Copanele's collection of trophies and experiences

[Together_Comic]

5 hours ago, Copanele said:

ehm...Bruno. Let's say he's a fisherman, not going to spoil the surprise

 

So you're saying that you don't talk about Bruno..no..no.no?

[Copanele]

9 minutes ago, Together_Comic said:

 

So you're saying that you don't talk about Bruno..no..no.no?

Unlike that horrendous excuse of a Colombian plantation simulator that was Encanto, THIS Bruno deserves all the talk in the world  

Edited October 17, 2022 by Copanele

[Copanele]

Overwatch 2(??) - the DLC edition

 

Hardest trophy - all DLC trophies are a headache

Difficulty: 10/10 - even with boosting, this game is a headache

 

Woo boy....so Overwatch 2 is a thing now...

So, when I started this game back in.2016, Overwatch was a cute multiplayer shooter with kooky characters. It was one of the last of Blizzard's decent game and I had a lot of fun with it overall.

The trophies were a pain though so I ended up boosting the more awful ones, but I couldn't find any massive flaws to the main game. However I also said that I won't play Overwatch 2 if there's ever gonna be one, because while OW1 was fun at launch, Blizzard's abysmal practices and the absolute stupid DLC characters and "rebalancing" kinda ruined the fun for me. Also the new queue system which was complete ass. It just wasn't fun anymore.

 

Well...sure enough, Overwatch 2 showed up...and completely erased Overwatch 1 from the face of the earth. Literally.
For those confused, I will explain what Blizzard did in their infinite wisdom: They took the Overwatch Origins Edition trophy list, RENAMED it to Overwatch 2 and just pasted DLC trophies to that list. 

Why would you do that???? Why would anyone do that? I understand adding a DLC to a 6-7 years old game (Skullgirls), but completely renaming a game? What? Huh?

Sigh...anyway, reinstalled the game because new DLC and my desire to 100% the stupid thing. Thank god I could transfer everything from my old account, because the changes in this new game are stupid to say the least. Basically Overwatch 2 is a shitty version of Overwatch, with crappier design, a 5v5 system replacing the 6v6 one and some new headache characters that can make or break your game.

 

To avoid rambling about a game that nobody cares about anymore, let me introduce the 3 new characters:

 

Sojourn the Bionic Commando

 

Sojourn is a crossover between Soldier 76, Bionic ARRRRRRM and that sliding dude from Vanquish. She is an assault character that has a shitty gun which can be charged up to transform into a less shitty ray gun. Her trophies consist in - killing 4 people with her ult (pretty basic) and headshotting an enemy with a fully charged ray gun while sliding (not as basic). Probably the most obnoxious character to get trophies for, even in boosting it took me several tries to do that stupid headshot.

All in all, a bland character. Next!

 

Junker Queen - Bootleg Furiosa from Mad Max

 

Junker Queen is the new tank of the game. She has her gun, a huge mean axe and a knife that she can throw and pull back, together with the enemy that got stuck with it. Her main gimmick is inflicting bleed on enemies, which does damage over time. Her trophies consist in pulling an enemy with the knife then whacking it with the axe (you need to kill with the axe) and inflicting 7 bleed wounds...

....on living targets....

....in a 5v5 match....

Ok this one took several permutations to figure out, because the stupid game simply wouldn't register 7 bleed wounds. I was then reminded that this game HAS A MELEE BUTTON , on R3, that ALSO inflicts bleed. So after doing a combination of Axe -> melee -> knife throw -> ultimate -> knife pull, I finally got this dumbass of a trophy for this dumbass looking truck of a character.

 

Kiriko - It's super spirit Ninja time!

 

Kiriko is the new healer and the only remotely interesting new character. She throws basic kunais, can run on walls like Genji, can heal with purifying tags and can purify with a cluster bomb like any modern ninja. Her ultimate makes her go "Let the spirit of KEE-TSU-NAY guide you" and throws a shitty fox at her allies. I have no idea what that fox does, but it cracks me up how they couldn't find a single actor who could pronounce Kitsune (fox in Japanese) like a normal human being.

Anyway her trophies. One asks you to inflict 5 critical hits and heal for 1500 damage without dying (why would they ask for this?...) and the second is purifying 5 allies with one of the heal bomb. Of course, both of them really easy to do in a boosting session.

 

Conclusion:

Avoid this game. Really, there's nothing left from that fun Overwatch 1 time. It's not the trophies, it's the entire mood and sleaziness of the game itself. It used to be good but now, even if it's free to play, I would still advise against it. Make them pay you for playing this stuff. Not even Tracer's assets can save this.

