#49 - Blazblue: Continuum Shift

In my eyes, there are two ways to do a fighting game - either have it focus on hand to hand or sword to sword combat with emphasis on multi strike combos or huge strikes, or you just have everyone use special powers and shit, giving people who play it seizures. Blazblue is a fine, fine example of the latter. A lot of the time, the fighting will consist of ultra flashy moves being pulled off by anime characters. That's... pretty much the main draw. Seems shallow, but what I really like about it is that after you get past the initial hurdle of learning what you're meant to do, it gets rather addicting and you just can't help but keep fighting. By no means, is this the best fighting game ever - and trust me, you'll see plenty of fighting games on this list that easily trounce this - but it's still a game that's plenty of fun. Probably helps that the music is *bleep*ing awesome and always inspires you to fight in different ways.

Yes, there is a plot, but it gets fairly convoluted at times (not Metal Gear Solid convoluted, but *bleep* if it doesn't get overly complicated at times). It does have a decent sense of humor, although it's more hit and miss than anything else. So really, on top of there being little to no animated cutscenes, it's almost skippable. Never got why people liked Blazblue's story so much.

Summary - A flashy fighting game that may seem very button mashy at first, but it winds up working in the end and you'll find yourself enjoying it.
Rating - 8/10

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