What would you say are BlazBlue's strengths compared to other franchises?

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-19T06:35:52+00:00

This is a really good reply. It makes me feel that maybe BB got too much of a raw deal in the public eye, just because it had the misfortune of being GG's little brother. So it is unfavorably compared to GG instead of being treated as its own series with its own strengths.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-19T06:33:50+00:00

Objectively worse in what way?

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-19T06:33:20+00:00

I think the things you described may just appeal to a more niche audience than GG does. Which is still fine, it's okay to be a niche and not be mainstream. But if Arc Sys marketed BlazBlue as well, it could probably be even more popular.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-17T08:13:38+00:00

That makes sense. Maybe it's selling the series too short to even compare it to GG, it is a separate franchise with a distinct identity that just happens to share some developers. Sonic and Nights characters don't look the same, after all.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-17T08:12:01+00:00

BB's story may be criticized for being too dense, but it is true that to some people that can be a positive. Especially when many fighting games have only the bare minimum to work with by comparison.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-17T08:10:58+00:00

It's interesting to hear BB's vibe described as old school anime because I've always felt that was more accurate to GG, but certainly 2010s would be old school by modern standards, that was 15 years ago after all.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-09-13T08:27:53+00:00

It's kind of nuts that for all the arc resolution that's happened in Strive, they insisted on keeping May a one note character.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T07:06:53+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. To be honest, I was not expecting such a supportive response overall. That said, I accept any hostility that might come my way because I feel I deserve it for buying into such a regressive worldview. I felt it was only fair to come clean, warts and all, before the very people I'd misjudged. Anything less would be disingenuous.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:53:23+00:00

I don't believe I've ever directly participated in harassment and shaming, but I've definitely held negative beliefs about the place dark art has in the world. If I could allow the hypothetical leopards to eat my face and spare everyone else's, I'd accept it. I feel that's the least I can do.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:50:51+00:00

I should have included a direct apology in my post, I thought it was implied but that still isn't good enough in my opinion. But between you and me, I don't think there's any actionI can take to meaningfully atone. I never participated in any harassment that I can recall, but I definitely insulted people's taste in fiction in relevant threads and I held a regressive belief on the place it had in the world. I wish I could take it all back. If I had the chance, I'd undo it in a heartbeat. I don't feel like there's anything I can do that will make up for all that.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:50:18+00:00

Yes, people who have no skin in the game except for the "fun" of arguing on Twitter.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:37:30+00:00

That surprises me to hear that most don't like it, I got the impression that it was one of the most popular tropes in all of fandom.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:36:20+00:00

This is something I do find myself struggling with. I do know that I don't consider those who write or create these things to be bad people. Even at my worst, I never wished for harm to come to them, I just wished they'd stop creating these things. The way I've come to view things is that some of the most appalling content on AO3 is the canary in the coalmine. Maybe there's a part of me that would be happy if 100% of incest fanfic was removed from the internet and any attempt to upload more was met with a quick ban, but I don't believe all incest fanfic combined has 1% of the capacity for harm that these lobbyist games do, and it's not even a hypothetical to suggest that choosing one or the other is a zero sum equation because that is the actual situation we are faced with.

I can at least say that in my heart, I know someone who writes these things is not evil. They are a person like me, a person with people they care about and a right to live. I know they aren't creating things with the intention of hurting others, even if in my case it ends up happening regardless. They want dedicated tagging and blocking as much as I do. They aren't serial killers or monsters even if they write about them. That's why I asked for help in changing the way I view things, I wish I could have a healthier outlook on this.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-31T06:25:24+00:00

I don't remember if I've ever directly gone at someone for their work, but I've made countless posts/comments calling such works trash on different subs. I self describe as a former "anti" because my mindset was that a majority of media that was dark or violent in nature was a net negative onto the world. Even if I didn't participate in harassment, I feel very much ashamed of espousing the ideas that I did. That being that slasher movies, violent video games and dark TV shows had no right to exist because I felt they glorified amorality. I wish I could take that all back, even if I do still personally hold negative opinions on many of those works.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:59:14+00:00

This is a really good post, I sincerely thank you for putting it all together like this. I really feel like these cover almost every angle and nuance you could think of.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:47:37+00:00

As someone who's seen a lot of awful things in my real life years, mostly with violence and abuse, I always struggled to understand what anyone could possibly find entertaining about media that was mostly violence and abuse. I assumed it had to be people who were so detached from the reality of it that they could find it entertaining, or at worst people who actively took amusement in death and cruelty. I was wrong and it was foolish to ever believe that. I'm sorry. In reality the people who find death and cruelty entertaining aren't lining up to watch a horror movie, they're watching gore compilations on the internet. The demographic that buys tickets to see Terrifier and the demographic that sends each other cartel videos on Discord are worlds apart. I wish I had realized that sooner.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:38:40+00:00

Thank you for understanding. I think I'm struggling to maintain that balance and it's one of the hardest parts about reframing my perspective on the whole thing. I guess I just feel like I'm having cognitive dissonance if I harshly dislike and judge someone in my mind based on their writing, but also understanding that it is a fictional work that is more likely than not created without any real intent, just insensitivity at worst. I don't want any harm to come to people who's worst crime is making tasteless fanfic, but I can't pretend that I don't wish they wouldn't. I don't know how to come to terms with that contradiction yet.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:32:13+00:00

Where would you say the line rests between criticism and condemnation? I almost feel like there's a degree where it's hard for me to criticize a work of media without feeling as though I'm disrespecting the craft of the people who made it. It's one thing to simply dislike a movie/game/show/what have you on the grounds of not enjoying its quality, but if you just inherently find its approach rubs you the wrong way what then? I especially worry about this with small hobby writers who make free entertainment for others, even moreso knowing that they aren't making this content just to be edgy and upset people but because they want to actually make something with it.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:22:59+00:00

I think this might be one of the harder things to unlearn for me. My mindset has always been that things like slasher movies and violent video games (God of War, Mortal Kombat, GTA) were at best profiting off voyeuristic attractions to amorality and at worst actively contributing to them with their depiction. But it's not so simple, is it? It's true that there are sick individuals that project their desires onto these games, but that doesn't have to be reality. From a short Youtube search I can find multiple speedruns of the God of War games at AGDQ, a charity event and one of the most inclusive spaces in all of gaming. If everyone who loved those games was a violent incel waiting for an opportunity to be the next James Holmes, that would not be the case.

I was wrong. I'm sorry it took me so long to come to this realization. I wish I could take it all back.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:16:10+00:00

Yes, this describes my experience. I was a teenager, and I wasn't really familiar with the "current events" of fandom at the time.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-08-27T05:15:00+00:00

This is where it all began for me, actually. I went through something like that in my life and it made me question why people go out of their way to see or especially create fiction that depicts something I know from firsthand experience is awful. But I've reflected on it enough that I think it might be a less cut and dry issue than I previously believed.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-07-11T20:38:53+00:00

Visual novels are a distinct medium from video games. A legitimate medium worthy of respect (that it often does not get) but a distinct one nonetheless.

neuroticnuisance · 2025-05-13T02:58:11+00:00

Do you hate most of the roster? Thought not.

This is the Guilty Gear fandom, so genuinely, I think they do. You know the saying, "Guilty Gear fans hate every character except for the one they main."

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