BlazBlue!

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Ok we have a blazblue thread! Gaze in gazemazement at the conversations two people will be having about the game! Anything Blazblue goes here!
Since his is basically mine and Claxus thread, I mean lets be real here people, we'll probably start talking about Under night in birth too if it gets a console release over here.

Anyway information on new character Izayoi.

shoryuken.com/2012/11/14/blazblue-chrono-phantasma-new-character-izayoi-revealed-arcade-release-date-set-for-november-21st/

Izayoi's drive switches between two modes, a normal mode and 'gain art mode' which seems to be an upgrade. She is a zoning character and basically looks pretty awesome, I be excited.
Also I saw an interview somewhere with Mori which basically confirmed Kokonoe and Saya as playable characters for the console versions, shame I cant find it again. Chrono Phantasama definitely has the most changes between blazblue games as of yet, larger than the CT-CS jump for sure.

[Indigo]

Oh, so she goes like, Orgia Mode now.

But Kokonoe as a fighter? Maybe if she's another puppet-type character... And still no Jubei. Not that I care much for him, but he just needs to be playable already. And Bang's ninjas.

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No, Izayoi's attacks change significantly. I'm pretty sure Orgia is just an attack upgrade right?
I'm interested to see how Kokonoe and Saya turns out. All I know is that I'm incredibly hyped for Saya.

[Indigo]

Well, she gains crazy air control, an upgraded version of one of her best moves, and a missile launcher attack.

Well, Carl also got a new move with Nirvana. And SYNCHRO HIGH SPEED actually changes the attacks properties on some of Nirvana's attacks, too.

Jin got a new normal attack... An aerial slash that attacks diagonally down and slows down his descent. It's compared with one of Johnny's air attacks. DO LIKE.

But in general, there's quite a lot of big changes on all the characters... I wonder how much it will affect the game.

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Relius also got a bunch of improvements. He's got an attack compareable to Noel's optic barrel now, buzsaws that pop up out of the ground and varying distances, plus a ton of other improvements and attacks so me happy. Apparently Ignis dies faster though.

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Great games with Claxus today!
Lag made the controls feel sticky for the first two matches but I soon got over myself.
And I thought cross line playing while we were fighting with Hazama and Rachel was hilarious.

[Indigo]

It was pretty out of place, with us just struggling to control our characters. I also lol'd when you went Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan vs Rachel, dashed across the screen to me while I just stand there, then 5C > KO, and you go sliding all the way back.

But Cross Line is probably my favorite song in the whole OST, it's a hard pick with the whole awesome soundtrack, but especially when it plays legitly in Jin vs. Tsubaki. Such a deep song... With a bad a really bad case of Engrish, but still. And the solo is so boss-like.

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^ It's difficult to pinpoint my favorite song from Blazblue. Probably X-matic in the category without vocals, sword of doom with vocals. Followed closely by cross line and shinsou. And the extend opening sung by the guys who did future diary's second opening.

Also yeah I suck with Bang almost as much as I do with Rachel.

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Good games with Claxus just now... also japanese chrono phantasama arcade release on wednesday.

[Indigo]

Good games today... My synergy with Nirvana is getting better, I think. At least, a lot more offensive, but I'm still not quite sure how that spinning punch attack works, where Nirvana has super armor, maybe only attacks with high priority go through, or a certain amount of damage... Either way, I was kinda abusing its awesomeness this time around. Also walking with Nirvana as a shield, or in the corner... They were both pretty effective somehow. Still, your Relius is like an iron wall, can't quite best you with Carl yet...

Then, playing as Jin feels so free, he can run, has more range, priority attacks, faster projectile, huge ice attacks, more damage, and most importantly, easy combos in comparison. So it feels like going newtype mode... Of course Carl is probably ultimately better, but I'm nowhere near being able to do anything more than basic mixup/sandwich and that one launching combo that I only pull off 25% of the time (where I call Ada during a launch combo, and she smashes, sending you really high in the air and I dash under to your other side)

Yeah... Not sure what to say about your Relius, though. Getting near perfection with the infinite(?) blockstrings and crazy corner damage and being an unapproachable iron wall... Except sometimes your approach is predictable when you send Ignis out and just dash. Although half the time I can't do anything about it because Ignis is pinning me down.

Well, funny 'just for fun' matches today. Double Lambda, you actually beat me with Hazama... Can Tager even do anything against Mu-12? And using Hakumen feels awesome but scrubby. He was gonna be my original main because he's closest to Johnny with being sluggish and almost 'quickdraw' slashes, but... Yeah, he's scrubby.

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I keep on messing up with Relius. Half the time when I send Ignis out dancing, I actually meant to use Id lauger to send you flying. It's because your constantly jumping over me and reversing the inputs!
However I also mess up combos occasionally... not much I can say about that though, that will just require me engraining it into muscle memory, more importantly learning where to end it. I'll work on my approach, actually I'll get more options in CP, including Ignis buzzsaw in the air, drill on the ground, and some buzzsaws similar to optic barrel and something else.
Your Carl and Jin are amazing, I must say Jin is a really good anti- relius, ice pretty much ignores Ignis. I'm used to Ignis powering through Relius, but ice car is just too good! Carl, I don't know what to say

Yeah Hazama feels awkward but I know his inputs and how he functions... I just cant put people in the air where his best combos are. I would use him more if I could figure out his combos.
Noel is officially my sub... so fun to use, I loved using nemesis stabalizer mid combo, felt awesome.
Tager vs mu... grrr...

