"For the average gamer, the initial learning experience with any unfamiliar 2D fighting game is almost always the same: who's who? That's to say, who's the Ryu/Ken of the game? Who's the "sonic boom" character? When you get down to brass tacks, just about every game in the genre -- and I'm talking everything from classics such as Samurai Shodown to digital abortions like Clay Fighter -- relentlessly doppelgangs Street Fighter II's basic character DNA. It's a comfort thing; if you understand how to throw a fireball or prep a flash kick, you have a rough idea of how to play pretty much everything else. But the folks at Arc System Works aren't hearing that. In a step that makes even their offbeat Guilty Gear games look tame by comparison, Arc pushes us well outside of that comfort zone and forces us to reprogram our decades-old fighting game logic with BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger."
Bit Cultures writer Conner plays through his Steam library in alphabetical order, writes a brief summary of his experience on each game, and then gives them his own personal rating. Here's week 10 of Steam A to Z. This week - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Blocks That Matter, BloodRayne: Betrayal, and Borderlands.
Funimation have announced the English voice cast for the BlazBlue: Alter Memory anime, which they have licensed for release in the U.S.
DJ Killzown Jones of RGN writes, "BlazBlue Calamity Trigger is still a solid fighter that PC fighting game fans should pick up . It is a bit of a disappointment that long load times of the games original release are still present and the games sequels aren’t offered as expansions/add on’s but these things alone should shy away games that haven’t played the game or others who are returning to the series."
