how long do they spend on each character?
The break down is like this:
First you get a simple display of all their normal attacks, special attacks, and super moves. All of this is without narration.
Next is an explanation of the character’s drive move along with a showing of the different drive attacks.
Then comes a narratde strategy section which is all sorts of awesome.
Last is a combo exhibition that has a quick flash of the directions for the combo, and then shows it.
It’s really good, especially helpful for a noob like myself.
The combos are nice, but for Tao the strategy section wasn’t really all that much use. In fact most of what is said you could pick up just from taking a look at her abilities. They had a couple nice tricks for her drive though.
I’m not really all that good, so take this with a grain of salt, but Tao is really, really execution based. Her strategies aren’t all that complicated, but you have to get in which really depends on which character you’re fighting, and once you’re in you have to make it count. And since you don’t do a lot of damage with single moves, you really have to rely on executing your combos all the time.
Basically Tao is some mind games and a lot of execution (which could be said to some extent about all the characters), so yeah the video isn’t too helpful there. In my opinion, of course.
For the other characters it seems useful though. And yeah, MikeZ’s Tager is the best part by far
tl;dr Tao’s portion wasn’t really all that helpful except for seeing what the combos look like.
Whats sad is they are only including this with the LE version of the game.
Everyone who purchases BB should get this DVD in my opinion, it answers SO many noob questions.
Bought the asian version, so yeah.
I’m another advocate for the tutorial dvd. The dvd just has so many good qualities I can’t believe it was essentially free. This should be a requirement for any other fighting game that comes out. Blazblue’s limited edition has blown me away.
The dvd is very helpful imo and it teaches the basic mechanics of the game and it also helps out with high lvl play vids in the special feature section so you can see the combos in situational battle the dvd is rlly rlly worth watching if your just getting into blazblue
I’m learning a lot from the video.
I can’t get over the cheesy comments, the fact that the audio doesn’t start until 2-3 seconds in to each clip, and calling SRK “Shorooken.com”.
I’m such a hater…
But yeah, without it I’d be far more lost than I currently am. Especially because I’ve chosen to play as Litchi.
The part in the Tager section where Mike Z says something about punishing capitalist swine with Tager’s damage cracks me up.
I hope they at the very least place the Tutorial DVD’s in the Standard BlazBlue packaging. In case people decide to pick it up at a later date.
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This is available in Canada, right? There’s no reason why buying the game in Canada would prevent us from getting all the special edition goodies (including soundtrack and artbook)?
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What’s the format? It’s on Blu-ray for PS3, and on a standard DVD for 360? Or is it on some sort of game-DVD hybrid like the SF4 anime so we can watch it in HD on our 360s?
Standard DVD. Playing on my computer.
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Heres one of the tutorials, this guy has all the characters combos on his channel.
It’s okay. I ripped it to my laptop and converted them to MKVs so I can really, really quickly access something. That’s actually a strange point in favor of the 360 version… Most people I know, the PS3 is their only bluray player so you can’t watch and play at the same time. Kind of a strike against it for certain people.
I personally think it’s a good addition to a written strategy guide, but not a replacement for one. If you want to, say, look up Bang’s 4 seal combo the fastest you can get there is like a good 2 minute wait. And that’s assuming you’re really prepared and have the disc all loaded up. Otherwise you gotta get it out of the case, load it up, wait for it to spin up, browse the menu, start the video and then skip to the section you want, then memorize or write the button presses down.
A guidebook, you just grab it and flip to the section.
tl;dr- good for free, would rather have a printed book if I had to pick one or the other.
The dvd is VERY helpful. Especially for someone new to the game. Altho some of the combos are a little advanced but think of the later comob’s the “hard trials” of the game but there very essential. I’m learning V-13 and the DVD helped a great deal. If anything if it doesnt come with the later ones printed, I’ll be sure that someone would have either uploaded it to youtube or its on Bittorrent lol
Pretty good. Heck, it might be all you’ll ever need to become very competitive. I’m making some extremely slow progress with this game. Right now, I’m only using one character - Litchi.
From the dvd, I took Combo 1, and modified it with one of my own ideas. It works great in training, but I have yet to successfully land it against an opponent. And that’s an easy combo. Quite frankly, I suck monkey balls at this game. I’m having a hard time following the action, I don’t know when it’s cool to counter my opponent (can’t tell when I’m open for counter even), not even entirely happy with my control scheme, but I’m working with it… and when I practice something, I sort of forget what I did when actually in a match and sort of succumb to the art of button mashing, which surprisingly gets me closer to winning than when I focus and try to perform her specials with reasoning. This is no SFIV, that’s for sure. I think I like it, but it’s going to take me a looooooooong time to become competitive, and I’m already behind.
I won my first and only match with arakune because I watched that dvd explanation video.
nuff said
More Fighting game releases need to come with instructional videos like this.