 

THE GOOD:

• D.Va
• Game has ass

THE BAD:

• Game IS ass
• Ever seen a drunk hobo trashing a Christmas Tree together with presents underneath it while kids are watching? That's what Blizzard did to Overwatch 1 to get Overwatch 2

Recommendation - Overwatch 1  HA you wish, it's not available anymore.

Recommendation 2 - Quake  - why not give the old great grandfather of shooting games another go? It's old, it's good, it won't disappoint you, it's on PS4

 

 

 

P.S. I need to add this out of fear that some may think I started a personal war against Blizzard. This game did not ruin my childhood, I just like talking crap about it ? as I usually do.

Catherine ruined my childhood lmao someone nuke that game.

 

Edited December 24, 2023 by Copanele

[Slava]

41 minutes ago, Copanele said:

• Game has ass

THE BAD:

• Game IS ass
• Ever seen a drunk hobo trashing a Christmas Tree together with presents underneath it while kids are watching? That's what Blizzard did to Overwatch 1 to get Overwatch 2

 

Bro, I'm dying ?

[Yuber6969]

Damn that was fast, congrats!

 

That ass doesn't make it worth it. Hard pass.

[AihaLoveleaf]

1 hour ago, Copanele said:

As the American here, I endorse this message.

[Copanele]

6 hours ago, Slava said:

 

Bro, I'm dying

Imagine I had to write that dumb shit at 3AM after trying to sync with the other team for 1 hour ? I actually started to check the lore behind these new characters.

Maybe that's why my brain was so fried in the end  

5 hours ago, Yuber6969 said:

That ass doesn't make it worth it. Hard pass.

Blazblue has it better in every single department ?

5 hours ago, AihaLoveleaf said:

As the American here, I endorse this message.

It's because you have all those nanomachines, son!

[Slava]

6 minutes ago, Copanele said:

Maybe that's why my brain was so fried in the end  

 

Memes are the best cure. Here's one more:

 

[Shrooba]

Nice writeup on Overwatch, with some well implemented humor! ? Oh man, as someone who's never played Overwatch, I've been somewhat tempted to get into it... But those Zenyatta and Lucio trophies (you know the ones ?) seem like something that would haunt me through hours of attempts. It's kind of the bane of a trophy hunter-- I'd love to dive into the game with the idea that I'd just play for fun and naturally get the trophies... but I'd be fretting over Lucio's frickin' wall running and unfortunate enemy positioning over anything else! ?
I've tried to see how the boosting works, but it definitely seems like a collaborative hodgepodge of agony! 10 people to get it to work? Hoo boy.

It's kind of a shame... All my IRL buddies are getting into OW2. I could create an alt, but I like every game I play to be reflected, so I dunno. Usually when I dive into hard games, I do so with this sort of "screw it" mentality where I accept the possibility that I might not finish it, which is how I initially thought with GT Sport and Trackmania, but I've always managed to get everything done, so now I have this sort of Schrodinger's cat equivalent of confidence where the more I dread how arduous OW2's trophies are, the more I want to play it in spite of knowing that... It's like I'm gaslighting myself, the more I want the challenge, the less I want the challenge! ? But I digress! If I could just somehow get the Lucio/Zenyatta/Baptiste stuff done, I wouldn't actually mind the list.

[Copanele]

18 minutes ago, Shrooba said:

Nice writeup on Overwatch, with some well implemented humor! Oh man, as someone who's never played Overwatch, I've been somewhat tempted to get into it... But those Zenyatta and Lucio trophies (you know the ones ) seem like something that would haunt me through hours of attempts. It's kind of the bane of a trophy hunter-- I'd love to dive into the game with the idea that I'd just play for fun and naturally get the trophies... but I'd be fretting over Lucio's frickin' wall running and unfortunate enemy positioning over anything else!
I've tried to see how the boosting works, but it definitely seems like a collaborative hodgepodge of agony! 10 people to get it to work? Hoo boy.

It's kind of a shame... All my IRL buddies are getting into OW2. I could create an alt, but I like every game I play to be reflected, so I dunno. Usually when I dive into hard games, I do so with this sort of "screw it" mentality where I accept the possibility that I might not finish it, which is how I initially thought with GT Sport and Trackmania, but I've always managed to get everything done, so now I have this sort of Schrodinger's cat equivalent of confidence where the more I dread how arduous OW2's trophies are, the more I want to play it in spite of knowing that... It's like I'm gaslighting myself, the more I want the challenge, the less I want the challenge! But I digress! If I could just somehow get the Lucio/Zenyatta/Baptiste stuff done, I wouldn't actually mind the list.

