BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

by Aksys

Product Features

• Experience the beauty of high-resolution, hand-drawn sprites on 3D backgrounds, all in glorious high-definition.
• Get ready to take the action online and battle the best players from all over the world!
• BlazBlue features the following console-only modes: Arcade, Vs, Practice, and a completely fleshed-out Story Mode that tells the tales of each character.
• Choose a character that represents your own fighting style, like the lightning-fast Taokaka or the wickedly powerful Tager.
• Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003EV6NEE
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.7 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,261 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #47 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Action > Fighting

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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

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Synopsis:

The blaze roars up again in Continuum Shift. The game is quite a storm in the arcades, now you don't have to worry about not having enough quarters or the arcades closing for the night, you can take the game home and fight the whole 24 hours.

Enter the tournament and challenge all the people in the battle roster. All battle modes are re-adjusted, with the addition of the Legion mode and the tutorial mode. Everyone has new skills sets and powers. Besides upgrades, there are new characters and bosses. Throw your punches and pick a fight with the best from the net.

Beautiful Hand drawn Artwork

Unique attacks, specific
to each character

Features:

• Experience the beauty of high-resolution, hand-drawn sprites on 3D backgrounds, all in glorious high-definition.

• Get ready to take the action online and battle the best players from all over the world!

• BlazBlue features the following console-only modes: Arcade, Vs, Practice, and a completely fleshed-out Story Mode that tells the tales of each character.

• Choose a character that represents your own fighting style, like the lightning-fast Taokaka or the wickedly powerful Tager.

• Use the unique “Drive Attacks” specific to each character to decimate your opponent. Depending on the character, control the elements like wind and ice, or even absorb the life force from your opponents.

• Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle!

• Players can battle others from around the world via Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network.

• Players can not only search for matches but also play games and observe matches online.

Product Description

New Modes featuring Beginner Mode, Tutorial Mode and Challenge Mode! Beginner Mode encourages a wider audience with an easier control scheme, anyone can jump right into and play! Tutorial allows the novice and pros to practice everything from the basic mechanics unique to BlazBlue. Challenge Mode offers advanced players character-specific combos and missions. Take over Kagutsuchi by creating your own army in Legion Mode! Defeat the enemy armies positioned at various locations on the map. The ultimate goal is to color the entire map with your color by defeating all the enemy hubs. Recruit enemy soldiers by defeating them! Brand new characters, stages, soundtracks and moves! Welcome Hazama the mysterious performer, Tsubaki the valiant female knight and U-12. 3D dimensionality and 2D visuals integrated seamlessly with every stage. Four completely new stages with composer, Daisuke Ishiwatari’s seven banging new songs for Continuum Shift! Online battling domestically and overseas! Players can battle others from around the world via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Players can not only search for matches, play games, and observe matches online; they can also chat with friends while playing.

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Synopsis:

The blaze roars up again in Continuum Shift. The game is quite a storm in the arcades, now you don't have to worry about not having enough quarters or the arcades closing for the night, you can take the game home and fight the whole 24 hours.

Enter the tournament and challenge all the people in the battle roster. All battle modes are re-adjusted, with the addition of the Legion mode and the tutorial mode. Everyone has new skills sets and powers. Besides upgrades, there are new characters and bosses. Throw your punches and pick a fight with the best from the net.

Beautiful Hand drawn Artwork

Unique attacks, specific
to each character

Features:

• Experience the beauty of high-resolution, hand-drawn sprites on 3D backgrounds, all in glorious high-definition.

• Get ready to take the action online and battle the best players from all over the world!

• BlazBlue features the following console-only modes: Arcade, Vs, Practice, and a completely fleshed-out Story Mode that tells the tales of each character.

• Choose a character that represents your own fighting style, like the lightning-fast Taokaka or the wickedly powerful Tager.

• Use the unique “Drive Attacks” specific to each character to decimate your opponent. Depending on the character, control the elements like wind and ice, or even absorb the life force from your opponents.

• Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle!

• Players can battle others from around the world via Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network.

• Players can not only search for matches but also play games and observe matches online.

Customer Reviews

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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding update, July 28, 2010

By 

Benpachi (CT) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game)

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is the update and continuation of last years masterpiece, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, this little gem was crafted by the brilliant minds at Arc System Works. Fans of the original or fans of the Guilty Gear series will no doubt want to purchase this, if for nothing else at least for the story mode, you have never experienced a deeper or more complex story in a fighting game...the thing is, it's actually interesting...unlike Street Fighter(which I love, don't get me wrong).

