Seth is generally considered to be quite weak.
looks like have a thing to pick weak characters eh? xD. but never the less, found some chaos gameplay on YT and he was doing god’s work with chaos. I really am considering maining him, plus it would be a alot more satisyfing to beat most characters seth/chaos 
Here’s hoping this game gains some more popularity when it comes to the US.
I think UNIEL has a fair bit of potential to become a “better” and more popular game. I hope they take into account the things that turned people off about this game and improve upon it in their future endeavors, be it an addition to this series or an entirely new IP.
I wish the US release was EXE: Early or whatever they wanna call the new version. I just feel like it’s a bit too late to the party and those who really wanted it imported it already.
I really really want UNIEL to succeed, but I feel nervous about it. Of course it’s going to definitely get a bit bigger with the western console release in february (at which point I’ll stop just admiring the game and shell out the cash to hop on board), but stil…
The only major tournament I ever went to was one of the earlier NEC’s. I went there to play Melty Blood. No one in my area played it, I just liked the characters, read faq’s online, watched videos on niconico in terrible quality, and (eventually) played some netplay on PC (at the time it was MBAC though, whereas MBAA had come out in arcades and not long after, on PS2).
I also chatted with people on meltybread.com. I learned more about the game that way and started to understand more about the scene. It was really the first fighting game I attempted to take seriously. There was a thread about NEC, someone got a room, I said I’d pay my share for the room, got the guy’s number then showed up opening night not really knowing anybody, not even the real name of the guy who was in charge of the room.
That tournament was great, I started to really learn the game, everything was so hype. SF4 was fresh and new and was the biggest game, but MB was pretty damn big as well, playing on our old CRT’s and PS2’s. I had a really shitty mayflash stick. But the finals man, they weren’t streamed, but they were real hype.
To make a long story short I went to college and had almost no chance of playing fighting games for 4 years (apart from a SSF4 stint one summer, and attempting to play people in MB my first couple of years). I basically didn’t play fighting games until just recently when I caught the NEC15 stream live, watched USF4, KOF XIII, and UNIEL, and it was real great.
But I feel like even though UNIEL is a new game, very similar to MB except with original characters, netplay, and on newer consoles, as far as I’ve been able to see it doesn’t have the same community. I feel like many of them went to P4, or to other games. Now GG is all the rage. Which I think is an awesome game, but I can’t seem to break into it the way I did with MB and the way I think I’ll be able to do with UNIEL. I remember LordKnight being the guy to win MB at NEC, now he plays persona.
I don’t know where to go to find UNIEL’s community, and that’s kind of saddening to me. Melty Bread seems to not be active at all, though some people are apparently still playing MB. Dustloop has more people but it’s only a really small chunk of that site devoted to UNIEL. I don’t know where to go on the internet to find the UNIEL people. I’m going to WB9 for USF4 and KOF so I’ll have a chance to play it there then, and then the game will be out here shortly thereafter, so hopefully the game will get bigger then, but man, I could be totally wrong but the western community for this game just doesn’t seem that active, or vocal about it! Or it’s people concentrating on GGXrd or P4AU who play some UNIEL on the side.
Sorry for the rant and random story but I’m just kind of bummed that the spiritual successor to a game I really loved (but sadly never got good at), doesn’t seem to have picked up in the way the first one did.
The community isn’t the same for UNIEL as it is Melty because the fundamentals are different between the games. Melty is all about staying in the air for the most part to play the neutral game and the corner pressure is really strong because of plus frame moves on block or on reverse beat.
UNIEL is pretty much “anime Super Turbo.” The game is all about staying on the ground and anti-airing everything through grounded moves. Pressure isn’t the same since most moves on block are negative so eventually the aggressor just stops and has to go back to playing neutral from a distance and work back in (Or take risks to restart pressure from disadvantage frames). Many of my acquaintances that I met through Melty IRC groups don’t like UNIEL because it isn’t Melty. I like UNIEL because not only do I like Melty, but I like playing grounded games such as ST, A2, Samsho 2, and etc.
The lucky thing is I live in California so Norcal/Game Center is big on playing the game (not as big as when the game first came out) and Socal has decent showings and support from what I hear.
All I could suggest is if you want to grow UNIEL’s support where you live is kind of convince Street Fighter players and players of similar games to try it and play it.
I think there are definitely a couple people locally who might have played it, except that Xrd really stole the show around here, at least from those people who would be interested in something that wasn’t 3S, USF4, KOF, Tekken or Smash.
Is there a kind of UNIEL specific site in the way Melty Bread was? I thought that site would be it but the last front page update was from like July and most posts are from long ago last year…
I still play UNIEL more than any other fighting game. Unfortunately I live in a state with a very small scene for pretty much anything (Oklahoma). I plan on going to Final Round and EVO. Even though it didn’t make it in as a main event, hopefully it has a side tournament. Love to get some games in with more people.
As far as I know, there isn’t a dedicated website for it. Dustloop does have a subsection made for UNIEL, but I don’t browse that website regularly to know the kind of activity and traffic it has. Just gotta build it up locally with your own hands.
UNIEL may still have a chance for a side tournament on Madcatz stream. I don’t know the details of how Madcatz will support side tournaments and to what extent, but that chance is still there for UNIEL.
Does anyone know if the English release next month is gonna be a digital only release? I’ve been checking the EB Games website (since I’m in Canada) and I still can’t find it.
Nope, EB’s just being fail.
https://www.videogamesplus.ca/under-night-birth-exelate-ps3-p-22386.html
I think UNIEL is an amazing game. As that one guy said, it’s practically anime Super Turbo. The game emphasizes properly using the neutral game and footsies in order to gain leverage against your opponent. I think that is why so many SF players gravitate towards it. It’s the perfect union between two fantastic series i.e Melty Blood and Street Fighter. The game saw a lot of entrants at previous tournaments because of it’s nature and that’s without localization. I’m sure it will do well when it comes out this month. Right now, I am using Akatsuki but I really want to learn Carmine. The game just has a ton of fun characters, so here is to hoping to a great lifespan in the FGC for UNIEL.
UNIEL the shit… screw over hyped xturd,persona and blazpoop. J/k i really think that unib is extremely solid,worth more than flavor of the month anime game status. Hopefully the US release gives the game a boost. Need to get back on the unib grind soon.
I pre-ordered it on Amazon.ca, hope people pick it up so online isn’t a ghost town
I don’t really expect that this game will receive a lot in the way of advertising when it comes stateside, so I feel like word-of-mouth will be a very important asset to ensuring it has as much a chance of thriving as possible, since I’m willing to bet a lot of people have probably never even heard of it.
So, basically, tell/show everyone how great UNIEL is once it comes out and hope that’s enough to attract as much new blood as possible!
You just convinced me to buy this game.
I have to admit… I just quoted FatalSeabass to try and drum up more support for UNIEL and gauge interest in the giantbomb.com community. Gave him credit for it though!
Will the jap digital online be working with the us release version or is this another anume game with a small online being seprated into groups?
I play carmine…this games been great since release
Thanks guys! Yeah, I hope the game ends up doing really well. Hope to even play against some of you guys! Also, I do believe that the japanese versions will work with the US one.
review up for localized version http://www.destructoid.com/review-under-night-in-birth-exe-late-287677.phtml