Big thanks  

So...I do recommend starting this game on an alt first, if you really are tempted by it  It's very, VERY RNG and team dependent. to the point where you have to pray to get a lucky lineup of enemies just to ass blast them with ultimates and such.

Boosting is pretty ok...but you have to deal with 9 other people, and most of the time there's always 1 dude who never follows instructions and goes and kills the entire team. So boosting is also a big headache.

 

Again, there's no shame in playing THIS particular game on an alt if you really are curious. Trust me, you dont want to discover that you don't actually enjoy the game and are stuck with its ass trophies

 

P.S. wait until you see Junker Queen's requirements...

[Walt the Dog]

32 minutes ago, Copanele said:

Trust me, you dont want to discover that you don't actually enjoy the game and are stuck with its ass trophies

Can attest. One of my biggest regrets is loading up Overwatch back in 2016 and getting the D.Va quad kill trophy and nothing else. Stuck with that shit on my profile at 1 trophy earned.

 

Could probably go back and at least get a few gimme trophies, but that means playing OW2 and I don't wanna do that even for free given the shit that went down with Blizzard last year.

[The_Kopite]

On 10/18/2022 at 1:14 AM, Copanele said:

Make them pay you for playing this stuff.

Sounds about right from what I've heard lol BTW, didn't a game actually offer in game money to people to play it? Might have been an Ubisoft FPS type game. Can't remember.

[Copanele]

On 10/18/2022 at 5:34 PM, Walt the Dog said:

Can attest. One of my biggest regrets is loading up Overwatch back in 2016 and getting the D.Va quad kill trophy and nothing else. Stuck with that shit on my profile at 1 trophy earned.

 

Could probably go back and at least get a few gimme trophies, but that means playing OW2 and I don't wanna do that even for free given the shit that went down with Blizzard last year.

Lmao the irony is that D.Va yells "nerf this" when she shoots her ultimate. That literally happened in OW2, everything was nerfed.

The painful part is that they will keep releasing lazy heroes with lazy trophies.

 

3 hours ago, The_Kopite said:

Sounds about right from what I've heard lol BTW, didn't a game actually offer in game money to people to play it? Might have been an Ubisoft FPS type game. Can't remember.

Ubisoft usually does that, I know they did it with For Honor. Although For Honor was a super solid and fun game, unlike this Overwatch Downgrade edition

[Copanele]

 No. 198 - Dead or Alive 5 Last Round

 

 

Platinum Name - DOA5 Last Round Master 

Hardest Trophy - Unchallenged Champion  Complete all lessons for a character in Combo challenge

Difficulty - 3.5/10

 

Heh heh, I will love writing about this game...yeah bwoi

 

I have finally got around to trying Team Ninja's bountiful, curvaceous and bodacious fighting game series, Dead or Alive. Or more specifically Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, a re-release of DoA5 with more babes...ahem characters in the roster. To make a slight mention, I will paste here my main experience with DoA5, since the games are pretty much similar. However since I don't have the platinum of DoA5 (yet), it will be under Last Round.

 

 

So, let's start with the second biggest question around here, after Nyotengu's ...assets : WHAT'S DEAD OR ALIVE?

Dead or Alive 5 is a 3D fighting game series developed by Team Ninja (Ninja Gaiden, Nioh), where the main focus of the game is the ...ahem...character design. Intricate gameplay and difficult combo routes have taken a back seat here, this time the devs made sure you will PAY ATTENTION to what happens to the screen with the oldest trick in the book - strong, ripped fighters, slender and blessed-by-the-nature kunoichis (that's ninja assassin girls for you), sexy femme fatale assassins ... and jiggling. LOTS OF JIGGLING.

And sweat. Abit too much sweat.

 

It's really hard to focus on the actual game, because my god Team Ninja knew what they were going for. Honestly, the physics in this game are hilarious to the max, everything jiggles (there is a jiggling physics thing going on here), which comes into play every time a female character jumps, hops, gets hit or even sits idle. It really is unnatural at this point but this is Japan for you  

 

Now, with all this beautiful depiction, how is the actual gameplay? Well...I have to say that it's pretty freakin' good! I honestly was afraid that because of all this focus at chest level, Team Ninja will forget to implement an actual fun system. Well I was proven wrong, because DoA5 is snappy and mad enjoyable. If you ever found Tekken to be a bit too complex for your taste, DoA5 is the more lenient and more sped up version of it. 

