Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-32618428-20170726012436/@comment-2188433-20170726170142

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!”.