Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-32618428-20170726012436/@comment-30155239-20170727002330

Night Vision wrote: Just like Bleachfananon2 said, go through the games in order. I know story might be confusing at the beginning, so I’m going to leave a little note how you should understand some events: By the way, if you’re going to buy these games, get Extend versions.
 * BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger – everything what happens in each possible story is like a presentation what happened in various timelines. That’s why even losing a battle during Story Mode adds more points of completion of a story, because it’s basically another event from different timeline. The present timeline is basically the whole True Ending, where the Calamity Trigger breaks the loops. Maybe a Story Mode Guide will be helpful to not get lost in this.
 * BlazBlue: Continuum Shift – everything what happens there are Probabilistic Events, and Takamagahara chooses the best for them phenomenons.
 * BlazBlue: Chronophantasma – everything what happens in Arcade Mode gets undone by Event Interference, so basically Story Mode shows the continuation without Interferences.
 * BlazBlue: Centralfiction – Arcade Mode is a nice introduction for Story Mode, but almost all of characters have 3 acts (24 battles in total), so it’s time-consuming.

In case of anime, BlazBlue: Alter Memory, I can say it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. For someone who doesn’t know the story of this series it will be just like: “but what’s going on here, I don’t understand what’s happening!”. "By the way, if you're going to buy these games, get Extend versions." Heheh, that just reminds me of a quality sales pitch, like in Teach Me, Miss Litchi. "Don't forget to buy the original light novels too! And the manga adaptations and soundtracks!"

But yeah The void child, what these guys are saying is the best way to do this: follow the games as Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift Extend, Chronophantasma Extend, and then Centralfiction. All other multimedia or such have some nice series mythos shout-outs or receive a few nods from the games, but this is the most efficient path to get from start-to-finish of the series' main plot.

I hope you have fun diving deeper into the world of BlazBlue!