History VideoGame / BlazBlueChronoPhantasma

** TheChick: Celica(Also TheMedic), Noel

** SixthRagner: [[spoiler: Tsubaki]] after her HeelFaceTurn

** The Bad: NOL in general (and Litchi and Arakune in particular), as well as Azrael
** The Evil: Terumi, Relius, Imperator, Phantom, Nu-13, Tsubaki

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another console update, bringing in the changes from the arcade 2.0 release to home systems. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet, in addition to one detailing the events of the ''Remix Heart'' manga. It released in April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3, 4, and Vita and Xbox One.

* GrayingMorality: Sort of zig-zagged and subverted at the same time.
* On the good guys' side, CharacterDevelopment improved Ragna, Jin and Noel's standings as they're more confident (Noel), heroic (Ragna), and less of a prick (Jin), with Ragna and Hakumen's case also improving beyond what it was in the previous games. However, Kokonoe, while helpful, sunk to a new low and seemed quite ready to sacrifice [[spoiler: her own aunt]] Celica[[note]]Well, a clone that would die in six months no matter what she did, anyway, and Celica even gives her consent[[/note]] in order to stop Terumi or Take-Mikazuchi[[spoiler:, although she did eventually find out her mother is alive, which means she might probably tone it down a bit]]. Plus, Kagura, the guy who is working to improve NOL, is on their side.
* On the bad guys' side, [[spoiler:Litchi shows herself to be a Type IV AntiVillain instead of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, but she's still unable to switch to the good side, and Carl threw his lot to the bad guys for Ada and Litchi. They eventually go neutral after what happens to Terumi and Relius]]. New guys like Amane and Bullet are also pretty much hanging around the neutral zone[[spoiler:, though the former has plans for Rachel]]. Then, the WhamEpisode happens: [[spoiler:Hazama and Relius are rendered dead and ineffective respectively, Ragna gets yanked onto Izanami's side by being BrainwashedAndCrazy while retaining some of his sentience, and a recently HeelFaceTurn'd Tsubaki still gets pissed at Ragna for what he did to Jin and Noel. Even Rachel was in support of "killing Ragna before he dies of seithr sickness" but if that fails then apparently killing Rachel would also help. And Izanami? Her proposition is KillEmAll, good or neutral!]]

Ragna the Bloodedge approaches the city of Ikaruga, once the focal point of a civil war that cemented the NOL's tyrannical rule over the world. Accompanied by vigilante catgirl Taokaka, he hopes to find the answers to the dark conspiracy revealed at the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', connected to the actions of his arch-nemesis Terumi and his missing sister Saya. Meanwhile, Noel Vermillion and Makoto Nanaya seek to rescue their friend Tsubaki Yayoi, who has [[MoreThanMindControl fallen under the control]] of Terumi and become a KnightTemplar.

Three more console-exclusive characters have also been confirmed, two of which are DLC:

On July 15, 2014, it was announced that a new update(simply named ''Blazblue: Chronophantasma Ver. 2.0'') would come to the Japanese Arcade Cabinents. In addition to standard balance changes for the cast, it includes an updated HUD visor, additional stages, and two more additional characters.

* '''Lambda-11''': The eleventh prime field device who debuted in Continuum Shift and served as Nu's replacement before her return. Kokonoe salvaged her in a bid to destroy Terumi, but was destroyed when she gave her life to protect Ragna, giving him her Idea Engine in the process. She was thought to be dead, but returns by an of yet an unknown method. Lambda retains her style of play from Continuum Shift, which was similar to Nu as the latter loses her mode change style to further differentiate the two.

* AbortedArc: The finale of the Sector Seven storyline before the three paths converge has [[spoiler:a bunch of characters, both heroes and villains, meeting up and preparing for battle, only to announce that the villains plan on using a bunch of souls from the seither killing everyone to power Arakune to Black Beast levels.]] Once the paths converge, however, none of this ends up having actually happened, [[spoiler:Litchi goes back to the villains' side again despite Kokonoe agreeing to help her]], and [[spoiler:Arakune]] doesn't even appear again.

* ApocalypseHow:[[spoiler: Class 2 or 3A in course at the end of the game. Izanami implies a Class X-4 or even Z]].

