Blazblue Is Dead
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Thank you Mori for creating my favorite fighting game.
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One thing i didn't see anyone mention is that BlazBlue literally saved ArcSys financially when it came out. Had it not been the success it was, ArcSys would probably have closed its doors and the Guilty Gear revival would have never happened.
Unfortunate to see one of the last huzzah of 2d sprite fighting games go.
Thank you Blazblue
Type Lumina still has sprites, and their beautiful
My favorite things about Blazblue were the silly things like Teach Me Miss Litchi and the comical endings. Those things were adorable.
It had a ton of charm.
Even though the story can be very difficult to understand for most people 😕
I had the pleasure of meeting Mori at the ASW office 10 years ago, and gifted him a signed Queen album (1978’s Jazz). He was visibly overjoyed and we spent 5 hours just playing games and hanging out, we got some merch signed and just had the best afternoon. I hope he goes on to follow his passions, wherever they lead. An incredible talent and a real gent.
Don't worry they'll just make a new BB without Mori and add some wallbreaks, then it'll sell like 8 Blazbillion copies
Oh dear God no.
Love this comment, especially as much as strive is glorified here ....fuck strive
NOOOOOO
and with almost no content how an arcsys figthing game should be.
God i hope not
My favorite thing about Blazblue is the insane amount of detail they put into every animation. Stuff like Rachel's familiars taking the hits for her and Minerva (Celica's robot) doing the fighting while carrying Celica around, Platinum's goofy attacks such as her jab being a randomized rock, paper, scissors hand gesture as well as literally all of Arakune's animations and those were just some of them the list goes on. It all had so much personality and charm to it, there truly will never be anything like it again. RIP Blazblue you were one of a kind! 🥺
That's because the animation was done with 3d models and then the sprites were drawn over the key frames. That made the whole thing very fluid.
@@renatoramos8834 it’s not exactly how fluid it is (while the fluidity is rly good) it’s more abt how much personality and storytelling is in the animation
As much as its fun to meme on it the fact that rollback got introduced to CF and people are still discovering tech for the game Id like to believe its very much alive like you said. The fact CF ended on its own terms and on a high note Id like to believe its a timeless fighting game. People still discovering tech to this day and passionately playing. Hopefully Mori can make a spiritual successor that gets some praise. I wish him luck.
its dead. I tried finding a game for 30 minutes on a saturday at 9pm. and never found one in ANY LOBBY, AND EVERY REGION, only 2 people were playing in hong kong server
@@ChiefOfTheWeb The Public lobbys have been always empty since the day 1, the whole community plays in Personal Lobbys or just goes for Rankeds, believe me, the game is pretty alive, just no in the Lobbys because no one like those Public Lobbys, try to look for Discord servers or even Facebook gruops that use personal lobbys and you will always find someone to fight
@@ChiefOfTheWeb Unfortunate to hear, however some discords im apart of run tournaments for the game and people ask for matches all the time. Maybe their all late birds who get on or people make private lobbies?
@@degen7278 Even in ranked, I only found a match after an hour. For me to find a game I have to look in a discord or make a private lobby means the game is dead. It sucks because I really loved playing this game over the years.
@@ChiefOfTheWeb In PC or PS4?
I didn't know blazblue was that big in japan
I remember when the Mori letter was on twitter there was so many people thanking him for blazblue
it was nice to see how many people loved the series
No matter what, the Blazblue... the Blazblue is real.
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
SO HIGH
OH OH OH
You could at least honor BlazBlue without spouting some unfunny corny ass memes because you wanted some attention.
@@tabkg5802 "Look ma, I posted this meme again! Aren't I funny?"
No, you're not.
My favorite FG series of all time. Story, Presentation, Character Design, Music, Technicality, all top tier. Truly a masterpiece of a fighting game. RIP
Mine too
Not even Jiyuna can save this. At least we got rollback😭
The last gift from Mori to us, he left with an explosion that's for sure
Thank You Mori for BlazBlue. I will always remember the scene where Ragna called Bullet "Butt Floss" because of her hot pants. BlazBlue Forever!!!!
