Yeah, there's all this stuff about branching timelines and then Noel awakens as a robot before it's revealed that Susano is Jin somehow and then Relius is splintered across time and has to consciously will his body together or something because physics themself are different in this world.... I'm not even deep into the lore of the other games and I already know that things get effing nuts, lol. Also, at some point, Ragna loses his arm and not-Tsubaki offers to help him pee. This is a thing. And unlike Jin being stranded on a sentient island that forces him to fight an infinite number of Ragnas, I'm pretty sure it's not part of a joke ending.
Ragna - Destroys Cauldrons and has to fight Nu Jin - Try to kill Ragna Litchi - Try to save her bf Taokaka - Become a Kaka Clan Warrior Noel - Is sent to hunt for Ragna, but winds up saving him Arakune - Devour Ragna to become stronger due to the Azure Bang - Hunt Jin for killing his master Carl - Take the Azure to revive his Sister Hamumen - Kill Ragna Nu-13 - Fuse with Ragna to become the new black beast Playing CF really helps out
U Forgot 2 Tager- Capture Ragna & Bring Him *&* His Blazblue To Brokenoe Rachel- Do Nothing But Watch, Despite Having Numerous Opportunities To Stop All Of This Bullshit
Actually, while it is not entirely true that Noel was sent to hunt for Ragna. Her main purpose is to bring back Jin to his post and was told not to engage with Ragna. After she discovered Jin's wounded body however is when she had decided to arrest Ragna while he is still within the vicinity.
@@BardockSkywalker Tager's mission is to retrieve Hakumen. If you played CT, you should have already known this. Rachel was a Bystander. A Bystander can watch events that happen in anytime they want but cannot interfere. If the current Bystander were to interfere/interact with the current event, he/she will lose some of their power. Thus, her interfering the event by using the Tsukuyomi unit she possessed to block Highlander: Takemikazuchi laser (The laser shooting satellite guy) cause her to lost some of her power after CT. I recommend paying a close attention when reading the interaction between characters.
To be honest I actually quite like the story of BlazBlue. As confusing as it gets I really like the effort put into the story and for the most part I think it pays off in the end.
I'm kinda of a new player to the franchise, only having played CF so I had to catch up to the story. Helped a lot the summary the game itself gives tho. And damn. Yeah, the ending to Ragna's storyline is great. And painful.
It’s pretty convoluted and messy at first, but it’s fun and gets better the more you follow it and goes on. It’s just that it’s filled with A LOT of lore, characters, plot points and worlds.
Old comments I know but I really do dig the lore of series I started with Xblaze just to get a better understanding...which didn't really work considering Es has orange eyes by the end of it Also Es is best girl change my mind
This must be a timeline where Jenova succeeds and Cloud Strife became so edgy after failing he changed his outfit, his hair color, and his name to Ragna the Bloodedge.
This was halarious XD But I do love the story. It really isn't hard too keep track of as long as you know what happened from what didn't happen, you're good.
@@thechugg4372 I'm late but yes and no. For clarity sake, so long as you know what matters, you're good. Though the individual timelines do take place within the Blazblue world, only some of them are canon/matter, making the other timelines more or less inconsequential and there for setting/worldbuilding sake. Continuum Shift makes it abundantly clear when, after your bad endings, you are taken to a counseling session hosted by Kokonoe to help you get your character's true end.
Holy shit, this is surprisingly accurate. though I will note that the vampire bite happened only once in a previous time loop. Love the split second references
darklord21z I think I'd be willing to sit through it if they used the combat sprites as puppets instead of the anime stills, but even then the writer need an editor armed with napalm and a chainsaw. It's got good characters, but fuck me if paying attention isn't a chore rather than a reward
OneColdRepublican OH NO NO NO! Kingdom Hearts makes Blazblue look like Mario Bros when it comes to a comprehensive story. Kingdom Hearts is so far up it's own ass that even the Oroboros'd back down
You actually gave a lot more information than was required by this challenge. Nothing about the world or its history was explained in the first game. All we got was a bunch of people in a lab working on an experiment. They talk gobbledeegook with no context for a few minutes then a satellite opens up and an unexplained monster blasts the planet. Afterwards we see a girl in a wasteland and that's it. That's literally all the backstory we get and none of it is ever explained in the course of the game. The characters mention stuff during their stories but they never elaborate on anything. I finished it 100% tonight and still didn't have a clue what happened or why until I watched several TH-cam videos on the subject.
