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** Likewise, [[spoiler:losing to Arakune as Kokonoe will also unlock a similar achievement]].
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** [[spoiler:Losing to Susano'o while playing as Hakumen]] awards a unique achievement.
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** [[spoiler:Losing to Susano'o while playing as Hakumen]] awards Hakumen or beating Susano'o as Ragna]] both award a unique achievement.
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* NewGamePlus: Finishing the storyline will permanently lock you out of other endings on that playthrough. However, you can "Inherit" your Prototypes, Evotypes, Mind Upgrades, and Crystals to a new save.
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** During the final phase of the Ultimate Trial [[spoiler: the health bars from Central Fiction replace the HUD and the camera zooms in, mimicking the presentation of the Blazblue fighting games.]]
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* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Yukikaze (Empty Sky Form: Winter's Riposte) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, the skill becomes Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt), where the user creates a glyph that renders them momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike.
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* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Yukikaze (Empty Sky Form: Winter's Riposte) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, the skill becomes Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt), where the user creates a glyph that renders them momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike. Jinrai is also available for Hakumen as a Potential, and is easily his most damaging attack.
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* FinalBoss: Clear the Elite Sample of Area Omega, and you get to challenge the Ultimate Sample and final boss of Mind Training: [[spoiler:Susano'o]].
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* FinalBoss: Clear the Elite Sample of Area Omega, and you get to challenge the Ultimate Sample and final boss of Mind Training: [[spoiler:Susano'o]]. Additionally, once you've completed all the Mind Uploads, you can face the Ultimate Trial: [[spoiler: Susano'o again, but this time with a third phase that mimics the 2D fighting games.]]
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** [[spoiler:Losing to Susano'o while playing asHakumen Hakumen]] awards a unique achievement.]]achievement.
** During the final phase of the Ultimate Trial [[spoiler: the health bars from Central Fiction replace the HUD and the camera zooms in, mimicking the presentation of the Blazblue fighting games.]]
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** During the final phase of the Ultimate Trial [[spoiler: the health bars from Central Fiction replace the HUD and the camera zooms in, mimicking the presentation of the Blazblue fighting games.]]
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via Platform/{{Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam and was released on January 30, 2024.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming a 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via Platform/{{Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam and was released on January 30, 2024.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: You are accompanied by a female handler from within [=SkysEyes=] who is meant to assist you with the Mind Training program. However, once she learns about the Phenomena and how they provide visions of the past, she deviates from her job and decides to help you investigate [=SkysEyes=] to see if they're up to something shady.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: You are accompanied by a female handler from within [=SkysEyes=] who is meant to assist you with the Mind Training program. However, once she learns about the Phenomena and how they provide visions of the past, she deviates from her job and decides to help you investigate [=SkysEyes=] to see if they're up to something shady.shady.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via Platform/{{Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam and will be was released on January 31st, 30, 2024.
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* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'': Ragna the Bloodedge, Jin Kisaragi, Noel Vermillion, Taokaka, Hakumen
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'': Lambda-11
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'': Kokonoe
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'': Hibiki Kohaku
* From ''[[Manga/BlazBlueRemixHeart BlazBlue: Remix Heart]]'': Mai Natsume
* From ''[[VisualNovel/XBlaze XBlaze Code: Embryo]]'': Es
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* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'': Ragna the Bloodedge, Jin Kisaragi, Noel Vermillion, Taokaka, Hakumen
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'': Lambda-11
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'': Kokonoe
* From ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'': Hibiki Kohaku
* From ''[[Manga/BlazBlueRemixHeart BlazBlue: Remix Heart]]'': Mai Natsume
* From ''[[VisualNovel/XBlaze XBlaze Code: Embryo]]'': Es
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam and will be released on January 31st, 2024.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam and will be released on January 31st, 2024.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam.
Steam and will be released on January 31st, 2024.
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* CastFromHP: This, alongside LifeDrain, is Ragna's primary gimmick: His Skill, Carnage Scissors, costs HP to cast, but heals Ragna if it connects, and many of his potentials grant him additional ways to spend HP for attacks (special mention goes to the "Blood Kain" potential, which applies this to ''all'' of Ragna's attacks). Ragna's Legacy Skill is Dead Spike, which pays 20% of the user's HP to shoot a projectile forwards that deals damage and heals the user when it hits enemies.
