Board Thread:BlazBlue: Centralfiction/@comment-2143738-20161006015633/@comment-30155239-20161006061734

Hmm. This whole conversation reminds me of a strange sensation I felt after playing ChronoPhantasma.

I didn't feel upset about the story, I had plenty of likes and dislikes about what transpired, but that was par for the course. Instead, it felt very different than the kind of story from the first half of the series.

Overall, BlazBlue was always dark, but it always had that underlying message that eventually, if you never give up struggling against destiny and despair, you can break free of the wheel of fate and things get a little better, even if the world remains dark and filled with tragedy.

But CP and CF changed their tone and instead focused on the idea that the world really IS broken and falling apart at the seams and everyone being pawns to the whims of broken gods, rather than it being just another one of Terumi's crazy rants. I think the Nemesis Horizon arc really made BlazBlue feel like a completely different fictional world than the one I was introduced to in 2009.

It makes me wonder if Mori possibly changed his direction on how he wanted to expand the BlazBlue universe.