Hey everybody, hope this is the right section for questions like this. I only very recently started getting into Blazblue and its story, and am somewhat confused as to how people actually make sense of all this. Hope you don't mind me asking for advice here.
So I recently started on the BB series and just "completed" Calamity Trigger's story mode. I ABSOLUTELY loved the story, its characters and its settings; and I plan to continue on to Continuum Shift and Chronophantasma. However, there is one thing about the plot that really irks me to no end: the convoluted way in which it is told.
Now I reckon that it's complexity and the effort you need to put into is probably something many appreciate the game. And it is justified. However, after playing through the first game, it absolutely baffles me how anybody could actually make a coherent story out of this. It really feels like the story writers went a little overboard, and purposefully made it an overweight challenge to the gamers who want to make sense of it.
Admittedly, I didn't do 100% on CT's story mode; however I saw every character's ending (true ends and alternative ends, so everything except all of the gameover options) and arcade endings, as well as watching the Litchi short-movies. But, reading some of the plot FAQs and explanations out there, I still feel like I lacked a lot of crucial information. Most importantly: the fact that the story's timelines loop.
I genuinely do not recall ever hearing about that in-game, yet it clears up such a ridiculous amount of confusion. And then there's stuff like what a Murakumo unit is, the fact that Noel, Nu and the other 11 were clones of Saya, the fact that Terumi actually met Jin in the past and coerced him to kill Ragna, etc. Like, was I doing something wrong? Did I not experience all the major parts of the story? How are others able to decipher all that background information while I seem to miss the most crucial things? Are they maybe explained further in the following games or in the anime?
Or was I really just not looking hard enough and not taking notes?
It really bothers me that I get all those facts via simple text docs on the internet instead of having the chance to experience them within the actual game. It kinda takes the fun out of it. Are Continuum Shift (Extend) and Chronophantasma like this as well. Does it require the same amount of time and effort to make sense of the story? If so, then I feel like I should make preparations beforehand this time around and start taking notes from the beginning of the different storylines. >_>
Sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance. >:3
