Arc System Double Fighting Feature: BlazBlue Central Fiction: The Final Fiction

<p align&equals;"LEFT"><em>BlazBlue<&sol;em> has always been an interesting franchise&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a fighting series with a huge focus on story and characters&comma; to the point where the story mode is largely a visual novel and more in depth compared to other action based story modes&period; It has also had its share of interesting fighting game mechanics&comma; with the series changing drastically from its original form in the last few years as well as expanding its roster significantly from the original game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT"><em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> looks to bring the series to its conclusion&comma; simplifying the gameplay and wrapping up the convoluted story that it has continued since the original game&period; It even has a summary section in order to get you up to date on what happened in the previous games&comma; although it just gives you the meat of the central story&comma; so any character specific side plots are left out&period; The story itself is quite interesting once you get a handle on it&comma; although trying to figure it all out can be quite the challenge&period; Once you get into character specific subplots&comma; you can get kind of lost&period; That being said&comma; the main story is fully explained by the end with a nice conclusion and hints of continuing if the developer and community have enough interest&period; The story even manages to make use of characters that were relegated to <em>BlazBlue<&sol;em> spin-offs and while they don&&num;8217&semi;t add a whole lot to the story&comma; fans will be happy to see them here along with the ability to see expanded stories for them&period; The story is crafted with love and brings a conclusion to the many plots&comma; questions&comma; and theories fans of the series have had for years&&num;8211&semi;and also poses some new question&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;117833" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-117833" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-117833" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;02231112&sol;BlazBlue-Central-FIction-Gameplay&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;BlazBlue Central FIction&comma; Aksys Games&rpar;" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"579" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-117833" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;BlazBlue Central Fiction&comma; Aksys Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">The gameplay of <em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> has been beautifully streamlined&period; The series has brought in the ability to string a lot more moves together which makes the combat even more accessible&period; There are a lot more options for combos now&comma; including many moves that couldn&&num;8217&semi;t string together previously&period; Even simple strings like Light-Medium-Heavy-Special are easily accessible and it makes gameplay more enjoyable for for everyone&period; Simple combos are easier for beginners and the more advanced combos are easier for experienced players&period; It makes the game more exciting and keeps the action moving at all times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">The character roster is super diverse&period; Plenty more characters were added to the final roster of the fourth game&period; There is a character for almost every play style and the way they have simplified and streamlined the combat makes it even easier to learn any character you might want to pick up&period; Although mastering them is a different story entirely&period; Every fighting game archetype is here&semi; from balanced to grapplers&comma; keep-away to rush-down&comma; there is a character for almost everyone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;117834" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-117834" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-117834" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;02231153&sol;BlazBlue-Central-Fiction-Character-Select&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;BlazBlue Central Fiction&comma; Aksys Games&rpar;" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"579" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-117834" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;BlazBlue Central Fiction&comma; Aksys Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">The music and stages for <em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> are fantastic&period; The stages are not too elaborate but remain captivating&period; The music is the same as previous games but with more tracks added&period; <em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> has been polished to shine over its various incarnations and the music itself is beautifully composed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Online gameplay for <em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> has been shined to a polish as well&comma; with many different modes of play&period; The lobby system is still here&comma; which allows you to get as many players in the same place and actually challenge anyone you would like randomly&semi; akin to old days of arcade cabinets&period; There is also your standard random-ranked and player-matches&comma; but this time&comma; they allow you to make your own digital room&comma; filled with whatever decorations you want with a little chibi character for whichever character you prefer&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a nice touch and helps reflect the care and adoration the developer has for this series&period; The net-code is still good and has improved a bit from previous games&comma; although you will still have problems if your opponent doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have a good connection&period; This is something that cannot be blamed on the game and is squarely a problem you will run into online multiplayer anyway&period; Otherwise&comma; the online is good&comma; and I expect the lobby feature to keep the games online booming for as long as people want to play the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT"><em>BlazBlue Central Fiction<&sol;em> is a fantastic finale to the overarching story in the series and if this is the last<em> BlazBlue<&sol;em> game they make&comma; they went out on a high note&period; The combat reaches that satisfying medium ground of easy to learn&comma; difficult to master that makes it satisfying for anyone to play&comma; and I would love if new fans of the series were a result of this&period; The characters themselves are interesting to play and fun to learn&comma; the music matches the theme and is well orchestrated&comma; the online meets the standards that fighting games need to be fun online&comma; and I think it&&num;8217&semi;s a fantastic tie up to the series as a whole&period;&period;and perhaps an interesting chapter to something new&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>A PS4 Review Key for BlazBlue Central Fiction was provided by Aksys Games for the Purpose of this Review<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong>Note&colon; To read the other portion of this double feature <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;arc-system-double-fighting-feature-guilty-gear-xrd-revelator&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">click Here<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;