History YMMV / BlazBlueChronoPhantasma

* CreatorsPet: What many Celica haters accuse her of being. Ignoring her haphazard introduction, she is pretty much tied to Ragna's waste for a majority of the game which means she plays a major role in the plot [[SpotlightStealingSquad to the exclusion of other characters.]] Ragna draws a significant portion of his CharacterDevelopment in this game from her, and the cast pretty much dotes over her completely. To add salt into the wound, she becomes a playable character later on despite being an ActualPacifist with no killing intent or fighting capability, she has a robot specifically made for her to do the fighting. That said, this is mostly a case of AmericansHateTingle as she's fairly popular over in Blazblue's home country.

* [[HandsomeLech Kagura Mutsuki]], although to a much lesser extent than Celica. Some love his laid-back yet genuinely helpful personality and his efforts towards trying to fight the corruption within the series. Others hate him for, similar to Celica, [[SpotlightStealingSquad taking screentime away from other established characters]] and find his perverseness obnoxious and a case of DudeNotFunny!.

* BlackHoleSue: What Celica's detractors accuse her of, mostly. It don't helps that she literally projects a field just by living that sucks all seithr around her, turning Hazama (and Ragna) almost defenseless, making the poster villain of the series and NightmareFuel incarnate almost melt in fear in the presence, of all things, a CuteWitch. And how Kokonoe mandates the protagonist to be around her, she is present to many plot-important moments and Ragna ends up drawing motivation from her to drive his CharacterDevelopment. Also, [[ArsonMurderandJayWalking she kicks Jin when he acts like an jerk]], that is more than can be said about many other characters.

** Amane is this to some as being the lowest tiered character in the game, mainly due to his weak damage on hit and very dependent spacing on his some of his attacks. The fact that his Distortions disable his Drive also doesn't help, but he's still far from being non-viable in the proper hands.

** Extend is giving Makoto an altered Space-Counter input (214D) and special cancel to Lv2 D attacks, whereas Bullet gets a sidegrade to Miquelet Capture, leaving the latter trapped in "trash tier". It appears as if Bullet's design truly is cursed, but the loketests may show a different side of this story.

* ThatOneLevel: The period of a few chapters where Ranga can't use his Azure Grimoire in the story mode because of [[spoiler:Celica]] has you face Jin and Azrael. The problem? Ragna can't use any of his Drive attacks at all, which means that not only is Ragna unable to use his own gameplay style, he can't use distorions. The worst part? Doing a drive results in you getting stuck in place (where Ragna does his activation for Blood Kain but can't) for a attack and since this is [[KillItWithIce Jin]] and [[ForMassiveDamage Azrael]], you're fighting the two worst characters for such a thing.

* ThatOneLevel: The period of a few chapters where Ranga can't use his Azure Grimoire in the story mode because of [[spoiler:Celica]] has you face Jin and Azrael. The problem? Ragna can't use any of his Drive attacks at all, which means that not only is Ragna unable to use his own gameplay style, he can't use distorions. The worst part? Doing a drive results in you getting stuck in place for a attack and since this is [[KillItWithIce Jin]] and [[ForMassiveDamage Azrael]], your fighting the two worst characters for such a thing.

*** And the ending as well. [[spoiler: Ragna "saves" Nu and takes her out of Take-Mikazuchi's core and has Celica heal her, no longer having any desire to destroy her. Hades/Saya shows up and the cast are helpless against her; at which point she commands for Ragna's grimoire to go out of control and morph him into Black Beast like creature similar to his bad ending in ''Continuum Shift.''(And this is after Nu literally stabs him in the back) Ragna loses control of his body, and critically injures Jin and Noel. In the epilogue, Tsubaki decides to go after Ragna to kill him herself and Rachel tells her that she or Jin need to kill him soon before he becomes an even bigger problem.]] Ragna always got the short end of the stick, but this when people just started to throw their hands up in frustration with the series` treatment of the main character.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Zig-Zagged. For the most part the game is the most hopeful in the series. The protagonists are working together towards a common goal and have a plan, Ragna and Jin get CharacterDevelopment that shows them become better people, and the heroes are finally able to counter the villains in terms of planning and have several important victories. The ending however is the darkest yet. [[spoiler: While Terumi and Relius have been defeated, Izanami takes the position of BigBad and absorbs a large portion of humanity into the Embryo, and the world lost seithr, which was its main power source. Platinum is possibly dead, Jin and Noel are seriously injured and Ragna is destined to die]]. While the games have always had bright and dark moments this clearly the series’ DarkestHour, which might cause some people to stop caring.

* 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 Ibukido uninhabitable 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, Ikaruga 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.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story's ending quickly turns into the darkest in the series thus far, with it being [[spoiler: the second game in the series in a row to have an ending where TheBadGuyWins]]. Not only that but characters [[spoiler: such as fan-favorite Terumi and Platinum getting unceremoniously killed off, and Ragna suffering a horrible fate as well]] has started to leave some fans really cynical about the story.