BlazBros, We have to carry on. Even alone, we must continue. Until the end, we must play BlazBlue.
And that’s facts waffles
You guys have it easy. You all have a solid community. Now DNF on the other hand...I hope it doesn't die out as I find it to be a fun game
On it o7
@@ShinRyuuji It is a tough time for both. We should not compare our misery, but help each other through it.
BlazBros we need to keep blazblue alive
Very sad to hear this. I’m a late-bloomer to fighting games (started following the FGC around 2011-ish), but Blazblue (especially CF) is one of my favorite fighting games of all time. Sure, there’s crazy/broken stuff/characters in the game, but it’s such a beautiful paradox of simplicity (4-button fighter) and extremely deep and interesting (characters, mechanics, etc.). Arigato, Mori-san. Thank you so, so much for what you and your team worked so hard to give us. Hope to see you again soon. ❤️
The Smash doc came out in 2013, and i still call doc people veterans of the community
My favorite BlazBlue was still Calamity Trigger, playing on both Xbox Live and PSN in like 2009-2010. Had a Japanese friend I practiced against every single day all night after work, my Bang vs his Rachel. I played online so much that I pretty much ended up playing against every name I saw near the top of the leaderboard, it was amazing. Even played against you once and you felt out my game plan for one round and let me take it and then perfected me like 5 times in a row. I had thought I was hot shit before that cause I beat the #1 ranked Nu, but the rankings were mostly whoever played the most matches lol. Think you used to have it up on here, but it's gone now. I laughed about it when I found it and showed it to all my friends.
EscapingJail was his name. He came out to a tournament and I beat him and won the whole thing.
Blazblue will always be the GOAT. Blazblue was my first introduction into actual fighting games. It was literally the first real fighter I sat down and learned. It taught me all the fundamentals I use today. It taught me everything I needed to know about fighters. It was my introduction into the FGC and I’ve had some of the best moments gaming while playing this franchise. I made some timeless friends and we’d be up all night during summer just playing BB until the sun rose up laughing and enjoying our sets. Back in the earlier years I imported the Japanese version of CP just because I couldn’t wait for the US version to come out. I have never had such a positive and unforgettable experience playing the BB games over the years. As much as I love Guilty and other games I think Blazblue feels just way better. The controls, the characters, the music… it was all there. I’ll always hold this game in high regards. Thank you Mori for all the years of enjoyment and making me a fighting game fan.
Blazblue was the reason I joined the fgc competitively and the reason for going to Evo for the first time ever. Rachel was also the best character I have ever played and was proud that she was the first character I ever played and still main her. Thanks Mori and thank you Jiyuna!
This just means we will get a spiritual successor from Mori. BlazBlue got me back into fighting games. Thank you Mori, whatever happens.
But yeah, BBTag is literally the worst.
BBCP when it first released was my favorite Blazblue as it basically revolutionized the whole game's mechanical structure. When Overdrive was implemented to replace Gold Bursts, I thought the idea was just a copy of "X-Factor" from MvC3 but after actually having to play it, Overdrive has got to be the best comeback mechanic in any fighting game I have played. Overdrive isn't a boring old HP regen and insane damage boost, it basically made characters become, to my opinion, mini Unlimited versions of themselves and it added more depth to the game. Blazblue has a special place in my heart and I will never forget it.
BBCP was really fun, felt like a total new game.
Truly the end of an era. You'll be miss Mori P.
"At least BB won't get the Strive treatment." - Some FGC boomer not playing BBCF
Lmao
Yup
BlazBlue Contimuum Shift ii was the reason I got interested in playing fighting games more seriously. It's been 10 years since then, and I still love fighting games.
RIP, thanks for the memories
My favorite memory of Blazblue is with my friends, playing Ragna and spamming Hell's Fang into grab and they actually just don’t know what to do and we went back to Strive
I could tear my own heart out. I just played last night. I really feel a deep connection to this series! This was the first game that made me take fighting games seriously. I owe this game so much. I made 10+ year friendships and learned so much about fighting games in general! I will never forget this game and if this is the last one. What a great note to end it on! BANG MAIN SINCE CT!!!
Datboi DeAnte da Bang!
