BlazBlue: General thread.

I believe there's a limit on Celica's healing; Jin still needed treatment after confronting Ragna in the ending, so I would imagine Bullet was still in care too.

Celica could pull off a Josuke crazy Diamond I just realized.

She heals up the enemy than Minerva goes ballistic on them with a DORA barrage.

It'd make cool fan art lol.

Her AH is basically that. Just with less DORA and more ramming at high speed.

One thing about Celica, she has some cool looking specials. Her theme is nice too.

"I figured if I heal you, then beat the crap out of you. I wouldn't be harming the weak now would I"

Celica is secretly a sadist :V I kinda laugh whenever a match ends and she's wondering if Minerva killed her opponent by accident.

Celica probably has my fav sprite animations.

Also we're all past the whole CF spoiler phase, but I found some more pics if anyone's curious: Noel ;_;, aaaand Kagura being a dick lol.

Can't see much, but Makoto's looking mighty fine in that outfit.

Dat backless outfit.

I love how Noel's outfit is just an older version of the one she wore in that CS flashback. Its also surprising Ragna isn't anywhere in her fantasy...just Makoto and Tsubaki...which means, LESBIANS.

Now Tsubaki, just drop Jin like a bad habit :V

So what did Kagura do to Tsubaki anyway?

Lesbian end is best end, oh and Jin's kinda dead in that other cg, so at least Tsubaki can freely gay it up in that timeline lol.

Also oh yeah that is Noel's flashback outfit, the headband makes it extra cute.

tried to kill Jin, Tsubaki let Jin escape, but someone caught up to him and killed him. The pic looks like they dragged his body back for her to see lol.

edited 30th Nov '15 8:36:51 AM by Marona

Wow. Kagura killed Jin? He IS a hero after all! :D

But seriously what on earth is going on here? Is Kagura now suddenly an assface because "Alt universe lol"?

edited 30th Nov '15 9:10:32 AM by MightyKombat

Kagura killed Jin for the sake of Noel/Makoto/Tsubaki end, he's truly a hero.

but yeah it's just an alt universe type of thing. He's quite antagonistic in Jin(kinda) and Tsubaki's arcades for whatever reason. Well maybe he's more just like how Tsubaki herself acted, extreme loyalty to the NOL? Kagura's similar to his usual self in his own arcade from what I can tell though.

edited 30th Nov '15 9:34:54 AM by Marona

So I guess in his own arcade is the Kagura we remember from CP who was marketed as a straight good guy and he knows he's in a very wrong world? I'm hoping its that.

Actually there are very few characters that retained their memories, Kagura lost his too and is chasing after Ragna with his crew. Thinking about it, I'm not actually sure how Kagura acts in his own story, but he does retain his perv qualities in his battle and victory quotes.

Okay, now I'm getting worried. Pretty sure Mori went on and on in interviews about how Kagura was a legit good guy that BB needed. I don't wanna see that flushed down the crapper for cheap drama as well.

Then again it IS Mori. Fool me once.

Well, since its Jin and Tsubaki's ideal worlds, maybe they just don't view Kagura that favorably lol. It is kind of a shame how he's kind of a dick now, but eh conflict.

So, if you guys could change one thing about the series, what would it be and why?

Have Makoto call out Jin.

Cut Izanami out, just have Saya turn out to have become evil from being broken by Hazama and Relius' manipulations.

This makes the plot hijack at the end of CP more satisfying, keeps the personal element of Ragna's struggle intact fully, and doesn't introduce a goddess that's going to require a hundred contrivances to kill.

The phase shift/chrono phantasma/X Blaze crap as it kind of over-complicated the story and took it in a new direction

And Mu's battle outfit,

x4 I'm pretty content with the gameplay atm, but I'm more of a casual player.

Uhh I guess I'd want BB to be less lewd, and perhaps have a writer that keeps characters consistent. Also a storymode music composer that doesn't recycle tracks, hearing the same "emotional" song over and over again kinda cheapens some scenes.

I realize that's multiple things, so out of all of them I'd say I want more consistent/good writing the most.

edited 30th Nov '15 12:04:11 PM by Marona

Have Ragna not be constantly shat on 24/7.

I have a list. I'm not sure if I can even get half of it down now, but the main ones are,

• Rip every single bit of the side stories (Phase Shift, being a Prequel, can stay) out of the main plot.
• Have way less time travel bullshit (Looking at you Bloodedge reveal...)
• Ease on the terminology.

What about Bloodedge Experience though? It does kind of shed some light on Valk and Relius` past, are you sure we don't need that?

I would, change how CP's story played out; namely make the Six Heroes it's own path without the recap of Phase Shift, adapt some things from Sector 7 into the main story. And kind of not make Celica completely tied at Ragna's hip.

edited 30th Nov '15 1:39:21 PM by BlackYakuzu94

Anything to do solely with past relationships can easily be contained in an in-game side-story like the Extends have been doing.

Can't really say much about CP without advocating an outright renovation of the story (though the "exorcise Kagura" option does leave quite a lot of wiggle room, interestingly enough), so as for series-wide issues:

• Make the joke endings more like CT where they were nice surprises and actually felt natural.
• Significantly reduce the DEMs and Plot Armor in favor of decent combat writing (indirectly nerfing CS Terumi, which is also a major plus).
• Stop celebrating the fact that each new main villain's goals make no lick of sense.

edited 30th Nov '15 2:12:56 PM by Demonfly

That'd be fine, but then you'd be cutting out Naoto's entire story and make his playable appearance make even less sense :V

What were CT's joke endings again? I know there was the Litchi one, but I'm drawing a blank on the rest.

edited 30th Nov '15 2:25:04 PM by BlackYakuzu94

• Ragna: Tao turns the dreaded Grim Reaper into a dine-and-dasher (kinda loses its luster once variants of this became a normal routine in the main story, but regardless).
• Noel: the Litchi one
• Tager: Golden Tager is introduced, with an Asshole Victim Bang getting thoroughly stomped.
• Bang: Initially serious confrontation leads to shenanigans involving a frozen Jin.
• Tao: Mechakaka is introduced, then light-hearted Bang shenanigans.
• Carl: Light-hearted Bang shenanigans.

IIRC there were also some optional "joke intermissions" like in Tao and Litchi's routes. Overall, more flexible and less reliant on OOC, huge gatherings, and sheer quantity.