"Hey did you know that this isn't even the first time humanity has been destroyed and that the current god of this world is a robot waifu trying to make her fanfiction work?" "What the hell? Where do they say that?!?" "One of the light novels released only in Japan"
BlazBlue plot is excellent, but is so complex that most oficial The players doesn't Mind for The story That's actually Sad, because BlazBlue franchise has one of the best story in a game Ever Sure, Calamity Trigger plot is not well structured and is a bit confuse, but If You play until Cronophantasma and come back to Calamity Trigger, you'll understand a Lot more of it's plot. After You play all The games, The story makes a Lot more of sense I love BlazBlue plot in so many different ways For all who are reading this. Please. Try to understand The plot. You'll love it
This was hilarious and great, and would be awesome if you did the rest. I came in at Central fiction and tried to watch the recap and understood nothing. This sorta made sense.
Buddy, this undertaking will be the challenge of your life. Have speed you manificient bastard. Ok but seriously if you cover everything all the way to Central Fiction I will subscribe.
Good for me that i like the story of all 4 BlazBlue : D 4:20 the BlazBlue (Azure grimoire) is the reason why Ragna have a red iris, i mean, that thing it's in his right arm The ending: LOL
Blaxe Frost In the very first timeline, Rachel bit Ragna to save his life, however, when time is repeated, she doesn't as Ragna manages to save himself using the grimoire. Rachel is an observer and her job is just that, to observe. Of course, she doesn't do that and takes a step onto the main stage which almost kills her.
Blaxe Frost Rachel said it herself in CT in her arcade story and it was in the short story for Rachel. If you Google Blazblue short stories, you'll find stories on each charcater. Like Ragna is when he attacked Akitsu, Rachel is when he bit him.
hahah I'll try to fix this. BlazBlue in a nutshell, is ONE GIGANTIC time paradox. It happens in a loop, over and over again. UNTIL, events in the first game, BREAK THE "Wheel of Fate", (which is where the phrase comes from, "The Wheel of Fate is turning....REBEL" as in, rebel against fate). Ragna, ends up with the BlazeBlue (Azure Grimoire), which he stole from the NOL, he goes destroying all the "Cauldrons " which are controlled by the NOL. The Cauldrons are what they use to create the Ars Magus that is mentioned. Ergo, Ragna is simply at war with the NOL. Somewhere along the line, he ends up in Kagasuchi (spelling?), which is the 13th city), and Upon reaching it, he encounters a Murakumo Unit, V13, (side point. The names of these things are loosely based on Japanese Shinto Religion lore, Murakumo means "Heaven", and there are 13 of these "Heavenly units which are suppose to protect the "realm"). V13 however bares a startling resemblance to Saya, Ragna's sister who he thought was dead. This is where the CYCLE comes in. V13 grabs onto Ragna, and they both fall INTO the caldron there, and combination of her, Ragna, and grimoire, create "The Black Beast" , This is the "Calamity Trigger" that causes the calamity. Then, 6 Legendary Heroes (Hakumen, Terumi, Jubei, Nine, Platium the Trinity, and Valkenheim) appear, Kill the Black Beast, and conclusion RESETS the time line and the cycle begins again. HOWEVER, in CT, a break happens when Ragna ends being saved by Noel (who also looks like Saya), which means he never falls in the cauldron, and the black beast is never made (at least in this timeline). Which causes a SHIFT in the CONTINUUM.. (which is where the title of the 2nd game comes from). Stuff about Ragna gets revealed further into this game and 2nd though. First, Ragna was near death after being attacked by his brother Jin, after Jin came into contacted with the sword Yukaneisa (spelling?) it basically corrupts whoever holds it. Jin slices off Ragna's arm, leaving him for dead. He is "found" by Rachel, who is an immortal vampire. You can think of Rachel as an observer, with a godly status, so she can observe time as she wishes. For some reason, she felt bad for Ragna, so she partially turned him into a vampire to save his life. (This is why he has the two different color eyes) . The Bloodege comes from when Ragna eventually meets Jubei. Jubei takes it upon himself to Train Ragna to be a skilled warrior, and at some point, he gives Ragna a huge blade. He tells Ragna that the blade came from the "True Hero" who actually killed the black beast, and said this warrior was named "The Bloodedge" Thus Ragna took the name, presumably in inspiration from this Hero. (who could have possibly been an alternate reality version of himself) It's also worth talking about Ragna's brother, Jin. At some point in the original timeline, Jin comes into contact with a mysterious suit, called the "Susano'o" Unit. (side point, Susano'o is the name of a Japanese God, who defeated a legendary beast, named Orochi) This suit turns him into Hakumen. Because of the suits power however, Hakumen is unaffected by the time loop, which is how both him and Jin can exist. Terumi is essentially the embodiment of "Orochi", which is why his attacks are like that of a snake. Jubei is a beastmen, who the NOL tried to clone because of his strength. Taokaka, and all of the Cat people, are essentially incomplete cloned offspring of Jubei.