@@Bblunt720 How did you know? My Gamertag?
This just means BB is now a complete game. No need to worry about any future unbalancing patch or the community being split over the old Blazblue game and the new iteration. I'll play Blazblue forever.
I need to become a oil tycoon to save my dear wife Rachel
Please do it.
Blazblue was what got me into fighting games, rediscovered my appreciation for the variety and content offered by that series with the rollback updates and always hoped it would see a return. Along with persona ultimax.
I don't know, arc system works is in a different place right now, even if the next blazblue wouldn't be for me it's a shame to see this chapter close.
Yo he's crying!!! He's actually crying!!! A grown man crying!!! That hits different bruh...
Like, profound sadness in his eyes
Can't wait for BlazBlue to turn into a survival horror zombie shooter like Metal Gear
The dream was seeing the new rogue-lite mobile game become successful at least in concept and then that bleeding into ideas for single-player/casual FG content. Here I was like "Man GBVS didn't go far enough to be a 'game' in its storymode. This could go somewhere." Imagining just a fun dead-cells type game that's actually teaching totally new players inputs, and fundamentals in a super novel way. Guess fucking not bros 😔
BlazBlue is not just my favorite fighting game, it's my favorite franchise. I played through the whole Story, from Calamity Trigger to Centralfiction and I absolutely fell in love with it. The Characters, Gameplay, and Story were, and still are, amazing. When I originally read the news of Mori's leave in an article I actually felt weak for a while, and I'm still sad that we very likely won't be getting any new BlazBlue games anymore. Either way, I wish Mori luck in any future endeavors, and hope that perhaps, somehow, he may continue working on BlazBlue.
"Every world has its end. I know that's kinda sad, but that's why we gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have at least, that's what I figure" Sonic The Hedgehog
You only get one life....but if you live it to the fullest, it's enough.
Riding off into the sunset on my Nissan Ice Car.
Blazblue and Bururaji with Shamoji were with me all the way through the start of my FG journey. He will be missed dearly.
Blazblue isn't dead, we still got blazblue mod community, the possibility is endless.
I don't think you can find someone crazy enough to continue the story of BlazBlue
at least we got rollback. Would have loved to see BB in the Strive engine but it is what it is. Maybe if Ragna is DLC for Strive it could introduce fresh blood to BBCF
Yeah thank god for the rollback patch
BlazBlue was the fighting for me it's what really in a time where I didn't really know about fighting games I thought motion inputs like fireballs and dps were too hard lol but I loved the characters there designs, personality everything it's what got me into fighting games for real now I can never go back BlazBlue is THE best fighting game especially central fiction it's sad that nothing will be like it again thank you Mori for this series
Something about him having the idea of hakumen in middle school makes too much sense
BlazBlue is a legend! The complexity of the storyline and how it fit into a fighting game, is a master piece. Recently I am enjoying GGST but still waiting for a new BlazBlue fighting game. Now I got BlazBlue anxiety 😭 Sad for Mori's leave, but let's keep an eye of his future work too.
Blazblue's Death is so sad, but not completely unexpected. I mean in hindsight. Look. Every single project made post-Chronophantasm was mixed in reception and diminishin returns...even Central Fiction, a great game, but initially had the lower returns compared to Chronophantasm cause the Arcade Decline and I guess Series Fatigue for some people.
I mean look. Xblaze, a Visual Novel set in the Blazblue Universe, sold in 2010s, the era when the genre was declining, every post-Phase Shift Blazblue Novels had less popularity and interest by the fans then Phase Shift, the Bad Anime Adaptation (then again, what fighting game ever has a good adaptation?), I don't think we have to explain what happened to BBTag, and Dark Wars or BBDW was the nail in the coffin.
Honestly, it makes sense why they let him go after all of this. Especially since in a way, Blazblue was made in the first place because ArcSys had complicated rights situation with Guilty Gear. And now Guilty Gear is back and stronger then ever, while the sister series which used to peak harder then GG, led to a slow decline due to multiple decisions that just didn't work out. I want to imagine a world where Mori didn't get so greedy and make BBDW, the nail to the coffin of the series, and instead just focused on the BBTag, where instead of a complete end, there still being some hope for his return with mainline series. Or the possibility where he chose to go with his initial decision of making BBCP and CF a single game, instead of 2 and ending the series there, on a high note for the series in terms of attention and sales...