** [[spoiler:Terumi is ''KilledOffForReal'' by Hakumen using the Time Killer skill, meaning that he probably won't be back. Unfortunately, he managed to give one last middle finger to Hakumen by killing Platinum the Trinity as he died.]]

*** [[spoiler:Speaking of Bang Shishigami, he ''finally'' fulfills his duty as the apprentice of Lord Tenjou Amanohokosaka by using the power of Phoenix: Rettenjou/Kushinada's Lynchpin and thwarting Relius' plan (see above), along with enabling Ragna to score victory against Take-Mikazuchi (see below). However, along the way, he becomes a HeartbrokenBadass as he sees both Litchi and Carl siding with Relius (even if only temporarily due to his victory and even though they apologized beforehand) and [[JadeColoredGlasses his perfect fantasies about what perfect "wife material" Litchi was and what a perfect "apprentice" Carl was are shattered]]. Nobody knows where he went after he succeeded in his mission, nor if it would affect his normally boisterous persona.]]

* ButtonMashing: Stylish makes its return. Though this time, it changes your character's name next to their health bar from a shiny gold to a dull green.

* CliffHanger: A particularly annoying one at that. [[spoiler: Saya makes Ragna's grimoire go out of control and he seriously injures both Jin and Noel when they try to stop him. Saya then starts creating something called the "True Blazblue" by using the recently defeated Takemikazuchi as it's core. And finally, Jin has to kill Ragna in a certain time period, otherwise Tsubaki must use the Izayoi to kill Rachel.]]
* ComebackMechanic: In the manner of [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 X-Factor]], Overdrive lasts longer the less health the player using it has. Combined with the fact that the enemy cannot Burst to throw someone out of an Overdrive combo and we get some serious OneHitKill nonsense with certain characters, who can flatline average health enemies with a single Level 3 Overdrive combo.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Three characters have two different playable (and storyline-wise more powerful) forms. Aside from Noel and Mu-12 returning from ''Continuum Shift'', albeit the latter no longer brainwashed and a regular transformation for the former, we have Tsubaki and [[spoiler:Izayoi, the true form of her Ars Armagus]], as well as Hazama and Terumi.
** Speaking of the former. Despite the fact that Terumi is his own separate character now, and that he and Ragna have their own special intro. ''Nightmare Fiction''[[note]]Ragna & ''Hazama's'' theme[[/note]] does not play in any match between the two should you pick the "Auto" setting in the music select. Strangely, Terumi fighting any of the other Six Heroes[[note]]including Hazama[[/note]], the ''Six-Heroes'' theme is always present.
* GrayingMorality: Sort of zig-zagged and subverted at the same time. On the good guys' side, CharacterDevelopment improved Ragna, Jin and Noel's standings as they're more confident (Noel), heroic (Ragna), and less of a prick (Jin), with Ragna and Hakumen's case also improving beyond what it was in the previous games. However, Kokonoe, while helpful, sunk to a new low and seemed quite ready to sacrifice her own aunt Celica[[note]]Well, a clone that would die in six months no matter what she did, anyway[[/note]] in order to stop Terumi or Take-Mikazuchi[[spoiler:, although she did eventually find out her mother is alive, which means she might probably tone it down a bit]]. Plus, Kagura, the guy who is working to improve NOL, is on their side. On the bad guys' side, [[spoiler:Litchi shows herself to be a Type IV AntiVillain instead of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, but she's still unable to switch to the good side, and Carl threw his lot to the bad guys for Ada and Litchi. They eventually go neutral after what happens to Terumi and Relius]]. New guys like Amane and Bullet are also pretty much hanging around the neutral zone[[spoiler:, though the former has plans for Rachel]]. Then, the WhamEpisode happens: [[spoiler:Hazama and Relius are rendered dead and ineffective respectively, Ragna gets yanked onto Izanami's side by being BrainwashedAndCrazy while retaining some of his sentience, and a recently HeelFaceTurn'd Tsubaki still gets pissed at Ragna for what he did to Jin and Noel. Even Rachel was in support of "killing Ragna before he dies of seithr sickness" but if that falls then apparently killing Rachel would also help. And Izanami? Her proposition is KillEmAll, good or neutral!]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After being the main antagonists in the last game and causing a whole bunch of trouble for the cast and never suffering any sort of setback in their plans, karma comes and bites Hazama and Relius right in the ass in this game. [[spoiler: Hazama is weakened significantly after being caught in a trap laid by Kokonoe, and is ultimately killed by Hakumen in the True Ending. Relius gets his ass royally handed to him by Valkenhayn and while he comes out of it alive unlike Hazama, he's at Carl's and Litchi's mercy as the then former Imperator abandons him when he no longer proves useful.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:If Ragna hadn't told Celica to heal Nu, he would've at least been in a better position than he was at the end of the story.]]
* NoCampaignForTheWicked: The bad guys MAY get some "focus," but you'll ''never'' fight as them in the Story Mode, so you'll never play as Hazama, Terumi, Relius, [[spoiler:pre-Izayoi]] Tsubaki, Litchi, Nu-13, Azrael, or [[spoiler:the Imperator]] (and to some extent Arakune) in the Story. However, Taokaka and Amane are also unplayable (Taokaka isn't even fought anywhere), but they're not villains.

