BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend

This entire fighting game series is an amazing, decadent tour of rich combat mechanics, wonderful characters, and a bonkers in-depth lore-rich story. It's amazing.

Continuum Shift vastly expands and improves upon the story of Calamity Trigger. Better and expanded story and more characters! Pros - Improved Storytelling: Previously it was various loops, but now everything is more coherent and vowen together nicely. There's also now more characters to play and seeing their backstories really gives more depth to everyone, this game is really where the story starts to take off! - Better Story progression: You no more do you need to lose or perform an Distortion Drive Finish to get all various endings. It's moreso now just picking different options which is great! Cons - FPS Issue: While nowhere near as terrible as Calamity Trigger, if you happen to Alt+Tab the game will start to have messed up FPS. Just restarting the game fixes this, so it's not a big deal, just don't Alt+Tab and you'll be fine! - No 1440p: It's interesting how Calamity Trigger had 2560x1600, yet this game has only 1920x1080. Which sadly results in blurry/pixelated visuals - "Freely "English Translation: They really take their freedom with translation in this game. Many times there's way more text than what the speaker actually is saying or flat out isn't actually what they are saying. Even as a non-japanese speaker I can clearly tell that it doesn't line up most of the times. It's way exaggerated with weird words that throws me off.

I played BBCS mainly for the story, so this small review will focus on that. I liked it, BB's story and lore are pretty interesting. But god I hate how unlocking character routes works here. Because of this I just decided to watch the rest of the story on youtube, since I don't want to clear every character story multiple times without noticeable changes. But overall BBCS is great and I really like this game