I don't think Mori even wanted to make Dark War.
BBW
He did some work on FighterZ as well, i liked BlazBlue a whole lot, i didn't played it online, just single player but it had so many things to do, i love all the games, hopefuly Mori can get into making games again.
you say its dead but 50 years after release we still discovered new tech, half my twitter is about the barrier kara.
This game is too good to die.
Dunno if it’s legit or just for show.
Something interesting about this is that the gacha was originally meant to be released in like 2018~(I think?), the game got delayed for more than 2 years. I really wonder what happened behind the scenes, I remember finding out that there was a Blazblue gacha only to hear that the thing was dead in the water like 2 weeks later.
Makes me wonder why Mori went for a gacha instead of a more traditional RPG or something, even if the VN thing looked completely unappealing to me.
Can't hate on the guy too hard though, even if I was one of those shitty contrarians that would overhype GG all day, I can't deny that early Blazblue was one of the biggest games in my life around that time, so many memories.
Rip Mori, maybe you''ll be able to make more games about psychotic incestuous rivalries in your next company.
my first blazblue is calamity trigger, i played it back in 2013, i was only 14 back then. I will never find a better fighting game. Til this day i still get chill when i hear the CT voice announcer say "Please select your character".
This is just like how Zone of the Enders ended for me. :(
ZOE is so good
I'm sure Mori will make his eventual successor via Kickstarter that will get overfunded within under a month.
Then never come out.
This one hurts ngl. One of the games I played as a kid instead of just watching. I hope we at least learn how the story finishes and what not. Rip my queen Tsubaki 😔
That sad “alright…” hit different
We never really got to see Alpha get implemented, and that'll make me sad forever. There were a lot of characters that were shown or alluded to in the manga and gacha that seemed like they would have had really interesting playstyles in a new BB fighting game. I wanted to see the necromancy summon bullshit from Fuzzy, Tsubakimen, Alpha, Nu's redesign after her awakening, and so many more. I almost resent GG in that it seems they are going all in on it being their flagship IP, along with printing 3rd party titles in their GG engines to make quick money.
BlazBlue was the game that dispelled alot of fighting game myths for me. You don't NEED perfect execution to do well. Mind games are important, too. I don't think I can say this anywhere else, but I think I always preferred BlazBlue over Guilty Gear. It might just be my favorite anime fighter.
Blazblue cf is the best fighting game ever to me …. And I’ve been playing fighting games since street fighter 2 in the 90’s …. Every character is so unique and the story is actually memorable …. 👌🏽👌🏽
As for my memories with BlazBlue, I first heard about it in 2012, while I was still a huge weeb. I looked up a trailer and saw anime characters beating the shit out of each other and I was instantly sold. Funnily enough, the first BlazBlue game I played was the 3DS version.
I didn't even know Mori left ASW. Thanks for the memories, Toshimichi Mori, and here's hoping the spirit of BlazBlue lives on.
Bro I remember being introduced to BB back when I was a dumbass little 8 yr old kid. I was really big on Death Battle, and when I saw an episode on two guys I've never heard of before, and one of them had 'blood' in his nam' I was all like 'tHIs Is SOme DaRk ShIT'. I don’t know what it was, but Ragna just resonated with me. From then on the series was my ultimate guilty pleasure. Alter Memory was the first anime I ever watched, and to little me, that was the coolest shit ever. Nu's theme to this day is one of my favorite songs period. And though I like Sol and Guilty Gear, I didn't really get into the series until recently, and even then it never really *clicked* with me the same way BlazBlue did. I've had a lot of good memories tied to this series, and was always hopeful we'd get something more til the very end. In a way I still do, but it fuggin' sucks that this is it for the series as we know it.
Damn you're young. Or I'm old.