* OutOfFocus: In previous games every single character had their own story route, but ''Chronophantasma'' opts for a more streamlined method of storytelling and has only three main routes, including the true ending. As a result, a significant portion of the cast have largely reduced roles aside from the main characters (Ragna, Jin, Noel, etc.)
* ShooOutTheClowns: The main story becomes really dark over time, with the humor less and less frequent. Bang evolves into a more prominent and serious character (despite still being bombastic) [[spoiler:and [[JadeColoredGlasses has his perfect fantasies about Litchi and Carl shattered during their time siding with Relius]]]]. Taokaka very much disappears from the plot in the middle of the story. Amane, the most light-hearted and humor-prone of the three brand new fighters due to his CampGay-ness, has a ''very'' reduced role, and in those reduced role, focuses more on the implications of his immortality and mystery. Platinum appears less as the usual Luna/Sena combo, with Trinity taking most of their screentime. [[spoiler:Then they're killed by Terumi.]] The only thing that could count would be Kagura's ChivalrousPervert tendencies and even that doesn't appear very often. While the Gag Reels are still around, even if they were canon they get phased out near the end as well.

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ysXSQiUDxY Drive Qualia]], the ending theme for the story mode, is possibly the cheeriest sounding ending theme in the series. After the PlayerPunch what is the ending (which includes [[spoiler: Ragna slowly turning into the Black Beast, Izanami creating the Embryo and Rachel saying that unless Ragna is killed off, Tsubaki has to kill her]]), it seems such a great contrast to it.

** That said, she can't pronounce Relius and Bullet properly. But it's still better than all previous announcers, simply due to the fact that ''she can properly pronounce more than one character's name''.

* UnexpectedCharacter: ''Continuum Shift''[='s=] new player characters were both [=NPCs=] in ''Calamity Trigger''. ''Continuum Shift II'' and ''Extend'' continued the tradition by making 4 more [=NPCs=] playable. Bullet, Azrael and Amane hadn't appeared in any previous ''[=BlazBlue=]'' games.
** [[spoiler:Tsubaki's weapon, Izayoi, suddenly taking form of a FanservicePack Tsubaki and becomes a character? Well, that was out of nowhere...]] To put this into perspective, the ''only'' foreshadowing present [[ChekhovsGun was a seemingly one-off line from Tager's story in the previous game]].

* WhamEpisode: For the ''entire franchise.''
* WordSaladTitle: Not the game itself, but instead for [[spoiler:Saya's new title after she renamed herself]]. It seems like they just chose the first two gods related to the underworld they could think of and called it a day.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: By the end of the game, it turns out the only ones who have limited time in the world aren't just Litchi and Arakune. [[spoiler:The Beast inside Ragna is slowly devouring him from the inside and it's only a matter of time before he's completely devoured. Hakumen, after raising the bar a bit just to kill Terumi (and by the nature of time paradox of being in the same world with Jin), is slowly vanishing from existence due to overexertion of using a bit more than 20% of his power. And due to the nature of Celica being a time anomaly/Chronophantasma yanked from the past, she doesn't have much time to live as well. And the world itself also has limited time due to Izanami's actions.]]