Ragna did not steal the Azure Grimoire from the NOL; it was buried beneath the Church and he took its power. Ragna is not a vampire; it was only in the first timeline (short story) Rachel bit him. Every other timeline she did not. Ragna has the red eye due to the Azure Grimoire eroding his right half, hence why it completely shut down around Celica before Kokonoe helped him out. Jin comes into contact with the Susano'o Unit after falling into the cauldron after Ragna, where he finds himself in the past and is taken in by the Alucard family. His body badly damaged and no longer equipped for combat, he is given a choice to either take the suit or remain in the castle -- to which he chooses the former.
I know, right? That happens with plenty of characters, especially when they're fighting Nu-13 or Hakumen. If you beat them, they just get back the hell up and screw you over with the power of canon.
To be honest, I've only played Calamity Trigger, so I'm not even really sure what or who Takamagahara and Amaterasu are. The former is the space Jenova in the video, right?
Pew Pyou Pjooh Takamagahara is a machine system that can rewind time to change a major event. "Space Jenova" is Takemikazuchi. Easy to misinterpret, admittedly.
Story of Blazblue Calamity Trigger: Edgy as hell Grim Reaper travels to the big city to ruin everyone's dinner. Asshole brother follows him because of his murder crush. Lieutenant Flat Board follows to stop said murder crush. Grim Reaper dukes it out with a vampire rabbit, Venom, little boy with sister complex, psycho brother, pale ghost, then loses to Mecha Gasai. He almost becomes the city's next meal, but he's saved by Lieutenant Totally-not-related. On the side, Naruto tries to win over Sakura's heart, who only has eyes for Sas-I mean Venom. And that's Calamity Trigger in a nutshell.
The problem with Blazblue's story isn't that its "complex" or "too hard to understand". Its that its so damn convoluted and lacking in any kind of relatable theme to ground its story. The writers think that a plethora of sad backstories, wordy terminologies and long-winded exposition scenes are somehow a good substitute for good writing, character depth and development.
I mean, they have Ragna, who's actually a pretty damn good character with decent writing and development backing him up, and that has some relatability to him seeing as how he's often the one person with common sense in a world of clinically insane edgelords. But, like he can only carry the story so far.
Oh shit a Blazblue PLOT video?SICK.Trully the best possibility of the continuum shift. That was funny,Now do the SEQUEL, and may the boundary have mercy upon your soul.
The Ice Car omg) More Blazblue content!!! So good! Plus it's actually accurate and animated! beautiful! "100 years ago, fucking Jenova appears!" If I wasn't already subscribed, this would have been it.
3:26 I stopped paying attention to Blazblue's story a long time ago, but I'm completely unfazed to find that it took them exactly 7 years to explain the motivations for the protagonist that drive the plot on a basic level.
I had this conversation with a friend last night after playing Central Fiction for the first time, not knowing what was going on. Then this video shows up hours later... dear lawd, I'm stuck in a time loop now, aren't I? Someone stab me please.
Blazblue story can be good if you start with Continuum Shift Extend and play Calamity Trigger: Reconstruction Forget everything from the original CT, it doesn't matter
Here's CT lore in a nutshell: Ragna: Destroy NOL bases to prevent them from building another world ending weapon. Jin: Finds out that ragna is going to kagutsuchi so he defies orders and went after him. Noel: is tasked to bring jin back, but ended up saving ragna Tager: Act as kokonoe's right hand, mission is to retrieved hakumen from the boundary, recruit litchi, and find lambda 11 Litchi: Just there being a doctor, also saving the kaka children from being eaten by her bf (arakune) Arakune: Eating a bunch of children to get more powerful, and hunting down ragna because he has the blazblue Taokaka: ordered by the kaka head to defeat ragna and get the bounty, also to fight arakune. Bang: Being a comic relief, he's also hunting jin for vengeance since he killed his master. Fight ragna also because his a criminal. Carl: wants to kill ragna to get his blazblue and revive his sister Hakumen: muscle through kokonoe's control and went to fight ragna because his the black beast Nu 13: kill ragna and herself so that they can become the black beast Rachel: just watch, even if the events just happened a million times. True ending: They went through all these events, but this time noel went to the couldron to fight nu 13 instead of ragna. Noel then remembers that she is mu 12 (sword girl), and save ragna to prevent the time loop and accidentally observe yuki terumi (the main villain) to materialize in their world Yuki Terumi blows up kagutsuchi but rachel finally did something and use the tsukiomi unit to block the attack, then she became weak after that. (The end)
Funnily enough, I remember hearing or reading that when BlazBlue was first being developed it was originally going to be an RPG, but was changed somewhere along the line into a fighting game.
I really liked the character interactions and relationships. No other fighting game has characters so connected. The problem is when that takes back seat to the miriad of made-up terms and weird nonsensical stuff. Men, I wish they made the story with just the characters to advance the plot.
