Well, I skimmed through it earlier this morning. I agree with it mostly. I only played it for a bit, but I enjoyed it for the most part because I am a fan of Guilty Gear. I like the characters most of all; they were well-varied, I thought.
Great review, better than IGN's were they overratted way to much imo. But yeah anyway great review by GS, I think its fair to say they hit the nail right the head with this one, welcome change imo :P.
Well, I skimmed through it earlier this morning. I agree with it mostly. I only played it for a bit, but I enjoyed it for the most part because I am a fan of Guilty Gear. I like the characters most of all; they were well-varied, I thought.
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So we can kinda like talk about it, you know since this is a forum after all.
This game is a 9 to me at least. The bad points are just silly. The just 12 characters is dumb I mean its a new fighter ip theyusally start with a cast list that big. Also
Loud, gaudy, and potentially confusing for beginners
Really? I mean really. I felt this game was easy to jump right in and play. Even a friend of my who never touched a GG game found it easy to jump in. Im sorry GS but your bad points are well BAD.
Just look at the bad points and you will notice immediately that something is wrong. "Only 12 Characters" - My gosh.. at least all of them play completely different - they are all very unique and therefore "12 Chars" doesn't matter. (Besides.. it's a IP) "Loud, gaudy, and potentially confusing for beginners." - Seems like someone missed out the Limited Edition DVD :P Just look it up on youtube and it isn't confusing at all for beginners. Loud and Gaudy? xP WTF how can that be considered a bad point? Is it even "loud"? Go to Options and Sound Settings if it is too loud, dear Gamespot. And now.. their positive points: Colorful, well-animated characters and backgrounds Surprisingly deep gameplay and totally unique characters Excellent online performance Plenty of offline content Welcome home, Guilty Gear fans. -> 8.0 Srsly? xP Nearly everything a superb Fighting Game can offer is offered with BlazBlue.. GS even notices them all and gave it 8.0? o_o
they get a 8 for 12 characters and loud and confusing fighters thats may be tough for beginners?!?!?!? but i thought blazbule was teh NOOBZ friendly game. This is the first time I dont agree with GS review
I think the review was fine other than a few things. 1) They complained about skills not transferring well between characters which particularly struck me. You have to dig pretty deep to make character variety sound like a bad thing. 2) They also went on a bit about confusing system mechanics which could be clarified in less than a minute by glancing through the manual. Is this forbidden now? Are all of a game's mechanics supposed to be apparent or taught through in game tutorials? I felt this was a bit of a non-issue. 3) I fail to see how anyone could be confused by what is going on. Unless you and a friend are drunk and mashing, it shouldn't be hard for even a biginner to figure out who is throwing ice and who is throwing bees.
To me, it feels like they knocked off a point for the game not being close enough to street fighter (ie not enough clone characters and too many bars/mechanics that a SF player won't recognize). The truth is, fighters don't *need* to be like SF anymore than a FPS needs to be like doom. Games should be judged by their own merits, not by how closely the apple falls from the tree.
One thing I do agree about is that it's a little too busy from a visual perspective. Trying to find a balance between dramatic/flashy and cluttered is tough job. But BlazBlue seems to teeter toward the cluttered side of things where aggro-heavy combos and specials can take up too much of the screen's real estate.
And in my eyes, any points they gained by having a story mode is easily negated by cringe-inducing dialogue and nonsensical story.... more so than most fighters... and SF4 was already pretty bad already.
But that's still a great score. I don't think I'll ever trade/sell my copy.
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