Man... BB was a series with a pretty big presence in my life; played the PSP ports back in the day. Very casually, but they were technically part of my childhood, then CF got me out of a pretty dark place back in 2018 and introduced me to the FGC just on the back of how good it felt to play... and most importantly, it was the reason I met my girlfriend (possibly future wife).
Picking up CF during that summer sale might have been one of, if not *the* biggest "butterfly effect" moment in my life and I will be forever grateful.
watching tournys just to see astral finish combos like dorabang with bang is always hype no other fg done that
It was definitely exciting seeing them in tournament.
i have faith that the timeline will rollback and correct mori's positon to arc sys ceo and blazblue gets a new release next year
My headcanon is Mori left arcsys cause board kept pressuring for low skill mash game design like babytag and strive and Mori wanted to make a high skill complex game like cf.
When the bgm stopped from beginning. We know the big thing happened. Hope mori overcome all of this. Is sad i know. But maybe just MAYBE mori can do like sakurai does...？BB still owned by arc but mori can supported developed.
I was there from BBCT all the way through to BBCF in the end. I even bought all of the cash grab 'extend' versions of every game.
This series was my childhood and it introduced me to the joy of fighting games - doing REAL SOVIET DAMAGE. Blazblue will always have a special place in my heart.
Now arcsys, give me that Naruto Fighterz.
Extend versions were great!
Though I never played a BlazBlue game until only a few years ago, I actually have a bit of history with it. Funny enough, it was before I even knew it was a fighting game (my hardware at the time wouldn't be able to handle it anyway). But when I was younger, I actually got into it because of the characters and their interactions. I didn't know the story because I was just watching cutscenes out of context, but I loved it and would come back so many times.
Of course, now I also play the game. Even the first game is still so beautiful.
As long as we continue to play BBCF, the game will never be dead. Remember that 3rd Strike still has a decently large player base on Fightcade, and that's a 23-year-old game. So, there's no reason we can't keep BlazBlue alive for decades as well.
I think my favorite memory of Blazblue was listening to Terumi’s theme Silent Scream for the first time! When that guitar comes in and starts chugging with that epic orchestral back up, MAN! Such a shame it looks like it’s days are done but it was a great time!
Much love
you can feel the Sadness. I believe it something to do with the new mobile game or games more focused on action or just shiting on the lore and despite Mori fighting for his game within the company, he had to choose to leave.
I only bought CF game like 2 months ago to play with a friend, along with Tag, and I’m still having an absolute blast with it, both games are extremely fun for me. It’s sad news that there’ll not be a new one but I can still enjoy CF and Tag for hopefully years to come.
Mori gonna come out with a brand new fg called RoastRed
I’ll buy it
Explaining the BlazBlue story to friends that never played the game will always be my favorite memory. Also the radio show was godlike, didn't understand a single thing but it was still dope.
I keep forgetting that cross tag battle is a blazblue game
It’s not
I know I'm late to this but I didn't want to jump immediately into the topic so that I could properly ponder over things and how I feel about this entire situation.
All in all, while I haven't stuck that closely with the series, "Blazblue" was one I enjoyed and have fond memories of. I got "Calamity Trigger" when it first released and I played a good amount of it. I 100%'d the entire Story Mode and I even played a lot online, one of the first two fighters I ever did that with.
But then, strangely, I kind of just soft-followed the series from there. While I did keep up with bits of news, I never actually played any of the follow up entries...even despite the fact that I got some of them. It wasn't until the announcement of "Central Fiction 2.0" with Jubei alongside "BBTAG" where I finally properly got back into the series. Granted, I didn't last long in either. "BBTAG" wasn't a proper entry,, it's a crossover, but I still spent a good month with it and "CF" was only roughly a week but both were memorable experiences for me.
There's some speculation I have regarding ASW and how they've treated the series in its latter years, especially after they got the rights to "Guilty Gear" back, but that's a topic for another time. Too much doom and gloom over mismanagement and all that.
"Blazblue" was a big series and it meant a lot to a lot of people, me included despite not being that close to it the entire time. It's safe to say it's one of the big influences that got me into fighting games. I always played them but it wasn't until then where I really kept up with all the going ons and the like. Sadly, with "Blazblue" more than likely being gone now and just about every other fighting game series I've grown attached to dying or getting horribly undermined by the FGC...I have been feeling quite disconnected in general. But at least I'll always remember the fond times.