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another console update, bringing in the changes from the arcade 2.0 release to home systems. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet, in addition to one detailing the events of the ''Remix Heart'' manga. This release is slated for April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3, 4, and Vita and Xbox One.

* BreakMeter: Averted. This is one of the only modern fighters without some form of "guard break" meter. Instead, the new Crush Trigger attack uses 25% of the character's meter in order to shatter the opponent's standard defenses.

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another console update, bringing in the changes from the arcade 2.0 release to home systems. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet, in addition to one detailing the events of the ''Remix Heart'' manga. This release is slated for April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3 and 4, and Xbox One.

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another console update, bringing in the changes from the arcade 2.0 release to home systems. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet. This release is slated for April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3 and 4, and Xbox One.

* InformedFlaw: Kokonoe likes to say that Sector Seven are "total idiots" by releasing [[TheBerserker Azrael]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:they put a limiter on Azrael basically preventing him from hurting ANYONE unless they desire to fight him in first place. The only exceptions seems to be Ragna, Tager and Kokonoe, but they're exactly his targets]]. Of course, [[InsufferableGenius Kokonoe]] never should willingly recognize the intelligence of her superiors.
** That said, she both wasn't aware of [[spoiler:the limiter existing]], and even if she did, it doesn't take a lot of effort to think of multiple ways around it. Azrael even does so in his ''introduction scene''. If he ever felt like it, he could wipe Sector Seven off the map in spite of their "restraints" without even breaking a sweat.
* InformedWrongness: Kokonoe [[spoiler:wanting to sacrifice Celica to activate the Lynchpin]] near the end of the story. Ignoring the fact that [[spoiler:Celica is a clone and will die in six months regardless of what Kokonoe does]], the only option other than doing what Kokonoe suggested would be to unleash an arsenal of nukes and render Japan unable to live on that ''may'' solve the problem that everyone is trying to solve, the protagonists' plan is "hopefully we'll think of something" despite the fact that if they waited so much as half an hour, Japan would be dead and the rest of the world would be next. [[spoiler:The only reason it worked without sacrificing Celica was because the method used was foreshadowed in a way so vaguely it could've been over a dozen different things and made the same amount of sense. Which Rachel somehow knew despite not even being present, though that could at least have been through her power as an Observer.]]

* ShooOutTheClowns: The main story becomes really dark over time, with the humor less and less frequent. Bang evolves into a more prominent and serious character (despite still being bombastic) [[spoiler:and [[JadeColoredGlasses has his perfect fantasies about Litchi and Carl shattered during their time siding with Relius]]]]. Taokaka very much disappears from the plot in the middle of the story. Amane, the most light-hearted and humor-prone of the three brand new fighters due to his CampGay-ness, has a ''very'' reduced role, and in those reduced role, focuses more on the implications of his immortality and mystery. Platinum appears less as the usual Luna/Sena combo, with Trinity taking most of their screentime. [[spoiler:Then they're killed by Terumi.]] The only thing that could count would be Kagura's ChivalrousPervert tendencies and even that doesn't appear very often. Thankfully there's the Gag Reels, but as usual, they're not canon.
** Gag Reels, however, stop appearing before halfway through the story.

* AbortedArc: The finale of the Sector Seven storyline before the three paths converge has [[spoiler:a bunch of characters, both heroes and villains, meeting up and preparing for battle, only to announce that they plan on using a bunch of souls from the seither killing everyone to power Arakune to Black Beast levels.]] Once the paths converge, however, none of this ends up having actually happened, [[spoiler:Litchi goes back to the villains' side again despite Kokonoe agreeing to help her]], and [[spoiler:Arakune]] doesn't even appear again.

