 3 leaves my Harklaw up in health compared to Chaos Knight.

Round 4 and Harklaw continues its health lead.

Round 5 and Harklaw sets up Chaos Knight for defeat next round.

Round 6 ends in victory for me.

My friend was visiting so, like the good old days, we played some Naruto Ninjastorm until our hands were sore from mashing so many buttons so quickly haha

At first we chose some crazy teams but eventually settled on selecting teams at random to make things more interesting.

Funnily enough I got one of the types I hate the most -- puppet characters. I ended up with Kankuro but luckily my allies were Madara and Guy so eventually I switched out to them.

My friend got Kakuzu, Momoshiki, and Guy as well.

Here's a link to some info on my main character and on my friend's main character in this fight.

It was a fun battle where I had a bit of a tough time at first and kept getting caught in Kakuzu's grab move but eventually I left everything in the very capable hands of Guy Sensei who's an absolutely beast.

Hope y'all enjoy!

Another hauntingly beautiful landscape in the video game Elden Ring is Liurnia Lakes especially beyond the swampy area if you go toward Raya Lucaria Academy.

For this post, I've recorded my 3rd attempt at the Glinstone Dragon Smarag in Liurnia Lakes.

I tried fighting Smarag without my goat-horse Torrent in my first attempt which wasn't too bad -- but it was very difficult running away from this dragon's magic fire.

I start this clip off by picking up my fallen runes from last time.

A pesky dragon-fly tries to follow me but luckily it eventually leaves me alone.

While Smarag's sleeping peacefully, I launch two Dragon Rotten Breath incantations which in no time cause it to start losing 1000 points of health a second. Rot is an incredible status-effect and a great way to cheese enemies and bosses. Sometimes I wonder why Rotten Breath wasn't available later on in the game since it can be like giving a nuke to a baby when it comes Elden Ring beginners.

I hope on Torrent and start riding around, missing almost all of Smarag's magic breath attacks.

It's funny how terrifying fighting dragons on feet can be but it becomes much easier when riding around on horseback.

I pelt Smarag with some Black Flames fireballs and some Lightning Spears.

Once the magic breath-attacks get more intense, I use the entire island Smarag was sleeping at as a shield to protect myself from the blue flames.

I finish the battle off with some Lightning Spears and I imagine what it would be like to fight a water dragon at a lake or some kind of electrical storm dragon that could shock me due to the lake's water, forcing me to ride from island to island for protection.

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I've been playing a lot of Elden Ring so I haven't had the chance to play Ninjastorm in a while but it's kind of like riding a bike but I definitley can't ride/play as fast as I used to haha

To warm up, I decided to set up a fight with a computer set to the game's hardest difficulty which unfortunately does not prepare you whatsoever for the skilled players online.

In this battle, I picked Fourth-Hokage Minato, Frog Sage Naruto, and Boruto for my team and picked Zombie Itachi, Five Summit Sasuke, and Sarada for the computer's team to make it a family versus family fight since it's grandad-dad-son with my team and brother-father-daughter for the other side.

Here are the controls:

I think that's most of the controls -- feel free to let me know if I missed one haha

I've been keeping up with the Boruto anime & manga and while Naruto isn't as popular since it's conclusion I do think that Boruto has been rather lackluster lately but I'm not sure if the original creator is that involved anymore. I'll have to look that up.

Anyway, I wanted to play some Naruto and see some cool characters that I grew up with ... which is why I'll probably be getting those Nickeledeon and Warner Bros super-smash lookalike games soon too haha

I annhiliate the computer in the first match without switching characters.

Then I destroy them again with a team ultimate jutsu and win again in the second.

I like Minato and Itachi for their speed and how cool their moves both look.

I haven't gotten around to playing the more recent Dragon Ball Z fighting games but Ninjastorm is definitely one of my all time favorite fighting games and I'd like to play more if it didn't make my hands so sore, especially in online play due to how fast and crafy online players can be haha

Hope you enjoyed these battles.

Last time I posted a Ninjastorm 4 fight it was in Hive Gaming but I thought I'd try Anime Realm just in case there were in any Naruto fans lol

First off, I have to repeat like in previous posts how beautiful Elden Ring is. I take a ton of screenshots and not all of them do the game justic but Liurnia and what I assume is the Raya Lucaria Academy in the background is absolutely gorgeous.

