History VideoGame / BlazBlueChronoPhantasma

* CurbStompBattle: In Chapter 12. [[spoiler:Between the Black friggin' Knight sprinkling him onto the nearest wall, Celica crippling him by proximity, and Ragna and Makoto willing to join in if things went sour,]] Arakune didn't think his cunning plan [[spoiler:to eat Noel]] all the way through.

'''''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, as well as abridged versions of ''Calamity Trigger'' and ''Continuum Shift'' (much like ''Calamity Trigger Reconstruction'' in ''CS Extend'') and more gag reels. It was released in April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3, 4, and Vita and Xbox One in Japan, June 2015 in the Americas and October 23rd in Europe. This edition will also be released for [=PCs=] via Steam in February 2016.

* BittersweetEnding: A lot more on the bitter side this time around however [[spoiler: Kagura's coup is successful and he's able to get the rightful heir, Homura, onto the throne. Terumi is slain by Hakumen, Tsubaki reconciles with Jin, Noel, and Makoto and joins with the heroes, and the Master Unit is successfully defended from being destroyed. However, Izanami shows up and forces Ragna's grimoire to go out of control and makes him attack everyone in the vicinity, critically injuring both Jin & Noel. Relius is still at large and Carl and Litchi have betrayed Bang to join forces with him, and Hazama & Trinity may be dead. Additionally, Izanami plans on using humanity as a sacrifice to complete the "true" Blazblue and use its power to destroy the Master Unit.]]
* BreakMeter: The Barrier can be used to block attacks without the pesky ScratchDamage. It depletes a meter, however; once it is empty, your defense worsens until the meter regenerates back to half-full.

* DarkestHour: Let's just say this game ends at the series` lowest point, see BittersweetEnding above for why.

* FlashbackEpisode: Some of the Six Heroes route's episodes take place in the past, before the Dark War. In ''Extend'', Kagura, Bullet and Kokonoe's extra stories, as well as Celica's arcade mode are also flashbacks.

* VisualPun: One cover for the game depicts Noel, Rachel and Celica sitting together. [[spoiler:They're all "Chronophantasmas".]]

** In fairness Terumi and Hazama were always separate entities it's just that Hazama was made to be the SoulJar for Terumi It's how they were seperated that was the real surprise.

* '''Yuuki Terumi''': The true identity of Hazama, our resident {{Troll}}, taking his form during the Dark War as seen in flashbacks and the ''Phase Shift 1'' novel. Possesses a different Drive than Hazama, and is heavily meter-reliant like Akuma of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. He is [[DownloadableContent a pre-order DLC bonus]].

* 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 low-health Overdrive combo.

* '''Izayoi''': The form that Tsubaki Yayoi takes after awakening the true power of her weapon, [[spoiler: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.

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 as 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.

While the Murakumo units were believed to be excluded due to their fates in the previous game and their exclusion in the debut trailer, this was changed with the next announcement stating that both Nu-13 and Mu-12 are confirmed to be in the game.

* CharacterDevelopment: The game's story mode is a good source of this for most of the cast. Ragna becomes more heroic, vowing to find a way to use his Azure to protect people as opposed to using it to destroy ([[spoiler:which makes what happens to him at the end even more tragic]]), Jin is less of a {{Jerkass}} to others (even around Noel he's simmered down a bit), and Noel herself is far more confident than before, even being able to harness her Mu-12 form at will. Even Hakumen seems to have cooled down as he speaks less harshly to others, and isn't as hostile to Ragna as he was before. Carl is also shown to have made use of his cooling down by Litchi in ''CS'', and took a detour from his goal from solely saving Ada and adds "saving Litchi" to his goal list. On the other hand, Litchi's darker sides were shown more, but done without completely trampling her good side or JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, making her development into a {{Tragic Hero}}ine clearer than it was in ''CS''. [[spoiler:The climax also opens up possible development for Bang as he received his JadeColoredGlasses by force about his idealized fantasies about Litchi and Carl...]]

** TheBrute: Arakune, Nu-13

** The Good: Kagura and Kokonoe and near anyone under the two, as well as Rachel and the rest of Six Heroes (not counting Terumi, natch). Also Carl and Bang, although the two aren't closely affiliated with them

** The Evil: Hazama/Terumi, Relius, Imperator, Phantom, Nu-13

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Due to the altered story style; 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.

* RevisedEnding: Like its predecessor, ''Chronophantasma Extend'' adds an extra scene after the epilogue. Ragna [[spoiler: wakes up...somewhere, with the Embryo in the sky and apparently with no memory of who he is.]]

* 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 that 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.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Hades Izanami.

'''''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, as well as abridged versions of ''Calamity Trigger'' and ''Continuum Shift'' (much like ''Calamity Trigger Reconstruction'' in ''CS Extend'') and more gag reels. It was released in April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3, 4, and Vita and Xbox One in Japan, June 2015 in the Americas and October 23rd in Europe.

* 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, as well as being put in a clone body that's not meant to last, she doesn't have much time to live as well. And the world itself also has limited time due to Izanami's actions.]]

* RevisedEnding: Like its predecessor, ''Chronophantasma Extend'' adds an extra scene after the epilogue. [[spoiler: Ragna wakes up...somewhere, with the Embryo in the sky and apparently with no memory of who he is.]]

'''''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, as well as abridged versions of ''Calamity Trigger'' and ''Continuum Shift'' (much like ''Calamity Trigger Reconstruction'' in ''CS Extend'') and more gag reels. It was released in April 2015 for [=PlayStation=] 3, 4, and Vita and Xbox One in Japan, and in June 2015 worldwide.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The giant screens inside the Colosseum stage alternate between showing the fight (read: exactly what you're watching on the actual screen) and a cut-in of both competitors. If players who use a [=NESiCA=] card are fighting against each other, the screens even display their account name and various other information, just like you'd expect from a place where bets are made on the best fighters. This translates to PSN info in the console versions.
** This actually goes a bit further if you re-watch fights in Replay Theater. The screens will show their health meters and character portraits, but if you use the option to turn them off during Replay Theater, they will vanish from the background screens as well.