「Quality」 And King of Fighters (they literally have their own shared Universe), and Street Fighter and Darkstalkers....in fact any good fighting game has good interactions
GG have Ky and Dizzy married had a son .Sol and Ky epic fight .Ram loves burger than anything.ZatoxMillia .RamxSinxElphelt friendship.SolxAria are parents of Dizzy and SolxKy are son father in law. Venom in the end working as a dashing baker to save money for robo ky body.How is this not a character interact and development . Still better than BB 5 time
This is literally the most accurate recap of BB story I've found on YT
ZioSerpe
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True.
But i'm still lost as fuck.
Sorta.
I don't know.
+Oni
That's fine, just keep a hold of that feeling of confusion. You'll need it for the later games where stuff really starts getting nuts.
dracocrusher
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Wait, what-
That's still f@ ¢% !# ç confusing!
Yeah, there's all this stuff about branching timelines and then Noel awakens as a robot before it's revealed that Susano is Jin somehow and then Relius is splintered across time and has to consciously will his body together or something because physics themself are different in this world.... I'm not even deep into the lore of the other games and I already know that things get effing nuts, lol.
Also, at some point, Ragna loses his arm and not-Tsubaki offers to help him pee. This is a thing. And unlike Jin being stranded on a sentient island that forces him to fight an infinite number of Ragnas, I'm pretty sure it's not part of a joke ending.
I love how often Jenova shows up, she is the thread that connects all of gaming media throughout the boundary.
*Jin becomes an edgelord, and Ragna's like "no I can be a bigger edgelord"* lmao
Ragna - Destroys Cauldrons and has to fight Nu
Jin - Try to kill Ragna
Litchi - Try to save her bf
Taokaka - Become a Kaka Clan Warrior
Noel - Is sent to hunt for Ragna, but winds up saving him
Arakune - Devour Ragna to become stronger due to the Azure
Bang - Hunt Jin for killing his master
Carl - Take the Azure to revive his Sister
Hamumen - Kill Ragna
Nu-13 - Fuse with Ragna to become the new black beast
Playing CF really helps out
U Forgot 2
Tager- Capture Ragna & Bring Him *&* His Blazblue To Brokenoe
Rachel- Do Nothing But Watch, Despite Having Numerous Opportunities To Stop All Of This Bullshit
Actually, while it is not entirely true that Noel was sent to hunt for Ragna. Her main purpose is to bring back Jin to his post and was told not to engage with Ragna. After she discovered Jin's wounded body however is when she had decided to arrest Ragna while he is still within the vicinity.
@@BardockSkywalker Tager's mission is to retrieve Hakumen. If you played CT, you should have already known this.
Rachel was a Bystander. A Bystander can watch events that happen in anytime they want but cannot interfere. If the current Bystander were to interfere/interact with the current event, he/she will lose some of their power. Thus, her interfering the event by using the Tsukuyomi unit she possessed to block Highlander: Takemikazuchi laser (The laser shooting satellite guy) cause her to lost some of her power after CT. I recommend paying a close attention when reading the interaction between characters.
You forgot best girl, Mai Natsume!
Mai - working for koko and wants to take out Relius
Makoto - a spy working for kokonoe
Tsubaki - gets played by everyone
Not gonna lie I would play the absolute shit out of Blazblue: Dancing All Night.
just imagine how dope the 3d models for everyone would look
BBDAN Tier List
God: Hazama, Terumi, Susanoo
SS: Litchi, Arakune, Makoto, Platinum, Amane, Azrael, Kagura, Nine, Mai
S: Rachel, Taokaka, Tsubaki, Valkenhayn, Relius, Izayoi, Izanami
A: Ragna, Bang, Nu, Mu, Bullet, Naoto
B: Noel, Jubei
C: Lambda, Hibiki
D: Jin, Kokonoe, Es
F: Tager, Carl, Hakumen, Celica
Julius the Casual Gamer That's Cross Tag Battle lobbies in a nutshell
Ramón Elbal Ruiz More like Central Fiction
@@vulcan422 move hakumen and Celica to D teir
To be honest I actually quite like the story of BlazBlue. As confusing as it gets I really like the effort put into the story and for the most part I think it pays off in the end.
Glad I'm not the only one.
I'm kinda of a new player to the franchise, only having played CF so I had to catch up to the story. Helped a lot the summary the game itself gives tho. And damn. Yeah, the ending to Ragna's storyline is great. And painful.
Yeah it's pretty dope once you know what's going on, there's almost nothing else like it
It’s pretty convoluted and messy at first, but it’s fun and gets better the more you follow it and goes on. It’s just that it’s filled with A LOT of lore, characters, plot points and worlds.