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* {{Metroidvania}}: Once you clear three areas in Mind Training, you unlock access to Area Omega where, unlike the self-contained instances used in the normal stages, is a sizeable open-world map where you are given free reign to explore. Here, further character progress is achieved by using your remaining Exchange Points to buy from the shop and seeking out treasures that grant a substantial EP and AP bonus. In addition, there are boss Sample rooms scattered around the map that will trigger encounters with foes even more powerful than those fought in the normal stages.
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* {{Metroidvania}}: Once you clear three areas in Mind Training, you unlock access to Area Omega where, unlike the self-contained instances used in the normal stages, is you play through a sizeable randomly-generated open-world map where you are given free reign to explore. Here, further character progress is achieved by using your remaining Exchange Points to buy from the shop and seeking out treasures that grant a substantial EP and AP bonus. In addition, there are boss Sample rooms scattered around the map that will trigger two more major encounters with foes even more powerful than those fought in here to complete your run: a miniboss Elite Sample and the normal stages.Ultimate Sample.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: During your mission, you hear rumors of a rogue ACER named Stan. He is known as a wanted criminal and is described as exceedingly dangerous, being blacklisted from [=SkysEyes=] on multiple occasions to the point where several legends around him have popped up, such as a story of him hacking [=SkysEyes=] and stealing millions of AP. However, you do wind up bumping into him once and he turns out to be surprisingly amicable fellow who has a penchant for waxing poetic and provides some vague hints for the player's search for the truth. [[spoiler:After clearing Mind Challenge Phase 2, you get roped into an impromptu interrogation by [=SkysEyes=]' Security Bureau, where you have the opportunity to rat on him or protect him as a friend.]]
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: During your mission, you hear rumors of a rogue ACER named Stan. He is known as a wanted criminal and is described as exceedingly dangerous, being blacklisted from [=SkysEyes=] on multiple occasions to the point where several legends around him have popped up, such as a story of him hacking [=SkysEyes=] and stealing millions of AP. However, you do You wind up bumping into him once and on multiple occasions (involuntarily, no less) where he turns out is revealed to be surprisingly amicable fellow a raving conspiracy theorist who has a penchant for waxing poetic believes that [=SkysEyes=] and provides some vague hints for the player's search for the truth.anyone associated with it is evil; however, he doesn't display any particularly evil tendencies of his own besides having a few screws loose. [[spoiler:After clearing Mind Challenge Phase 2, you get roped into an impromptu interrogation by [=SkysEyes=]' Security Bureau, where you have the opportunity to rat on him or protect him as a friend.]]
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* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Losing to Susano'o while playing as Hakumen awards a unique achievement.]]
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* FinalBoss: Clear the Elite Sample of Area Omega, and you get to challenge the Ultimate Sample and final boss of Mind Training: [[spoiler:Susano'o]].
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* DoorToBefore: In Area Omega, there are several warp points scattered across the map that will activate once you pass through them. You can use a warp point to travel to any other unlocked warp point, saving you time backtracking when you need to go to a previously visited area such as a shop or boss room.
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* {{Metroidvania}}: Once you clear three areas in Mind Training, you unlock access to Area Omega where, unlike the self-contained instances used in the normal stages, is a sizeable open-world map where you are given free reign to explore. Here, further character progress is achieved by using your remaining Exchange Points to buy from the shop and seeking out treasures that grant a substantial EP and AP bonus. In addition, there are boss Sample rooms scattered around the map that will trigger encounters with foes even more powerful than those fought in the normal stages.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: A single Evotype can only be used once in a Mind Challenge. Once it is used, regardless of whether or not you won or lost, that Evotype cannot be used again. This will eventually force you back to Mind Training to create a new Evotype to replace consumed ones.
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* DashAttack:
** Most characters have the ability to perform a unique attack by inputting Basic Attack while in their dashing animation. Some can also upgrade this with Potentials to boost it or alter its effects.
