Month: March 2015

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BlazBlue: Chronophantasma EXTEND Heading West This Summer

bbcpex-keyartToday, Aksys Games has announced that they will be localizing BlazBlue: Chronophantasma EXTEND for the western market, bringing the updated gameplay and expanded roster already being enjoyed by players in Japanese arcades to North America sometime this summer.

In addition to making Celica A. Mercury and Lambda-11 playable and revamping the guard gauge system, this upgraded port includes a brand new storyline involving characters from the spin-off manga Remix Heart.

This release also marks the franchise’s first arrival on current-generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, though luckily folks who have yet to purchase these new platforms can still get their fix on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.

BlazBlue: Chronophantasma EXTEND will be available in both physical and digital forms when it launches later this year. Aksys Games currently has no plans to produce a limited edition bundle, but stay tuned for more details.

Sources: Aksys Games, Gematsu and NeoGAF

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Punish Tornadoes and Fireballs Alike with Ultra Street Fighter IV’s Dudley

True block strings allow players to maintain pressure through well-timed button presses mixed in with special moves, but if there are gaps in the timing, or if certain attacks just don’t quite fit together perfectly, punish options begin to present themselves. These windows are small and defenders need to know to expect them in order to be able to perform a proper punish as opposed to just waiting until the block string is over.

Dudley’s duck, as you’ll see in the video below, allows for a great number of these situations to turn into huge damage in Ultra Street Fighter IV. Many of the punish options–mostly those involving canceling a normal into a fireball–don’t come as a huge surprise, but then there are things like meeting Yun’s EX lunge punch with Dudley’s EX duck, which may not have been so readily apparent even to veterans of the character.

Of course, since this is a video from Forbidden Technique, they’ve not only included what version of ducking will net punishes in an alarming amount of scenarios, but have also offered up optimal combos to tack on and keep opponents scared to apply pressure.

Source: Forbidden Technique TV