* BlackHoleSue: What Celica's detractors accuse her of, mostly. It don't helps that she literally projects a field just by living that sucks all seithr around her, turning Hazama(and Ragna) almost defenseless, making the poster villain of the series and NightmareFuel incarnate almost melt in fear in the presence, of all things, a CuteWitch. And how Kokonoe mandates the protagonist to be around her, she is present to many plot-important moments and Ragna ends up drawing motivation from her to drive his CharacterDevelopment. Also, [[ArsonMurderandJayWalking she kicks Jin when he acts like an jerk]], that is more than can be said about many other characters.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Newcomers Azrael, Bullet, and Amane don't get that much screen time in the three routes. Azrael, while a major force, is pretty much just an obstacle for the heroes to overcome. We never find out what ultimately happened with Bullet's squad or her connection to Kokonoe, and Amane doesn't even try to involve himself in the main conflicts. Bullet's issue gets resolved a little bit come ''Chronophantasma Extend'', but Azrael and Amane don't get much. see AuthorSavingThrow above.

** CP2.0 is giving Makoto an altered Space-Counter input (214D) and special cancel to Lv2 D attacks, whereas Bullet gets a sidegrade to Miquelet Capture, leaving the latter trapped in "trash tier". It appears as if Bullet's design truly is cursed, but the loketests may show a different side of this story.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Newcomers Azrael, Bullet, and Amane don't get that much screen time in the three routes. Azrael, while a major force, is pretty much just an obstacle for the heroes to overcome. We never find out what ultimately happened with Bullet's squad or her connection to Kokonoe, and Amane doesn't even try to involve himself in the main conflicts. Bullet's issue may be resolved in ''Chronophantasma Extend'', but that still leaves Amane and Azrael in the dust.

** Makoto lost all of her Mary Sue traits that plagued her story in ''Continuum Shift Extend'' and gained a personality beyond her friends. For those who hated her because of those reasons, it's a much welcome change that made her into a better, likeable character.

** [[http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/08/happened-blazblue-chrono-phantasmas-library-mode-arc-system-works-usa-responds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+siliconera%2FMkOc+%28Siliconera%29 The removal of Library Mode from the US]] version has also attracted a lot of ire from fans who wanted it to clarify the story better.

*** It ended up being so making so many people annoyed at the rerelease that [[http://www.siliconera.com/2015/01/28/evo-organizer-on-why-king-of-fighters-was-dropped-mortal-kombat-x-and-more/ it's cited as the main reason why [=BlazBlue=] isn't gong to be at EVO 2015]].

** 2.0 has Nu take over Kokonoe's place. Why? Because despite losing Luna mode, she has ''tons'' of new things to play with. Her gravity seed attacks (that puts a well of gravity on the field that makes the opponent's movement slow to a crawl and can be used to extend combos) recharge so fast that she can use them immediately after they wear off, effectively preventing the opponent from so much as moving if done by a skilled Nu. She also gained a new move, which is essentially a fake version of her overhead (she does the movement but her attack doesn't happen) that can be canceled into itself and the ''real'' move, and even has a delayed version that comes out after she finishes her attack animation. Since the move is really fast, this makes closing in on her a complete guessing game and mostly hoping that Nu doesn't use the real or delayed version of the move when you decide to attack. Lastly, she has an unblockable that, if it connects, will lead to a ''massively'' damaging combo if it isn't dropped.

* MoralEventHorizon: Just in case you were thinking Imperator Librarius might be misguided in some fashion, or that Terumi and/or Relius didn't fly across the line in an earlier game, [[spoiler:the three of them open every cauldron in the world for the sake of disintegrating every living being on earth and using their souls to summon - and slay - the Master Unit. Everyone who was terminally corrupted by the time Kushinada's Lynchpin activates dies anyway and gets absorbed into the Embryo instead, which the Imperator, now outed as Hades: Izanami, evoked from the remains of Take-Mikazuchi. Not one of them had any remorse over this heinous act.]]

** ''Chronophantasma Extend'' is slated for release on the [=XBox=] One as well. Whether it does anything to soothe the rage is yet to be seen.

%% CP2.0 is giving Makoto an altered Space-Counter input (214D) and special cancel to Lv2 D attacks, whereas Bullet gets a sidegrade to Miquelet Capture, leaving the latter trapped in "trash tier". It appears as if Bullet's design truly is cursed, but the loketests may show a different side of this story.

* ChaoticEvil: Look at the image for Terumi. LOOK AT HIM! Then look at the rest of the tropes. He's the paragon of the ChaoticEvil Alignment in BlazBlue.

* AssPull: Hakumen [[spoiler:using Time Killer to defeat Terumi once and for all]] seems like one, due to only being mentioned once somewhere that most people won't look[[note]]Arakune's arcade ending, and it isn't even mentioned exactly ''what'' it is, only that it's very powerful and Hakumen was saving it for Terumi[[/note]] and coming out of nowhere.