And oh yeah I was thinking this would be a funny match for next time- I use Carl and you use Relius.

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Arcade footage:





Just listen to Relius' new theme...
I can only imagine how awesome X-matic is going to sound.

[Indigo]

Didn't really listen to any music, but Relius looks a lot scarier now. And the second video has Jin, but he's really different now... His ice nirvash doesn't automatically cancel into the second hit (a good thing), it seems he lost his 3-way ice swords (25 heat in the air), and his sekkajin (mash C) is an input move, and completely different... It floors the enemy, when it used to be his main combo starter. I guess he looks cooler in general, but I wonder what will replace his combos since sekkajin was like the key to everything.

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^ It may be that the 3 swords were simply not used. It's really difficult to listen to any of the music, but everything has changed now, every music piece. Childish killer sounds awesome and bang has had his fu-rin kazan theme replaced... and has an awesome theme. As such I am now searching the internet for X-matic.

And yeah Relius looks great! I'm looking forward mainly to geara lugia. I hope he has good colours, one looks all black but I haven't seen any good blue colours like what I use now so far.
Also that stage, sealed space? It should be in the playlist of the second video. It looks awesome.

[Indigo]

Well, Jin's 3-way swords input on the ground is just a large ice sword that freezes and hits multiple times... In the video he used 25 heat to shoot a similar large ice sword from the air, but I guess it's still possible it's just another input.

Is geara lugia the Lambda-ish attack where claws pop out of the ground? It looks annoying... As if worrying about Lambda popping up behind me anywhere on the screen wasn't enough. And there's a new punhcing attack with Ignis, right? It looked a lot like Nirvana's 6D punch.

As for Bang's FRKZ theme being changed may take time to get used to, the original is just so awesome and funny and fitting. But it depends on just how awesome the new one is... Even FRKZ itself is different, it's just a temporary overdrive now... But it's a lot stronger, too. Pros and cons, I guess.

We'll probably get to see all the colors soon, I just hope Jin still has his awesome 'flight jacket' colors, or something similar. Or at least, a good outfit with white hair. Or an outfit with black hair, white coat, and red shirt, and a medium-sized heavy sword. And for Carl... I dunno, he needs something more stylish, his BBCSX colors are all kinda bland besides the red one, and the green hair is cool, but doesn't go well at all with all the red and black...

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Azrael gets Jhonny colours.

By lambda appearing behind you at any time... you mean Ignis, right? And yeah Geara lugia is what you think it is. Should be possible to stall you for ages with that attack and Ignis being Ignis while I close in. I don't think Ignis gets any new moves, maybe the animation just changed? Relius does also get something where he throws out a swiss army knife like thing, it has a vaccume effect and looks alright I guess.

Apparently loads of Jin's inputs changed... so you may be on to something there.

Still no X-matic. All the streams are closed down, no youtube vids either.

[Indigo]

Oh, I meant Ignis... Mentioning Lambda threw me off somehow. Well, just give it some time, I'm sure there'll be Youtube videos soon. Not sure about streams, but either way game footage is bound to become more accessible soon, the game just came out after all. But honestly I don't wanna get too hyped for it now, maybe when we have a release date at least...

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I'm worried that it's going to end up a PS3 exclusive because japan loathes the xbox. Even if it is, I highly doubt that there will be a region lock. Plus Akys publish their own games (says akysystems europe on my box) and there about a million times better than Atlus, or Zen united, or whoever is screwing up P4A europe right now.

Edit:Actually just checked my calamity trigger box and Zen published that one. Please, PLEASE publish your own game Aksys! You know they probably made Akysys europe after CT... I'll go look that up.

Edit 2: No not sure what was going on there... either way akysy published extend and that came out only 10 days after the NA release, so hopefully we wont be seeing another P4A incident again. So I'm only really worried about 360 release, and even if it is PS3 exclusive, I can always kidnap colonel sarcasm's PS3.

[Indigo]

If it ends up for PS3 only... There is no hope, only darkness.

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... Wii U?

Think about it, wii u will be popular in japan as is everything nintendo, which is the problem the 360 faces over there. Guilty Gear once came out on the wii, so Aksys and nintendo aren't exactly strangers, wii u looks like it will have a good online service (free! we wont have to give microsoft money anymore!) not to mention it would still work fine on the wii u touch screen gamepad because Aksys have also designed BB games for PSP. Also, it could be advertised as the first fighting game on the Wii U, getting in long before SSBU devours that particular market. Also, casual audiences or people who otherwise dont play on the PS3/360 could get introduced to Blazblue...! They have a really good marketing opportunity here!

Dunno, just a thought, and I would be totally on board with it since I'm getting a Wii U.

EDIT: Also, theres the 'Clone Phantasma' spin off comign out on the 3DS! They could market each other, and be compatible with each other, like, maybe money made in clone phantasma can be sent over to your account in CP? Free DLC!? Wii U are using this new 'nintendo account' system to be used similar to XBL accounts, except free and presumably useful across multiple platforms!
The potential! THE POTENTIAL!