 

That is not to say that you don't have TONS of combos and techniques. You have combo routes that could melt the enemy via juggles alone, you have a lot of parries, your attacks change depending on you or your enemy's position (if he's down, if his back is turned, if your back is turned etc). You have counters, power blows, critical hits, interactable environments, everything you could ever want. And most important, you can feel the impact of the blows. You don't do some juggles that have no oomph like in say...I don't want to say Mortal Kombat but definitely Mortal Kombat where it feels like the enemy is made out of pudding (unless you uppercut them, THAT feels good). No, in Dead or Alive 5 it really feels like you are beating the shit out of defenseless karate girls in their pursuit of improving themselves  Sounds wrong but man they can dish out damage back to you and send you to an early Game Over screen.

This game also has tag team. What's best, if you team up with your best friends or acquaintances, you open up new modes of tag grapples or tag finishers. Why grapple with one girl, when you can do it with two? ?

 

The AI is also surprisingly responsive. On easiest setting it's  a punching bag basically, but the scaling actually makes sense and on later difficulty levels it can really absolutely kick your ass with style. What I liked is that the AI does not overly abuse the counter system (very intricate, you have a specific counter for each hit type), but just tries to find openings in your defense and juggle your ass. Quite impressive I might say.

 

 

The story department...eh yeah  I was forced to watch the DoA 5 story for a trophy and, while not stupid, it's MAD simplistic. You have the main protagonist hottie Kasumi causing unexpected trouble and the rest of the cast is trying to figure out what her deal is, by baiting her with the Iron Fist Tour-- erm Dead or Alive tournament.

Look, the story is silly, but you got physics and best ninja Ryu Hayabusa fooling around. 

Now I will use this moment to mention that, despite the focus being set on the female cast, the male fighters are actually pretty damn solid as well. You have your Bruce Lee lookalike, again ninjas and various grapplers. One of the best characters is Rig, a Taekwondo hooded fighter who would give Hwoarang a run for his money. 

Also Team Ninja is unashamed to bring in characters from other series. We already have Ryu who is an absolute monster with his Izuna Drop (provided that you can get his inputs correctly) and Akira together with other cast members from Virtua Fighter. They were implemented smoothly into the game and dare I say...they're actually hard to use too!

 

 

In terms of trophies, LAST ROUND is quite easy. There's only one tricky trophy that asks you to complete one character's combos, but otherwise the list is super straightforward and will actually get you in the mood for more DoA. The Tutorial is surprisingly solid, probably beaten only by Guilty Gear Xrd tutorial. The online mode requirements are minimal and you don't even have to play the story here, just do the usual tasks and you are set.

Now, do not make the mistake and buy Dead or Alive 5 - the original game (no Last Round or Final Edition or whatever). That one is a VERY tough game to platinum and it is ranked at 10/10 for good reason. Be warned if you attempt that one

 

 

 

As a conclusion...I actually believe this game is fantastic! Lewd stuff aside, I was actually surprised about how intricate the game can be. Yes, it's not Tekken, yes it's not some crazy 500 IQ fighting game where you need combo spreadsheets. But really, at this point...who cares? Sometimes it's better to just relax a bit and enjoy something stupid and not-for-the-young-audience for a while  Junk food prepared with the utmost love and care can beat even the snobbiest restaurants sometimes  

 

THE GOOD:

• the goods
• it has actually some great combat
• the roster is great from every point of view
• a little bit of everything for everyone
• not overly complicated - you shouldn't focus on TWO things on this game
• if you want a challenge you have DoA5, if you want to enjoy you have DoA5 Last Round

THE BAD:

• if you are married, you might get some weird ominous looks from your significant other
• if you have kids...better play Cat Quest when they are around  
• jiggle physics kinda go too bonkers at times
• it's rarely on a sale, unless you play via PS Premium.

RECOMMENDATION - Tekken 7  As much as I praise DoA5, if you want a serious 3D fighting game, pick up Tekken7

Or the upcoming Tekken 8, cause we got one angry Kazuya there

Edited October 22, 2022 by Copanele

[AihaLoveleaf]

19 hours ago, Copanele said:

Honestly, the physics in this game are hilarious to the max, everything jiggles (there is a jiggling physics thing going on here), which comes into play every time a female character jumps, hops, gets hit or even sits idle. It really is unnatural at this point but this is Japan for you  

That's definitely Japan for you. Some of my favorite jiggle moments are in the Senran Kagura games, where girls will activate jiggle physics simply by entering the scene while standing at rest.

