BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND - standard edition - Playstation 3
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- - Enhanced Story Mode: Relive and rediscover the events that took place in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger or venture forth into one of four all new story scenarios!
- - New and Revised Game Modes to Explore: Take on the strongest of foes in Unlimited Mars Mode, dungeoneer your way to the bottom of Abyss Mode, or lead an army to victory in Legion Mode!
- - Fully Revised Combat System: All characters new and old have been thoroughly rebalanced and armed with all new strategies and combos to take your game to the top!
- - Improved Online Multiplayer: Battle it out in BlazBlue’s acclaimed online mode with all new online multiplayer features, such as online team battles!
- Relive and rediscover the events that took place in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger or venture forth into one of four all new story scenarios
- Take on the strongest of foes in Unlimited Mars Mode, dungeoneer your way to the bottom of Abyss Mode, or lead an army to victory in Legion Mode
- Battle it out in BlazBlue's acclaimed online mode with all new online multiplayer features, such as online team battles
- 19 playable character/fighters pulled from previous downloadable content (DLC) in the series history, and contains the new character Relius Clover
- PS3 players enjoy cross-compatibility with PS Vita game version
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| Computer Platform | PlayStation 3 |
|---|---|
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00893610001556 |
| UPC | 893610001556 |
| ASIN | B006HPLJDE |
| Release date | February 14, 2012 |
| Customer Reviews |
3.9 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #38,284 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #503 in PlayStation 3 Games |
| Product Dimensions | 0.6 x 5.3 x 6.7 inches; 4 ounces |
| Type of item | Video Game |
| Language | English |
| Rated | Teen |
| Item model number | PS3-07 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 4 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Aksys |
| Date First Available | December 1, 2011 |
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With the devious all new playable character Relius Clover, new story scenarios, new gameplay modes, and competitively balanced action, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND makes a grand return to home consoles and the new frontier
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend is a 2D Arcade-style Fighting game that provides a comprehensive overview of the franchise history of the game in a single release. The PS3 version of the game features the complete story mode from the original release in the series, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, as well as new and revised play modes, an enhanced story mode, a fully revised combat system, local and online multiplayer support, and cross-platform compatibility with PS Vita players.
A comprehensive BlazBlue fighting experience comes to PlayStation 3.
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The Arcade Style Fighting Fun of BlazBlue Returns
The BlazBlue Fighting game franchise makes a grand return to home gaming consoles with BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend. The game is a comprehensive BlazBlue experience, containing story mode from the first game in the series, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, 19 playable characters pulled from earlier DLC releases in the series, as well as all-new content including the devious all-new playable character Relius Clover, new story scenarios, new gameplay modes, and competitively balanced action. In addition to the four scenarios of its single player campaign, the game features two-player head-to-head local support, and 2-6 player support online, support that includes team battles.
Key Game Features
- Enhanced Story Mode - Relive and rediscover the events that took place in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger or venture forth into one of four all new story scenarios
- New and Revised Game Modes to Explore - Take on the strongest of foes in Unlimited Mars Mode, dungeoneer your way to the bottom of Abyss Mode, or refine your skills in the improved Challenge Mode
- More Than 19 Playable Characters - The game contains 19 playable character/fighters pulled from previous downloadable content (DLC) in the series history, and contains the new character Relius Clover
- PS Vita Cross-compatibility - PS3 players enjoy cross-compatibility with PS Vita players
- Fully Revised Combat System - All characters new and old have been thoroughly rebalanced and armed with all new strategies and combos to take your game to the top
- Improved Online Multiplayer - Battle it out in BlazBlue's acclaimed online mode with all new online multiplayer features, such as online team battles
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Customers enjoy the game's fun and rewarding gameplay. They find the story intricate yet confusing at first, but it's explained thoroughly. The characters are described as cool and the design is described as stylish. The game includes the original story from the previous game.
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Customers enjoy the game's gameplay. They find it fun and rewarding, with a balanced combat system and unique characters. The story is enjoyable, and the online play is also appreciated.
"A great fighting game all round with in depth training for a new comer to the series...." Read more
"...Very fun. I feel incredibly stupid for not playing sooner. This game has quickly become my third favorite Fight game." Read more
"...It's totally awesome, and it also comes with a story mode for the first game if you haven't played it, which was really handy for me." Read more
"BlazBlue CSE is a great and underrated game...." Read more
Customers find the story engaging and well-explained. They appreciate the detailed stages and advanced training into game strategy.
"...Advanced training into game strategy (general game play).Advanced training on player specific moves, defense, offence, etc...." Read more
"...So if your into the Anime, like me, then you'll feel at home. The stages are amazing. Some of the best I've seen but not distracting...." Read more
"...Best part its only 40$!!!. Game has a very in depth tutorial mode and challenge mode like most Street fighter...." Read more
"Very intricate and steep learning curve. Mastering the combos and each characters' metagame is fun and rewarding. Not for the faint of heart...." Read more
Customers like the character design.