Old comments I know but I really do dig the lore of series
I started with Xblaze just to get a better understanding...which didn't really work considering Es has orange eyes by the end of it
Also Es is best girl change my mind
This must be a timeline where Jenova succeeds and Cloud Strife became so edgy after failing he changed his outfit, his hair color, and his name to Ragna the Bloodedge.
Everyone hates Ragna: the fighting game
This is by FAR the most needlessly complicated story I have ever heard. And they only followed Jin
Cant wait for Continium Shift, Chronophantasm and Central Fiction :D
This was halarious XD But I do love the story. It really isn't hard too keep track of as long as you know what happened from what didn't happen, you're good.
and then you learn that... everything happened... every timeline is canon.
@@thechugg4372 it be like that sometimes and all the times
@@thechugg4372 I'm late but yes and no.
For clarity sake, so long as you know what matters, you're good. Though the individual timelines do take place within the Blazblue world, only some of them are canon/matter, making the other timelines more or less inconsequential and there for setting/worldbuilding sake. Continuum Shift makes it abundantly clear when, after your bad endings, you are taken to a counseling session hosted by Kokonoe to help you get your character's true end.
Holy shit, this is surprisingly accurate. though I will note that the vampire bite happened only once in a previous time loop. Love the split second references
When you need to shove in a bloody glossary in Centralfiction, you know you kinda went overboard with the terms.
VirgilTheMob ikr
"It's kinda like this thing but not really"
Number one reason why the story is so hard to understand.
Do another. 😂 This was great! 👍
it's so fun
Sooooooooo.. ignore the story, just fight online. Gotcha 👍
yo !!! your comment made my day ^^ idk if you're EU or US but if you play on pc hoping to play with you someday ^^
KINGPHANTOM "tHe StOrY iS dEeP aNd InTeReStInG"
The best stories are the gag reels and the side stories. The main story is a real clusterfuck and doesn't really resolve much.
That's way more of the main plot than I remembered. Honestly I only remember Tager, Tao, and Bang's plots.
OH BOY
THERE'S SO MUCH PPLLLLLLOOOOOTTT
This amazing, I hope you can recap the rest of the games
AGREE
Sound like when I have to write an essay in an hour exam
Why would you EVER try to recall the plot of ANY Blazblue game?
I may be somewhat suicidal but i'm not that stupid
darklord21z I couldn't force myself to sift through the story. The presentation combined with the wordiness kills it for me.
I like it...but trying to actually EXPLAIN IT is goddamn death sentence
darklord21z I think I'd be willing to sit through it if they used the combat sprites as puppets instead of the anime stills, but even then the writer need an editor armed with napalm and a chainsaw. It's got good characters, but fuck me if paying attention isn't a chore rather than a reward
darklord21z
Kingdom Hearts makes more sense than this, HELL Homestuck devil acts make more sense than this!
OneColdRepublican OH NO NO NO! Kingdom Hearts makes Blazblue look like Mario Bros when it comes to a comprehensive story. Kingdom Hearts is so far up it's own ass that even the Oroboros'd back down
You actually gave a lot more information than was required by this challenge. Nothing about the world or its history was explained in the first game. All we got was a bunch of people in a lab working on an experiment. They talk gobbledeegook with no context for a few minutes then a satellite opens up and an unexplained monster blasts the planet. Afterwards we see a girl in a wasteland and that's it. That's literally all the backstory we get and none of it is ever explained in the course of the game. The characters mention stuff during their stories but they never elaborate on anything. I finished it 100% tonight and still didn't have a clue what happened or why until I watched several TH-cam videos on the subject.
Do it again, but for the next game in the series
“No! I’m keeping these books”
As someone who works at a library, we call that a “declaration of war.” As such, Team Jin did nothing wrong. ^__^
You guys should do more of these this was really fun to watch, I wanna also wanna see you guys go into guilty gears lore
actually we have a whole playlist of our bad memory on our channel
SugarPunch Design Works considering how ignorant my comment was I just want to say I subscribed, your content is amazing to watch
>Nobel Phantasm
>Unlimited Blade Works
WRONG FRANCHISE
Unreal BLACK THING
Ultra Instinct Super Saiyan
Also wrong franchises.
"yeah but this time, REALLY don't give up" lmao
What I love is that I played through all of Calamity Trigger's story modes and I still don't recall half the stuff that happened here.
"Hey did you know that this isn't even the first time humanity has been destroyed and that the current god of this world is a robot waifu trying to make her fanfiction work?"
"What the hell? Where do they say that?!?"
"One of the light novels released only in Japan"
@@elevate07 name of the light novel?
i just finished the story like a week ago and this is substantially better than I would have done. good job!
Man this was amazing, you should do another one
how does this have more complicated lore then kingdom hearts?
Oh man I forgot how crazy the story starts off, and it only gets weirder from there xD
I have come back after the Monsters in Fighting Games video, and when Arakune was mentioned, my brain screamed "BAG FULL OF BEES"
Space Jenovah was spawned from the unholy abyss of space, therefore making it one of those Unreal BLACK THINGS.
