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BBDW News 2 Electric Boogaloo

All information is up-to-date as of February 4th, 12:00am PST. I went over all the basics in this post that I made shortly after the big bbdw revival was announced

TL;DR: BBDW is officially set to release in the Japanese iOS and Android stores on February 16th! There is no confirmed western release. A lot of characters got confirmed to be in the game either as a playable character or in a gatcha card. The battle system was explained as well.

All information was gathered from official Arc System Works announcements as well as the Unofficial Blazblue Wiki’s translations of them on their twitter account.

Gameplay:

just a quick disclaimer I have played like 2 RPGs ever so I’m not going to try to explain it myself but the Unofficial Blazblue Wiki has translated the official info Arcsys gave about the battle system! It sounds like they took a lot of the concepts in the fighting game and found some way to translate that into RPG mechanics. 

[basic info] [revolver(r) and overdrive] [distortion drives] [astral heats]

Story:

Mori has said in a famitsu article that the script length is 2200k characters. For refrence CF had a script length of about 880k characters. If anything this implies that the story that will be in BBDW is almost or all the way complete. Not a whole lot more has been revealed about what the story is about. 

Characters:

I’m going to separate this into 2 categories which are confirmed playable (which means they are listed on the official bbdw website as a character) and characters that have a confirmed appearance (whether through mori’s drawings that are tagged BBDW or they make an appearance in any of the promotional videos or artwork, they are just not listed on the website as a character).

CONFIRMED PLAYABLE: Rachel Alucard Arakune Naoto Kurogane Relius Clover (younger Bloodedge Experience version) Valkenhayn R. Hellsing (younger Bloodedge Experience version) Kiiro Hikagami  Saya Terumi Trinity Glassfille Kazuma Kval Mai Natsume (but she’s all fucked up and evil now) Jin Kisaragi Tsubaki Yayoi Bullet (Mori I’ll never forgive you for taking away her pants) Hibiki Kohaku Kuon Glamred Stroheim Ripper Iron Tager (confirmed as playable through a promotional trailer)

CONFIRMED APPEARANCE:

Ragna The Bloodedge (main promotional art) Es (main promotional art) Kagura Mutsuki (mori’s cryptic artwork) Hinata Himezuru (promotional video of story mode) Izanami (gatcha card) Clavis Alucard (gatcha card) Nu-13 (gatcha card) Acht (gatcha card) Litchi Faye-Ling (gatcha card) Linhua (gatcha card) Hakumen (gatcha card) Raquel Alucard (gatcha card) Celica A. Mercury (gatcha card) Cypher Albar (gatcha card) Bang Shishigami (gatcha card) Nine The Phantom (gatcha card) Taokaka (gatcha card)

NOTE: I’m probably missing some characters because there were two characters who I wasn’t 100% certain who they were so I didn’t include them.