The BlazBlue Thread: all the imports!

[Kuraudo]

On the other end of the spectrum, I love Sword of Doom II. I explained why on Dustloop but I'll paste it here after. That being said, s'all opinions anyway.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Most of the themes were better in their old versions :/ A lot of the new ones are good...just
they were better before :'c

(And yeah, idk why but i like the new sword of doom....its just different. idk how to explain it. i will always like the first one more though. cuz cmon that was good.)

 

[Lythium]

Yeeeah, I just really dislike SoD2. The original was easily one of my favourite songs in BB, and this new one doesn't cut it for me. The vocals feel all wrong, and the F-Zero guitar is like, "what were you thinking?"

Bah, grump grump.

 

[Big-Cat]

I can't get enough of Sword of Doom II. So, so good. Really like how it changed with the character development. At this point, it should be called Sword of Salvation.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

I'm not a big fan of the mechanized, vocaloid-ish stuff. That's probably why I prefer SoD2 over the original, personally.

All of the other remixes that I've heard so far? Ehhhhhh. I really can't get into 'em. =/

Smooth Criminal

 

[Rutger]

I like the F-Zero guitar, it's a big change from the old one, so I can understand disappointment there, but why keep the vocals?

Never cared for Bullet Dance, so the new one is meh too.

I really like Gale II and Blood Pain II. I also think Tao's new song is a great improvement(even if a bit Sonic-y, but that's nothing new to Daisuke)

I don't think I like either soundtrack more than the other, there are plenty that I like about as much as the old songs or more, some a little disappointing. I'm excited for the change honestly, it's appropriate with how much BBCP has changed.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

It's not that I dislike the new tracks intensely or anything. They're just...different. They don't jump out and grab you like the old ones did, y'know?

Nevertheless, I'm still hyped for the soundtrack. I really hope Arc includes it in the console release of CP.

Smooth Criminal

 

[Spelt]

The new songs aren't exactly bad (at least most of them) but some of the changes just feel out of place, like the drums and weird techno-esque stuff in Rachel's remix. It's a good song but it just doesn't fit Rachel imo.

Either way, I'm still hyped for the remixes so I don't have to spend another year+ listening to the old songs all of the time. They'll become white noise for the most part after a month or so anyways, I hardly ever notice them now in arcade videos even.

 

[LivewiresXe]

Oh shiza, the board's back! I have to say, Sword of Doom 2 is absolutely amazing.

Edit: Oops, I got the thread mixed up and posted P4A stuff here, lol. D'oi.

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Any more Hakumen videos Lythy? :3c

 

[LivewiresXe]

Hm...the more Hakumen I see, the more I go "guhhhh". Except for when Tao and Hazama just fly around him like "lalala, oh you're down there?".

 

[Lythium]

Any more Hakumen videos Lythy? :3c

Combo videos or gameplay videos?

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Either? Both? You pick.

 

[Lythium]

I haven't seen any combo videos recently, sorry. There's a decent set here though:

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Can we mere mortals embed things now?

Or is it because you're a quasi-mod, Lyth?

Smooth Criminal

 

[Lythium]

Everyone can embed stuff now, as far as I know.

 

[Spelt]

That'll be helpful for threads like these where we're constantly linking to videos. Hopefully they don't remove it later.

 

[Minato]

Hopefully SWF doesn't forget to make collapse tags working again. I always hated SRK threads that had loads of YT videos embedded in the same post.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Spoiler

You can kinda use spoilers like collapse tags. Case in point.

Smooth Criminal

 

[LivewiresXe]

Ahh...so it IS getting more like the SRK boards. And around the time of Melee getting into EVO? Coincidence? Me thinks not. xD

 

[Kuraudo]

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/show...sion/page427&p=1465511&viewfull=1#post1465511

I'll just redirect to here as to how I feel about SoDII

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So far though, I think one of the best improved songs asides my favorite in SoDII has to be Gale II. The new intro just SCREAMS Bang.

 

[LivewiresXe]

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/show...sion/page427&p=1465511&viewfull=1#post1465511

I'll just redirect to here as to how I feel about SoDII

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So far though, I think one of the best improved songs asides my favorite in SoDII has to be Gale II. The new intro just SCREAMS Bang.

You pretty much summed it up nicely, I gotta say. Also, dat freaking guitar solo is so awesome.

