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As many of my friends are aware, BlazBlue is one of the few games being released this year that I’ve been looking forward to. With this game being released in two and a half weeks, not to mention a recent shortage of things to write about on my end, I thought that this would be the perfect time to give a short preview of BlazBlue.

BlazBlue is the new 2D sprite based fighting game created by Arc Systems, the same people that brought us Guilty Gear. BlazBlue is a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear, as it shares many themes with GG, such as its cast of bizarre characters and balanced fighting. If you’ve ever played Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, or any other 2D fighter, you’ll be quick to figure out that the object of the game is to crush your opponent before they crush you, while utilizing the character’s various fighting styles.

Here’s a short summary of the plot, according to Wikipedia and the various people who have played the English arcade version of BlazBlue:

Prior to the events of BlazBlue, humanity was on the verge of extinction from the “Black Beast”, a creature of Darkness. The world was saved by six heroes who wielded magic. They helped humanity create “Armagus”, a fusion of magic and technology, to defeat the Beast.

After the war, the Novus Orbis Librarium Armagus (the Library for short) was created to govern the world with the use of Armagus. A great deal of dissent was caused by the Library, partly due to use of Armagus in nearly every facet of society, and the widening socioeconomic gap between those who could and couldn’t use Armagus. This dissent would eventually form years later into The Ikaruga Civil War, when the Ikaruga Union openly rebelled against the Library. After the war, the Library imposed a harsher rule on the world, punishing any rebellion against the Library with the death penalty.

On December A.D. 2199, several years after the Ikaruga Civil War, a branch of the Library was utterly destroyed by an SS-class traitor named “Ragna the Bloodedge” also known as “The God of Death”, in an attempt to destroy the entire Library. The Novus Orbis Librarium Armagus, hoping to stop him, immediately put out the largest bounty ever for anyone who could capture him. Interestingly, Ragna possessed a powerful form of Armagus known as the “Azure Grimoire” (Grimoire of the Blue in Japan), also known as the BlazBlue. This led to the Librarium, as well as the Ikaruga Union and other fighters, to be after not just his bounty, but also his grimoire.

Along with the transition from arcade to consoles comes a bunch of exclusive content to the PS3 and Xbox 360, the systems BlazBlue will grace with its presence. Amongst the new content is brand new music, animations, backgrounds, a fully fleshed out 30+ hour story mode, English voice-overs with the original Japanese voices, and an online battle mode that supports up to 6 people to join a lobby and spectate your opponents while you wait to battle.

Every day leading up to the release of BlazBlue, I’ll be adding a character bio or something else relating to the game. So until then, see ya!

First Bio: Noel Vermillion

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