BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Euro version coming in 2010

[Ippiki Okami]

Developer - Arc System Works

Publisher - Arc System Works,Aksys Games(US)

Designer(s) Toshimichi Mori, Yuuki Katou

Composer(s) Daisuke Ishiwatari

Platform(s) Arcade, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Release date(s) Arcade JPN November 19, 2008

PS3
JPN June 25, 2009
NA June 30, 2009

Xbox 360
JPN June 25, 2009
NA June 30, 2009

Genre - 2D Weapon Based Fighting

Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer

Plot

Before the events of BlazBlue, humanity was on the verge of extinction from the "Black Beast", a creature of Darkness. Hope came in the form of six heroes who wielded the power of magic. Together, the six heroes & humanity created "Armagus" a combination of Magic & Technology to defeat the Beast, which would be known as The First War of Magic.

After the war, the Novus Orbis Librarium Armagus (the Library for short) (the New World Void Space Cue Administration Bureau in Japan) was created to govern the new world which has discovered the use of Armagus. Under the Library, Humanity began reconstructing & the world was under their dictatorship. However this caused much dissent for the people due to fact Armagus was used in every issue & the widening socioeconomic gap between those who could use & cannot use Armagus. This dissent would eventually form years later into The Ikaruga Civil War or The Second War of Magic, when the Ikaruga Union openly rebelled against the Library. After the war, the Library imposed a harsher rule on the world declaring anyone that defies them will be killed.

On December A.D. 2199, several years after the Second War, a branch of the Library was utterly destroyed by an SS-class traitor named "Ragna the Bloodedge" also known as "The God of Death." His quest was to destroy the Library. The Novus Orbis Librarium Armagus, hoping to stop him, immediately put the largest bounty ever for anyone who could capture him. Interestingly, Ragna possessed a powerful form of Armagus known as the "Azure Grimoire" (Grimoire of the Blue in Japan), also known as the BlazBlue. This led to the Librarium, as well as the Ikaruga Union and other fighters, to be after not just his bounty, but also his grimoire as well.

X-play Hands on Preview

X-Play
3-4-2009

Mike Manzanares from Arc System Works stops by the studio to give Blair a Hands On demo of the new 2D fighting game 'BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger' coming soon to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Old School 2D fighting from the guys that brought us the Guilty Gear series