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Blazblue Cross Tag Battle Free Download GAMESPACK.NET BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle brings together the worlds of BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY in a surprisingly approachable alternative to each of the games that it borrows from. Introducing a unique, but easy to understand fighting system supported by innovative tag mechanics, great characters, and the usual ArcSys flair that makes its games so striking. As the name implies, BlazBlue leads the charge in Cross Tag Battle, but make no mistake, this is not a new entry in the BlazBlue series. Cross Tag Battle carves out its own identity by putting the focus on its 2v2 tag mechanics and simplifying some of the complexity that ArcSys games are known for. Like Dragon Ball FighterZ, there’s a sort of universality to the roster. Every character has simplified special move inputs, an overhead mapped to the heavy attack button, a invincible reversal attack, a light and medium auto combo, etc. While this homogeneity does cause some the cast to lose a bit of their individual charm, it also makes picking up new characters much easier, which is great for a game that requires you to play with two characters in every match. The meat of BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle’s fighting system is in its assist system though, and that’s where fighting game fans will truly find the depth they’re looking for.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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One example of this is that characters have three assist moves that can be called upon while they’re not active, typically a dashing assist, a long-range assist, and a close-range assist. The ability to have three unique assist attacks, each with a predictable effect, adds a ton of versatility to every team; better still, it makes using them in combos very intuitive. Whenever you knock an enemy away with an attack, chances are you can catch them with a neutral dashing assist to continue the combo. If you’ve got an opponent stuck in a corner, you can probably knock them down and scoop them back up with a close-range assist. If you catch them with a stray projectile assist, you can usually find a way to dash in yourself and continue the combo. If you can imagine a combo, and it makes sense, you can probably pull it off in Cross Tag Battle. That’s extremely satisfying. These combo-extending assists don’t come for free, though. In addition to the standard fighting game meter that governs super moves and EX attacks, there’s also an assist meter that fills up naturally over time. If you get caught in a combo, you can spend 100% of that meter on a Cross Burst to instantly call in your partner to interrupt the attack and swap out, but you’ll be unable use them for combos for a short while. Likewise, if you spend the meter for combo extension you’ll be without a Cross Burst and vulnerable to damage yourself.

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It’s a very well thought-out system that adds an extra layer of strategy on top of the skill and execution, and it’s also balanced by making the cross burst itself extremely punishable if blocked. Less well thought-out is the single-player story mode, which loses the plot as it attempts to explain why the worlds of BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In Birth, and RWBY are all coming together. None of the four episodes offer any sort of satisfying conclusion, there’s no way to pick specific chapters to replay for a new ending, and it quickly gets tiring listening to the same revelations that happened in one episode, in another. At least the characters in each of the series are all fantastic, and some great interactions between them prevent this mode from being a total slog. Ruby, in particular, steals the show with her adorable reactions whenever someone has a cool weapon for her to geek out about. In fact, the roster in general is pretty great, although disappointingly small at 20 total on disc, which is especially frustrating because the announced DLC characters already appear as opponents in story mode. So they’re already here, just gated off behind a paywall. Not to mention the lack of a traditional arcade mode or any other significant single-player mode outside of a bare-bones survival mode.Back to Freedom UNCENSORED

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The slightly cheaper-than-average $50 price tag softens the blow, but BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle still feels lacking in modes and characters right out of the box. It is hard to believe that Arc System Works’ Blazblue franchise is already turning a decade old. Even more baffling, it took those ten years for one of the series main entries to arrive on Nintendo hardware. Yet as you can probably gander from the title BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is far from a conventional sequel. Cross Tag Battle is an ambitious crossover that remains first and foremost a BlazBlue title, something that is reflected in the game’s extensive deluxe roster. Along with series poster boy Ragna the Bloodedge come his brother Jin, Rachel, Hazama, Noel, the demented Azrael, Tager, Makoto, Nº 13 and Es. From the Persona 4 Arena fighting franchise you can pick from Yu, Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko. From the visual novel/fighting hybrid franchise Under Night In-Birth come Hyde, Lyne, the gigantic Waldstein and Gordeu. Lastly the most leftfield franchise and one not under the direct banner of Arc System Works are characters from the RWBY animated series, represented by the titular Ruby and Weiss. Unless you are willing to pay for DLC, this is the default 20 character roster you play with. We will address that specifically further along in this review. The game uses a straightforward five-button control scheme.