私が高校生の頃、横浜で戦ってくれたことを懐かしく思います。間違いなく青春のゲームでした😢
神ゲー
This hurts me, the characters and everything about BlazBlue was what really got me started in fighting games. I would be okay with continuing the franchise without Mori if they had Mori's approval, but that's a pipe-dream. RIP BB.
Falling in love with Blazblue is the main reason I paid attention to all the other fighting games I've bought and played. Without it I probably would've lost interest in the genre. I even tried to play the shitty gacha game until I couldn't bear it any more after a week.
Really the one fighting game I didn't want to see go.
Is that new one out already? The one mobile game thats like a sidescroller?
@@ultraspinalki11 Nah not yet unfortunately. I'm really hoping that ends up being good cause it looks cool.
BBCF is really fun. I'm a new player but it's filled with a lot of really cool stuff from the characters to some of the weird gimmicky single player modes lol.
It was sad to see the news about Mori so soon after I started playing lol. But honestly? It's a fun game and it's very, very playable online. I will keep playing it so long as it has my interest, and I'm confident many others will as well.
My favourite BB memory was in the arcade when I sat down and fought a very skilled Ky on the other side who's just chatting with his girlfriend. After dropping like 10 bucks and finally defeating him with my Rachel, he came over and shook my hand before leaving, I'm sure his GF is also probably happy that he finally stopped playing and can leave lol
EDIT: Ky and Jin are the same confirmed lol
Ky vs Rachel 🤔
I tried playing blazblue probably 8 years ago now, couldn't get into it, not really a fighting game person myself, but been watching some of the cutscenes for the game and really appreciate it for what it is.
I do feel like central fiction was a good place to end it, and its nice closing the series on a high note.
I'm just recently getting into Blazblue and it is sad there won't be any more games but, thanks to the rollback netcode update, BBCF will continue to provide a lot of fun for people who want to get into the series.
I’ll keep playing it forever.
Stardust Memory playing in the background of my heart. I had no idea what was going on in the story, but it was fun for sure.
I'm actually broken by this. I only joined the fgc because of blazblue. I didnt know anything I couldnt even do a dp input at the time. So many nights after work grinding rachel and platinum ranks and getting instant overhead by valk. Not understanding the concept of oki and yomi. Discovering frame data. This game did everything for me. Thank you for everything blaz
Thank you Mori
Oh man, I still remember buying BBCT being obsessed with Jin and going crazy in 2009. Still got my matches from BBCT on my 360 lmao.
I played on 360 first, too
@@ANIMEILLUMINATI Nice
Mori he got depressed because he wanted to do a fate go with blazeblue and he didn't even play it.
Since in an interview he commented that in the celu game he had planned to increase the lore.
And bring back Ragna
I am a zoomer and I missed the fighting game boom. But Blazblue was the first fighting game I ever player. I can't tell you how much the Stylish control mode helped me to learn how to play.
Stylish mode is great.
Blazblue is what converted me from pad to stick. When I first saw it at my local arcade at the time (Rip Family Fun Arcade) it looked so awesome and I had no choice but to learn stick if I wanted to play. So I would just get in there and keep trying until it all started to click and I saw how great it was to play on an arcade stick. After it came out on console, I had a group of friends that would meet up and we would play on the regular and those are some of the best memories ever.
Having friends that play the same fighting game as you brings a different level of fun to the game. It never gets boring.
@@edwardknox9269 oh 100% man during the CS2 days me and my friends met up regularly to play, it was great!
Blazblue holds a very special place in my Heart and I consider the Franchise to be the best there ever will be.
I will never forget my first time playing the game. As an EU Gamer I waited long and patiently for the EU Release of Calamity Trigger which was almost an entire year apart from the US release, which was already delayed compared to the jp release. I preordered it, it came a day late and I was waiting so hard, but once I played it it was all worth the wait.
Never had a game felt so great. I could hardly contain myself screaming out of Joy.
