If you say so.
Umm…I’m not even sure how to respond to that.
I did feel confused when I first played Extend, somehow especially playing Jin still feels odd.
I’m not a hc player of Soul Calibur but I always felt fine playing a new game in that series.
Yeah, I know the feeling. Finding out all my old Noel corner combos didn’t work was confusing at first. And then I found out Assault Through wallbounced and I got a giant shit eating grin.
The players in my scene all dropped BB when CSII came out because their CS combos and moves didn’t work the same way. Only one other guy has bought Extend. 
Many of them also complain that there isn’t any character variety in BB, which I find baffling coming from people who mostly play SFIV and Marvel.
Yeah, I know. It always struck me weird that SF players would say there isn’t a lot of character diversity in Blazblue. When SF has Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Sean, Dan, Sagat (kinda), Sakura, Seth (who’s a copy of a bunch of characters), Evil Ryu, and Kairi in it.
Also, there was the whole bit in Alpha with Cammy and Juri/Juli.
The two closest character in Blazblue are Mu and Lambda, and that’s only by appearance and being Murakumos. They play drastically different. That being said though, I kind of wish they never added Platinum in the game as she is because she seems so out of place.
Yeah man! This game actually has good English voices. I want English bang to announce!!! (if you hate the English voices in BB than I don’t think you hate bad voice acting… I just think you hate English voices…I hate most of street fighter in English!)
I wouldn’t protest BB shamelessly stealing SF4’s ability to set voice language by character.
Ryu: Japanese
Guile: English
Chun-li: Japanese
Cammy: English
Not sure how I’d do the breakout in BB, but it’d be a nice feature to have. English Ragna makes me laugh, English Noel makes me cry.
Not all of the English voice actors in BB are good. Carl and Noel in particular are pretty much the most annoying voices in fighting games.
I don’t know, Noel’s is alright. I don’t like the new one they have for Bang in Extend though, and the same for Hazama. I liked the ones they both had for Continuum Shift though.
Noel’s voice does a great job of fitting the character. I just hate the super whiny voice that such characters come with.
Yeah, Hazama’s English voice in Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift is so good. His story mode antics are a big part of the reason I got into the game. But every time he speaks in the Extend story lines, I pause the game and log onto Amazon to check the price of CT. Noel’s English voice throughout the series is also pretty spot on.
People complaining about Noel’s Drive really grinds my gears. Hakumen has a damn auto-punish drive, Ragna’s drive covers half of the screen, Carl has a sneaky second character floppin around, and Tsubaki has…Hakumen has a damn auto-punish drive. Noel’s Drive is more of a crutch for new players than anything. It’s really not that hard to punish. If you block it you pretty much just have to count 6 hits before you can go to town on her. I would know. I main Noel and my Drive gets stuffed all the time.
Also, some people are saying Platinum is out of place, and I think the programmers just wanted to squeeze in a character that was similar to May from GGXX’s sprite. I think she fits in that sense.
Just tossin this out there but my fingers are crossed as hell that Kokonoe, Nine, Jubei, and Saya are playable characters in the sequel. Saya and Jubei are probably asking for a bit much but I feel like they could add some really cool attacks to go along with them.
I don’t really grasp all the “I want Kokonoe!” fandom. It seems inappropriate to me. Not saying they probably couldn’t make her interesting, but making her playable would be like “Sooo… why’d you bother with Lambda and Tager then?” 
Platinum doesn’t really bother me - it seems silly to be complaining about “doesn’t fit with the theme” in a game with Taokaka, Arakune, Rachel, Makoto and Noel.
Noel’s drive somewhat improved in terms of being not stupid since CS2, but it still aggravates me off that she can basically get massive damage off you anytime you try to jump in just by hitting 4D.
Well, she can only get damage like that in the corner, and then it usually caps out at 5k WITH Distortion. Yeah, there’s a 7.2k corner combo that doesn’t use meter, but believe me when I say that thing is BEYOND hard to pull off, I swear. And I don’t know, I think Tao, Arakune, Rachel, and Noel fit a LOT more than Platinum and don’t really see a case for why they’d be out of place considering the story stuff with them. Even Makoto doesn’t bother me despite the fact that her outfit so doesn’t need to be that (they could get away with like, a sports bra, suspenders, and like long shorts/short pants with it and it’d still work fine despite being Leona-like), at least she’s presented as being well, an adult. My problem with Platinum isn’t even so much that it’s one of the 6 Heroes trapped in a little kid’s body, because okay, it’s weird, but it could work, it’s that the whole sprite and look and things reminds me of those freaky little kids that get put into beauty pageants by their 400 pound mothers, and some weird shit like that. Hell, it certainly doesn’t help, that when she was made playable, people were bringing attention to how none of her sprites/appearances/etc in that form have her wearing underwear…
As for explaining why Kokonoe worked on Lambda and Tager when she’s strong as hell herself (hell, her dad’s Jubei, and her mom’s Nine) could just easily be summed up by her either wanting science to do the work for her while she kept looking for a way to defeat Hazama, but grudgingly has to get involved herself.
Because they’re a lunatic catgirl, a blob, a gothic lolita, and a whiny little…uhm…whatever. Oh, and a squirrel girl.
I fail to see how a magical girl is any more out of place than that menagerie. Let’s face it - the Blazblue universe is made up of “crazy character designs that Ark Sys thought were cool” not any sort of coherent theme. Sorry you have weird associations with young children, but I’d be more concerned by the fact that you are LOOKING for her underwear or lack thereof than what is or isn’t on her sprite. FFS, hello, NOEL?
Kokonoe is quite possibly the strongest single person in the BB universe. the product of 2 insanely strong individuals.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. I had to be TOLD that it was the case, so I don’t even KNOW if it is. There’s funny, but saying this like that’s just a little bit weird and kinda not cool. And if Noel actually doesn’t, then this is the first time I heard about it, even though it’s not a big deal and frankly I don’t really care since all it is is a matter of not spending a few minutes to change up the colours in a couple spots. It’s not like it makes the game any better. With Rachel, Arakune, Noel, and Tao, how they look seems to better reflect their character/story/etc, and they seem easier to take seriously than Platinum who just seems like a comedy character in a series that already has Bang filling that role, and doing it damn well. But whatever, an extra character is an extra character I guess.
Because the child of two smart people is inevitably a genius? This is silly.
- Uses Magic
- Genius
- Never seen her fight
I think that alone is less speculation and more informed decision.