History YMMV / BlazBlueChronoPhantasma

* 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 injured, with the former in serious condition, 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.

See also:
* [[AwesomeMusic/BlazBlue Awesome Music - BlazBlue]]

* [[Memes/BlazBlue Memetic Mutation - BlazBlue]]
* [[Woobie/BlazBlue The Woobie - BlazBlue]]
* The YMMV pages for [[YMMV/BlazBlue the whole series]], ''[[YMMV/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger Calamity Trigger]]'', ''[[YMMV/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'', ''[[YMMV/BlazBlueCentralFiction Central Fiction]]'' and ''[[YMMV/BlazblueRemixHeart Remix Heart]]''.

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The new, crunchy on-hit sound, especially during Terumi's Astral Heat.

** 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 AuthorsSavingThrow above.
** Mu and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of]]. In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request. Also, you'd probably expect Mu and Izayoi to have a climactic fight ''against'' each other - they only do so in Izayoi's arcade, which isn't shown in the story.]]

** Litchi helping the above 'for a world where Roy lived' is considered by her detractors as this, regardless of her remorse and dislike that comes with it. Even her supporters think that while she gets better in the next game and continue to be a sympathetic woman, this one action is considered her black mark and her lowest point that will not go away that easily, she may [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn her break from torment]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction next game]], but [[ForgivenButNotForgotten while people can still think of * NarmCharm: After [[spoiler:Tsubaki/Izayoi is finally freed from the Imperator's control, she breaks down crying and begging for forgiveness in Jin's arms, and then Noel and Makoto break down into crying with her. While it's somewhat sweet (after all, they're finally reunited and they've all been through a lot), the noises they make are quite loud and ear-grating, not to mention over-acted. The NarmCharm comes in as some people find it still adds to the [[BuffySpeak heartwarming... ness]] of the scene.]]

** Litchi helping the above 'for a world where Roy lived' is considered by her detractors as this, regardless of her remorse and dislike that comes with it. Even her supporters think that while she gets better in the next game and continue to be a sympathetic woman, this one action is considered her black mark and her lowest point that will not go away that easily, she may [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn her break from torment]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction next game]], but [[ForgivenButNotForgotten while people can still think of her as sympathetic, forgetting this one black mark is easier said than done.]]
* MostAnnoyingSound:
** The cries of joy when the three [[spoiler:Noel, Makoto, and Tsubaki]] are reuinited.
** Pretty much all of Celica's in-battle lines. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. One.]]
* NarmCharm: After [[spoiler:Tsubaki/Izayoi is finally freed from the Imperator's control, she breaks down crying and begging for forgiveness in Jin's arms, and then Noel and Makoto break down into crying with her. While it's somewhat sweet (after all, they're finally reunited and they've all been through a lot), the noises they make are quite loud and ear-grating, not to mention over-acted. The NarmCharm comes in as some people find it still adds to the [[BuffySpeak heartwarming... ness]] of the scene.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Continuing the ''CS'' entry, ASW furthered their efforts by making Litchi look obviously not very pleased with working with Hazama/NOL and her ending involves her finally realizing how foolish her actions are. To top it off, ASW then tried pulling this with the NOL in general so they don't look like an always-evil [[TheEmpire empire]] thanks to the addition of Kagura Mutsuki. Head of the biggest and most powerful Duodecim family and a Colonel within the NOL, he's still an actually cool dude who'd shelter Noel and Makoto and chat with them with a smile even if they're public criminals.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Already, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' [[AwesomeMusic/BlazBlue had its entire soundtrack on the Awesome Music page]]. This time it's all been remixed, and judging by early videos it is just as insane.

* GoodBadBugs[=/=]GameBreakingBug: Unlimited Kagura has an OD Distortion where he rides his motorcycle into the opponent. Against normal characters this does a lot of damage, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYDks8OKL4o but against Relius and Carl]] this is a OneHitKill due to Nirvana and Ignis' Super Armor. Hopefully this gets patched out for the folks who do Unlimited Mars, as playing with either Clover against Kagura is a game of chance on whether or not he uses it.

