History YMMV / BlazBlueChronoPhantasma

** Newcomers Azrael, Bullet, and Amane don't get that much screen time at all. 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.

* 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.]]
** ''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.]]

* 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.
** In 2.0, Nu was said to take over Kokonoe's place before the game was released to console. Once the game ''was'' released and North American players got the game, she was found to be relatively good, but nowhere near the levels the Japanese players said she is.
** And on the low-tier end of the spectrum, Makoto get a lot of flames for being "trash tier." In Makoto's case, people are hopeful that another balance patch will bring her back up to something resembling her VideoGame/BlazblueContinuumShift self.
** 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.
** 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 due to his zoning and massive ScratchDamage power.
** For some, Terumi fits this bill, mainly cause compared to his Hazama-self, he lacks the mixup needed to break past a foe's defense, and he's more about all-out offense should he land a hit (as well as having lower HP). Mainly Hazama players found him to be not as practical in comparison despite his massive meter potential and his Drive specifically being geared towards high meter gain-rate.

** [[Franchise/MortalKombat Babality]] for Amane's Astral. [[FountainOfYouth Self-explanatory]], [[BalefulPolymorph really]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: At one point in the CP story line, Rachel asks Noel to remove the head equipment Kokonoe gave her (the blue pins). While the story states that she did remove them, her artwork remains unchanged as the pins are still there.

* UncannyValley: Complaints directed to Bullet are mostly this. Sure, she's only beaten by Litchi in terms of boob size, but a lot complain just how disproportionate the size of her boobs are compared to her body (nearing the shape of TorpedoTits as well), to the point of complains like "How can she still be standing up with THOSE!?" [[FridgeBrilliance On the other hand, it could excuse why she has such a hunched fighting stance.]]

* ReplacementScrappy: A lot of fans think that Hades Izanami is just a GenericDoomsdayVillain who wants simply to kill everybody "because she's the goddess of death" compared to a nihilistic, sadistic psychopath who loves to watch others in pain, and an amoral MadScientist who wants to be the god of a perfect world.
* ShockingSwerve: In short, ''Chronophantasma'' is the ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'' of ''[=BlazBlue=]''. Really makes you wonder if Mori had [[Creator/TetsuyaNomura Nomura]] work on some of the narrative.

** 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.

*** Some of [[AxCrazy Terumi's]] quotes such as [[IShallTauntYou 'Daijoubu desu ka?!']] [[note]] Are you okay?! [[/note]] became this thanks to [[Creator/YuuichiNakamura his voice actor's]] [[LargeHam hammy]] [[FauxAffablyEvil delivery]].

* 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 Drive where she summons a giant Golden Tager to fire a WaveMotionGun.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the Dev Team]]: As noted above under BrokenBase, ''Chronophantasma'' is a [=PS3=] exclusive, leaving the series' 360 fans in the dirt. Unlike ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Rising|Revengeance}}'', a Western release is currently not in the cards, to many a fan's consternation (while the 360 market is dead in Japan, which would explain the decision to make ''CP'' a [=PS3=] exclusive, its market elsewhere is doing substantially better).
** Being too large to fit on the 360's DVD-9 discs doesn't help it either. (The PSN download weights in at over 10GB.)
** ''Chronophantasma Extend'' is slated for release on the [=Xbox=] One, however. Whether it does anything to soothe the rage is yet to be seen.