Blazblue made me the Fighting Game Enthusiast I am to day and for that I am eternally grateful.
I dont play bb. But mori also helped with dbfz. So as a dbfz player i love this guy as well :
We won't let it died, just like they communities keep playing and working in old fgs like mvc2.
Tyvm for everything Morí, i fell in love with this genre thanks to this game (and unist.)
The story is dead but, with rollback, Central Fiction ends up always being the game with the higher numbers at tournaments now. Was number three at CEOtaku that just passed. The last game has a bright future and we'll have a great time with that.
Better than them dumbing the game down and making a new version. Central Fiction is truly a hype, turn-every-head-at-the-venue, masterpiece.
Yeah, Rollback is the silver lining
The atmosphere an the willingness to make everyone their own slice of life NC in Gag reels
are some the many areas on BlazBlue will never actually die
CrossTag had an hour of banter that’s amazing
Hopefully he ends up like Sakurai with Smash where he started his own company and then Nintendo just hired his company for the games.
Don't think Mori is big enough to do that.
BlazBlue/BBTAG got me into FGs seriously about 4 years ago after decades of casually playing single player, never online or competitive in any way. Since then, I've made online and IRL friends, been to EVO and other tourneys, and been the happiest ever in my gaming career. Fighting games and the FGC have become such an important part of my life and brought me thousands of hours of fun. All thanks to BlazBlue!
BB got me into traditional fighting games because of how beautiful the game looked and everything around it. Will always think of the series quite fondly.
Just bought Chrono Phantasma Extend on ps4 and i'm having so much fun right now.
The one that made you happiest. Not my game, but it's yours
Man what a terrible news, Blazblue is easily my favorite fighting game, being CS my favorite one of the series, that's the first game I've played in a competitive way, my skills and passion for fighting games are because of BBCS, RIP Blazblue.
The news still hurts me, Noel is my platonic love and I still play Blazblue to this day for her and finding out about that news was quite painful as with the death of Kazuki Takahashi although if something good can be taken from this it is that at least they will not ruin the saga as happened with Guilty Gear Strive or so I hope if ASW thinks of doing something stupid like it has been doing lately : /
man... at least I wished they could do one more game and add that character that was mentioned in the end of central fiction, Alpha-01 which is basically a fusion of Ragna and Nu-13, it even has a concept of her, it looks so sick! >_
Yeah, bad news for Blazeblue fans. Same feeling I had when Kojima left Konami. On the bright side Arcsys has an excellent record with fighting games. So, BB maybe gone for now, but pretty sure it isn't goodbye.
Kojima left to make his own studio though. Mori is in the Void now.
I played blazblue since Calamity trigger and It was the beginning of me loving fighting games. I fall in love with rachel and mained her ever since and never gave up playing her to the point that blood came from my thumbs.. thats how much I really wanted to master the character. Not only I had so much fun and wanted a better connection from 2010 so i can play with others freely because locally we have no one plays it except for 2 or 3 of my friends which I also knew from blazblue CT at that time in the lobby. I actually learnt english because of this game, since i hoped into the western blazblue forum and I improved a lot there. I was anti social but from there my life actually started my friend opened lots of doors for me in terms of socializing espeically in the blazblue community. This game isn't just a game for me. It legit changed my life. I feel so sad knowing that it died.
I bought this game when it was the hottest new anime fighting around. I remember my computer had some trouble trying to install it mostly thanks to Microsoft's Games for Windows crappy service. I remember when someone did a mash up of Ao Iconoclast with Space Jam's theme and that took the hell off!
All these memories. In fact I still have in my favorites Ragna's Perfect True Ending as MAD from NND. This game it's just so great I didn't expect to get invested in the story and the characters.
A big F and well I rather just not have any new BB instead of a sequel/spin-off/reboot without Mori.
At least they released my favourite FG Character of all Time before it died: Susanoo
Toshimichi Mori was second only to Daisuke Ishiwatari himself.
BlazBlue was expected to fail but maneged to beat the odds,
shame how it ended with a failed gachagame, but we did get Rock solid games with tag & CF getting rollback.
Lets wish Mori all the best in his future ventures & thank him for his service