"...adore this game it's wonderful I love the story, the gameplay, the characters, the online play...." Read more
"...game, so if you are an anime's fan you must buy this game, the characters are cool and the japanese voices are a good stuff." Read more
"...Great uses of vocabulary. Gameplay is balanced, with unique characters and great battle system" Read more
Customers like the design of the game. They say it looks great and is a good anime style fighting game.
"Ok i am a fan of PVP games and well this game looks great... but the gameplay sux.. i dont enjoy it at all the balance of the characters are bad the..." Read more
"...And the stage designs aren't so bad either." Read more
"A good anime stylish fighting game, so if you are an anime's fan you must buy this game, the characters are cool and the japanese voices are a good..." Read more
Customers enjoy the story mode. It includes the original CS story and adds new content.
"...This version includes a advanced story mode (3 different full length story bound encounters)..." Read more
"...This game includes the original story from CS and adds on. Best part its only 40$!!!...." Read more
"...It's totally awesome, and it also comes with a story mode for the first game if you haven't played it, which was really handy for me." Read more
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Different from most fighting games in the style, timing, and feel of game play.
BlazBlue has the potential of hundreds to thoudsands of hours of game play to master
every character and learn different styles of game play.
This version includes a advanced story mode (3 different full length story bound encounters)
Advanced training into game strategy (general game play).
Advanced training on player specific moves, defense, offence, etc.
Practice mode lets you tune a computer opponent (any of the playable characters) to your needs (which can include the opponent stance, actions, % difficulty and other fighting style attributes) or record custom sequences to practice against for that character which you can start, stop, reset, re-record, etc.
Features decent local play, doesn't keep stats of local game play like other games, but does give you XP for playing.
Online play does keep stats of rounds until you are disconnected from your opponent which can be aggravating.
A pen and paper can fix those issues though (maybe ask your friend to keep score or get a 3rd party observer to be impartial scoring for longer periods of play?)
This is also an excellent game to use with a fight stick.
BlazBlue's characters are based on various anime tropes and stereotypes. Some are good, some are meh, but they all look and act how you would expect that particular character type to. So if your into the Anime, like me, then you'll feel at home. The stages are amazing. Some of the best I've seen but not distracting. It is also a fantastic fight game. I don't like to use buzzwords when talking about games so I'll just say that every time I lost it was because of a mistake I made. Very fun. I feel incredibly stupid for not playing sooner. This game has quickly become my third favorite Fight game.
This is a letdown in the way that Super Street Fighter IV AE was, albeit not quite as insulting, as AE somehow managed to make the previous version *worse*. There's very little new content, very close to the point of total redundancy. But AE at least let you upgrade via DLC for $15 ($10 during a sale at one point) instead of another $40 without any choice given. If EXTEND had this upgrade feature, it might be a little more forgivable, but as it stands, EXTEND is simply potentially unnecessary for people who either A) Have CS and all its DLC already, or B) Have CSII, which was PSP and 3DS-specific (the former version being far superior and is in some ways better than EXTEND--more on that later).
CSII wasn't a terrible idea, since there was indeed a lot of overly expensive DLC available, and some of it wasn't even complete--the DLC characters like Makoto, for instance, didn't even have an arcade mode to play with, and were only available in versus matches, and that was it. So you got those three extras, a couple of extra story sequences, some revised gameplay and balance, and a pretty wide variety of stuff in addition to what was offered as DLC. You didn't get what they held back on for this version, though, which was stories for the DLC characters. They got arcade modes, sure, but they did absolutely nothing for the plot.
EXTEND, on the other hand, puts AkSys in the same position that Capcom put itself in by having the audacity to release what is fundamentally a re-release of the original...-twice-. There is no excuse for this. None. Unless you've missed both iterations of CS completely, EXTEND doesn't offer nearly enough to warrant the $40 price tag, as it's barely a few more hours of gameplay, at best, and one single, lone new character who is already oddly boring to play as, not standing out very much compared to other characters. Compared to CS' original Hazama, Tsubaki, and Mu-12 additions, all of which were very significantly different from others, Relius is a lame duck, especially for being the one and only character they added here. Without any doubt, they're hard at work waiting to make them just like CS' DLC characters for $7.99 a pop. I think it's safe to say we can at least expect to see Kokonoe as DLC soon (her omission in this version is insensible, as there is clear evidence in the dialogue that, while we never see her get into fisticuffs, she is clearly strong enough on her own to take on her own creation since the original CT, Tager, whom she has made serious threats of physical violence toward--further, even EXTEND itself hints that she'll be playable soon during Valkenhayn's bad ending), and possibly some form of Jubei, but that's just my speculation.