** Hakumen's dash is unique as it has a hitbox and can strike foes by charging into them with knockback. [[DiscardAndDraw As a tradeoff]], Hakumen's dash lacks invulnerability frames by default and can only gain an invulnerable dash by claiming a specific Potential.
** Most characters have the ability to perform a unique attack by inputting Basic Attack while in their dashing animation. Some can also upgrade this with Potentials to boost it or alter its effects.
** Hakumen's dash is unique as it has a hitbox and can strike foes by charging into them with knockback. [[DiscardAndDraw As a tradeoff]], Hakumen's dash lacks invulnerability frames by default and can only gain an invulnerable dash by claiming a specific Potential.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Entropy Particles are a key material to the game's setting. They originate from the Entropy Ocean that surrounds the plateau that the game takes place on and their properties are as mysterious as their origins. The player discovers via the Phenomena that [=SkysEyes=] was conducting experiments with Entropy Particles at some point in the past despite the fact that they are supposedly difficult to transport in large quantities and dangerous to handle.
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* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: The sprites and assets (such as Japanese voice work) for the playable cast is reused from their appearances in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction''.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: During your mission, you hear rumors of a rogue ACER named Stan. He is known as a wanted criminal and is described as exceedingly dangerous, being blacklisted from [=SkysEyes=] on multiple occasions to the point where several legends around him have popped up, such as a story of him hacking [=SkysEyes=] and stealing millions of AP. However, you do wind up bumping into him once and he turns out to be surprisingly amicable fellow who has a penchant for waxing poetic and provides some vague hints for the player's search for the truth. [[spoiler:After clearing Mind Challenge Phase 2, you get roped into an impromptu interrogation by [=SkysEyes=]' Security Bureau, where you have the opportunity to rat on him or protect him as a friend.]]
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* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters, who are also completely plot irrelevant and can be functionally replaced. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
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* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters, who are also completely plot irrelevant and can be functionally replaced.replaced by any arbitrary collection of characters. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
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* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
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* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters.characters, who are also completely plot irrelevant and can be functionally replaced. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
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* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, it instead creates a glyph that renders the user momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike.
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* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Jinrai Yukikaze (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt) Winter's Riposte) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, it instead the skill becomes Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt), where the user creates a glyph that renders the user them momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike.
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* StarterMon: You are given Hibiki Kohaku for free to start with. All other characters must be unlocked by spending Prototype Analyzers.
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* StarterMon: You are given Hibiki Kohaku for free to start with. All other characters must be unlocked by spending Prototype Analyzers.Analyzers.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: You are accompanied by a female handler from within [=SkysEyes=] who is meant to assist you with the Mind Training program. However, once she learns about the Phenomena and how they provide visions of the past, she deviates from her job and decides to help you investigate [=SkysEyes=] to see if they're up to something shady.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: You are accompanied by a female handler from within [=SkysEyes=] who is meant to assist you with the Mind Training program. However, once she learns about the Phenomena and how they provide visions of the past, she deviates from her job and decides to help you investigate [=SkysEyes=] to see if they're up to something shady.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam.
The game is set in a futuristic world ravaged by a phenomenon known as Entropy Effect. To counteract the Entropy Effect, the MegaCorp [=SkysEyes=] has developed a training simulation program known as "ACE" to train the minds of the world's inhabitants to resist and cleanse the effects of Entropy. Within this digital realm, players of ACE, known as "[=ACERs=]", take on the form of heroes from another world to fight through ACE.
You take on the role of one such ACER who is enrolled in [=SkysEyes=]' Mind Training program. What appears to be routine training takes a strange turn when you happen upon a mysterious, shapeless entity that holds within it the power of Phenomena, fragments of the past found within ACE that hold within them the chance to alter the course of destiny. With the wheels of fate beginning to turn, it falls upon you to unlock the secrets of the Phenomena and unveil the truths behind [=SkysEyes=] and the Entropy Effect.
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* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, it instead creates a glyph that renders the user momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike.
* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
* {{Macrogame}}: Several forms, in fact.
** Playing in ACE rewards AP, which are a currency spent to unlock Mind Upgrades and attempt Mind Challenges. Mind Upgrades are permanent effects that apply persistently in ACE once unlocked, while Mind Challenges are "boss" stages that reward Prototype Analyzers and other rewards for completion. Recording a certain number of Tactics in Mind Training will also give AP bonuses.
