BlazBlue Review Thread of WOW and YESS!

Newtybar · June 30, 2009, 8:07pm

I hope you guys have steered me in the right direction. I’ve never played GG, but according to the hype this game is awesome.

My local store is getting them in around 2 today and I’ll stop by and pick one up.

Black_Dog · July 1, 2009, 1:03am

Hey man, no joke. Dan’s legs are top tier in A2

haunts · July 1, 2009, 3:30am

Official Review from iPlayWinner.com - 9/10

Jarv · July 1, 2009, 5:22am

Let me break the review down for you.

Paragraph one: Arcsys is wacky!
Paragraph two: You’ll never understand the wacky plot!
Paragraph three: This game looks great!
Paragraph four: Fighting games take time and dedication D:

7.75

BEEFY_JR · July 1, 2009, 4:19pm

I was really surprised to put the Blu-Ray in and find that IGN fucking produced it.

Which isn’t to say that the game doesn’t merit the score they gave it, because I think it does. But it’s a definite conflict of interest and the reviewer should have mentioned it up front in the review, the way that news outlets have to mention when they’re owned by someone else when reporting on their parent company.

Also, Richard Li’s review went live: http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3175007

Antihippy · July 1, 2009, 4:30pm

Wow.

That is a really well-written review.

Persian · July 1, 2009, 10:13pm

Yep, I was thinking the same thing.

The PS3 strategy disc also is not blu-ray quality material…could of at least bumped it up to pure HD if they were using the blu-ray medium.

Anyway, this game is definately a 9+ in my book. Loving every second of it.

shidoshi · July 2, 2009, 1:59am

So does that mean that you then think we’re the total bottom of the barrel? Ouch. I came in here to see how people were finding BlazBlue, I leave sad and dejected. heh

Predacon_Rampage · July 2, 2009, 7:45am

Yeah, this game does deserve all the praise it gets.

It’s a overall better experience in everyway then SF4, storywise, combowise, voice work, online, and amount of content.

Why couldn’t a pick my music for the stage like this in SF4 or save replays on the ps3 version?

Inverse · July 2, 2009, 9:33am

Capcom doesn’t understand the online world. I estimate they will do MUCH better in their next endeavor. But they never really looked at online as very important, I think they realize now just how important it really is.

Arcsys had some sick advisers. Sick netcode, six man lobbies with skippable matches. The story mode is waaaaay better than GG with cinematic anime sequences in the “True Ending” mode… and a dub that came out of left field.

I mean seriously, I did not expect them to do such a nice job on it. I would have been happy with just Japanese, but they went that extra mile. Some good endings and a real story. I got more out of BB’s story mode than the full feature anime they did for SF4 (The Ties that Bore).

sambao · July 3, 2009, 4:43am

lol this is the greatest review ever.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6029329&postcount=53

Chuplayer:

IT’S A PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!!!

Blazblue is officially the shittiest fighter ever to grace my gaming area. It even beats out that tech demo of a tech demo Genesis Mortal Kombat as the shittiest fighting game I’ve ever played. Holy balls, this game sucks the big one.

It all comes down to one thing; you are never, ever safe from your opponent once you’re stuck in a combo. If you do end up on the offensive again, it’s precisely because your opponent fucked up. Once you become proficient at dialing a combo and can hit it first, you’re going to win. You will win.

You can’t get safe because of falling down because that doesn’t make you temporarily invincible. You can’t get safe teching out because you’ll get hit before you can block. You can’t get safe by putting distance between your opponent and yourself beacuse shit’s flying around every which way, and it all does so much fucking damage that you might as well be licking your opponent’s ballsack. It’s not quite an infinite combo, but it might as well be.

And I can say this unbiasedly because I’ve been on the offense in this situation as much as I have been the victim. No, I’m not complaining because I suck! I don’t suck! My stats prove it. It’s just the way the game is! It’s all about whoever can maintain their monopoly. No, it’s all about who can get their monopoly off the ground first. Maintaining it isn’t that hard.

I honestly never completely understood a juggle limit before, but I have to hand it to early Capcom for implementing it, even by accident. What goes on in Blazblue isn’t just a flow breaker, it’s a flow shifter. It removes any chance of flow from the victim and rewards the aggressor way, way too much. Even KOF: Max Impact had the common sense to limit ground juggle comboing after a certain point. What a joke this game is.

I also dislike the game because if there’s a problem connecting to a room in network mode, you’re fucked. You’re fucked. You’re going to be sitting at the “connecting” screen with the little bar moving to the right and looping over and over again until your power goes out because Mother Nature struck a power plant with lightning. You can’t just cancel connection. That would make too much sense! Instead you have to cancel out of the game or turn the console off. This has happened to me four times today. Four times in less than an hour of playing today. I just got so fucking fed up that I doubt I’ll ever play online in this game ever again.

What a fucking disappointment. This is not the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear. That’s actually a good game. This is trash.

FYI, this dood also hated Valkyria Chronicles coz he thought it was a grindfest.

VikingLongwood · July 3, 2009, 4:49am

Great review. Please, cry more. Or shut up and step your game up.

akashwan · July 3, 2009, 4:59am

The game is nice, but I think it has some flaws that prevent it from topping SFIV in my book. Voice acting, both Japanese and English is flat out nerve wracking imo. Some character designs look quite generic like Jin and Ragna, even thier personality is generic and annoying (Ive seen lots of anime, so these characters are just copy/paste from popular shounen anime/manga). On the positive side, gameplay is unique, backgrounds are eye-candy, and online is great. 8-8.5 for me.

Giiyom · July 3, 2009, 5:05am

Flaws that prevent it from topping SFIV… voice acting and character design??
hmmk

System_1 · July 3, 2009, 5:22am

GT’s video review is up http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-blazblue-calamity/52354

MarkMan · July 3, 2009, 11:00am

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akashwan · July 3, 2009, 11:21am

well, those are important for me, especially character design. But, I guess the main reason for me to prefer SFIV is that I simply prefer SFIV’s gameplay style a bit more. dont get me wrong, I love BlazBlue, and its a good rival for SF and a great addition to fighting games franchises (and Arakune is AWESOME), but if I have to choose one personally Ill go with SFIV simply because its more up my ally.

Soniti · July 4, 2009, 3:33am

Fate/Unlimited Codes is 2.5d… or at least that’s as close to a good way to describe it that you are going to get.

System_1 · July 4, 2009, 3:48am

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/blazbluecalamitytrigger?q=blazblue

http://www.gamerankings.com/ps3/958720-blazblue-calamity-trigger/index.html

Zanken · July 4, 2009, 6:33am

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-blazblue-calamity-trigger/17-966/

Giant Bombs quick look is hilarious, the guys clearly did their best to find game content that bewildered them. In some sort of bizzare twist of internet justice there are an awful lot of people in the comments section planning to pick the game up based on it.