* GrayingMorality: Sort of zig-zagged and subverted at the same time. On the good guys' side, CharacterDevelopment improved Ragna, Jin and Noel's standings as they're more confident (Noel), heroic (Ragna), and less of a prick (Jin), with Ragna and Hakumen's case also improving beyond what it was in the previous games. However, Kokonoe, while helpful, sunk to a new low and seemed quite ready to sacrifice her own aunt Celica in order to stop Terumi or Take-Mikazuchi[[spoiler:, although she did eventually find out her mother is alive, which means she might probably tone it down a bit]]. Plus, Kagura, the guy who is working to improve NOL, is on their side. On the bad guys' side, [[spoiler:Litchi shows herself to be a Type IV AntiVillain instead of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, but she's still unable to switch to the good side, and Carl threw his lot to the bad guys for Ada and Litchi. They eventually go neutral after what happens to Terumi and Relius]]. New guys like Amane and Bullet are also pretty much hanging around the neutral zone[[spoiler:, though the former has plans for Rachel]]. Then, the WhamEpisode happens: [[spoiler:Hazama and Relius are rendered dead and ineffective respectively, Ragna gets yanked onto Izanami's side by being BrainwashedAndCrazy while retaining some of his sentience, and a recently HeelFaceTurn'd Tsubaki still gets pissed at Ragna for what he did to Jin and Noel. Even Rachel was in support of "killing Ragna before he dies of seithr sickness" but if that falls then apparently killing Rachel would also help. And Izanami? Her proposition is KillEmAll, good or neutral!]]
* InformedFlaw: Kokonoe likes to say that Sector Seven are "total idiots" by releasing [[TheBerserker Azrael]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:they put a limiter on Azrael basically preventing him from hurting ANYONE unless they desire to fight him in first place. The only exceptions seems to be Ragna, Tager and Kokonoe, but they're exactly his targets]]. Of course, [[InsufferableGenius Kokonoe]] never should willingly recognize the inteligence of her superiors.

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another console update, but this time as a separate retail release. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet. This release is slated for April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3 and 4, and Xbox One.

'''''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''''' Another Arcade update, but this time as a separate retail release. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet. This release is slated for April 2015.

Like it's immediate predecessor, Chronophantasma also has few {{UpdatedRerelease}}s as well.

'''Blazblue Chronophantasma 1.1:''' Mostly a balance patch for the Arcade and console versions to get the aforementioned exclusive console characters into the Arcade cabinets. This version was released on the Vita in April 2014, with some exclusive content, namely a new gag reel starring Ragna, Noel, Celica, and Kagura in a BeachEpisode and a recap of the series` storyline to this point narrated by Ragna, Celica, and Rachel.

'''Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend:''' Another Arcade update, but this time as a separate retail release. Adds Celica and Lambda as playable characters to the console version. There's also an additional story scenario starring Kokonoe, Kagura, and Bullet. This release is slated for April 2015.

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Like it's immediate predecessor, Chronophantasma also has few UpdatedRereleases as well.

** And now the entire soundtrack, which is already [[AwesomeMusic/BlazBlue awesome]], is being completely remixed. And guess who's doing the rearranging? Yuhki of Music/{{Galneryus}} fame.

** As of the release of the opening video, ASW has confirmed that it is the latter.

* '''[[DudeLooksLikeALady Amane Nishiki]]''', a CampGay travelling performer who fights with a scarf that can change into various forms, like a drill for piercing attacks or a prehensile arm for distance throws.
* '''[[ActionGirl Bullet]]''', a member of a mercenary corps that was slaughtered by Sector Seven, leaving her with a serious grudge. She uses GoodOldFisticuffs, with a combat style focused on grapples and throws.
* '''[[BloodKnight Azrael]]''', a mysterious BloodKnight of Sector Seven. He was sealed away by Sector Seven due to his uncontrollable power and violent rampages, but has recently been released from confinement. He uses a beatdown style that adds "weak points" to enemies for extra damage.
* '''[[SuperPrototype Izayoi]]''', the form that Tsubaki Yayoi takes after awakening the true power of her weapon, which was originally a prototype for the Murukumo Units. It is referred to as "Tsubaki's true form" and is very much to Tsubaki what Mu-12 is to Noel. She uses a StanceSystem, building up her "Zero Weave" gauge in her long-range stance to power up her moves in her short-range stance.

* '''Lambda-11''': The eleventh prime field device who debuted in Continuum Shift and served as Nu's before her return. Kokonoe salvaged her in a bid to destroy Terumi, but was destroyed when she gave her life to protect Ragna, giving him her Idea Engine in the process. She was thought to be dead, but returns by an of yet an unknown method. Lambda retains her style of play from Continuum Shift, which was similar to Nu as the latter loses her mode change style to further differentiate the two.