2:18 One Of The Hierarchial Cities, Akitsu, gets blown up by.... SPACE JENOVA!
BlazBlue plot is excellent, but is so complex that most oficial The players doesn't Mind for The story
That's actually Sad, because BlazBlue franchise has one of the best story in a game Ever
Sure, Calamity Trigger plot is not well structured and is a bit confuse, but If You play until Cronophantasma and come back to Calamity Trigger, you'll understand a Lot more of it's plot.
After You play all The games, The story makes a Lot more of sense
I love BlazBlue plot in so many different ways
For all who are reading this. Please. Try to understand The plot. You'll love it
What makes the story good? I played the games and was bored to tears
+Finn Marr-Heenan the gameplay was fun as hell though
BlazBlue is more complicated than it is complex
This was hilarious and great, and would be awesome if you did the rest. I came in at Central fiction and tried to watch the recap and understood nothing. This sorta made sense.
Why do I feel like this is a more anime version of Final Fantasy VII?
That was both entertaining and very informative. Didn't want to hop into Central Fiction completely blind lol. Thanks for the video!
Yay something that i played!
This one is pretty accurate, can't wait for next episode!
Buddy, this undertaking will be the challenge of your life. Have speed you manificient bastard.
Ok but seriously if you cover everything all the way to Central Fiction I will subscribe.
Best. Episode. yet
agreed
How could you leave us with such a cliffhanger!
Good for me that i like the story of all 4 BlazBlue : D
4:20 the BlazBlue (Azure grimoire) is the reason why Ragna have a red iris, i mean, that thing it's in his right arm
The ending: LOL
Vazazell First timeline (original without Noel Vermillion) she bit him. The rest he was able to save himself via Azure Grimoire.
i didn't know that detail about rachel... where is it said?
Blaxe Frost In the very first timeline, Rachel bit Ragna to save his life, however, when time is repeated, she doesn't as Ragna manages to save himself using the grimoire. Rachel is an observer and her job is just that, to observe. Of course, she doesn't do that and takes a step onto the main stage which almost kills her.
that's what i thought, but WHEN and WHERE is it said?
Blaxe Frost Rachel said it herself in CT in her arcade story and it was in the short story for Rachel. If you Google Blazblue short stories, you'll find stories on each charcater. Like Ragna is when he attacked Akitsu, Rachel is when he bit him.
It's canon that Yu Narukami meets Ragna
hahah I'll try to fix this.
BlazBlue in a nutshell, is ONE GIGANTIC time paradox. It happens in a loop, over and over again. UNTIL, events in the first game, BREAK THE "Wheel of Fate", (which is where the phrase comes from, "The Wheel of Fate is turning....REBEL" as in, rebel against fate). Ragna, ends up with the BlazeBlue (Azure Grimoire), which he stole from the NOL, he goes destroying all the "Cauldrons " which are controlled by the NOL. The Cauldrons are what they use to create the Ars Magus that is mentioned. Ergo, Ragna is simply at war with the NOL. Somewhere along the line, he ends up in Kagasuchi (spelling?), which is the 13th city), and Upon reaching it, he encounters a Murakumo Unit, V13, (side point. The names of these things are loosely based on Japanese Shinto Religion lore, Murakumo means "Heaven", and there are 13 of these "Heavenly units which are suppose to protect the "realm"). V13 however bares a startling resemblance to Saya, Ragna's sister who he thought was dead. This is where the CYCLE comes in. V13 grabs onto Ragna, and they both fall INTO the caldron there, and combination of her, Ragna, and grimoire, create "The Black Beast" , This is the "Calamity Trigger" that causes the calamity. Then, 6 Legendary Heroes (Hakumen, Terumi, Jubei, Nine, Platium the Trinity, and Valkenheim) appear, Kill the Black Beast, and conclusion RESETS the time line and the cycle begins again. HOWEVER, in CT, a break happens when Ragna ends being saved by Noel (who also looks like Saya), which means he never falls in the cauldron, and the black beast is never made (at least in this timeline). Which causes a SHIFT in the CONTINUUM.. (which is where the title of the 2nd game comes from).
