#xblaze code

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Es ; BlazBlue: Central Fiction ☆ Bell Fine

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

It is very likely that Ringo Akagi is one of the most powerful characters in the greater BB/XB franchise, and almost certain that she's one of the most knowledgeable about the greater magics of her world.

As a member of the Mercury family and the Ten Sages, her magical abilities and know-how must be on the same level as Nine's.

Additionally, she's implied to be one of the greatest members of the Sages, as when she left the organization, they reserved her seat for her; in hopes of her return, and in acknowledgement that she could not be replaced.

The only other character to be granted this honor is Relius Clover in his tenure as One.

[annon-guy2]

XBLAZE Code Embryo: Scrapped CG's and Storyboards

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Thanks to Spriters Resource, I found some interesting pieces of CG's that appear to be scrapped from the final game along with Storyboards of altered or cut scenes from the game.

Feel free to correct me on some of these or feel free to speculate with me.

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1. Taking Up Es' Sword

The scene on the left is in the final game, but this image is in the form of a CG as the part with Touya wasn't in the final game compared to everything else as that scene is shown through his point of view.

Interestingly in the storyboard image on the right, Es is there handing her sword to Touya when in the Final Game, she was disarmed and knocked into the Boundary, with Es' voice encouraging Touya as he picks up the sword himself. It's possible that according to the storyboard image, the story may have originally intended for Es to be with Touya during the fight with Sechs or it may have be an alternative version of the Es Route Ending where she doesn't inherit the Embryo. Just speculation here.

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2. Lunch Time

This isn't a huge one (or speculation heavy) compared to the first one, but the top image was not in the Final Game and I believe this was meant to be a companion piece to the bottom image from the Final Game as Touya and Akira were in that scene with Es, Hinata and Kuon. The top image appears to be a bit rough comapred to the bottom image, but it's not in a Storyboard format. More like a Roughdraft phase to be accurate.

It's still a nice piece with Touya and Akira regardless since they don't have many CG's in the Final Game together (that doesn't involve tragedy I mean)...

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3. Unused Hinata CG

In the climax of the Es Route and Hinata Route, Hinata was mostly unconscious and out of it during the climax. Even when she awoke to the Embryo's power after Unomaru completes it, Hinata wasn't aware of her for most of it, only coming around when she's in the Boundary for the Es Route or when Es kills Touya when he becomes the Black Beast in the Hinata Route.

But this image show's Hinata fully conscious and in sorrow. Perhaps this was meant for the Hinata Route since she rewinds time consciously in that instance after Es slays the Black Beast, cause I don't know how this would function into the Es Route.

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4. Cut Bad Ending?

This one is pretty dark, isn't it?

Now, in the Final Game, if you didn't bother to read ANY TOi articles at ALL in the Main Route or during the Mei/Kuon Branch Route, Sechs shows up and murders Touya due to not showing any interest or bothering to care. Pretty much, a Bad ending where Touya don't become the Black Beast.

Not that it matters as in the two Black Beast endings, Sechs still kills Touya after he becomes the Black Beast anyway.

It's possible these two scrapped CG's are meant to show Sechs appearing before Touya with the end result showing Sechs standing above Touya's corpse. This could have worked in the Standard Bad Ending or the Black Beast Bad Endings either way as the end result is the same. Most likely to drive the point home that the player screwed up like if the player got Ragna's Bad Endings in BlazBlue Calamity Trigger and BlazBlue Continuum Shift.

Debunked: Fellow tumblr User, GoofballProximitySurveyor, confirmed and I watched real quick that this occurs in a blink and miss moment in Episode 1: Encounters when Sechs is observing Touya without him knowing.

My bad. Also, thanks for the info my friend.

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5. Sweet Dreams... Es...

The top two images are of the Post-Credits scene where Es is shown sleeping in the World of Tsukuyomi (according to XBLAZE Lost Memories) to keep the Embryo from affecting her world again.

The second storyboard image shows a close up of Es, who's smiling in her sleep, meant to symbolize that Es is at peace with herself despite the sadness of saying goodbye to the boy she loves and the people who became her family. The smile is more noticeable in the storyboard than in the Final Version, which is there, but you need a good eye to see it.

Thankfully, a certain Great Magister was there to give Es a chance to return home in the second game.

The bottom image is from the Final Game, only except it doesn't have the close up from the second storyboard.

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6. Sechs Vs. Es-N

A possible cut sequence where Sechs fights the Es-N Units after Sechs fatally wounds Unomaru.

In the Final Game, Sechs easily kills all four of the Es-N. But in these Storyboards, the Es-N actually hit and apparently wound Sechs, which good for them.

It's unknown if this would have led to a different version of the Es Route because if this killed Sechs, than Unomaru would die not long after, making it a case of the bad guys taking each other out as the Es-N can't do anything with Unomaru.

