MikelAL93 Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 10/14/12 Under Night in-Birth LeisureLand Akihabara Tournament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9CbOLPTlyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_m0k8Zzso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abk40qspFIs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtEROKv5lTo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5mdC8TwYw
Sourenga Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 So, I've been reading through the mook as much as my skills have allowed me to... And I now bring some info and scans/pics as promised... thought the quality might suck a little and pictures aren't resised, but please bear with them. I mentioned about a concept art which shows the evolution of Hyde's design. In this picture you can see him to advance from lolicon to Ragna the Bloodedge and finally to his current form... In the interview within the mook developers mention that it was thanks to BlazBlue producer, Toshimichi Mori's advice that Hyde became like he is. Mori was the one who encouraged developers to create "more protagonist-like protagonist" which changed the direction of his design. According to the mook, Hyde's real name is "Kido Haido" (城戸灰都) and Hyde is a pun from his first name, so everyone could remember the name easily. And here's also a little scan in which you can see all the color variations of Hyde and examples of his system animations... of course there's a version for every single character. Orie Paladia (オリエ・バラーディア) seems to be Orie's true name according to the mook. Paladia seems to be some kind of distortion of Greek for "wise girl". Then everyone in the staff distorted her last name into "Harada" as they were similar (in a Japanese way of wiriting)... And then developers decided to enter it to the game's setting... and the official reason is, that Orie enrolled into Japanese school using a name "Harada Orie" (原田織依). This pretty much confirms (?) that Hyde and Orie went to the same school as Hyde calls her Harada-san. Here's also some concept art which shows Orie's "Persona" a.k.a. Tanatos without her helmet. Everyone knew about this guy called "Keias" (Chaos?) who appears at beginning of Gordeau's story? He seems to be part of Amnesia and Gordeau's old friends from the time he was in the Amnesia. He seems potential playable character as he already has sprites for story mode chats... Then here's a character that couldn't make into the game "Mercedes". He was mean to use sketchbook as a weapon, which seems quite unfitting to the Hollow Night of gang wars. Description also seems to imply that he could actually have been a "reverse trap character", meaning he would've been actually a girl. Other characters that couldn't make into the game were "Chemeti" and "Londrekia". From the picture you can see that Londrekia wasn't in the game as his design was used as a base for creating Orie. Chemeti was meant to be really sadistic character. Only mentioned excuse for Chemeti to not be in the game was "because of certain reasons"... Also here's a big version of the mook's cover if someone can or wants to use that art for something...
SoWL Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Interesting to note that, among all those cut characters, only Mercedes was on that old concept artwork we had even before the game was announced.
Putin Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 That's some interesting stuff, too bad they removed Chemeti from their plans. Are you going to scan the whole thing?
caiooa Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 fun how this alpha hyde have seth head and dat saya in his back °3°
Starlight777 Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Hyde's design being inspired by Ragna is no surprise lol. Of the three cut characters I really would have liked to have seen Chemeti and Mercedes make the cut. I love whip users and every game needs a joke character. I really like Londrekia's design too but Orie is already there lol.
SolxBaiken Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 How cool would it have been if Hyde was a respectable father character, it would've been cool to have the kid come out for certain win poses doing them with him like the old sprites with Terry and young Rock. None of the 3 cut characters really interest me, but maybe Londrekia can be re-tuned as a member of Licht Kries if we see future installments? (there seems to be this war going on in the story and even though 3 major factions are name dropped there are like way too many independents I think). Mercedes could've been an interesting character to watch simple because such a fighting style allows for alot of imagination.
Starlight777 Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 How cool would it have been if Hyde was a respectable father character, it would've been cool to have the kid come out for certain win poses doing them with him like the old sprites with Terry and young Rock.
raziel12 Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 i saw they had Star Driver Takuto Tsunashi as one of Hyde color palettes but i guess it was taken out as a joke lol ^^ well they can use one of thoes sketches to make a alternate hyde like what they did for Arcueid in melty blood like the middle sketch would be a good badass evil Hyde
Abelcru Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Merkava Combo Video (that glitch at the beginning): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtyGKrfgM_s
Aiddon Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 did...did I just see Sion on the official website?
Betto Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Regarding the recent Merkava combo tut: I love how his 3C was incorporated into the middle of his combos; the 5C wall-bounce ones look pretty neat too - I was afraid it would be even more elbow combos but that wasn't sorta the case haha So looking at Sourenga's post, it brought my attention back to the old concept art after seeing Mercedes: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/images/diary/F/French-Bread/2010-07-07.jpg There's Lex right next to Orie, there's Mercedes right after beta Merkava, and possibly Chemeti(?) right after Mercedes. What interests me is the guy on the far right... who looks like the big boss by the looks of his design... Could he be that Kuon guy?
Starlight777 Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 That big guy at the end gives off a final boss vibe more than Hilda.
MikelAL93 Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 10/20/12 Under Night in-Birth Kōenji CUBE Game Field
GhostTear Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 That big guy at the end gives off a final boss vibe more than Hilda.
FR05tB1t3 BOB Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 can anyone link me to a vid of a good gordeau player? thats my favorite character and i havent seen much of him.
Halcyone3 Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 can anyone link me to a vid of a good gordeau player? thats my favorite character and i havent seen much of him.
caiooa Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 orie story mode http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19168981
Betto Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Merkava as the last boss opponent instead of Hilda? :o Wonder if any of the other characters will have a different final stage opponent... Possibly Gordeau since Hilda's an old friend of his but who knows.
BladeOfJustice7 Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) Wonder if any of the other characters will have a different final stage opponent... Possibly Gordeau since Hilda's an old friend of his but who knows. Edited October 21, 2012 by BladeOfJustice7
psycofang2 Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) looks like someones figured out Vatista and im really enjoyig it. this is the 1st time i enjoyed watching a mid type zoner fight. Edited October 22, 2012 by psycofang2
Kurushii Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 Kubo streaming UNI http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv112676488
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