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New BlazBlue CF character: Es from XBlaze

cj_iwakura

cj_iwakura

Member
Weird.
http://operationrainfall.com/2016/07/08/central-fiction-es-trailer/

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BlazBlue: Central Fiction has received a new character trailer for Es from Arc System Works.

Es made her first appearance in XBlaze Code: Embryo. She new joins the cast of the five new fighters heading to BlazeBlue: Central Fiction. Including, Natoto Kurogane, Nine the Phantom, Hibiki Kohaku, and Hades Izanami.

The trailer shows off Es’s fighting style, as well as, her special attacks.

You can watch the trailer below:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Mx31N8OEU

Damn, she looks fun.

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Lemstar

Member
shouldn't be that surprising; she made an appearance in phase 3 of arcade mode in arcades (months ago) and she was officially confirmed for the console version when they announced it (also months ago)
 
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Soulflarz

Banned
Lemstar said:
shouldn't be that surprising; she made an appearance in phase 3 of arcade mode in arcades (months ago) and she was officially confirmed for the console version when they announced it (also months ago)
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Oh, he meant as in sudden?

Yeah, we've known about es for a long time.
 
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Lemstar

Member
Inuhanyou said:
How so?

Also...i guess we have to play Xblaze now to understand the story of this? I never bothered but...
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blonde
ahoge
wears blue
huge sword

And no, I very much doubt if either XBlaze will help all that much. All you need to know for now is that shit is going down and the parallel BlazBlue universes (BB/XBlaze/Bloodedge Experience) are interacting, which is why Es and Naoto show up.

cj_iwakura said:
I never saw it posted it any of the BB threads...
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1206934
 
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Darth_Caedus

No longer canonical
cj_iwakura said:
Seems fairly obvious she's tied to a Murakumo unit somehow.
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The ending of Xblaze made it obvious that Es is vital to the story.
Im also fishy about the whole implications of the world being fake from one of the endings in Xblaze. Unless I interpreted that wrong
 
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Darth_Caedus

No longer canonical
Inuhanyou said:
Come on folks, let's be real lol. There's no comparison in looks. Even the described features are pretty generic anyone could have
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I agree. I never got the impression. I see lots of people bring it up too, I've read Stay Night and Hollow and Xblaze, I would know lol. They don't really look similar at all to me.
 
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Rymuth

Member
That's kinda huge, actually. If my understanding of Xblaze is correct, she's the single most important character in the lore because she is
The Master Unit
Inuhanyou said:
How so?

Also...i guess we have to play Xblaze now to understand the story of this? I never bothered but...
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If I understood Xblaze correctly -
she was a prototype Murakumo unit before they were even called that. She eventually gets a soul and reaches the innermost place of the Boundry. From that place, her predecessor resets the timeline over and over to save the MC whom she loves. When that girl dies, Es becomes the new Master of that place from which she wields God-like power.

Throughout Blazeblue, you hear Terumi saying countless times he wants to kill the Girl in the Boundry/The Master Unit (most certainly Es) because she keeps looping the timeline just like her predecessor. Unfortunately for him, crossing the Boundry is impossible so he's resorted to increasingly complicated schemes
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
Rymuth said:
That's kinda huge, actually. If my understanding of Xblaze is correct, she's the single most important character in the lore because she is
The Master Unit


If I understood Xblaze correctly -
she was a prototype Murakumo unit before they were even called that. She eventually gets a soul and reaches the innermost place of the Boundry. From that place, her predecessor resets the timeline over and over to save the MC whom she loves. When that girl dies, Es becomes the new Master of that place from which she wields God-like power.

Throughout Blazeblue, you hear Terumi saying countless times he wants to kill the Girl in the Boundry/The Master Unit (most certainly Es) because she keeps looping the timeline just like her predecessor. Unfortunately for him, crossing the Boundry is impossible so he's resorted to increasingly complicated schemes
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Uh....so after all this time, we find out something that big in a optional backstory visual novel? My god.

I mean, they have been referencing
the master unit
since continuum shift atleast, and maybe even calamity trigger
 
D

Darth_Caedus

No longer canonical
Inuhanyou said:
Uh....so after all this time, we find out something that big in a optional backstory visual novel? My god.

I mean, they have been referencing
the master unit
since continuum shift atleast, and maybe even calamity trigger
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Told you to play it lol
 
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OVDRobo

Member
She looks fun to play as any character, despite being a blatant rip-off of Saber with a colder personality, but I wish Japanese game devs could go one franchise without going ridiculously convoluted with light novels, radio dramas, anime series, manga spin-offs etc.

Blazblue is already the bad side of anime stories without making it necessary for people to play, read and watch a load of spin-off materials to even understand who half of the characters are.

Ah well. Bring it on, I guess. I've never really cared about the story all that much and I guess it saves their character designers some work.
 
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Village

Member
Inuhanyou said:
Come on folks, let's be real lol. There's no comparison in looks. Even the described features are pretty generic anyone could have
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She looks like saber

This a series along with gg where they strait up lift characters mix them and throw them in the game.

Rymuth said:
That's kinda huge, actually. If my understanding of Xblaze is correct, she's the single most important character in the lore because she is
The Master Unit


If I understood Xblaze correctly -
she was a prototype Murakumo unit before they were even called that. She eventually gets a soul and reaches the innermost place of the Boundry. From that place, her predecessor resets the timeline over and over to save the MC whom she loves. When that girl dies, Es becomes the new Master of that place from which she wields God-like power.

Throughout Blazeblue, you hear Terumi saying countless times he wants to kill the Girl in the Boundry/The Master Unit (most certainly Es) because she keeps looping the timeline just like her predecessor. Unfortunately for him, crossing the Boundry is impossible so he's resorted to increasingly complicated schemes
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Thats actually cool actually.
 
ShirAhava

ShirAhava

Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
I was scrolling really fast and thought the main character from X-BLADES was in this game came in this thread to "lmao" but this is actually cool and makes a lot more sense.
 
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~Cross~

Member
Inuhanyou said:
Come on folks, let's be real lol. There's no comparison in looks. Even the described features are pretty generic anyone could have
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Drive: Crest Arts
Overdrive: Type: Amplifier "Avalon"
Exceed Accel: Type: Braver "Lancelot"
Distortion Drives: · Type: Enchanter "Percival"
· Type: Shooter "Palomides"
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
~Cross~ said:
Drive: Crest Arts
Overdrive: Type: Amplifier "Avalon"
Exceed Accel: Type: Braver "Lancelot"
Distortion Drives: · Type: Enchanter "Percival"
· Type: Shooter "Palomides"
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....still. Yes that is pretty suspect but...

Maybe if Ayako Kawasumi voiced her, i'd be fully convinced.

In any case even if it was true, that's like saying Ayaka was Akiha, or Eltnum was Sion...expy's don't literally mean they are the person.
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
GUYS, you are killing me here. Even IF. I repeat. EVEN IF it was designed off of Arturia, it doesn't mean that it literally IS her. Or else French Bread would have been been sued to hell for winking so hard at Type Moon when they made Under Night in Birth Ex Cafe, regardless of their previous connections

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Rutger

Banned
I guess the Saber color for Izayoi wasn't enough, now we have another Saber.

I see, it's the end of Ragna's story, so they need another character to clone several times instead of Saya in the next game.
 
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King Gilga

Member
I found her super dull in xblaze. Boring emotionless saber ripoff. Meh.

cj_iwakura said:
Yes, but odds of a dub are seeming bleaker by the day.
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That would be a real shame, the characters are the dub for me at this point after 3 games even if some have changed ripbangrip, don't think I'd bother then.
 
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