Stuff about Ragna gets revealed further into this game and 2nd though. First, Ragna was near death after being attacked by his brother Jin, after Jin came into contacted with the sword Yukaneisa (spelling?) it basically corrupts whoever holds it. Jin slices off Ragna's arm, leaving him for dead. He is "found" by Rachel, who is an immortal vampire. You can think of Rachel as an observer, with a godly status, so she can observe time as she wishes. For some reason, she felt bad for Ragna, so she partially turned him into a vampire to save his life. (This is why he has the two different color eyes) . The Bloodege comes from when Ragna eventually meets Jubei. Jubei takes it upon himself to Train Ragna to be a skilled warrior, and at some point, he gives Ragna a huge blade. He tells Ragna that the blade came from the "True Hero" who actually killed the black beast, and said this warrior was named "The Bloodedge" Thus Ragna took the name, presumably in inspiration from this Hero. (who could have possibly been an alternate reality version of himself)
It's also worth talking about Ragna's brother, Jin. At some point in the original timeline, Jin comes into contact with a mysterious suit, called the "Susano'o" Unit. (side point, Susano'o is the name of a Japanese God, who defeated a legendary beast, named Orochi) This suit turns him into Hakumen. Because of the suits power however, Hakumen is unaffected by the time loop, which is how both him and Jin can exist. Terumi is essentially the embodiment of "Orochi", which is why his attacks are like that of a snake. Jubei is a beastmen, who the NOL tried to clone because of his strength. Taokaka, and all of the Cat people, are essentially incomplete cloned offspring of Jubei.
Ragna did not steal the Azure Grimoire from the NOL; it was buried beneath the Church and he took its power.
Ragna is not a vampire; it was only in the first timeline (short story) Rachel bit him. Every other timeline she did not. Ragna has the red eye due to the Azure Grimoire eroding his right half, hence why it completely shut down around Celica before Kokonoe helped him out.
Jin comes into contact with the Susano'o Unit after falling into the cauldron after Ragna, where he finds himself in the past and is taken in by the Alucard family. His body badly damaged and no longer equipped for combat, he is given a choice to either take the suit or remain in the castle -- to which he chooses the former.
Thank you for the effort of explaining the story of the game.
keep going! this is a great (and hilarious) way to distill the story for less patient friends
Loved the video so I subscribed, hopefully you continue with the rest of the series. Awesome work!
"The wheel of fate is turning... FUCK IT !" - Lost it right there. :D
Blazeblue story is just a clusterfuck and i fucking love it
@SugarPunch Design Works woah...well made dude keep it up
I love how Hazama isn't explained until the very very end
Wow! What a plot!!
Yes! After all this time Jenova has finally returned!
Only thing i remember (which could be wrong) Ragna seemed to lose a lot in story scenes (even if you win the fight)
I know, right? That happens with plenty of characters, especially when they're fighting Nu-13 or Hakumen. If you beat them, they just get back the hell up and screw you over with the power of canon.
Technically all story modes are canon to some degree. Time loops and stuff.
To be honest, I've only played Calamity Trigger, so I'm not even really sure what or who Takamagahara and Amaterasu are. The former is the space Jenova in the video, right?
Eastyy Every time Naoto fights Es or Ragna in CF's story the same happens
Pew Pyou Pjooh Takamagahara is a machine system that can rewind time to change a major event. "Space Jenova" is Takemikazuchi. Easy to misinterpret, admittedly.
Now if you want to know how all this come about this entire game series it quite simple it all Yuuki Terumi fault pretty much .
Time to watch these 4 videos AGAIN
Please do the other ones, I'm laughing so bad here
This is great! Now let's do Continuum Shift!
Really confused but I want the next!
I love this, hope you do the next game in the series. The plot is bonkers in this series.
Subscribed just for the BB recaps. Cant wait for the next one lol
Story of Blazblue Calamity Trigger:
Edgy as hell Grim Reaper travels to the big city to ruin everyone's dinner. Asshole brother follows him because of his murder crush. Lieutenant Flat Board follows to stop said murder crush. Grim Reaper dukes it out with a vampire rabbit, Venom, little boy with sister complex, psycho brother, pale ghost, then loses to Mecha Gasai. He almost becomes the city's next meal, but he's saved by Lieutenant Totally-not-related.
On the side, Naruto tries to win over Sakura's heart, who only has eyes for Sas-I mean Venom.
And that's Calamity Trigger in a nutshell.
I liked it as soon as I started watching this. It went into 1K. You’re welcome.
I don't think i have the capacity to put up with super weird japanese plots like blazblue. Good times.
This is the story analysis we deserve. It's perfect
The problem with Blazblue's story isn't that its "complex" or "too hard to understand". Its that its so damn convoluted and lacking in any kind of relatable theme to ground its story.
The writers think that a plethora of sad backstories, wordy terminologies and long-winded exposition scenes are somehow a good substitute for good writing, character depth and development.
I mean, they have Ragna, who's actually a pretty damn good character with decent writing and development backing him up, and that has some relatability to him seeing as how he's often the one person with common sense in a world of clinically insane edgelords. But, like he can only carry the story so far.
Why? How? No one knows (but what a funny 'recap' this is).
Damn, even recalling the recall of blazblue is hard
Oh shit a Blazblue PLOT video?SICK.Trully the best possibility of the continuum shift.