* HarsherInHindsight: Litchi's Arcade win quote against Mu refers to her old world-hating form and says that she doesn't necessarily disagree with its overwhelming hatred that she wanted the world to be destroyed. [[spoiler:This comes to a head during the story's climax, where Litchi sides with Relius to "recreate the world" where Lotte Carmine lives, meaning that Litchi actually has a secret resentment for the world. [[FridgeBrilliance Before you call her obsessed like usual]], perhaps you may want to notice that the current world would lead Roy to become Arakune and had Litchi contact Boundary corruption to save him, eventually robbing her her chance to live as a normal human being (and dooming her to become the next Arakune) in the current world, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds which makes her character and decision become more pitifully miserable]]. [[CrapsackWorld It's that kind of world]].]]

* MemeticMutation: When Hakumen activates Overdrive in Japanese, the [[Creator/TetsuyaKakihara voice actor]] says "Yunito Kido!", but a lot of people mishear it as "UNIT COOKIE DOUGH!", and tend to refer it as such when describing his Overdrive.

* 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.]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: [[spoiler: The cries of joy when the three TrueCompanions are reuinited[[note]]Noel, Makoto, and Tsubaki[[/note]]]]

* {{Narm}}[=/=]NarmCharm: After [[spoiler:Tsubaki/Izayoi is finally freed from the Imperator's control, she breaks down crying and begging for forgiveness in Jin's arms, and then Noel and Makoto break down into crying with her. While it's somewhat sweet (after all, they're finally reunited and they've all been through a lot), the noises they make are quite loud and ear-grating, not to mention over-acted. The NarmCharm comes in as some people find it still adds to the [[BuffySpeak heartwarming... ness]] of the scene.]]

* 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 AuthorsSavingThrow above.

* TierInducedScrappy: There's a lot these this time around, but the standout example is probably Kokonoe. Her entire playstyle pretty much revolves around fucking over the opponent's movement options, which is a pretty essential component in a fighting game. Her combos did tons of damage from relatively simple motions, and she was the one of two characters [[note]]The other is Arakune, and he can't do much with it outside of curse[[/note]] with an unblockable setup that only a select few characters could escape. It got to the point when tournament scenes outright banned her from use. She's so good that even when they nerfed her in a patch that came out in March 2014[[note]]The patch was to bring the console exclusive characters to the Japanese arcade cabinents[[/note]], she is ''still'' considered by many to be the best character in the game.

** Extend is giving Makoto an altered Space-Counter input (214D) and special cancel to Lv2 D attacks, whereas Bullet gets a side-grade 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.

* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler:Many people guessed Phantom = Nine years in advance of TheReveal.]]

* CreatorsPet: What many Celica haters accuse her of being. Ignoring her haphazard introduction, she is pretty much tied to Ragna's waist 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.
** Azrael is a small example, he's Mori's god-mode sue parody of Guilty Gear's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Slayer]] and Akuma from Street Fighter who has beaten (if not stalemated) everyone in the roster while holding back and managing to be stronger than the main character till the very end.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Platinum possibly; she's quite a bit less grating this time around, largely due to Trinity, the most tolerable of her personalities, getting a lot more screentime as one of the six heroes. Her promotion to a regular on Teach Me, Miss Litchi also counts, where she fills TheStraightMan role, and comes off as the least annoying of the three.
** It also helps that in the gag endings she appears in, she's actually quite hilarious, even to the point where Luna thinks she's messed up during their gag ending.

* [[BrokenBase/BlazBlue Broken Base - BlazBlue]]