 

[Copanele]

Just now, AihaLoveleaf said:

That's definitely Japan for you. Some of my favorite jiggle moments are in the Senran Kagura games, where girls will activate jiggle physics simply by entering the scene while standing at rest.

 

The boing means "loading complete"

Naisu one Japan!

[DrBloodmoney]

2 minutes ago, AihaLoveleaf said:

That's definitely Japan for you. Some of my favorite jiggle moments are in the Senran Kagura games, where girls will activate jiggle physics simply by entering the scene while standing at rest.

 

 

? gravity was the last thing to load

[FreshFromThaDeli]

Well done on DOA5 LR. The LR stands for 'Loli Representation'

 

Not a surprise DOA went downhill after they introduced these kinds of characters into the games. I still enjoy the gameplay in DOA6, brilliant in Ranked mode. I played it quite a bit to be fair. 

[Copanele]

11 minutes ago, FreshFromThaDeli said:

Well done on DOA5 LR. The LR stands for 'Loli Representation'

 

Not a surprise DOA went downhill after they introduced these kinds of characters into the games. I still enjoy the gameplay in DOA6, brilliant in Ranked mode. I played it quite a bit to be fair. 

Lol  i even forgot they added a loli in the Last Round, I saw Nyotengu and I was happy ( had to deal with a mean version of her in Nioh 2)

 

This game was just the entrée...the true Well Done has to be said for the main game. Lord have mercy,  hope I survive ?

[Copanele]

 No. 199 - Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend

 

Platinum Name - Un...believable 

Hardest Trophy - Squirrel Power  execute best girl's Particle Flare with lvl 3 punches

Difficulty - 3/10 ... it's the 6th blazblue that I platinum at this point ok?  

 

Another Blazblue! Continuum Shift Extend was a VERY elusive title for me (unless I ordered it from US - no way, the shipping costs would have killed my wallet). THANKFULLY the PS Premium had this game in the library, so by upgrading my subscription for 2 months I got access to the last titles that I was missing - this and Calamity Trigger.

So, let's see where this game sits compared to the other ones?

(P.S. if you want to read my previous impressions of the last Blazblue that I platinumed, check here please )

 

So first of all - this post will have no story spoilers - because, as usual, I avoid Blazblue story. I have no idea what's different between Continuum Shift and Extend story wise. Ragna has a new suit? Jim Kisaragi freezes more? Noel is still annoying? I have no idea! Lots of buts, lots of butts, hard to focus.

 

What I noticed is that you have a larger roster this time and now the previous DLC characters Makoto  , Platinum and Valkenheim are on the main cast. Newest additions are Mu-13 which is a cute cyborg girl that spams turrets (not gonna tell who she actually is, no spoilers) and Relius, Carl's father, who uses the same annoying puppetry but to a different extent compared to his loser son. Relius is an absolute  monster with his puppet combo and he gave me endless headaches in Abyss mode.

 

Now, trophy wise - this one will be a disappointment. CS-EX trophy list is less on the difficult side and more on the grind side. Other than the usual combos and character specific trophies (Makoto's Particle Flare was a pain to land, nailing three level 3 hits via streaming is quite difficult, when you take lag into consideration), the biggest behemoth of this game is getting all the items in Abyss Mode - a reimagination of a Survival mode where you fight enemies, hitting them advances you through "Floors" and every 20 Floors you fight a boss that drops 5 items, you having to pick only one. This one is heavy RNG dependent, I spent way more time than I wished to in this mode. Thankfully by turbo-ing Arakune ( a blob that spams a crapton of insects which can stunlock the enemy) I managed to somewhat alleviate the pain.

 

Since I don't have anything significant to say about this game...I'll recommend skipping it altogether. It's quite hard to get a physical copy of it, it doesn't bring too many new things, newer games are way smoother (Centralfiction is the best version) and Continuum Shift is way more challenging and fun to platinum. You could always check the story on YouTube if you want the lore.

Plus the Abyss mode is a slog.

Next one will be Calamity Trigger, and with that one I should be done with the series  

 

RANKING IN TERMS OF DIFFICULTY:

 

Blazblue Continuum Shift

Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend

Blazblue Centralfiction

Blazblue Chronophantasma

Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend

Finding motivation to play videogames

Blazblue Cross Tag Battle

 

THE GOOD:

• 
• It's Blazblue, so sprites and music will be top notch
• Gameplay is still solid

THE BAD:

• 
• Other than story, it doesn't add too many significant changes
• Abyss mode grind will bore you to death
• Chronophantasma is superior in every way

 

RECOMMENDATION - Them's Fighting Herds  It was recently released on PS4/PS5 and has mad hard combo trophies  I need to get it as well, might as well let people know about it!