** Each time you finish a run in ACE, your character progress is saved as an Evotype with an assigned Rating. In Mind Training, up to two Evotypes can be used to pass down Active Skills and Legacy Skills based on their Rating to subsequent runs, powering up future characters. In Mind Challenges, you must attempt each Mind Challenges using a saved Evotype, which require an Evotype of a high enough Rating to unlock and will give you the character you played as with all of their upgrades and Potentials to fight with.
* MightyGlacier: Hakumen is relatively slow to move or attack, but to compensate he hits extraordinarily hard, has very high starting HP and he starts with a damaging dash.
* SpritePolygonMix: All assets in the real world are rendered in 3D. In ACE, characters and enemies are 2D, but the background and setpieces are in 3D.
* StarterMon: You are given Hibiki Kohaku for free to start with. All other characters must be unlocked by spending Prototype Analyzers.
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''[=BlazBlue=]: Entropy Effect'' is an upcoming 2D {{Roguelike}} HackAndSlash [[RunAndGun Action Platformer]] developed by [=96Eyes=] for PC via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} as well as [=iOS=] and Android. It is a SpinOff of the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' fighting game series from Creator/ArcSystemWorks and features the game's characters. The game entered Early Access on August 15, 2023 on Steam.
The game is set in a futuristic world ravaged by a phenomenon known as Entropy Effect. To counteract the Entropy Effect, the MegaCorp [=SkysEyes=] has developed a training simulation program known as "ACE" to train the minds of the world's inhabitants to resist and cleanse the effects of Entropy. Within this digital realm, players of ACE, known as "[=ACERs=]", take on the form of heroes from another world to fight through ACE.
You take on the role of one such ACER who is enrolled in [=SkysEyes=]' Mind Training program. What appears to be routine training takes a strange turn when you happen upon a mysterious, shapeless entity that holds within it the power of Phenomena, fragments of the past found within ACE that hold within them the chance to alter the course of destiny. With the wheels of fate beginning to turn, it falls upon you to unlock the secrets of the Phenomena and unveil the truths behind [=SkysEyes=] and the Entropy Effect.
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!This game contains examples of:
* CounterAttack: Kokuujin: Jinrai (Empty Sky Form: Spring's Thunderbolt) is Hakumen's Skill and has him generate a shield in front of him. If an enemy attack strikes him from the front while it's active, Hakumen will block the attack and transition into an invincible counter that slices through foes for heavy damage. When passed down to another character via Legacy Skill, it instead creates a glyph that renders the user momentarily stationary; if the user is struck while the glyph is active, the offending attack is nullified and the user calls down a powerful lightning strike.
* InNameOnly: The only connection this game has with the core ''[=BlazBlue=]'' franchise is the use of its characters. Everything else, including its setting and plot, are completely new and have no connection to anything else in the series.
* {{Macrogame}}: Several forms, in fact.
** Playing in ACE rewards AP, which are a currency spent to unlock Mind Upgrades and attempt Mind Challenges. Mind Upgrades are permanent effects that apply persistently in ACE once unlocked, while Mind Challenges are "boss" stages that reward Prototype Analyzers and other rewards for completion. Recording a certain number of Tactics in Mind Training will also give AP bonuses.
** Each time you finish a run in ACE, your character progress is saved as an Evotype with an assigned Rating. In Mind Training, up to two Evotypes can be used to pass down Active Skills and Legacy Skills based on their Rating to subsequent runs, powering up future characters. In Mind Challenges, you must attempt each Mind Challenges using a saved Evotype, which require an Evotype of a high enough Rating to unlock and will give you the character you played as with all of their upgrades and Potentials to fight with.
* MightyGlacier: Hakumen is relatively slow to move or attack, but to compensate he hits extraordinarily hard, has very high starting HP and he starts with a damaging dash.
* SpritePolygonMix: All assets in the real world are rendered in 3D. In ACE, characters and enemies are 2D, but the background and setpieces are in 3D.
* StarterMon: You are given Hibiki Kohaku for free to start with. All other characters must be unlocked by spending Prototype Analyzers.