* PlayerPunch: The True Ending and Epilogue. [[spoiler:Ragna manages to destroy Take-Mikazuchi and free Nu from its core, Terumi is slain by Hakumen, and Relius is stripped of all of his resources. Relius' perfectionist attitude does not take failures well, causing him to suffer a massive breakdown, and he's now at the mercy of both his son whom he mocked before (and extremely traumatized casually long ago) AND the woman he's been playing like a puppet by using her love interest as leverage [[note]]with said son and woman actually caring about each other, meaning that their cooperation this time may open up a path to resolution or redemption[[/note]]. The heroes instate a good-natured, more proper leader (Homura, son of Tenjou) as the new (and rightful) Imperator of the NOL, which will help dispel its infamous reputation (in and out of universe) as [[TheEmpire a tyrannical organization]]. Happy ending? Wrong. Saya reveals herself as Izanami and the cast are completely helpless against her (Izanami never having required Terumi and Relius' help in the first place). Nu stabs Ragna in the back and Izanami forces his Grimoire to go out of control, turning him into a mindless berserker. Jin and Noel try to stop him, but are defeated (and in Jin's case, severely wounded). The epilogue has Rachel explain to a vengeful Tsubaki that either Jin or her have to kill Ragna before it's too late. Oh, and the new NOL, despite the alignment change, now ends up ''understaved'' due to Izanami's actions, meaning that facing her in the future will be even ''harder''[[note]]Not to mention, they only managed to instate Homura because Izanami ''lets them'' instead of them executing a proper takeover, and according to Kagura, only ''half of the Duodecim'' agrees to join up with him in rebelling and instating Homura, so in case everything's free, the new NOL may have to face insurgencies of pro-Homura and anti-Homura.[[/note]].]]

* BrokenBase: The game may have gone over for the most part, but that still doesn't change a few controversial things people have claimed.
** Noel's original costume is a DLC set. Now normally this would be alright by itself, but then Arcsys decided to include her old Astral Heat, ''in addition to her new one.'' Which means that Noel is right now the only character in the series with two Astral Heats.
** The nixing of the individual character routes has led to some debates; some like the more streamlined experience, while others feel that the cast suffer from OutOfFocus as a result, particularly the newcomers (see TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter below).
*** And the decision to [[spoiler: kill off Terumi]]. Not so much that it was done, because he definitely had it coming, but the method in how it happened and who did it, with many feeling it should have been [[TheHero Ragna]]. [[spoiler: Hakumen engages Terumi(Now separate from Hazama) in the True Ending, and with some help from Trinity, kills him with a never before seen technique.]] It's either really [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] or really {{anti|ClimaxBoss}}climactic. That said, the flames have cooled a bit since the [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction next game]] [[spoiler: shows he's very much alive, albeit on borrowed time because of Hakumen's attack]]
*** 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 is when some people just started to throw their hands up in frustration with the series` treatment of the main character, while others maintain that this is simply the series going through its DarkestHour and such was to be expected at some point.
** And the inevitable [[UpdatedRerelease re-release]] of the game of course has gotten this reaction.
*** While any changes buff nerfs or otherwise will have some degree of a broken base, CPE's balance changes are easily the most divisive to date.
*** There ended up being enough 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=] wasn't at EVO 2015]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** [[NiceGuy Celica A. Mercury]] as well. Reading of the Phase Shift novels aside, those who like her find her sunny attitude and cute demeanor enjoyable, whereas her detractors consider her an unbearable Mary Sue who everyone speaks highly of and cares for, seems to completely dominate Ragna's character and story development and generally acts too foolish even in serious scenes. Her becoming a playable character has only fanned the flames.
** [[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.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: While newcomers Amane and Bullet have their fans (especially [[MsFanservice Bullet]]), Azrael is the most well-received character out of all the newcomers, due to possibly being even more RatedMForManly than Bang, and the fact that his [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Japanese voice actor's]] previous role was a [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath certain six-armed god killer]] gives him even more popularity points.
** Speaking of, [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/nKr7fWFS_Js/maxresdefault.jpg this]] rendition of Bullet in a Ragna-inspired outfit has gotten a surprising amount of attention--and fanart--from people. She just can't help but look good in that BadassLongcoat.