[MissShake]

32 minutes ago, Copanele said:

THE BAD:

• 

 

My god, yes. Cannot stand her, she has the worst arc in the series by far!

 

32 minutes ago, Copanele said:

RECOMMENDATION - Them's Fighting Herds  It was recently released on PS4/PS5 and has mad hard combo trophies  I need to get it as well, might as well let people know about it!

 

Can't wait to hear about your adventure into this one. It looks to be tough... Definitely for the real fans of fighters!

 

Congrats on the plat

[AJ_Radio]

Impressive work. In terms of fighting games, Koihime†Enbu Ryo Rai Rai looks to be quite elusive. Dead or Alive 5 on the PS3 I hear is real difficult as well.

 

I just now realized, Dark Souls II, the game I'm playing now, was your first ever platinum.

[Copanele]

3 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

Impressive work. In terms of fighting games, Koihime†Enbu Ryo Rai Rai looks to be quite elusive. Dead or Alive 5 on the PS3 I hear is real difficult as well.

Thanks!

Yeah Koihime Enbu RRR might be the one fighting game where I draw the line. There's so many issues with that one that I don't feel like putting in the effort. Obviously, mood might change

DoA5 is really difficult, that rarity is well justified. Problem is the survival mode, having to fight 100 characters in a row...you really have to be focused the entire run, a thing I do not excel at lately. I need a focused mind for that particular trophy ? 

But it's manageable, not nearly as difficult as Persona 4 Arena

3 minutes ago, AJ_Radio said:

I just now realized, Dark Souls II, the game I'm playing now, was your first ever platinum.

Hah right, and it was even the PS3 stack! What a ride ...

Truth be told, despite DS2 being my least favorite Souls game, it's the entry that I played the most, given how many builds, cosplays and challenge runs you can do in that crazy game.

I know it's not covered by the platinum in PS3, but you really have to give the DLCs a go. The main game is unsatisfying in terms of challenge, the DLCs are the real kicker there!

[Copanele]

 No. 200 - Blazblue Calamity Trigger

 

Platinum Name - Power of the Azure  Conquer the world of BlazBlue
Hardest trophy - Leonidas  Beat Score Attack mode

Difficulty - 4/10

 

I believe it's the first time I ever played a game series in complete reverse. What started as a fun game with crazy soundtrack (Blazblue Cross Tag Battle) turned into a "woah this series ain't bad either" with Blazblue Chronophantasma Extended, then jumped into Centralfiction (last main BB entry ever) then just played them in reverse...until I reached the first entry point of the series: Blazblue Calamity Trigger, my game for today and the proud 200th milestone.

 

Why did I pick this game as a milestone? well, by now I don't think there's any secret that I absolutely love fighting games. This became a trend around milestone 75 and I kinda want to continue the tradition for this account  (unfortunately, I don't care as much for the xth trophy, I would put any platinum/kooky trophy there).

For this milestone I had 2 games planned: Dead or Alive 5 and Blazblue Calamity Trigger. DoA5 looked like the perfect sub-1% UR game to milestone....but I played Blazblue a lot more, so I decided to give the crown to Ragna boy & friends.

Plus, the description for the platinum is Conquer the world of BlazBlue, so it fits here!

 

Now back to the game - as mentioned, Calamity Trigger is the first entry in the series. Normally, if you played like a normal human being (aka not like me), you will be introduced to the main protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge, a wanted criminal with a crimson red motif, and oversized scythe sword and a weird hand that spits dark stuff. He is hunted by half the world for unknown motives, while obviously him being a good guy. Actually...why is he even wanted in the first place? Nobody knows, nobody cares.

