BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend - still too good for EVO.

cj iwakura

Oh god, Makoto's joke ending.

Flawless.

Professor Snugglesworth

https://twitter.com/#!/Primoman/status/173650991940505600/photo/1/large

Any scene with Tao guarantees I will not skip through the dialog.

cj iwakura

I wouldn't skip through any of it. BB always had great writing in the localization, and Extend's keeping that trend alive(though it does have a lot of lazy typos and grammatical errors).


Halfway done with the new plots, and it's good stuff. Amazing how well they balance seriousness and absolute insanity(joke ends).

SightTDW

That screenshot business is making me want a Vita pretty badly over here.

I rearranged my button layout to the arcade standard. Can't believe I didn't realize it was messed up right away. I was destroying my hand playing it how it defaulted:

A B
D C

Swapped to

B C D
A

and its infinitely better, but I feel like I undid whatever muscle memory I had started to build playing earlier.

Added everyone from the OP PSN list.

vagrant_winds

I'm a Type-2 person myself.

A B C
D

SightTDW

I'm gonna give that a shot next time I'm on. I'm completely missing D sometimes when I go a while without touching it, so I might have better luck with that.

cj iwakura

I haven't played BB on a stick i forever. I enjoy the DS3, so I use
AB
DC

Professor Snugglesworth

cj iwakura wrote: »

I wouldn't skip through any of it. BB always had great writing in the localization, and Extend's keeping that trend alive(though it does have a lot of lazy typos and grammatical errors).

I've noticed a fair deal of text that doesn't match what the actors are saying. There's this one joke line with Bang and his crew that's almost completely different, and a very obvious one every time you fight the final boss.

Spoiler:

Text line: "Azure Grimroire, activate!"

Spoken line: "BlazBlue, activate!"

Yes, the localization is really solid, and they do a far better job establishing the mythology and motivations for each character/fashion then they did with CT. But still, a lot of these scenes prattle for far too long, at least with the CT summary.

Also, what's her secret? Seriously: https://twitter.com/#!/Primoman/status/173711610748215296/photo/1/large

cj iwakura

As I understand it, the Azure Grimoire and the BlazBlue are effectively the same thing, though I could be wrong.
(Make sure you get Makoto's bad end in CS, Kokonoe brings up that very same subject.)

Rizzi

I started messing around with Noel. Trying out some of the missions and such.
I sort of understand this game now. Kinda. Can anyone give me some tips on how to get a little better? I'd like to be able to at least beat the arcade mode. D:

Cantido

cj iwakura wrote: »

As I understand it, the Azure Grimoire and the BlazBlue are effectively the same thing, though I could be wrong.
(Make sure you get Makoto's bad end in CS, Kokonoe brings up that very same subject.)

They are the same thing. The characters calling it that out of nowhere still doesn't fit. It would be like characters calling Sol, The Guilty Gear.

cj iwakura

Just finished Platinum's story. Lots of hilarity with some real serious stuff near the end.

Spoiler:

Why is Trinity's body needing three spirits, and who are Sena and Luna, anyway?


Why does Platinum think she 'doesn't deserve' that title anymore?

AuburnTiger

Which of the female characters would be good for someone just trying to learn the game?

Cantido

AuburnTiger wrote:

Which of the female characters would be good for someone just trying to learn the game?

Noel Vermillion. Her drive is a freebie chain combo button.

Dragkonias

Yeah. Pretty much.

But Noel is one of those easy to learn, hard to master characters.

Because D drive spam becomes a lot less viable the better your opponent is and a lot of her better combos take pretty good execution.

That being said, she'll get you by in the beginning.

cj iwakura

Platinum's gag reel has set the bar so damn high.

Spoiler:

-I, Puppetteer Mask, can not allow you to modify your bosom at their expense!
-Make...a contract... with me... and become a magical girl...
-Simply put, bitches, I control the boobs, and I control the WORLD!

yalborap

I was a fan of Lambda in CS. Unless she's gotten hard nerfs now, she's fun as hell when you can get her mixing up the ranged and melee right. That's talking from a casual level, of course. Makoto's also pretty straight-forward with most of her stuff, though you have to really master the mindgames with her squirrel techniques, and nail the Drive charge.

