Rising Star Weekly Giveaway #173 and The Fear of God

Here is my weekly status and giveaway. I also talk about an OST track that I like. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway. I didn't have time to play Trails into Daybreak this week so I opted to talk about a track from a game that I played in the past.

The Fear of God

The Fear of God is an OST that plays in Shin Megami Tensei (SMT): Strange Journey during random encounters. This music track is the one that I remember the most because of how much it ends up playing. I do think that this track does fit the battles because the enemies start off as unidentified blobs. Unless you have defeated them once or fused them before, you won't even know what the enemy is. It adds to the difficulty because you can't plan well during your first fight against unknown enemies.

I prefer to call this game Strange Journey as it's kind of unique as its own stand-alone game and kind of separate from the normal SMT games. It uses a similar system of using demons so anyone who plays any SMT system should understand how it works and it's still turned-based. I still love this game and it's probably one of my favorite games from the SMT series. However, I don't expect them to release any sequel after they made a Redux version. I do suggest anyone playing this game to play the Redux version due to all the quality-of-life features they added there. After playing that version, I can't see myself going back to the original DS version.

This track reminds me the most about Strange Journey, specifically the main character. His helmet is iconic and I like seeing Demonee-ho added as a demon in Redux and some of the later Persona or SMT series. That helmet makes me remember this game and the Demonica is quite interesting. After all, the main character used it to survive in the space. The top image is the cover of Strange Journey, and the bottom one is a picture of Demonee-ho, a demon. The source of the images is from the wiki page for Strange Journey and Demonee-ho.

This is another version of the same track in the Redux version. I don't think there is much difference between the two versions of this track though. However, I would like to talk a bit about the differences between the versions. If you prefer difficulty, then the original is the better option but if you prefer a more balanced game, then Redux is better. I think Redux is way better because you don't have to micro-manage your applications and some of them make the game far easier. I never liked going through earlier areas but you can't avoid backtracking. In redux, there is an app that lets you skip fights so long as you are higher level than the enemies. I found that the quality of life features were just way better.

Do you like any of these tracks? If so, why?

Giveaway

The giveaway item is a musician. It has 115 fans, 90 skill, 3 luck, and 3 IM. Musicians are good for everyone because they increase your stats and help you in the rankings.

Rules

In order to participate:

• Leave a comment with the name of the card
• Include your username in your comment

This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.

Results of the Last Giveaway

The winner is Hive account@henruc.

Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: Hive account@tirizard, Hive account@ladymisa, Hive account@hatdogsensei, Hive account@blitzzzz

Current Status

I gained 55k STARBITS over the past week and if you add in the millionaire mission, I got around 125k. It's a bit less than last week but work has been keeping me busy. I was able to finally sell the starbits and turn it into STARPRO. I deposited it into Rising Star so it's nice to see the number go up. I also got an epic card from my pack openings.

Current Ranking

I played less compared to last week but my rank stayed the same. I guess there were fewer people as active this week. Maybe it's because of summer.

If you want to join Rising Star, feel free to use my referral link.

Tips (source)

I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.

1. Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
2. Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
3. Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
4. Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
5. If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
6. If you have more fans than skill and you won't reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
7. Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
8. Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards
9. Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
10. When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
11. Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.