I kill a soldier covered in branches or roots first then go over to the Erdtree Avatar and kick things off wiht some giant fire balls from my Flame of the Fell God incantation spell.

Using Bloodhound Step, my Ash of War on my right-hand sword, I dodge a few of this boss's hits but get hit near the end.

Fire is super effective against this type of enemy.

Erdtree Avatar is only able to get off one golden-laser shower attack before being consumed by the burn damage.

I earn a Cerulean Crystal Tear and a Ruptured Crystal Tear ... no idea what those do but I'm sure I'll soon find out.

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See you all on the next clip of my Elden Ring adventure!

I am playing on a Playstation 4.

For this one, I was summoned at the southernmost part of Castle Morne to assist my friend, Fang, on taking down the Leonine Misbegotten so that he could get the Grafted Great Sword, a colossal sword literally made out of swords. Imagine the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones, except it's a big-ass sword lol.

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My friend and I travel down to Limgrave's Weeping Peninsula and I help them out against a giant goblin sorcerer and its little minions.

My friend has a giant ballista which looked really cool. I noticed that a lot of the little ogblins kept ignoring me and targeting him probably because he was the Host of Fingers.

After all the small goblins are destroyed, my friend defeats the giant goblin sorcerer and I think he said he earned an item of some kind.

We hop up a cliff toward a church to find a Site of Grace but get interrupted by a giant flower monster that can cast magic. I burn it with Black Flames incantations and my friend hacks at it like a weed-whacker.

We find the spot and then get the lovely red banner that we'd just been invaded and try to take them on.

I launch a series of giant fire balls from the incantation Flame of the Fell God which is very effective and then decided to experiment a little -- HUGE mistake.

My Flame Frenzy misses the invader by a lot and they hide behind a pillar where they get the chance to heal and start doing some heavy attacks on my friend. I try to get with my melee sword but they dodge around a lot and manage to kill not just my friend but me as well ...

That was a painful loss which I felt hugely responsible for. If I'd just kept casting that huge area-of-effect giant fire ball the explosions and burn damage would've made it very difficult for the invader to hide and heal themselves -- but unfortunately I experimented at a time which required consistency.

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See you all on the next post from my Elden Ring adventure!

This was a tough boss battle the first few times because I couldn't understand why I couldn't permanently defeat this Ghost Knigth -- until I saw the snail.

Just like me, who was summoning a ghostly warrior to help me fight, this snail was skulking around and letting this big ghost knight do the fighting for it.

I start off this dungeon boss fight by summoning Llutel the Headless, my strongest ghost summon so far. He materializes and rushes the ghost knight, teleporting toward them while I ready a Lightning Spear for support.

The great thing about ghost summons are that they can distract enemies, or a boss, while you sit back and heal or throw down long-range support.

Thankfully I grab my fallen runes so that this attempt isn't for naught.

Once I spot that weird glowing area in the corner, I start snail-hunting while Llutel goes to work keeping the big guy busy.

Thankfully every time I hit the snail he reappears in a corner not too close to Llutel and the Ghost Knight, making for a much more easier battle.

For defeating this boss, I earn 3000 runes and get a new ghost summon -- glinstone sorcerer.

The Erdtree Avatar is a boss near the Minor Erdtree in Southern Limgrave on the Weeping Peninsula.

My friend thought they might need some help battle it so they summoned me to their world through the Elden Ring multiplayer which is why I'm glowing red or gold.

My friend started things off by hacking away at the Erdtree Avatar with his Bloodhound Sword which is really badass looking.

While he laid down some melee on the boss, I cast a giant fireball called Flame of the Fell God before thankfully using my Ash of War, Bloodhound Step, to basically teleport away from a swing of Avatar's giant hammer staff.

I cast another giant fireball and watched as Avatar's boss got eaten up by the flames.

Unfortunately I didn't pay attention to its movements and got hit with a life-halving smash from its hammer-staff while casting a third giant fireball.

At this point, after three giant fire balls, Erdtree Avatar's health bar has been reduced by half.

I cast some more giant fire balls but Avatar moves out of their blast radius so I start running away from it while my friend throws a bunch of daggers from afar.

While putting more distance between me and Erdtree Avatar, I take a Cerulean Flask(magic potion) and restore my FP (magic).

I cast two more giant fire balls which nearly kill it while it activates its special attack of golden lasers.

It dies in the middle of the laser attack but I also receive damage due to pausing for a moment.

I get a Rune Arc as a reward and am returned to my world.