He is by far the most normal character in the cast however, because he is sharing the roster with -- Actually, you know what? Since this is the final game, imma share the entire roster with you right here, right now. Here's the fuckers that you can play as, in Blazblue Calamity Trigger (so far):

• Jin Kisaragi - Ragna's foster brother, a lunatic Lieutenant with ice powers and a crazy murder boner for Ragna. Yes you read that right.
• Noel Vermillion - Jin's subordinate who shoots with pistols and is a pretty flat (both literally and figuratively) character. She gets more development in the later entries and has a thing for Ragna (or so I thought)
• Rachel Alucard - a vampire loli supervisor of Ragna who can beat everyone with a flick but gameplaywise you need 500IQ to play as her
• Taokaka - a crazy cat fighter girl who is probably the funniest character in the game, she hunts Ragna but befriends him
• Iron Tager - the textbook demon cyborg grappler and the best character in the game
• Litchi Faye-Ling - A huge chested Chinese doctor who tries to protect the most disgusting character Arakune and her whole schtick is fighting with a stick and yell Mahjong moves.
• Arakune - The most digusting character in the game, a ... blob...that spits bugs. Very annoying
• Bang Shishigami - an idiot ninja with a boner for Litchi. The most useless character in the game
• Carl Clover - A young kid with a mechanical robot girl and a stupid hat. He is obsessed with the robot, calling it  "sis". He's the best punching bag in Versus mode, having the lowest health
• Hakumen - I AM THE WHITE VOID--An edgy robot man who lives on the Edge and his whole gimmick is parries. If you pay attention to his stuff ,you will realize who he actually is (and you will realize that the story is dog shit  ), he despises Ragna
• Nu - 13 - a crazy Murakumo unit (I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE HELL THESE UNITS ARE) who wants to kill Ragna, love Ragna, get impregnated by Ragna and do apple pies with Ragna's face. Also she summons swords.

So as you can see, half the casts wants Ragna's asscheeks. Poor Ragna, all he wants is to be left alone and dream about Celica--whoops that one is later down the line. 

Also writing about the characters...makes me re-re-RErealize that the story of Blazblue is absolute crap. Characters are VERY well written, they have depth and motives but unfortunately they are thrown in such retarded situations and their canon story is so damn stupid that I am thinking...who the hell wrote this thing? Why so many buzzwords? What is THE BLUE? Why Ragna yells Power of the Azure when the game is Blazblue? Why is Makoto not bouncing in this game too? Questions that are left unanswered. Unfortunately I could not skip the story as I did in the rest of the games, so I had to take it all in.

It was too much, so glad I skipped the story in the other games and read the wiki instead  Honestly the best character story wise is Taokaka, she just wants to eat and be a warrior and causes all kinds of mayhem to the cast. I can respect her hustle.

 

Ok, let's get rid of the story and talk about the gameplay. It is mad fire, but it has the added charm that it's completely IMBALANCED. Some characters are absolutely broken (Jin's attacks are mad powerful and freeze on contact most of the time, I can see why he got nerfed in the later iterations), while some are completely worthless (who the hell would want to play as Bang? ).

This kind of roughness made me appreciate the game and enjoy it way more than some of the later iterations, like Continuum Shift Extend or the original Chronophantasma.

To give a quick run-out (did it with the others but what the heck) - you have 3 main buttons: light, medium and heavy attacks (square, triangle and punch) and a special drive attack (X) which is a character's signature move. Ragna shoots his Black Beast attacks, Jin has special Ice attacks, Taokaka jumps around like a mad cat, Tager applies magnetism to his fists, list goes on. This drive mechanic is what makes Blazblue interesting, since no two characters are the same. I'd say you can fully express your identity in a Blazblue game with these drive attacks.

 

Speaking of identity, I can't help but love how expressive and detailed BlazBlue is. Each soundtrack fits to the personality of the character and it's best expressed during the fights. What's more, you can have unique interactions and dialogue if the characters know each other (Aka Ragna vs Jin) and even the background soundtrack changes when such characters face off. This is the thing that I miss the most from modern fighting games, where they added lots of graphics and gameplay mechanics but forgot to add these little details that make old fighing games great.

 

In terms of trophies, Calamity Trigger is not particularly difficult. You have a crapton of online fights to play, lots of character specific actions to fulfill, the basic story mode and some versus fights.

The one true tricky trophy is Score Attack mode, where you have to defeat a string of 11 enemies, each more powerful than the rest. Being defeated ends the run.

Score Attack mode was a very fun moment for me, because the best character is considered to be Jin Kisaragi and his "Ice Car" loops. However, I vastly prefer Iron Tager, because his damaging command grabs and magnetic field attractions. 

Well, following the advice of @Yuber6969, @AihaLoveleaf and @Honor_Hand who previously tried Tager and said he sucks, I said "fine, let's go with our ice boy Jim". And....I was completely pulverized. Jin has truly damaging attacks true, but the AI unpredictability, paired with the shitty PS Premium streaming service which lagged nonstop made the Jin run to be an absolute chore. The cherry on the cake is when I had a lag spike to such an extent that I could not restart the fight in time via 2nd controller and lost the entire Score Attack run. I was fuming at that point and I said "fuck it, we shall embrace the Truth and pick the Big Bad Boi"

Suffice to say...it didn't take me too many tries to finish the mode. Unlimited Ragna kinda talked mad shit for someone in command grab range . 

