First off, Noel feels weird. The properties of pretty much all of her drive moves have changed. The timing on even simple things, like the 214A 2B link, have changed.

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Is now out for PS3 in the US. Get hype dog! 

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Hello everybody, and welcome to Fighting Against Noel, part 2. Today we'll be looking at Noel's Drive Chains, and talking about how to beat people that rely on them a bit too heavily. Noel has a special requirement for some of her D moves that she must be in Drive Chain before she can use it. I will be referring to these moves by prefixing them ( Read more... )

(or NGFNAT, pronounced ngf-NAT)

So, I admit, I am not a Tager player. However, as a Noel player, I have fought many, many Tagers. Although Tager vs Noel is a horrible match-up for Tager at low levels of play, and a bad match-up for Tager at high levels of play, I have actually seen Tager used as a counter-pick to Noel at intermediate level. Why ( Read more... )

I spent some time today playing ranked matches in BlazBlue. I learned where some of my weaknesses are from the tournament, so I've been watching for them. I got to play a good Taokaka player online twice, which was rare and very useful. I've discovered that one of the things I was doing wrong against Taokaka is spacing.

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There are a number of things that I need to learn before the tournament next Saturday. A few of them can be learned in training, and I have a feeling that those will be easier. The rest of the things are breaking habits and learning to play better, which I have to do in battles, and which I doubt I will improve that much in by the tourney ( Read more... )

I want to play in some tournaments. This presents a couple of problems, the harder of which is getting to tournaments; however in order to even think about that part, I need to find out how one finds tournaments. Where do you go? Do you just watch for random tourney threads on SRK? Is there a web site that lists fighting game tourneys and there ( Read more... )

Penny Arcade has done two days worth of BlazBlue comics, and it seems likely that they'll do another.

There are some good videos Tager beating Noel senseless. I suggest you watch them if you are the type of person that thinks tier lists are absolute. Also, if you want to see what a two second turnaround looks like ( Read more... )

Bang Shishigami's Kassatsu Dai Funka super > burst.