Yes, you get four and a half new character story modes. I say "half" because the game includes a brief version of the original Calamity Trigger from a new perspective so it makes more sense in the grand scheme of things (there were just too many unanswered questions that weren't addressed in CS, and EXTEND more or less forces answers for these questions because it's pretty clear they're making all this up as they go along). However, don't expect anything incredible to happen in any of these stories. Remember, none of this is a continuation; all of this is still the CS story, just from those four characters' perspectives during it. None of it is particularly entertaining or even interesting, nor are any of the joke endings (always some of the best treats from CS) particularly funny. Relius', Valkenhayn's, and Platinum's aren't particularly funny, with just Makoto's feeling like it had a little inspiration behind it. Speaking of the series' trademark comedy scenes that are always done non-canon and out-of-universe, there are no additional "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!" episodes for comedic intermission value, either. Sigh.
What pains me the most is the loss of Legion as a playable mode, which was replaced with the far-less-entertaining Unlimited Mars mode. I found Legion 1.5 in CSII to be easily one of the most entertaining parts of the game, and I loved creating my own roster of characters with individual stats to take on entire maps of foes with varying degrees of difficulty. To see Legion just disappear was just crushing when I discovered it. Abyss mode, which was never all that fun to begin with (and is kind of just a slower version of Unlimited Mars when you think about it) because of the constant interruptions during matches (all of which require totally new loading screens for matches before the match is even finished) and mechanics that just were never any fun to begin with, is still there, though, and a little modified. But losing Legion for what feels like a throwaway extra mode with no thought added is just no good. Legion was by far better than this new Unlimited Mars mode, which is simply a boss rush with the difficulty jacked up to 11, in which the AI is clearly cheating, forcing you to play differently against them than you would an actual person. You never forget that it's still AI difficulty, not competition against other people, which is a big deal for quite a few, because that invariably means finding something that works and spamming it incessantly, because the AI never seems to learn. And, ha, good luck if you by some miracle manage to make it to the sheer insanity of Unlimited Ragna in this mode. Beating him will require doing things you would not normally do in a match, as he will always be faster, stronger, and will predict anything you think you can do against him. Nothing you do will get through if you try it the typical way, and he will counter every single attack you throw at him and punish you back tenfold every time. Further, if he manages to catch you off-guard with his Life Leech grab for a measly 50 Heat which he will almost always have handy, *it now is a rushing grab that, if you're unlucky enough to get caught in, can almost completely deplete your life bar in one hit and give every bit of it to him*. It's a poor replacement for Legion, no question.
ABOUT THE CARRYING-OVER OF SAVES: You *CAN* carry over save data from CS, but NOT CSII from the PSP or 3DS. You do *NOT* have to start from scratch with everyone's story modes along with everything else. The mistake most people seem to be making is that they don't fully read the first screen that pops up when you boot the game for the first time, which asks what initially looks like nothing more than creating a new save file, but at the end is where it says you can use CS data instead if you choose not to create a new file. In other words, DO NOT CHOOSE "YES". Instead, choose "No", and you will be given the option to use your previous save instead, which will be transferred. If you screw up the first time, simply reset the save data completely from the options menu, which will automatically reboot the game, where you can try again.
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth after the unbelievable disappointment of SSFIV AE. The AE edition of SSFIV was such a bad idea and done in such poor taste, most people simply reverted back to the original SSFIV and ignored AE altogether, as every change they made seemed to be for the worse, buffing what never needed buffing and further nerfing the useless characters, as well as changing the mechanics in a way that made the game less about skill and more about spamming the same moves repeatedly. AE was an embarrassment. EXTEND isn't quite that bad, but it's on the same wavelength, for sure. Not a lot of new content, some changes that most certainly did not need to be made, a serious lack of innovation, and is simply not what we wanted, which was a continuation of CS, not a re-release with just more minor stuff added that still doesn't change the grand scheme of things.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bien
5.0 out of 5 stars 日本の製品と変わりがない
ただし説明書にコマンドが書いてないのがつらかったですね。
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
4.0 out of 5 stars 普通にプレイ出来ます
まずはLanguageをJapaneseにして…
という事すら必要ありません。起動した時点で既に日本語です。
ストーリーモード等、全てのモードでテキスト・セリフ共に日本語です。
ネット対戦も問題ありませんでした。
北米版EXを購入する事のデメリットは以下の通りです。
・パッケージ、説明書が英語。
・オンラインストアに入ってもコンテンツの表示が無く、追加コンテンツ(有料)が購入できない。
これ等についても
・技のコマンドはスタートボタンで確認出来る。
・追加ダウンロードコンテンツである「システムボイス変更」は、ゲーム進行に支障をきたすものでは無い。
と、自分にとっては問題ありませんでした。
購入出来ないシステムボイス
『ノエル、ライチ、レイチェル、ツバキ、マコト、プラチナ、ココノエ』
声優さんのファン等気にされる方は、国内盤の購入をお勧めします。