BaseBreakingCharacter:
** [[NiceGuy Celica A. Mercury]] as well. Reading of the Phase Shift novels aside, those who like her find her sunny attitude and cute demeanor enjoyable, whereas her detractors consider her an unbearable Mary Sue who everyone speaks highly of and cares for, seems to completely dominate Ragna's character and story development and generally acts too foolish even in serious scenes. Her becoming a playable character has only fanned the flames.
** [[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.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: ** Continuing the ''CS'' entry, ASW furthered their efforts by making Litchi look obviously not very pleased with working with Hazama/NOL and her ending involves her finally realizing how foolish her actions are. To top it off, ASW then tried pulling this with the NOL in general so they don't look like an always-evil [[TheEmpire empire]] thanks to the addition of Kagura Mutsuki. Head of the biggest and most powerful Duodecim family and a Colonel within the NOL, he's still an actually cool dude who'd shelter Noel and Makoto and chat with them with a smile even if they're public criminals.
[[spoiler:''CP'' actually zig-zags this for Litchi. First she's shown to be not very pleased against Hazama and Relius despite working with them, but then they made it that she didn't have a HeelRealization and instead plunged her into further depression to the point of helping Relius in attempting to reset the world. However, they've given enough hints that she's still unhappy with the choice and it was only because it's the only path available to her, making her show remorse, then proceeds to break down Relius and [[ThrowTheDogABone freed Litchi from his manipulations and gave her Carl to hang around with so she may temper her obsession in the future]]. Whether the saving throw succeeds is up to the player's exercise.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Continuing the ''CS'' entry, ASW furthered their efforts by making Litchi look obviously not very pleased with working with Hazama/NOL and her ending involves her finally realizing how foolish her actions are. To top it off, ASW then tried pulling this with the NOL in general so they don't look like an always-evil [[TheEmpire empire]] thanks to the addition of Kagura Mutsuki. Head of the biggest and most powerful Duodecim family and a Colonel within the NOL, he's still an actually cool dude who'd shelter Noel and Makoto and chat with them with a smile even if they're public criminals.
** [[spoiler:''CP'' actually zig-zags this for Litchi. First she's shown to be not very pleased against Hazama and Relius despite working with them, but then they made it that she didn't have a HeelRealization and instead plunged her into further depression to the point of helping Relius in attempting to reset the world. However, they've given enough hints that she's still unhappy with the choice and it was only because it's the only path available to her, making her show remorse, then proceeds to break down Relius and [[ThrowTheDogABone freed Litchi from his manipulations and gave her Carl to hang around with so she may temper her obsession in the future]]. Whether the saving throw succeeds is up to the player's exercise.]]

* BrokenBase[=/=]BaseBreaker: The game may have gone over for the most part, but that still doesn't change a few controversial things people have claimed.

** [[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. This was rectified in ''Extend'' which features Library mode in all regions.
** [[NiceGuy Celica A. Mercury]] as well. Reading of the Phase Shift novels aside, those who like her find her sunny attitude and cute demeanor enjoyable, whereas her detractors consider her an unbearable Mary Sue who everyone speaks highly of and cares for, seems to completely dominate Ragna's character and story development and generally acts too foolish even in serious scenes. Her becoming a playable character has only fanned the flames.

*** There ended up being enough 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]].

* CrazyAwesome: Kokonoe's fighting style when she's finally a playable character, consisting of her pulling out various ridiculous weapons and gadgets and having Distortion where she summons a giant Golden Tager to fire a gun.

** Azrael is a small example, he's Mori's god mod sue parody of Guilty Gear's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Slayer]] and Akuma from Street Fighter who has beaten(if not stalemated) everyone in the roster while holding back and managing to be stronger than the main character till the very end.

* EvilIsCool: Azreal is this games best example going out of its way to make a character an unstoppable badass and making him look good while doing so.

** It's YMMV for a reason in this. Litchi helping the above 'for a world where Roy lived' is considered by her detractors as this, regardless of her remorse and dislike that comes with it. Even her supporters think that while she gets better in the next game and continue to be a sympathetic woman, this one action is considered her black mark and her lowest point that will not go away that easily, she may [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn her break from torment]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction next game]], but [[ForgivenButNotForgotten while people can still think of her as sympathetic, forgetting this one black mark is easier said than done.]]

** Mu and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of]]. In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request. Also, you'd probably expect Mu and Izayoi to have a climactic fight ''against'' each other - they don't.]]

* EvilIsCool: Azreal, probably the best of example of the series going out of its way to make a character an unstoppable badass and making him look good while doing so.

** If you use Relius in [[spoiler:Highlander mode]] on the Vita, there's a massive amount of lag, for whatever reason. Carl thankfully doesn't suffer this, despite having his own puppet.

** Mu and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of]]. In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request. Also, you'd probably expect them to fight ''against'' each other - they don't.]]

** Mu and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of]]. In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request.]]

