BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Reviews

Fun

I've heard of the BlazBlue series a few times and I think I might have even listened to a single song from one of the BlazBlue games before and it was a nice soundtrack to listen to. I decided I'd give it a shot considering the only fighting game I truly put any time into was Mortal Kombat 9 Ultimate Edition on my Playstation 3 years and years ago. Anyways I got all the 4 main games and started with this one, didn't know what to expect but I can say that I am pleasantly surprised. +A good amount of characters to play with, all of them look great in their own way. +The graphics are great, the sounds are great, voice acting is really nice, I played with a controller and the controls were easy enough on it, the game ran without any issues. +The story mode is fun to play. You get to make a few dialogue decisions which can lead to different fights and conversations which is great. The characters like I said before not only look great but in the story mode you really get to know the characters too and 99% of them are great, fun to listen to and fun to be around. There is a few I dislike but thats personal opinion obviously. +Obviously you can just do random fights too without a story mode if you want, pretty sure thats in any fighting game though. -The story is hard to understand. Some events are like recurring but not all so at times it feels as if things are diverging a lot between the stories of different characters, things aren't matching up fully but they're matching up enough to confuse you and make you question whats going on. Some things aren't even explained like at all. I wasn't expecting much out of a fighting game. I just wanted cool characters, controller support and fighting. Not only did I get all 3 of those but I got more too with the fun story mode, great voice acting, good looking graphics and likeable characters. Noel, my beloved. And fuck you Hakumen you OP son of a bitch. He's cool sure but I lose all the time in the story mode against him.

Magic circles and geometric shapes everywhere 10/10

The most popular confusing mind cluster anime fighter on the market. If you want me to explain the story, we will be here all day . So if your a fan of visual novels than you will have lots of fun time reading through or listen to the hours and hours of lore. There is a main story that you can play through. Also 12 playable characters which you can play through arcade mode or each ones individual story. Each branching arch has different path that can turn to gag reels or just interesting side story that add to the characters. Some paths you have to lose fights if you want 100% in the story . Blaze blue is the only fighting game I know that does this tedious structure to milk out it’s story. Now the actually combat holds up pretty well, but the graphics did not age very well with it. It’s fun to see where the series came from and that the people who make Guilty Gear can make another banger fighting game. I just find it obsolete compared to its newer games. Good for a history lesson or if you really want to know the story. If you want to get confused in a fighting game than I recommend the sequel continuum shift. It pretty much covers everything in this game with more characters. Until than have fun getting lost with Ragna in the void. 6.5/10