Month: April 2018

As we’ve previously reported, the upcoming crossover tag team title, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, will be seeing the much-anticipated return of the English dub, which was surprisingly absent from Central Fiction. While the Easter weekend’s Anime Ascension marked the public debut of the dual-audio build, it was also played during this week’s episode of ArcLive, with the voice of Noel Vermillion and Nu-13, Christina Vee, giving us a chance to sample even more unique team-specific interactions.

Pssych has graciously compiled another round of clips, featuring a variety of both iconic and surprising duos. Highlights include the expected casual snarkiness between the Under Night In-Birth trio of Hyde Kido, Linne, and Waldstein, Ruby Rose burning Hyde over the prospect of showing him up in battle, Persona 4 Arena‘s Investigation Team reaffirming their strong bonds, Jin Kisaragi remaining cold to Noel Vermillion, Makoto Nanaya firing up Gordeau with her spunkiness, Weiss Schnee and Yukiko Amagi preparing to unleash a grand dance of ice and fire, and my personal favorite: Azrael threatening Hazama not to impede his “feasting!”

Additionally, the opening theme to Persona 4 Golden, “Shadow World,” and the Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late[st] console opening theme, “Unknown Actors” have been confirmed as franchise-specific Versus Themes, should the four series reps ever meet in battle. You can see the full video below. (Be warned though, host D-Piddy does talk through a lot of them, so you’ll have to listen pretty closely.)

For more BBTAG action, check out tournament footage from Anime Ascension, as well as player impressions about Nu-13, Es, Chie Satonaka and Weiss Schnee.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Steam on Thursday, May 31st in Japan, before dropping on the same platforms in North America on Tuesday, June 5th. A European release on PS4 and Switch has been scheduled for sometime this summer.

Source: Pssych

Those who love a franchise can simultaneously be its biggest critics. It’s not always out of malice, though — but out of passion for the game. In what certainly turned out to be a momentous video, Maximilian — who professes his love for Capcom’s Versus games — is laying it all out in his latest: “What Happened? MVCI: A Case Study Of What Not To Do”, regarding Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

With a heavy heart, Maximilian opens by saying that the launches of Street Fighter V and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite made him lose a lot of faith in Capcom. He launches into describing MvC:I’s timeline, which started with a demo at PlayStation Experience in 2016, as well as a gameplay trailer that looked a little concerning. “I think they’re going to fix it later,” Maximilian retells what many fighting game players thought upon seeing it. Graphics, sadly, dragged down the game a lot, spawning discussions about Chun-Li’s face, among others. In his opinion, the marketing overall focused on the Story Mode — which just wasn’t the strongest point of the game — and the slim initial offering of characters wasn’t a strong incentive for the series’ veterans.

Maxmilian then ventures into the nitty-gritty: talking about some mechanics and features in the game that didn’t mesh well. “I think it’s done. I don’t think Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is going to get any future updates.” What’s your opinion? Is the game finished, or is there still a chance for redemption?

Unfortunately, Maximilian has even received death threats because the opinions expressed in this video. We want to remind everyone that death threats are a serious matter, and they should never be sent to a creator, no matter how controversial their opinions are! Please be civil and respectful to one another.

Receiving death threats per the latest MVCI video. Reporting to authorities, stream is going to be delayed. Sorry guys.

— Maximilian Dood (@maximilian_) April 6, 2018

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