Barely a scratch, while Ragna ate the dust. Sorry lads, this one is my victory  

 

Suffice to say, this mode was truly fun and permanently cemented Tager as one of the greatest grapplers in fighting games. 

 

With this being said, it's finally time to close the Blazblue chapter. I seriously doubt there will be any other BB game ever made, especially since the franchise went the mobile game route and the main director is now former main director. It was a great series to play, a very good complement to the main Guilty Gear series (which will forever live in my heart) and honestly, I am sad that the journey is over. I wouldn't have minded more Blazblue games, some more stupid story mode, more Tsubaki D attacks and more jigglers offered by the craziest japanese minds.

However, I honestly would recommend skipping this game if you just want to try your hand at Blazblue, unless you really are invested in the lore and want to find out more, in which case I really recommend it 

Now...maybe I should return to DoA5  

 

THE GOOD:

• the first entry in a great series
• as usual, banger graphics and soundtrack
• gameplay is unhinged in this version of the game
• Tager

THE BAD:

• pretty old and borderline obsolete because of the sequels
• no Makoto
• hard to find a copy unless you have PS Premium

RECOMMENDATION - Guilty Gear Series  If you loved Blazblue, you REALLY have to give the OG Arcsys series a go!

[Honor_Hand]

On 30/10/2022 at 2:08 PM, Copanele said:

 

• Jin Kisaragi - Ragna's foster brother, a lunatic Lieutenant with ice powers and a crazy murder boner for Ragna. Yes you read that right.
• Noel Vermillion - Jin's subordinate who shoots with pistols and is a pretty flat (both literally and figuratively) character. She gets more development in the later entries and has a thing for Ragna (or so I thought)
• Rachel Alucard - a vampire loli supervisor of Ragna who can beat everyone with a flick but gameplaywise you need 500IQ to play as her
• Taokaka - a crazy cat fighter girl who is probably the funniest character in the game, she hunts Ragna but befriends him
• Iron Tager - the textbook demon cyborg grappler and the best character in the game
• Litchi Faye-Ling - A huge chested Chinese doctor who tries to protect the most disgusting character Arakune and her whole schtick is fighting with a stick and yell Mahjong moves.
• Arakune - The most digusting character in the game, a ... blob...that spits bugs. Very annoying
• Bang Shishigami - an idiot ninja with a boner for Litchi. The most useless character in the game
• Carl Clover - A young kid with a mechanical robot girl and a stupid hat. He is obsessed with the robot, calling it  "sis". He's the best punching bag in Versus mode, having the lowest health
• Hakumen - I AM THE WHITE VOID--An edgy robot man who lives on the Edge and his whole gimmick is parries. If you pay attention to his stuff ,you will realize who he actually is (and you will realize that the story is dog shit  ), he despises Ragna
• Nu - 13 - a crazy Murakumo unit (I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE HELL THESE UNITS ARE) who wants to kill Ragna, love Ragna, get impregnated by Ragna and do apple pies with Ragna's face. Also she summons swords.

 

 

This right here has to be the most accurate profile description for the BlazBlue roster I've ever seen, lmao. Jin, Rachel, Bang, Hakumen, and Nu-13 had me laughing on the floor, literally, at how crazy accurate they are. xxD

As I told you over on Discord, man, superb work on completing the BlazBlue series. That's one of my goals right there. A goal I'll get to finish at some point but a goal no less, lol. Should try GG in there as well because that series is sweet as well but I want to focus on the BB world first before moving over to that one. These games were truly one-of-a-kind for their time and I love how both BB & GG pretty much embody the spirit of outlandish fighting games that actually kick ass with solid mechanics that Darkstalkers pretty much had back in its day. I mean, they all have bountiful female characters one can't help but salivate over as well. ;D

 

Anyways, quite a trip you had. Especially since you started playing them in reverse order. One has to start from top to bottom but you went the other way around, my man, driving on the wrong side of the freeway, lol. But you still got to experience the whole series and kick ass it while doing so, and that's what matters in the end. No matter if the game was hard or easy, new or old, you succeeded at going through the whole thing. Great work! ^^

 

Now, all that's left is... finding a Vita and conquering the world of portable BlazBlue as well. \8D/ You know you want to. =P