But yeah, Noel is pretty easy to learn. Of course, she's also a total glass cannon if you're Drive spamming, since not only does it have openings, but a large portion of characters have something that'll get through even if the player doesn't have that timing down. All it takes is one projectile spam to the face, an Icecar or two, or just good old fashioned BANG SHISHIGAMI FISTS OF JUSTICE to clear up that Drive spam right quick.

blaze_zero

Platinum's gag ending was bad.

cj iwakura

You must not be a fan of magical girl anime. It was 90% magical girl tropes.

blaze_zero

HAHA JOKES ABOUT BOOBS. BECAUSE THOSE ARE HILARIOUS AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE FLAT CHESTS.

vagrant_winds

cj iwakura wrote: »

Platinum's gag reel has set the bar so damn high.

Spoiler:

-I, Puppetteer Mask, can not allow you to modify your bosom at their expense!
-Make...a contract... with me... and become a magical girl...
-Simply put, bitches, I control the boobs, and I control the WORLD!

Haha. Sailor Moon and Madoka references. :^:

Cantido

Sailor Moon Abridged does it best!

Good games, Blaze. I looked at the Tutorial tutorial mode, and have been learning from that, also worked on proper teching rather than mashing buttons.

cj iwakura

Relius path.

At first I was like, why is he working with Kokonoe?

Oh.


Yeah. This is certainly a weird joke end.

vagrant_winds

Cantido wrote: »

Sailor Moon Abridged does it best!

Good games, Blaze. I looked at the Tutorial tutorial mode, and have been learning from that, also worked on proper teching rather than mashing buttons.

Off topic, but...

Sailor Moon for the best team-based traditional.
Cardcaptor Sakura for best solo traditional.
Nanoha for a focus on battles and action, S3+ for adults/teenagers and teamwork, S4 manga for milfs, blood, war, and magic vs technology.
Mai-Hime for team-based deconstruction and a wide age-range.
Utena for absurd amounts of symbolism and people being fabulous.
Madoka for oh god this is fucked up.

Back to Blazblue. We getting any DLC Characters with Extend?

cj iwakura

Who knows? But so far, Extend is really teasing Jubei and Kokonoe a lot.


Honestly I'm expecting they'll wait until BB3, which will have Jubei, Kokonoe,

Spoiler:

Nine/Phantom, and Saya.

Rizzi

There's a squirrel girl.
This game is something else alright.

blaze_zero

It's getting late. I should probably jet for now. GGs Nick and Cantido.

vagrant_winds

I'm not sure on what's the best part of the game:
The joke endings or the "Teach Me Dr. Kokonoe" segments after the bad endings?

Professor Snugglesworth

I'm having a hard time performing double DF motions with the Vita's d-pad.

Might have to just set up a tutorial and practice.

AuburnTiger

My Street Fighter skills do not translate to this game.

cj iwakura

Welp, did all six new stories, 100%.

Mostly teasers for how insane BB3 is going to be.


The Sector Seven EX Chapter was amazing.

Spoiler:

Kokonoe's going to be badass. Sorcery everywhere.

Cantido

cj iwakura wrote:

Welp, did all six new stories, 100%.

Mostly teasers for how insane BB3 is going to be.

You mean Daisuke's gonna use a live drummer again!?

Big Red Tie

AuburnTiger wrote: »

My Street Fighter skills do not translate to this game.

who you playin?

Riokenn

Pretty sure im going to hate myself but I bought the game. Haven't played CS so Im jumping from CT to CS Extend. Hope nothing too overwhelming is in the new version.

AshtonDragon

Played the shit out of this game over the weekend. Managed to finish all of the challenges for most of the characters I'm interested in. Valkenhayn is such a beast now, I might even have to avoid using him too much against my friends. He really didn't need buffs.

I really like how you unlock stuff the same was as the 3DS version. It doesn't take much time at all to get all of the colors and old system voices, although getting all of the unlimited characters takes a bit longer (if you even care about that).

Professor Snugglesworth

Okay seriously, fuck the Arcade boss. Unbelievable bullshit here.

"Oh, what's that? You've unleashed a successful string of combos that depleted my health? Good for you! Oh wait, I hit you once and now you're either on the air or on the ground! Enjoy this unavoidable special that takes away 75% of your health! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!"

Also, you know it to be true.

blaze_zero

Oh, here's a tip if you didn't know about it.

When fighting the computer, you can fill up your Heat to 100% by taunting.

vagrant_winds

Trinity ~

blaze_zero

Who is the third girl? Not Nine or Trinity.

I saw that she was on a bunch of stuff in the gallery.

Grimthwacker

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Trinity ~

Why so loli? -.-

I should probably be getting this by the end of the week (earlier if lucky), but I won't be online any time soon due to my extreme lack of playing BlazBlue for years now, and thus being very prone to getting my clock cleaned easily. Training and Arcade modes, HO!