So what about you guys? Are you still going to pick up the latest BlazBlue? Will it be a day 1 purchase? Do you care and does it matter? Let us know where you guys stand. Time will certainly tell, but if the initial response is anything to go off of then this latest iteration of BlazBlue may become the worst selling of the bunch. Still, this may not be their wisest move. Granted, my experience with BlazBlue might be a bit more “behind the scenes” than most-but at the end of the day, I’m a fan, too.Īksys, on their part, claims the change is to keep the western release as close to the Japanese release as possible.
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release, I coordinated with Funimation to adapt and direct it out in Los Angeles, so that we could retain practically the entire cast and give longtime fans of the series a dub with the voices they’ve known all along. When BlazBlue: Alter Memory got licensed for a U.S. I served as script-adapter and VO director on Continuum Shift Extend. I’ve been Ragna from Calamity Trigger onward. Maybe they think we don’t much care either way, but many of us do. Reaching out to the cast would have been a simple enough courtesy for Aksys to extend. I’m disappointed by the news-and I’m especially disappointed to be getting it via tweet. Since Aksys Games put out a series of tweets on the matter, fans have been mostly negative toward the news from the casual crowd who’ve followed the game’s 8 years of storyline to some of the hardcore crowd that genuinely enjoyed the mid game banter between characters.Įven Patrick Seitz, the voice of the story’s protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge, has expressed his disappointment via a blog post on his official Facebook that not only expresses his “worst fears” but also tells that Aksys hadn’t even kept in contact with him about it. The absence of one is much more noticeable and had been met with much more ire. However, in the case of BlazBlue, there has been an English voice track for every game since its release. This wouldn’t be as big of a deal as Guilty Gear traditionally had been Japanese voice acted anyway. Fans of Guilty Gear Xrd would come into Revelator and hear nothing but the Japanese track. It wouldn’t be the first time that an English dub would be cut, however. The Japanese text means "WaveBank creation failed", and "Ignore Warnings?".As of August 23rd, the English dub for BlazBlue: Central Fiction has been all but cancelled by the publisher Aksys Games. central fiction () 211 noel vermillion () 2460 ragna the bloodedge () 1754 makoto nanaya () 1579 taokaka () 1023 tsubaki yayoi () 821 kokonoe (. \.\AALib\System\Depend\XACT\sysxact_SoundEngine.cppįunc: AA_CWaveBankDataBase_XACT::RegistBank Some of them are just backgrounds for story sequences or menus, while others are textureless versions of normal stages.Īttempting to load a corrupt sound file will give you a Japanese yes/no dialog box that states:įile. There are test stages ranging from bg_test_1 to bg_test_5. BlazBlue: Central Fiction (also known as BlazBlue: Centralfiction) is a 2D sci-fi fantasy fighting game developed and released by Arc System Works for arcades (digitally via the NESiCAxLive service for PC-based Taito Type X² hardware) in Japan on November 19, 2015.
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The text from the arcade and PS4 versions is left in the text files.Īdditionally, there is text for selecting Unlimited as the control type despite the fact that Unlimited characters are not playable. Present in Jubei's pac file is a bowling ball placeholder file called Maker_dummy.hip. This is due to it finishing the story that started in Calamity Trigger, and finishing Ragna’s adventure. The most common are Ragna's walk sprites. As the title of Central Fiction suggests, story is a big focus for this version of BlazBlue. A lot of characters have from 1-10 sprites of other characters with similiar movement speed or drive attack. As of August 23rd, the English dub for BlazBlue: Central Fiction has been all but cancelled by the publisher Aksys Games.It wouldn’t be the first time that an English dub would be cut, however.