Board Thread:General BlazBlue discussion/@comment-26356785-20161110055228/@comment-30155239-20161130220733

Back in 2010, I was researching various works of fiction for character inspirations for writing, so I was checking various websites for new media to research. On the site TvTropes, there was a lot of buzz for this weirdly named series called BlazBlue, chattering about how complex yet flashy the series was. They say that about lots of series though, so I gave it a quick glance and a "maybe".

Next time I was at the store, I saw a copy of Continuum Shift, and I decided that I had nothing better to spend my money on. For me, the game was very confusing plot-wise considering where I started, and I have two hands of all thumbs when it comes to fighting games.

But the characters grew on me a lot. Because I kept trying to find out more and more behind what the heck was happening or why certain characters were so crazy or why certain characters wanted to defeat this or save that, I grew really attached to everyone and wanted to see more of what they would do next.

The characters were all interesting, but the one who really drew my eye was Hazama. He was just so stylish and so enigmatic that I kept trying to figure out more about him. That led to me learning about Calamity Trigger and the Phase Shift novels online, and by then I was hooked on learning as much as I could about the world of BlazBlue and the interesting characters who lived there.

...As a side-effect it drove my literature professor crazy in my undergrad years because I kept referencing BlazBlue in my theses on rebels in fiction. Good times.