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You can customise these as your wish on your controller and as a welcome bonus you can assign double-button actions to any free buttons on your controller of choice. While the Joy-Cons offer perfectly acceptable performance when attached to your Switch in portable mode, we recommend that due the amount of button presses going on in an average battle you should truly play this game with a Pro controller or your arcade stick of choice.All characters share the same basic commands: ‘A’ is your weak fast attack, ‘B’ is your slower stronger attack and ‘C’ is for clash attack. ‘D’ and ‘P’ will let you mix things up by respectively switch or call an assist from your partner of choice. ‘A’+‘B’ will perform a useful aerial dash, ‘A’+’B’ will execute your character’s reversal move while ‘B’+‘C’ will execute your character’s throw. Last but certainly not least, hitting ‘D’+‘P’ will do a ‘Cross Burst’, briefly get both your characters into the battle, allowing for all sorts of combo shenanigans. Do not worry about feeling overwhelmed by these, part of this content heavy offering from Arc System Work is the offline ‘Tactics Mode’ where you have access to extensive tutorials on both game mechanics and every character.Ancient Dungeon

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It is quite an achievement for a game of this genre to be both casual friendly and hardcore in equal shares. But do remember that those ready-to-use auto-combos will only take you so far. Personal choices aside, what makes each character unique is their set of special moves (all are catalogued on the ‘Command List’). These are accessed by standard fighting game control motions and button presses and it is an absolute delight to explore how best to use these to chain combos or fool your opponents into opening up their guard to received a ton of damage. With enough Skill Gauge numbers in reserve, you might even call up your partner mid-special move to extend combos further. Even if you end up losing one of your team members, fighting alone isn’t a definitive loss since you can use ‘P’ to get your character into an awakened state for bonus damage and even pull off a single one-hit killing blow reminiscent from the original Guilty Gear that will end the battle in your favour. Since these require nine Skill Gauges to execute you will probably not see them very often, which makes for an even more spectacular sight to behold when they do happen. As you might have discerned already, each and every single battle is an absolute spectacle of special moves, counters, super jumps, double jumps, dashes, timed ukemi (recovery from a knock down).

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And maximising combo potential with the aid of your partner. While the CPU and the several difficulty settings will provide more than enough challenge, it is when you sit a human opponent across the sofa and both go at it is when BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle shines the most. This is an obvious cliché to mention in a review for a fighting game, but in this day and age where couch multiplayer seems to have taken a back-seat to online multiplayer we indulge upping word count to do so. On the subject of online play, you will probably not be surprised to learn that the game takes cue from Dragon Ball FighterZ and ditches traditional menu-driven interface for a three-dimensional lobby system. You pick (or buy with in-game currency) your super-deformed 3D avatar and run around with it in the several available sections, being that one of them is the online lobby. While it is impossible for us to predict how a lobby with hundreds of players will behave upon official Western release of the game, the few matches we played with fellow journalists offered some hiccups during synchronisation sequences, the actual fighting was mostly done lag free. Considering we are reviewing the US version and were thus playing all the way cross the pond this was a pleasant surprise.

We can only assume Arc System’s works previous network tests and experience with net-code have paid off. If you don’t have a friend to play against with you, there will most certainly be eagerly awaiting opponents all across the globe to take on your tag team of choice. 2D anime fighters like the BlazBlue series are often intimidating for their elaborate movesets and demand for precise execution. However, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle breaks from tradition by simplifying its gameplay systems, and bringing in characters from three other franchises to join the fight. By no means does the simplification make Cross Tag shallow–the dynamic tag system and the clever ways you can mix mechanics are where Cross Tag shines. Factor in the charm of these distinct worlds and you’ll have plenty of reasons to consider this fast, flashy, and endearing fighter. Across four mainline games, BlazBlue developed a complex fighting system, while Persona 4 Arena and Arena Ultimax distilled the formula and captured the charisma of the eponymous RPG. Under Night In-Birth (from developer French-Bread in collaboration with Arc System Works) had its own twist on a deep, yet accessible fighting game. The RWBY animated series makes its fighting game debut, and the cast’s talents and flair make the transition incredibly well.

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Cross Tag Battle unifies all four series as a five-button fighter with two main attack buttons, a universal overhead attack that can also function as an EX attack, a tag button, and the partner skill. While it may seem a bit too straightforward, even the most historically complex characters on the roster remain true to form where it counts. By distilling classic fighting mechanics, the focus is shifted from performing elaborate directional inputs to creating openings for sweet high-damage combos through easy-to-execute attacks. Partner skills will take time to grasp; every character has unique back, forward, and standing assist attacks where they fly in from off screen to lend a hand. Cross combos take the tag system one step further by letting your duo pile on damage simultaneously; pulling these off will make short work of opponents if you can expertly control your tandem. These are key to maximizing the effectiveness of combos, creating openings, or pulling yourself out of a rut. With this in mind, you’re encouraged to either experiment using different duos or form your own collaborative attacks with the pair you love most. It’s chaotic and tough to nail down in live matches, and it’s where the depth of combat comes from. Most of your advanced moves require you to expend meters that charge during the course of combat and it’s critical that you keep an eye on them at all times.SpellForce Conquest of Eo

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