Informal Blazblue CF Review (Also I'm back)

Sorry again for the, like, seventh unannounced hiatus of mine. Blazblue Central Fiction came out this month and I've been playing it nonstop along with some Fallout 4 on the side now that the mods came in for PS4. I just wanted to vent out some of my thoughts on here for a moment about the game before getting active on this site again. So here's my informal review of Blazblue: Central Fiction.

The Bad

• Let me get this out of the way: If you aren't an big/loyal fan of Blazblue this game is not worth the money. This game isn't worth 50-60 bucks to be honest.
  
• There aren't enough single player modes to keep you entertained, the ones that are available are standard for every fighting game and the bare minimum compared to CPEX.
  
• They removed Unlimited forms and Unlimited Mars mode, so you can't have fun with extremely broken characters anymore or try to test yourself against them.
  
• The story mode, while good, is very lackluster in terms of giving development to the game's side character who had great character arcs in their arcade stories.
  
• I swear all my old mains got changed so much I have to either completely relearn them or switch, and it ain't fun relearning how to use beginner-friendly Tsubaki "I am now useless without my charge" Yayoi and Noel "All my drive attacks now have different properties so good luck spamming the CPEX combos" Vermillion. (What did they do to your 3C Noel?)
  
• There's no English dub, and it makes playing the intros for online mode a bit annoying when I don't know what their saying.
  
• Now that the top tier meta has been established, casual online play is almost impossible unless with friends.
  
• Any "broken" character is probably going to remain broken for quite some time due to Mori leaving the BB Team.
  
• Mai is, like, 8 bucks, and that's not cool. Especially since she's in the top tier.
  

The Good

• The music is great as always.
  
• The new sound effects are kickass and just make every hit feel great to connect.
  
• All the new characters play very well and are pretty unique (Hibiki is my new main now)
  
• Some of the older characters are now pretty fun to play (I sub as Makoto)
  
• The arcade stories have the BEST little character arcs in them, all of them are great so far
  
• A lot of the animations were redone and look great, you can see all the personality in each character from their movements
  
• Exceed Accels are just a blast to use, and look very unique for each character
  
• The story of Ragna the Bloodedge is over and his finale was a fantastic way to end the series, I teared up a little
  
• Seriously, the music is great this time around, Es's theme is currently my favorite for it's otherworldly charm
  
• For what it's worth, the Japanese cast sound great
  
• Carl Clover is fun and rewarding to use again

Anyway, that's the short version of my thoughts on the game so far. So yeah, I'm back to being active on here now. I PMed all those I was in threads with, so if anyone else wanted to do something with my characters feel free to message me. If anyone interested in playing me on Blazblue my PSN name is "IvanIvanly." Glad to be back folks!

Glad to have you back here.

Welcome back!

Also, something you forgot on the Good side: Susanoo...just...fucking Susanoo. So fitting, so epic.