 

[Big-Cat]

I just need to know if Sword of Salvation has the Final Fantasy riff.

 

[Banjodorf]

I'd really like to find some actual rips of the new Versus themes, but that seems almost impossible. Unless they're hiding...I may not just be looking in the right places, but I've been searching for the Relius vs. Valk theme for AGES now. Seems like it's just not around. I remember hearing it on one video a couple months ago, but it wasn't loud enough to pick up much.

 

[Lythium]

As far as I know, rips of the full themes don't exist yet. Just previews.

 

[LivewiresXe]

Do we know the song names for some of the new ones?

 

[Spelt]

No idea about the versus themes but Izayoi's is named Justice Sword, Bullet's is Spirit of Fire and Amane's is 舞神, whatever that means.

 

[Minato]

I see the kanji for Dance and God. I guess it'll be something around those lines, just less literal.

 

[Lythium]

I believe that roughly translates to "Dance of God." The second kanji (神) is definitely "kami" though.

edit: Welp, ninja'd. :>

 

[LivewiresXe]

I see the kanji for Dance and God. I guess it'll be something around those lines, just less literal.

I believe that roughly translates to "Dance of God." The second kanji (神) is definitely "kami" though.

edit: Welp, ninja'd. :>

That moment where you go "WTF, how did they know THAT?" and then realize a bunch of people in the thread can speak and read Japanese and that some have actually been...dohhh. Reminds me I am SO untraveled via poverty.

 

[sakuraZaKi]

I don't know if it's being "untraveled" or simply educated, lol.

I dunno, has Lyth been to Japan?

 

[Smooth Criminal]

@ the first 48 seconds of the first match:

Tager: Hey, Hazama.

Hazama: Yo.

Tager: What'd the five fingers say to the face?

Hazama: Sla---

Tager: GIGANTIC TAGER DRIVERRRRRRRRRR


Smooth Criminal

 

[Big-Cat]

I see the kanji for Dance and God. I guess it'll be something around those lines, just less literal.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Lord of the Dance as a poetic translation. Either that, or we try Divine Dance or Dancing God, but I've heard that Japanese adjectives work somewhat like English.

 

[ぱみゅ]

Done a little research on possible readings of that.
Apparently "舞" is read as "bu" when it's part of a word.
On the other hand, there are so many ways of reading "神" that makes it pretty hard to tell... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/神#Readings

 

[Lythium]

I haven't even really started learning kanji yet, so many. ;u;

I hope it's "Lord of the Dance" for the obvious irish dancing jokes. Also, Amane is a dancer or something, so that would make sense.

I don't know if it's being "untraveled" or simply educated, lol.

I dunno, has Lyth been to Japan?

I have, once! Back in 2009.

It's a pretty cool place. :3

 

[LivewiresXe]

Well, thanks for letting me know that I wasn't crazy or imagining things with that Lythi, lol. And honestly, to me "God of Dance" would make more sense than "Dance of God" in terms of Amane himself.

 

[Big-Cat]

Done a little research on possible readings of that.
Apparently "舞" is read as "bu" when it's part of a word.
On the other hand, there are so many ways of reading "神" that makes it pretty hard to tell... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/神#Readings

So is that one way how the pronunciation system for kanji works?

 

[ぱみゅ]

I honestly have no idea how to properly read kanjis. That's the only thing I'm yet to master in order to fully understand the language, but I suck at it.

I'm sticking to "Bujin", as it is homonym of 武人, "person of War".
Could also be Bushin tho, homonym of 武神, "God of Martial Arts".

 

[sakuraZaKi]

I lived in Animu land for a good majority of my childhood, and I regret never learning the language with all the resources I had. All I wanted to do was play videogames. Look where that got me. I can at least read the kana and understand some spoken speech, but it's so broken. Definitely going back later in my adulthood or something, lol.

I do know that a kanji character can have a butt-load of meanings, and you have to differentiate between them by context and general use. But in games like the Tales series, they go crazy with that stuff for Artes... I just hate studying kanji overall.

Anyway, I can't stop listening to Rachel's new theme. There is just no way it wasn't influence by Sakuraba's work.

 

[Minato]

Anyway, I can't stop listening to Rachel's new theme. There is just no way it wasn't influence by Sakuraba's work.

You should join the Rachel army then. We could use more people. The transition from Yukiko won't be that bad.