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I do it everytime Faust gets the meteors, and against Venom's slow projectiles. Most of the Faust players I faced never did a low on me during this so I assume I just surprised them, but I'm sure they could do it. It only works against average Fausts who will just guard and wait for you to get hit by the meteors most of the time to start a combo. It did completely nullify Venom's teleport-jP multihit dive and I landed a CH HS behind. No idea if that's punishable, I'm sure Venom has time to do a low somewhere afterwards. I've also parried I-No's dash approach several times with it, but I never managed to land a CH behind her and actually got CH'd myself after the parry, so I ended up guarding after the parry most of the time, which made the parry useless... I've also been trying to use it against Ramlethal's swords but I never managed to pull it the fS fast enough. I'm not even sure it's possible. It's kind of viable as long as you don't overuse it and just surprise your opponent in a small situation. It's as risky as yolo 236H fullscreen imo.

Speaking of which, there's a rumor we might get a European release of GGXrd similar to BBCP at the same time as Leo's release : No advertisement, just the game thrown on PSN without any European language translation, no retail version and a tweet from Arcsys saying "the game is out in Europe, now f**k off enjoy !" It's still a rumor, though. I haven't seen it anywhere else than on Facebook posts and non-reliable websites.

Here's what they said : Q: Is the BBCS2 DLC for console coming ? Mori just answers "Kimasu" (coming) in the mic, and then mutters something that the spokesperson translates into "It's definitely coming, but he just doesn't want to say when. It will be either really cheap or free." Q: Will there be a new GG ? -Yes. Q: Is a Guilty Gear x BlazBlue planned ? Mori: Right now there's no plan about it. Q: Will BlazBlue's chara design continue being as over-the-top as it as been so far, or is it going to favor a more serious tone in the future ? Because Makoto and Platinum are just "fun-looking" characters, just like Taokaka. (He then says that these characters remind too much of fan-service, and are closer to Arcana Hearts and loli-style than a serious style.) Mori : What is planned right now is that more loli-like characters won't appear, and starting from now on, there'll be a lot more serious-looking character. But it doesn't mean that a character with pink cat ears and tail will never come out. (He then asks "Who likes Kokonoe here ?!", and the spokesperson translates that into "Who likes that kind of character ?"...) Q: Will Tager ever be a good character ? That's the third episode he's the weakest, is there any way you make him broken in the next game, please ? Mori: No. Non-Blazblue related questions Q: What about Hokuto no Ken 2 ? Mori : Please ask Sega. *giggles* Q: What are your favourite video games of all times ? Ishiwatari : Hard to choose, but I'll say Donjon Master and Tomb Raider 1. Mori : Vampire Hunter (Darkstalkers), Gears of War and Tekken. Q: In Capcom & SNK games, the new characters are more focused on original moves and gameplay, while in GG & BB, characters are more focused on being original, things that we have never seen before. Where do you find inspiration ? Are you getting your inspiration from other things ? Ishiwatari: When we create a new character, the first thing we think about is the character's range, and choose either the character will fight close or far form the opponent, and then the "type of character" is defined. Then there's a lot of inspiration from anime and mangas from the time being. Mori: I'm just going under Ishiwatari's influence. Q: In your opinion, what's more important : the design or the gameplay ? Mori: We first focus on the fact that the character has to fit the physics and the system of the game. Then we think about the design. Ishiwatari: It's still hard to tell which one arrives first when we think about creating a new character. (He means that sometimes it happens that he has a character design idea before even knowing how he'll fight) Q: How do you feel when you are in a French tournament, if you compare it to Japan ? Are you happy to be here ? Ishiwatari: I was surprised by the atmosphere. The fact that players are teasing each others is fun. The spokesperson translates then "There's that in Japan too, but here, the atmosphere is top tier". Mori: In SBO there are similar matches where there's a lot of motivation and when everyone's yelling and etc. And then the Stream went down.

Europe officially getting BBCS on December 3rd, but pre-orders have been dispatched since last week. In France the game is already out for 360 in some shops for €39,99 since November 24rd. No PS3 versions yet. Some French people I know who bought it told me their game was version 1.00. no 1.01 update to download yet. I've readen that Zen United announced somewhere (Facebook?) that Makoto tokens will be available to download for people who pre-ordered the game starting on December 1st, and will be available to purchase for everybody starting on December 8th, and no signs of Valkenhayn. To be confirmed.

Surprised noone found that out or talked about it yet. (Or maybe everyone's on 360) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DrDMbQJrA This occured to me last month, but I thought someone else would find it out and would make a video before I'd do, so I haven't done it until today... Basically, if you face a Valkenhayn with Carl, let the intro load. You might start the round with Nirvana between you and Valk. lol

Makoto is still free in France if you pre-order the game at Micromania.

Yup. I remember in CT when I was trying to duck under Jin's 236A... It always ended up hitting the top of his hat -_-

Thx, Maho. Corrected.

Europe •France Versus Dojo (Square Games) 5 boulevard Voltaire 75011 Paris €0,50 a credit. 1 cab, Sanwas Neo-Arcadia 34 rue de Bayard 31000 Toulouse €1 two credits.