You will get a lot for your $40, newly added Tutorial Mode, Challenge Mode and Legion Mode from the portable version are present. The tutorial is a great place to learn the basics if you are new to BlazBlue and it is the best way to learn the advanced techniques as well. The new challenge mode is pretty much like challenge mode in SFIV and SSFIV. There are 10 challenges per character, each challenge is comprised of several different tasks though, once you get to the advanced combos for a character of your liking it could take you a very long time to clear the challenges. These games are easy enough to play at a casual level but it will take a lot of patience and skill to hang with some of the people you will meet online.

There are 3 new characters right off the bat, Tsubaki is a Valkyrie of sorts, fights with sword and shield and has a drive attack that charges her moves for added strength, she is a very simple character to use and I would recommend her to newcomers. Hazama, better known to veterans as Terumi, is another story. Hazama is tricky but unbelievably good, his drive attack sends chains out at his opponent both for attacks and to rapidly close the distance between players. He is fast, dangerous and unpredictable...and also serves as the final boss of arcade and Story mode for most characters. Lambda replaces Nu as the Murakumo unit in this game, hardly any difference. The true form of Noel Vermillion is also a playable character but I have yet to unlock her. As of now there are at least 3 more characters planned as DLC. Makoto, a...foxie lady (excuse the pun if you get it) that uses tonfa, I have only seen clips of her and have no idea how she plays. Valkenhayn, Rachel's butler and one of the Six Heroes, will join and I can almost guarantee that he will play like Slayer from Guilty Gear. Platina (Sena and Luna) is another future character, due to her split personality I expect her to be like A.B.A. from Guilty Gear.

All characters have a robust, branching Story Mode that will take you many hours to complete. The story picks up right after Calamity Trigger's True End, there is a brief summary for those that didn't play the original. Japanese and English audio are present and accounted for, thank goodness. Online returns of course, you can once again save and upload replays of your best matches if you so choose. There are a few new stages, a few new songs and sadly, a new announcer...not nearly as funny when she says Rebel 1, Action! The character portraits have all been redrawn and they look AWESOME, more like Guilty Gear art and less like anime. The sprites seem improved too, at least Ragna and Hakumen seem to have a few more frames of animation and slight color differences, all welcome changes. The gameplay is top notch, if you like high flying, air dashing combo-laden madness then BlazBlue is 100% for you.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for Casual Gamers, January 15, 2011

By 

Sergio Oses Puchkov (CR) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game)

Besides the old SNK King of Fighters games, it is my personal opinion that, only Arksys has been able to create such complex 2D fighting games; this developer took all the experience from the Guilty Gear series and developed BlazBlue, which is a game that requires a lot of skill to pull out all the combos that are available, thus is focused for the hardcore gamers. This brings the first big problem in Continuum Shift, there's too much content that was brought from the previous title, and it feels this game is just an expansion rather than a new game.

This version has a detailed Training and Challenge section that teaches newcomers how to pay the game like pros and the Challenge is an excellent benchmark for gamers, if you cannot complete at least 30% of them, then you know that when you play online your chances of winning are not that good. It is highly recommended that this ought to be the starting point for beginners.

The story mode is the best I've seen in any fighting game series, there's an average of 3 endings per character and it's very well written, although sometimes it feels it drags more than what it should. The narrative is really good but not the presentation, for instance there is a turning point that determine which ending you will see and then there's an option to save; but if you want to view the other branch of the story, then you need to back track and read it all over again; now, doing this for 14 characters feels like the game is punishing the player. One personal suggestion for Arksys would be to have the save point before the turning point.

Online mode is good but has a minor flaw, if the opponent withdraws the match, you won't get the points; instead the game will show a status of incomplete. It happened a few times that when I had beaten very high ranking players they would abandon the match to avoid losing points. This is not fair by any means, and as with any competitive sport or game, this situation is not acceptable.

The gameplay is in one word awesome, and mastering any character to the point that you can pull a nice combo is truly rewarding, but this requires a lot of practice and time, therefore this game is not for casual gamers that just want to play for a couple of hours.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to learn, and a challenge to master., October 24, 2010

By 

Kimberly A. Hitchings "Kim" (TAMPA, FL, US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game)

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.

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