BlazBlue: General thread.

I could've sworn Ragna overtook both Jin and Hazama...

FUBAR is a military acronym; stands for 'fucked up beyond all recognition'

I had no idea, thanks for that. BB teaching me new vocabulary haha. I didn't realize it was a military thing, I thought it was a meme thing lol.

I went ahead and bought es and mai. I also used Nine for the first time and JEEZ she's really something. She's actually really fun and I love her magic system. ASW are some of the most creative devs when it comes to designing fighting game characters and their gameplay mechanics/controls. She's maybe one of my favorites now. Plus she oozes sass and her VA really sold her anger torwards Ragna when he was navy pressuring him in the post fight dialogue. And she trampled him too lol. Poor rags seems to always get a moment where his nemesis beats the ever living crap out of him or maims him horribly.

Oh so you take the answers from the popularity polls, personally I feel that the only popular ones this time, are those that have big boobs, like Makoto, Litchi, Bullet. Like they are the only ones given attention nowadays.

Nine's gameplay is based off on Dormammu in MvC series. Nine's sass comes from her being one of the Six Heroes, genius who invented Ars Magus, one of Ten Sages. And btw, she's OP in gameplay just like how she's in story as one of Six Heroes. Also just a note, almost every character's gameplay style is taken from their story traits (personality, role, etc.)

Dunno if you played story or not (judging that you don't know meaning Nine's FUBAR quote where it's explained in story) Nine trampling Ragna like that also came in the story mode too◊ those heels are handy for battle. But I gotta say the final battle in story is executed badly with both Unlimiteds (except 3 as Arcade secret boss) and story-exclusive trait (ex: Noel having permanent 100% Heat against Hazama in CS) being removed; Nine is one of Big Bad Ensemble and 3 of the final bosses, but she's an Anti-Climax Boss gameplay wise there.

Most of the time where Ragna's nemesis beats the ever living crap out of him or maims him horribly are when Ragna gets handicapped though, except Hakumen but that's back at CT. Nine too there, extra points that happened after Ragna had Took a Level in Badass since CP end where he curb-stomped Nu.

Edited by asdfr on Jul 9th 2019 at 8:15:05 PM

What about Mai tho?

For reference. Top 5 on that poll were Ragna, Hazama, Hibiki, Terumi, and Jin

And it was run all over social media

Damn Hibiki is that powerful

Trying to see the appeal?

Troubled, but Cute pretty boy with deep psychological issues under a mild-mannered surface and yaoi potential with his much more masculine superior.

That’s some powerful stuff

He's cool but top 5 material? Nah. Not with that haircut. Then again terumi was top 5 too haha.

Mai surprised me with her gameplay, I thought she'd play differently but she's kinda neat. Es might have one of the coolest astrals in the game too.

Aside from her time stop, astral and exceed I can't say I'm all that wowed by izanami. Idk at first impressions she feels a bit clumsy, I'm guessing she's like a high skill gate character or something. Her drive seems eh.

I thought Mai played pretty okay too.

Isn't Mai a great entry level character?

She is.

Izanami is Difficult, but Awesome in the same way as Rachel, Carl, and Litchi... which means you get rewarded for mastering her gameplay by having one of the hardest characters to beat.

I was surprised Naoto has a high execution barrier.

I do want to pick him up.

Got to have your Dash Cancels on point!

Naoto was supposed to be the "easy" character

It always weirded me out how Mu 12 changed with each iteration. Woukd love if they kept the core the same.

Also i heard Jubei was bad but not really sure the reasons why? He seems pretty neat to watch

He's pretty good actually, he just takes a lot to get started. He's a "live free, die young" character.

I rather enjoy how Mu plays in CF but I can't say she feels all THAT different from CP or CSEX, aside from her OD and that one move changing from exploding her laser turrets to turning them into projectiles. How exactly is she so different?

I actually really like Naoto since he's much more typical 2D fighter compared to the rest of the cast which makes him feel a bit classical in a way. He looks kinda like a KOF character or something too.

I think the only characters I outright dislike playing are amane and tsubaki, the former because I can't use him well at all(plus his carl thing fixation in CP made a poor first impression) and the latter because I find her character became increasingly insufferable as the series went on and gameplay not fun.

Shame because when she was first revealed for CS I was all over her lol, despite not liking her in CT. Her outfit stood out, her music is fantastic, and her story seemed like it'd be great. Then I played as her and realized I disliked her playstyle, and as the games went on she became progressively more annoying due to the increased focus between her and Jin. Jin's just too much of a jerk for me to really sympathize with her and that whole thing with her being jealous of Noel for a while did not cast her in a good light. I know she's a tragic character but jeez tsubaki was a real bitch for a while.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Jul 9th 2019 at 11:17:34 AM

What about the likes of Makoto, Bullet, Litchi (outside of the list)? I feel that they are the only ones getting attention right now.

Izanami gave many trouble with her ribcage ya know, btw I like her unique aspects gameplay-wise like float for double jump and walking barrier (ribcage). Still rather pissed that she's the one out of S tier after 2.0 nerf not the others.

I feel that Jubei should wear his Dark War armor in gameplay that he's become a Handicapped Badass now, makes sense lore wise to protect himself and solved the problem of him being too small in gameplay (the reason it took that long for him to be playable).

Actually one think I like about BB is the cast isn't typical 2D fighter....unlike Naoto.

Edited by asdfr on Jul 10th 2019 at 12:57:37 AM

Oof speaking of Jin

Like okay, I won't say Jin is a bad character because he's not but I can't help but feel like ever since the power of order thing became prevalent it's sort of cheapened his character? The whole "power of order" crap just feels like poor writing to me and I don't like how it was implemented. It just feels like a convenient excuse to have plot things happen when it's needed.

Also is bloodedge experience cool? It seems kinda interesting and I always thought the Immortal Breakers was such a rad concept, like assassins for hire who kill immortals? That could work as a thing on its own.

And I still don't get the purpose of Xblaze and how it relates and why it has its own 10 sages and such.

Man the blazblue wiki's weebish insistence on using literal translations of the Japanese terms instead of the official localized terms is REALLY annoying.

Edited by Vertigo_High on Jul 10th 2019 at 12:29:42 PM

Leave the old wiki, use this one instead

https://blazblue.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

Oh my god someone else agrees with me on that Order crap

Also yeah the old Blazblue wiki is worthless. They can't just randomly use their own translated terms for stuff and expect fans to NOT get even more confused when they read up on things. I thought the purpose of wiki's was to make things clearer.

I liked the concept of the Power of Order when it was unique to Jin/Hakumen, then CF went and revealed "JK, anyone close enough to Jin can use it so long as they have WILLPOWER(tm)!"

Well my playstyle for her relied on corner pressure, laser traps, and on getting nice fatal counters from a distance with her C moves. In CF a bunch of her normals have different properties which messed around with my muscle memory, lasers no longer being anywahere near as fast or oppressive, and an annoying focus on comboes having those mini dash cancels that i could never time correctly.