That was funny,Now do the SEQUEL, and may the boundary have mercy upon your soul.
*eye twitches* makes sense.
Surprisingly, this makes a lot of sense. Can't wait for the CS version.
Continuum shit next please, i know you want and you know we want
12:35 to 12:42 had me laughing so hard
The Ice Car omg)
More Blazblue content!!! So good! Plus it's actually accurate and animated! beautiful!
"100 years ago, fucking Jenova appears!"
If I wasn't already subscribed, this would have been it.
3:26 I stopped paying attention to Blazblue's story a long time ago, but I'm completely unfazed to find that it took them exactly 7 years to explain the motivations for the protagonist that drive the plot on a basic level.
Yeah, that really sums up Blazblue: Calamity Trigger.
I had this conversation with a friend last night after playing Central Fiction for the first time, not knowing what was going on. Then this video shows up hours later... dear lawd, I'm stuck in a time loop now, aren't I? Someone stab me please.
I fucking forgot about the whole “looking at terumi brought him to existance”
For someone who had to remember harder about the plot, you got most of it right XD
Now try to do the next games
Blazblue story can be good if you start with Continuum Shift Extend and play Calamity Trigger: Reconstruction
Forget everything from the original CT, it doesn't matter
12:35 “Hey Noel. LOOK AT ME!”
Well, i'm not the only one that think this is convoluted
This is the best thing I've ever seen ever
Do more.... And you got yourself a sub. I love this
Here's CT lore in a nutshell:
Ragna: Destroy NOL bases to prevent them from building another world ending weapon.
Jin: Finds out that ragna is going to kagutsuchi so he defies orders and went after him.
Noel: is tasked to bring jin back, but ended up saving ragna
Tager: Act as kokonoe's right hand, mission is to retrieved hakumen from the boundary, recruit litchi, and find lambda 11
Litchi: Just there being a doctor, also saving the kaka children from being eaten by her bf (arakune)
Arakune: Eating a bunch of children to get more powerful, and hunting down ragna because he has the blazblue
Taokaka: ordered by the kaka head to defeat ragna and get the bounty, also to fight arakune.
Bang: Being a comic relief, he's also hunting jin for vengeance since he killed his master. Fight ragna also because his a criminal.
Carl: wants to kill ragna to get his blazblue and revive his sister
Hakumen: muscle through kokonoe's control and went to fight ragna because his the black beast
Nu 13: kill ragna and herself so that they can become the black beast
Rachel: just watch, even if the events just happened a million times.
True ending: They went through all these events, but this time noel went to the couldron to fight nu 13 instead of ragna.
Noel then remembers that she is mu 12 (sword girl), and save ragna to prevent the time loop and accidentally observe yuki terumi (the main villain) to materialize in their world
Yuki Terumi blows up kagutsuchi but rachel finally did something and use the tsukiomi unit to block the attack, then she became weak after that.
(The end)
Everyone just wants to have a go at Ragna jeez The guy can't catch a break, it's pretty much Ragna Vs the World
@@azurelight6932Have you seen how centralfiction ends?
LMAO you can hear him thinking
Why do I just imagine with all these videos. Whoever isn't explaining is either on the verge of laughter or has a shit eating grin.
Sees title, YOU MADMAN.
His name is Iron Tager and he's my favorite.
He said Noble Phantasm
I wonder how this game story would of been if it's a RPG or Action RPG Game.
Funnily enough, I remember hearing or reading that when BlazBlue was first being developed it was originally going to be an RPG, but was changed somewhere along the line into a fighting game.
Iron Tager is the favorite for everybody!?
I really liked the character interactions and relationships. No other fighting game has characters so connected.
The problem is when that takes back seat to the miriad of made-up terms and weird nonsensical stuff. Men, I wish they made the story with just the characters to advance the plot.
「Quality」 GG maybe.
The extent of relationships in MK is the good guys and their sons, and the bad guys.
「Quality」 And King of Fighters (they literally have their own shared Universe), and Street Fighter and Darkstalkers....in fact any good fighting game has good interactions
GG have Ky and Dizzy married had a son .Sol and Ky epic fight .Ram loves burger than anything.ZatoxMillia .RamxSinxElphelt friendship.SolxAria are parents of Dizzy and SolxKy are son father in law. Venom in the end working as a dashing baker to save money for robo ky body.How is this not a character interact and development . Still better than BB 5 time
Nike_Aguaraguazu Persona 4 Arena has great connections
The amount of detail you can remember the game makes the creator of the story deepen in shame
This looked like "explain the story or blew up game"
"Well, what is this Yuki Terumi now?"
More of this please
ya gonna do more for the next games? this is fucking hilarious XD
And we got taokaka who just wants the money for food.
Me:TAKE ALL MY MOENY