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Because Rawrgnya is the devil ; -; The world must have order, and the NOL provides that, but Ragna disrupts that! Between I guess I just can't see world order forces as merely faceless "bad guys", I guess I've just come to expect more. And the fact that the most viable complaint against the NOL from the populous is the NOL is a bit selfish and favors those who can utilize Ars. Also given the slice-of-life academy years of Jin, Noel, Tsubaki, Makoto, and Carl, come on, you can't seriously tell me this is a Goon Patrol factory. No governing body is without it's darkness (look at all the stuff the world says about America \o/) but I think we're getting further and further away from why I sympathize with the NOL. Ragna killed, nay, murdered cowering, fleeing agents, including women; the second biggest offense next to children ; w;

Is that Jennifer Hale I hear?

Ok so I opened up my CT and read away: The NOL is described as a dictatorship, which of course will immediately draw parallels of communism, however in a world gone to shit they were apparently the first to step up (which I assume was the Duodecim) as someone needed to regulate this new force of combined might and magic (because we all know people can't be left up to their own device). This seemed all well and good until Ikaruga grew the bollocks to say "hey no fair, sharing is caring" and I can only assume the NOL said "shut up, we saved your asses". This sparked the war/uprising, and well of course, if 1 person(s) oppose your word, it's only a matter of time before other people do as well, this is kingship 101, so an example had to be made! This lead to the destruction of Ikaruga and the new decree that if you oppose the NOL you'll see the same. From the above, that's not inherently "evil" it's just standard feudal ruling class. Again I no doubt [with the multitude of hidden agendas] that the NOL is kind of a bad place, however I doubt it's this douche factory that the main story tries to paint it as, merely (as "rebellion" is the central theme of BB as a whole) just something to make things "simple". Again, the character that keeps getting referenced in CP's arcade modes make me think that an NOL rebellion is likely, after all we know who the Imperator is and is yet another person with a hidden agenda, so either a "good natured" faction will arise or some other organization will rise up as the new world order. Also after re-reading the section, Ragna's killings could NOT have been retconned because they're what put him on the NOL radar (the "severity" may have been altered to make the NOL more "evil" and thus Ragna's actions more "sympathetic") but it still happened! .v.

Because Azrael doesn't hide who he is and what he's done, [thanks to Patrick Seitz and the comedy sketches] I originally liked Ragna as a person...then I read his CT short story and my perception of Ragna will be forever shattered .v. And it's not so much that I dislike what he did, I dislike that it won't ever be brought up and could totally be an interesting character study. Wasn't that a "civil war" or "uprising"? Remind me why it was bad again, because I've honestly forgotten what little details were ever truly brought up about it outside of it being Bang's homeland and that it established Jin's infamy. I'm in no way trying to say the NOL are the holiest of saints, however they are the world order and primary governing body, they're a large organization and in no way can control ALL of it's individual members, but just because there are a few bad apples (despite how high they may be) doesn't mean the whole system is corrupt. It's like saying because the cops in your city are assholes that your entire country's government is Satan R' Us.

Those were taken down fast lol Saw the intro earlier, but didn't get to see the supers, oh well~

Some hero D: Ragna may have become a "better" person, but [to me] that doesn't excuse what he has done, and the sad fact is, it will never be address. BlazBlue is a "youth in revolt" story, everyone hates "The Man" [which is probably why Guilty Gear simplified the matter by referring to their main antagonist as such ] and thus the NOL as a whole is just viewed as as "bad" so his above actions are "excused" and will probably never be mentioned in canon again v.v The NOL is just a governing body, and no one "likes" their government, and even if [and there obviously are] corrupt individuals, it doesn't make the entire structure shit. More than likely there's probably an internal struggle on the horizon (maybe even led by the character that's been brought up a ton in CP) which is only further muddled by the likes of splinter groups such as Sector 7.

What!? I don't see it like that at all D: It's not a "shades of grey" kind of thing because Ragna doesn't kill the people because he has to, rather because he can, he shows no regard for human life simple due to their association. Ragna is a terrorist, but the negative connotations of his actions are merely glossed over and never brought up because we're led to believe that the NOL has the most straight forward screening process in the world: "Do you have a hidden agenda and/or a complete twat?" "Yes? Welcome to the NOL!" I mean, the general consensus for ruling parties (especially among the younger demographic) is the people hate you, but this is just on a whole different level. I would love to see an NOL officer join the cast; one that's just an ordinary man/woman, because I'd like a less skewed view of their side of things. But this type of character study probably won't fly in the normal tropes of Japanese storytelling. Even if it was, I'll never forget .v. And on the subject of Azrael; there's no doubt he's an antagonist, that's for sure, but I don't see him as a "villain" more than just a straight up rival [and a much better one] to Ragna. And honestly I'd have it no other way, I'd hate for them to convolute his role any further than what's been established [although it probably will ; -; ] That's terrible logic .v.

