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The X Button - Into the Blue

Rune Factory 3, newly announced for the DS in Japan, adds another such feature by letting its main character change into monsters, sorta like Rue did in Threads of Fate.

Adapting Guilty Gear's four-button setup

I'm still trying to figure out why she's so dang popular.

Shadow of Desiny- there's a game I haven't seen mentioned in years. That was the second title I bought for my PS2, and largely to protect my last dab of graduation money from my (at the time) sticky-fingered brother (glad to say he's long since grown out of that habit.) One of the most unusual games I've ever played, and one of the few I re-played several times to get all the endings (although part of that is from how short a play-through can be.) I had a good time with that game.

So I'm guessing the Sky Crawlers game will have more action than the movie? Nothing against the movie, I actually liked the pacing. I just can't imagine the game having the same pace!

Hm... I could see Sakura Taisen's dual DVD setup really backfiring. Since you're getting 2 copies of the game, keep one and give the other to a friend or sell it.

It's unfortunate that Guilty Gear fans, the ones most easily drawn to BlazBlue, are also the ones most likely to be let down by the game's comparatively bland plot and designs. In looks and backstory, most of the characters resemble Guilty Gear fighters; the bloblike Arakune is a melting Eddy, Litchi is Jam, Hakumen looks a lot like Justice, and leading man Ragna is Sol Badguy with raw, undiluted angst instead of gruff disdain. No, fighting games don't need stories, but memorable characters always help, and BlazBlue has too many faces that the average fighter enthusiast or anime fan has seen many times already.

The characters who aren't cast in solid stereotypes are often less appealing. Jin Kisaragi is clearly not Guilty Gear's Ky Kiske, because Ky was amusingly over-earnest and sympathetic. Jin is a sneering jackass who occasionally dips into raving psychosis, and he's never interesting for it. Noel is also a disgrace. She's one of the game's three key characters, along with Ragna and Jin, and her role suggests a sensible, dedicated counterpoint to both Ragna's gloom and Jin's unstable cruelty. Yet she's the exact opposite. While apparently a soldier, she seems a timid, perpetually ashamed, kitten-like schoolgirl who spends her story mode in a ringer of breast jokes and forced costume changes.

Some of the other fighters come off better. Rachel is entertaining in her regal condescension, and her attacks and demonic sidekicks make her look like some unused fighter from the Darkstalkers series. Bang is an endearing goofball, and it takes awhile for his glorious theme song to get old. Taokaka's look is creative for an anime catgirl, even if her personality can grate. And they're the highlights. All too often, BlazBlue resembles Guilty Gear with its hair-metal overkill removed and replaced by standard anime science fiction.

Litchi isn't much like Jam beyond showing leg and both being female Chinese with pony tails

Hi everyone I posted this in this post because I don’t see a video game section on the forums, I’m looking for the name of a 2D fighting game for the PS2 that looks like Guilty Gear but was released much earlier than Blaz Blue. I remember the review, on the X button, saying something like the game would be popular with the girls because of the Bishounen looks of its characters.