BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Playstation 3

Blazblue is a wonderful, fast paced fighter. Like most fighters, players choose one of several characters from a large roster, each with their own style of play and special moves. However, Blazblue sets itself apart with it's crazy, unique cast of characters. Each has a very distinct feel to how they fight, making every character feel like an entirely new game to play.In terms of personality and appearance, each fighter stands apart just as well. Hakumen, the mysterious knight. Hazama, the manipulative man with Michael Jackson's sense of style and grace and an internet troll's enjoyment of toying with others. Rachel, a young girl with a cultured disposition who is actually hundreds of years old. Entire paragraphs can be written about each character.The story is surprisingly good for a fighting game. It mixes lighthearted humor with drama and enjoyable character interactions. Where most games shove their stories aside and carry just enough of it to justify why you have a ninja and a robot fighting each other, Blazblue manages to be intriguing enough to hold your attention and keep you going.Not that it needs to. The game itself is refined and balanced. As stated earlier, each character is a new experience, though the simple basics of the game remain the same. Learning the ropes is easy, as the game includes a tutorial with it's own humorous dialogue narrated by a mocking Rachel. Part of the fun of any fighting game is mastering the characters themselves, so the simplified basics and thorough tutorial lets you get straight to the fun part.Actually learning the characters is the challenge. After finding which characters you prefer to play, you have a large variety of both 1-player and 2-player modes to choose from as you learn them inside and out or jump right into playing with your friends and rivals. Any fighting game is much more complex then it first appears. The goal is to control space and predict the best way to counter your opponent's move/counter. The AI is well rounded, being hard enough to make battles fuel your adrenaline, but not painfully unfair to newcomers like most fighting games. You'll enjoy playing with friends, on your own, or online against other players across the globe.In terms of the presentation, graphics and sound, Blazblue continues to amaze. The sprites are crisp, clean, and all around cool to look at. The animated cutscenes during the story mode are just as high quality, though the a certain character's expressions near the end can get weird at times. The music grabbed my attention right from start. Where most games have nothing but rock songs that all blend together after you listen to them long enough, Blazblue has something for everybody. It has rock still, but it also has plenty of classical sounding pieces and mixes in other music genres to make every character's theme as unique as the character.Overall, this is one of the best games of the year. There is humor throughout, contrasting with character driven action and drama. Each story mode has multiple endings, and there is a humorous segment at the end of any ending not the best obtainable that provides advice to get there, courtesy of an irritable non-player character. The game play is fun and intense, and you can choose a new character whenever you find yourself getting bored with one character's fighting style. Music and graphics are sweet, sweet candy for the eyes and ears. If you like fighting games, have interest in the genre, or found fighting games too hard to get into, this is the game for you.

At first I had a doubt on buying this game, I'm a Guilty Gear fan, and this game seemed just like a variant, even though I wished a product of this quality had been released for the GG series, it has a really good content.Without a doubt this game can satisfy hardcore-expert fighting game players, and also beginners. The story mode have very nice drawings, and a good story, instead of the typical 6~10 fights in a row to see an ending that in most games are not coherent between characters, this game has a well told history, and is consistent between characters. There are 3 endings per character:1. funny: this one is the fastest in most cases, because usually you choose a path to follow before/after a fight, some are cool.2. bad ending: this is one will show an alternate ending, some will show really good drawings, and will deliver a different point of view of the character history.3. good ending: well this is the way, things should have happened.Challenge mode:===============This is particularly the best thing in this game, here you will really learn how to use every character. When you first play the game maybe you will say "this character is useless", wrong, terribly wrong. Challenge mode will change your mind.For those who think they're expert players, you will have a really good time trying to complete the challenges, and a really good feature in challenge mode, is the demo of each challenge, by pressing the L2 button. Expert players will observe and realize how things have to be done and adjust the timing in the most difficult combos. After looking at some of those challenges (9th and 10th of each character), you'll realize that your "expertise" will be really tested, some of those challenges are really really serious.Just take a look at 10th Hakumen challenge, or Rachel.Well, beside this, the game have very nice stages and the best music for fighting games out there just like in GG series, most fighting games doesn't have good music that wanna make you fight, this one will.I haven't played on-line yet, later I'll update the review.As a final comment, well, I've been playing fighting games since SF2, and I have played almost everything in the genre, Samurai Shodown series, Art of Fighting series, KOF series, xxxx vs Capcom series, Dark Stalker series, Toshinden series, Killer Instinct, MK, Street Fighter series, Guilty Gear series, Tekken series (I love it :P), Soul Calibur series, you name it, I know what I'm talking about, and this game has exceeded my expectations.Really Worth Buying.

This is nothing more than the cheap crap Arc always pulls off by adding in one or two more things into their games and releasing it like a whole new game in and of itself at close to a full priced game becuase they know people are stupid enough to buy it and keep feeding them money for doing little to no work in updating their games, which they will re-release again and again every 6 months or so.

De los mejores juegos de peleas en el género, ampliamente recomendado por su historia, sistema de juego, diseño de personajes, música y modo online. Ya para finalizar le agradezco a Amazon y al servicio de paquetería por brindarme una vez más un excelente servicio.

excelente videojuego de lucha..buenos graficos 2D..animaciones..y muy divertido..recomendado..excelente para jugar en compañia y buen modo arcade e historia..buenos personajes con buena historia

Le jeu est sans doute excellentissime pour les professionnels de l'e-sport mais je le trouve pas assez accessible pour nous autres mortels.

Great fighting game! Didn't think it would be this great but art and the fighting system change my mind.Would have love to have character though.