Everyone so quick to judge the sins of others while we ignore the fact Ragna has committed mass slaughter before .v.

Sounds about right, only babies are cute, all stages of humans after that are da worst .v. lol, if I was a worst person I would run along with this, but nah I was joking, I just really hate Plat .v. wish I had clouds

I have acute prosopagnosia, specifically tuned to her kind ' ^'

Why does everyone label Azrael as "evil" or a "villain", did I miss the part where he curb stomps baby kittens for jollies? In fact if I'm not mistaken, nearly every fight he's in was instigated...BY THE OTHER PERSON! There's probably 1/4 of the cast that are even on his radar, and he doesn't seem the least bit interested in the cluster storm of a plot that came before him. He just wants to kick Ragna's ass because the whole world hyped him up ; -;

GGs Moy, for running a 31 trolly train over me ; -; I swear I can never do anything against Jin v.v

What exactly does "part" localized mean? lol Also why are all these vaporware games being re-wrapped and sold? I would've appreciated new entries more, or at least significant updates ; -;

Why can't he just be a blood thirsty, homicidal maniac? It's pretty obvious that he's the only character to devote is life to fighting, and hasn't he seen war? [which only about 1/5 of the cast can even say] Some men just want to watch the world burn, with no method to their madness.

Look at both game's default layouts: LP MP HP LK MK HK vs L M E H T X (from left to right) the first top and bottom buttons initiate throws in both games, that's what he meant. Honestly the (default) scheme isn't bad to me, it's pretty much like playing SNK or Tekken (Tag). It is a bitch to play on my sticks since 2 of the 3 have L1 and L2 as the first top/bottom buttons. But I find the overall design asinine as you pretty much need to play with 7 buttons because you need "R2+L2" to do supers, and it doesn't looks like there's any real way around this because EX attacks are dedicated to a separate button [which I find kind of dumb] so even if you could set a macro, you STILL need 7 buttons. Overall I'm not really feeling the game, there are a few design choices that irk me, but I'll reserve judgement on the proper release.

What a Fearless Night for a curse... I sure hope there's a character ; -;

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If I'm not mistaken, Zinac was the lead programmer for Skullgirls before Mike Z. This game even looks similar to the alpha builds of SG, but yeah, I think it would've been cool to display when at a more advance stage of development, but for the time being I'll keep this on the radar because we all have to support the little guys~

I know my words count for crap but unless it's a round closer I'm not going to bother with doing lvl 2 combos since it burns your entire stock doing a follow up. I'd just do lvl 1s and focus on re-Heating (lol). The one exception would be Overdrive, go to lvl 1 > OD for 2 > get the most mileage out of continuous Heat. Of course that's from early, hands off, impressions, who knows what the future holds .o.

Good games Toan... ; -;

I can't help but feel the Winter Wonder Rogues were only considered because NetherRealm needed to project the stylings of Sub Zero on to SOMEBODY (they'll be damned if they let their degrees on iced brush effects go to waste!)

WHOOPS = w= Welp, time to hope [Cassandra Cain/Kate Kane] make it in as DLC Hey can we have the Pre-N52 Wonder Woman as a costume? The one with the pants, that was my favorite design (because it looked kick ass, not covered it). Also "meh" if Killer Frost makes it in (seriously have you seen how many Ice based Villains there are in DC...it's almost....Uncanny...)

The logic still holds true Gauging strength is really redundant as any and all characters are only the [strongest/weakest] until the plot no longer calls for them to be. And characters with "limiters" (be they self imposed or forced upon them) are really lazy characterizations. BUT WHO CARES! GAR: off [ON!]

So DoA5+ came out earlier today... A fine port that reminds me of the quality of the Tekken PSP games, great for that on-the-road training. Touch Fights add literally nothing to the experience IMO (it's like not even "sexy" which I assume was the whole point...) like you'll probably do a few fights for shits n' giggles because it's an "interesting" perspective, but not being able to see my combos and the practically more simplified Hold system made me loose interest FAST. One of the more notable addition (exclusive to the Vita ver, but I hope changes...) is the ability of music selection. DoA5's OST is...well practically non-existent (which makes owning the actual disc of the "OST" pretty pointless lol) however now they've added character themes for everyone (including Mila and Rig but excluding the VF characters .v.) and I must say this is the addition I enjoy most! All-in-all if you have a Vita and have the extra $40 to blow, and you're really [competitively] into DoA, this could easily warrant a 2nd purchase, especially with cross-save, but if you're casual or content with the console ver, there's no point to rush out and get this one, especially since the bulk of the things that matter [balance changes] are brought to the main game.

Bullet turned out fine.