A great fighter game with something for everybody
characters: There are only 12 characters in this game and they are unlucked at the very start, the fact that the game only has 12 characters is a bad thing but every single character is different (in a big way) that you wont mind that much. Each character has something called a ''Distortion Drive'' allocated to one button (PS3 = X) which is basically ''do something really cool button''. All 12 characters have their own ''Distortion Drive'' which does something like controles Ice (Jin) or steal health (Ragna = The Bloodedge) which you can use to perform amazing combos or just win a battle. Every character are even apart from V-13 who is a lil too powerful with her phantom blades but it isnt something you can not overcome in a battle. The character's are imaginative with some typical anime styled characters like Ragna = The Bloodedge (spiky white hair, red coat and heterochromia eyes) to really never seen before (imo) in an anime type characters like Toakaka.
Graphics: The graphics are amazing, with the 2D characters and amazing 3D backgrounds. There is nothing more to say other then its breathtaking to look at and play.
Gameplay: Every character has a light, median and strong attack with the ''Distortion Drive''. The game is mostly about combos and its hard to complete a combo but the bright side is fighting only using combos isnt the only way to fight. The game also has something called barriers which you can deploy to take chip damage and you can also do a barrier burst which breaks you barrier but stops and knocks an opponent way to give you a fighting chance but you wont be able to use you barrier again in that round (but you can still do instant blocks) which is a nice touch for when you are stuck in an opponents combo which seems to never end.
Online Battle: The online space is somewhat dead since their is hardly anyone to play with since they all left to play Blazblue: Continuum Shift which came out but there are still people playing and you will be happy to hear that 97% of the time online is LAG FREE :), really its lag free (no joke) and you have your ranked and player matched (player matches involves creating a room and the creators can have full controle over the settings while ranked matches are your basic settings) to play which allows you to level up but you ain getting anything though leveling up though, you can recored you fav matches and even get matches uploaded by the best players.
Story: In a fighter game you would expect the story to be based on a tournament but it isnt its a really fun story and at the very start the story might be extremely confusing untill you have finished (not 100%) all of the character's stories you get the True Ending which is what is going to connect all the broken lines you might have. The story is pure anime which is a good thing coz it give the story a bit more then other fighting games, but the english voice acting is ok it still can e annoying to listen to it (change it to japanese is sounds a whole lot better, but you will need to read alot), the story really talkative but if you get in to the story you would want them more and more. There are anime cut scenes but only in the True Ending.
This game is amazing and the only negative i can find is that there are only 12 characters in the game but they are unique in the own way which is wicked.
Great game and gets a 9.5