* ComboBreaker: Replaces the gold Burst with a character-specific SuperMode known as Overdrive.

But complicating matters is the loss of one of the god-like entities of the ''[=BlazBlue=]'' universe, which has escalated a precarious stalemate into all-out war between the remaining sides. Each shot fired in this conflict tears a hole in the fabric of time and space itself, pulling material from {{Alternate Universe}}s through the wounds and [[TemporalParadox creating temporal impossibilities]] called "[[TitleDrop Chronophantasms]]." If nothing is done to end this, then [[TimeCrash Ikaruga may collapse under the sheer weight of paradoxes]] before Ragna or any of the other vigilantes can accomplish their goals.

* '''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.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Some good things happen, but it's more on the bitter side this time around, even if the heroes succeeded in defeating Take-Mikazuchi.]]
** [[spoiler:Saya relinquishes her title as the Imperator to Homura, meaning that the entire NOL will pull a HeelFaceTurn and stop being [[TheEmpire a jackass, dictatorial organization]]. However, the relinquishment by Saya is done on purpose: either she has other plans, or she just plain doesn't care since she has other authorial power, which makes sense if you read what happens below.]]
** [[spoiler:Terumi is ''KilledOffForReal'' by Hakumen using the Time Killer skill, meaning that he probably won't be back. Unfortunately, as Hazama is slowly dying as well, he deals one last hit to Platinum, saying that he'll take her down with him.]]
** [[spoiler:Saya abandons both Terumi and Relius to their fates, and Relius does not take it well along with his plans coming utterly crashing down, causing him to have a massive breakdown. He's put under the mercy of both Carl and Litchi, only being kept alive until he "restores Ada." In the meantime, Litchi is now free from his manipulations and can't be called a "villain" anymore, but her hopes for the cure are completely dashed due to Relius' failure and breakdown, with Izanami's emergence shortening her time even further. The realization that in her quest, she ended up hurting her friend (Bang) and, at her lowest, attempted to sacrifice many innocents for her own desire, isn't going to do any good for her good-natured psyche, meaning Litchi is still very screwed. The consequences of her obsession hit her and Litchi's chances of falling into depression are high, but on the bright side, Carl's there to possibly help her get over it.]]
*** [[spoiler:Speaking of Bang Shishigami, he ''finally'' fulfills his duty as the apprentice of Lord Tenjou Amanohokosaka by using the power of Phoenix: Rettenjou to activate 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.]]
** [[spoiler:Lastly? Nu-13 forcefully ''merges'' with Ragna after looking like she would be redeemed for good, and Saya, revealed as Izanami the Goddess of Death, manages to ''brainwash'' Ragna and turns him into a beastly form that attacks both Jin and Noel. Ragna's fate is unknown but it looks like he left to God-knows-where, while Noel ends up with light wounds and Jin is bedridden for days due to his wounds, an act that renewed Tsubaki's hatred towards Ragna even if she has been freed from the villains' influence. Rachel reveals that with the seithr levels in the world lowering, Ragna is slowly dying and he must be killed before that happens. And if that fails... Rachel asks Tsubaki to kill her. Meanwhile, Izanami stands prepared to create the ''true'' [=BlazBlue=] to bring about her ideal "world of death."]]
** [[spoiler:Furthering that and ending on a CliffHanger, Izanami immediately starts the creation of [=BlazBlue=] Embryo in which all humans will be reduced to seithr, unless they are one of the "Qualified Ones." As of the moment, the new NOL ''just lost its whole soldiers squadron'' (meaning they just become a good, but utterly ''weak'' group) and the heroes are ''seriously'' understaffed while they have to go around and prevent more people from suffering the same fate.]]

* DebateAndSwtich: [[spoiler: In the True Ending, Ragna and Kokonoe get into a fierce debate about whether or not to use Celica as the power source for Kushinada’s Lynchpin. Ragna refuses to, saying that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman even if she is a Chrono Phantasma with only six months to live]] [[AndIMustScream it is wrong to have her used as a battery, trapped in the Lynchpin while her soul is slowly sucked away]] and the result will only be temporary. Kokonoe argues that they do not have the luxury of not using dangerous or morally questionable methods in the fight against the Imperator and [[TheNeedsOfTheMany that Celica’s sacrifice is worth it to save others]]. They both bring up the Dark War as an example. Kokonoe argues that if the Lynchpin were used, the Black Beast would have been dormant for 3-5 years, limiting casualties and allowing for humanity to have advanced further. Ragna argues that the only reason Nine completed Ars Magus was because she was determined to save Celica from being used for the Lynchpin, if Celica was sacrificed, Nine would have given up. Ragna refuses to sacrifice Celica but Kokonoe refuses to agree unless Ragna has a better solution, which he does not. The debate ends when Rachel gives them a hint on [[TakeAThirdOption how to use the Lynchpin without sacrificing Celica]], giving both sides the result they want.]]

** TheLeader: Kagura

* TooLongDidntDub: [[http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/08/happened-blazblue-chrono-phantasmas-library-mode-arc-system-works-usa-responds/ Rather infamously, Library Mode]] (wherein one can read up on the ''[=BlazBlue=]'' lore and learn what various story terms mean) was removed from the US version due to Arc System Works US handling localisation themselves this time around and fearing they couldn't translate most of the terms featured there correctly.