** ''Extend'' also adds some additional clarification to come dropped plot threads from the vanilla version. Namely what happened to Bullet's squad. [[spoiler: they were hired by Sector 7 to retrieve Nirvana, but ran into Azrael and were all slaughtered.]]

*** And the decision to [[spoiler: kill off Terumi]]. Not so much that it was done, because he definitely had it coming, but the method in how it happened and who did it, with many feeling it should have been [[TheHero Ragna]]. [[spoiler: Hakumen engages Terumi(Now separate from Hazama) in the True Ending, and with some help from Trinity, kills him with a never before seen technique.]] Its either really [[MomentOfAwesome awesome]] or really [[AntiClimaxBoss anticlimactic]]. That said, the flames have cooled a bit since the [[VideoGame/BlazblueCentralFiction next game]] [[spoiler: shows he's very much alive, albeit on borrowed time because of Hakumen's attack]]

** [[NiceGirl Celica A. Mercury]] as well. Reading of the Phase Shift novels aside, those who like her find her sunny attitude and cute demeanor enjoyable, whereas her detractors consider her an unbearable MarySue who everyone speaks highly of and cares for, seems to completely dominate Ragna's character and story development and generally acts too foolish even in serious scenes. Her becoming a playable character has only fanned the flames.

** Terumi's [[http://youtu.be/ENFUaHuCz5M?t=2m22s maniacal laugh]] has become one in it's own right.

** Mu and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of.]] In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request.]]

** Azrael's ending has both him and Ragna unleash their full power and go all out against the other. Now while Ragna does fight Azrael in the main story mode, he chooses to restrain the Azure Grimoire and not fight all out showing a [[CharacterDevelopment major growth in his character.]] Azrael then turns his attention to Kagura before being sealed away again, and his PowerLimiter isn't even mentioned. While Ragna did grow as a character from not using the grimoire, how amazing would it have been to have an Unlimited Ragna vs. Unlimited Azrael fight.

*** And the decision to [[spoiler: kill off Terumi]]. Not so much that it was done, because he definitely had it coming, but the method in how it happened and who did it, with many feeling it should have been [[TheHero Ragna]]. [[spoiler: Hakumen engages Terumi(Now separate from Hazama) in the True Ending, and with some help from Trinity, kills him with a never before seen technique.]] Its either really [[MomentOfAwesome awesome]] or really [[AntiClimaxBoss anticlimactic]].

*** And the decision to [[spoiler: kill off Terumi]]. Not so much that it was done, because he definitely had it coming, but the method in how it happened and who did it, with many feeling it should have been [[TheHero Ragna]]. [[spoiler: Hakumen engages Terumi(Now separate from Hazama) in the True Ending, and with some help from Trinity, kills him with a never before seen technique.]] Its either really [[MomentOfAwesome awesome]] or really [[AntiClimaxBoss anticlimactic]]

* 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.]] The fact Litchi helped on this can be seen as one for her too.

** The nixing of the individual character routes has led to some debates; some like the more streamlined experience, while others feel that the cast suffer from OutOfFocus as a result, particularly the newcomers(See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter below)

** Celica A. Mercury as well. Reading of the Phase Shift novels aside, those who like her find her sunny attitude and cute demeanor enjoyable, whereas her detractors consider her an unbearable MarySue who everyone speaks highly of and cares for, seems to completely dominate Ragna's character and story development and generally acts too foolish even in serious scenes. Her becoming a playable character has only fanned the flames.

** Mu-12 and Izayoi also qualify, [[PlayingWithATrope sort of.]] In story mode they're treated as {{Super Mode}}s for Noel and Tsubaki respectively, whom both get plenty of spotlight as it is. However, while both girls get enormous CharacterDevelopment to attain these forms, they're actually very underutilized and you only get to use them in one fight each. [[spoiler:Mu shows up a good portion into the story, and Noel only uses it to fight Nu (she loses), open an invisible door, and fight a berserk Ragna off-screen (which is another loss). Izayoi shows up even later than Mu does, and after Tsubaki gains control over the form the only thing she does with it is fight Carl. Although Izayoi might fare a bit better since Tsubaki is going to attempt to kill Ragna with it after he injured Jin and Noel. Should she or Jin fail to do so, Tsubaki will use it to kill Rachel as per her request.]]

** [[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!.