BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
- Experience the beauty of high-resolution, hand-drawn sprites on 3D backgrounds, all in glorious high-definition.
- Get ready to take the action online and battle the best players from all over the world!
- BlazBlue features the following console-only modes: Arcade, Vs, Practice, and a completely fleshed-out Story Mode that tells the tales of each character.
- Choose a character that represents your own fighting style, like the lightning-fast Taokaka or the wickedly powerful Tager.
- Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle!
Product Description
New Modes featuring Beginner Mode, Tutorial Mode and Challenge Mode! Beginner Mode encourages a wider audience with an easier control scheme, anyone can jump right into and play! Tutorial allows the novice and pros to practice everything from the basic mechanics unique to BlazBlue. Challenge Mode offers advanced players character-specific combos and missions. Take over Kagutsuchi by creating your own army in Legion Mode! Defeat the enemy armies positioned at various locations on the map. The ultimate goal is to color the entire map with your color by defeating all the enemy hubs. Recruit enemy soldiers by defeating them! Brand new characters, stages, soundtracks and moves! Welcome Hazama the mysterious performe… More >>
Price: $33.95
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is the update and continuation of last years masterpiece, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, this little gem was crafted by the brilliant minds at Arc System Works. Fans of the original or fans of the Guilty Gear series will no doubt want to purchase this, if for nothing else at least for the story mode, you have never experienced a deeper or more complex story in a fighting game…the thing is, it’s actually interesting…unlike Street Fighter(which I love, don’t get me wrong).
You will get a lot for your $40, newly added Tutorial Mode, Challenge Mode and Legion Mode from the portable version are present. The tutorial is a great place to learn the basics if you are new to BlazBlue and it is the best way to learn the advanced techniques as well. The new challenge mode is pretty much like challenge mode in SFIV and SSFIV. There are 10 challenges per character, each challenge is comprised of several different tasks though, once you get to the advanced combos for a character of your liking it could take you a very long time to clear the challenges. These games are easy enough to play at a casual level but it will take a lot of patience and skill to hang with some of the people you will meet online.
There are 3 new characters right off the bat, Tsubaki is a Valkyrie of sorts, fights with sword and shield and has a drive attack that charges her moves for added strength, she is a very simple character to use and I would recommend her to newcomers. Hazama, better known to veterans as Terumi, is another story. Hazama is tricky but unbelievably good, his drive attack sends chains out at his opponent both for attacks and to rapidly close the distance between players. He is fast, dangerous and unpredictable…and also serves as the final boss of arcade and Story mode for most characters. Lambda replaces Nu as the Murakumo unit in this game, hardly any difference. The true form of Noel Vermillion is also a playable character but I have yet to unlock her. As of now there are at least 3 more characters planned as DLC. Makoto, a…foxie lady (excuse the pun if you get it) that uses tonfa, I have only seen clips of her and have no idea how she plays. Valkenhayn, Rachel’s butler and one of the Six Heroes, will join and I can almost guarantee that he will play like Slayer from Guilty Gear. Platina (Sena and Luna) is another future character, due to her split personality I expect her to be like A.B.A. from Guilty Gear.
All characters have a robust, branching Story Mode that will take you many hours to complete. The story picks up right after Calamity Trigger’s True End, there is a brief summary for those that didn’t play the original. Japanese and English audio are present and accounted for, thank goodness. Online returns of course, you can once again save and upload replays of your best matches if you so choose. There are a few new stages, a few new songs and sadly, a new announcer…not nearly as funny when she says Rebel 1, Action! The character portraits have all been redrawn and they look AWESOME, more like Guilty Gear art and less like anime. The sprites seem improved too, at least Ragna and Hakumen seem to have a few more frames of animation and slight color differences, all welcome changes. The gameplay is top notch, if you like high flying, air dashing combo-laden madness then BlazBlue is 100% for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m fairly new to the fighting game genre. I am a mediocre Street Fighter player who was looking for another fighting game to play with my friends. Blazblue is awesome, the game has great music, art and gameplay. The game has so much style, if you like anime and cheesy (but cute) voice acting and 2d fighting games buy this now. I really like the tutorial mode because it does a fantastic job of teaching me how to play each character. You can even learn how to do advanced combination chains too. The story mode is also really cool, it is told with still pictures and is voice acted (kind of like persona 3 and 4). I love that style. The story doesn’t make a whole lot of sense BUT as you play all the different characters you can learn more about it and piece it together like a mystery. That is giving me incentive to play every characters story mode and not just the ones I like.
This game offers a lot for your money, I recommend this to anyone considering it.
Rating: 5 / 5