It's possible that Sechs may tank the stabs and than one shot the Es-N like in the Final Game, but it would have made Sechs look reckless and dumb for intentionally letting the Es-N hit him, just so he can show Unomaru how pointless it is to fight him. Hence why he just curbstomps the Es-N before they can even hit him in the Final Game.

At least Happy Chaos made it look better in Guilty Gear StrIVe when Sol blasted him during the Highway Chase Scene...

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7. Scrapped CG's? [Touya Attacks Ripper/Es Vs. Es-N]

These appear to be storyboard for two specific scenes.

The top one is for when Touya attacks Ripper when he unleashes the Grimoires Power. In the Final Game, he used something similar to Ragna's Devoured By Darkness Distortion Drive. In the Story Board, it looks similar to Ragna's Dead Spike Special Attack, like Touya was going to turn Ripper into dog food for his Dead Spike Heads 😂. Perhaps it was meant to be an alternate CG to show Touya's power from Ripper's perspective instewd of the usual CG.

The Sceond appears to be when Es is battling the first Es-N Unit. I assume since you can make out Es-N's head and visor around the blue area in the storyboard. It would have been cool to have another CG featuring Es-N as opposed to it exclusively being Es and Es-N's sprites.

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8. Unused Location

This area is mysterious. For one thing, I don't ever recall seeing this place in the Final Game. For one, all of the Routes show unique places and this was nit among them.

Based on how this place looks, it appears to be related to Ishana I guess. This definitely looks like a place where Kuon or Elise live at. They are roomates and this place screams "Mage Room". Considering we get to see Mei's Room in XBLAZE: Lost Memories, it would make since if this was meant to be Kuon and/or Elise's Room. Hell, it could even be Ringo's room.

Confirmed: Two tumblr Users spoke to me about this.

Gear Project speculated this is saved for a Sequel (Lost Memories) and thanks to the observation of teatipster through this post comfirms this is indeed Kuon and Elise's room in Ishana. It is breify shown during Touya's Black Memory Story.

So good foresight GP and good eyes teatipster.

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9. Touya Shields Kuon [Touya Sprite Comparison]

The top image appears to be an Event CG where Touya shields and protects Kuon. The only time he protects Kuon is from Sechs in Chapter 5 and this didn't pop up.

If you look close, the sprite for Touya in the top image is an altered version of Touya from the Es Vs. Akira CG in the bottom. Some aspects in the top image weren't fully changed to accommodate. Still though, it was curious that they would have reusued this if not for the fact this works better in the bottom CG.

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10. Avenge at Wadtsumi, 10 Years Ago?

This Storyboard resembles a scene from the Main Story in the Final Game. From a flashback of the Wadatsumi Incident and from the ending of the Hinata Route.

However, there's a hooded figure carrying a woman in his arms. The hooded figure is very likely Avenge and considered the woman doesn't resemble Mei or Kuon, it's possible the individual may be Mei's mother, Sui Amanohokosaka. This does contradict things since in the backstory, Sui led Avenge to Ryoko Kagari, Touya's mother. This may have clarified Sui's fate beyond being presumed to be dead since we never knew what truly happened to her.

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11. Sechs Vs. Kuon Unsued CG

It may be a unsused CG for the Sechs and Kuon battle in the final battle of the Kuon Route where Kuon throws the Izayoi at Sechs instead of slashing him for the final strike on him.

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12. Unused Zwei Attack CG

This storyboard may be an unsused attack CG for Zwei/Ringo. Either for fighting Sechs in the Kuon Route or when she cremates Drei's corpse in the Es Route.

Maybe both...?

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13. Goofball Proximity Surveyor Alternate Background CG and Possible Unused Es-N CG

Nothing too big here.

The top image is the Goofball Proximity Surveyor with a different colored background. Perhaps this might have been used in the Kuon and Mei Vs. Acht battle, but who can say.

The bottom image is a Storyboard of the four Es-N Units with Unomaru when Touya confronts him. Maybe a unique CG to showcase the four units as a stationary group?

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14. Miscellaneous Storyboards

The rest of the storyboards are of already existing scenes from the Final Game.

1. Kuon when she meets the Magic Guild Leaders.

2. Es when she's in the Boundary. Also, weird observation on my end, but the Seithr in the Boundary looks like it has Arakune's face mask everywhere, making it appear to be just a bunch of Arakune's staring back at Es... 😅

3. Sechs during one of his Attack CG's.

4. Touya when he unleashes the Original Grimoire.

5 and 6. Touya and Sechs' climatic final strike from the Opening Movie and the last battle in the Es Route.

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Credit to Spriters Resource for finding these cut CG's and Storyboards.

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some xblaze doodles & more kiri x ripper (date: february - march 2021)

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Freaks - Visual Novel Xblaze Code: Embryo

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sorry i have mega autism people putting the colon in thr wrong place when saying the title of the xblaze games feels just like people typing it as Blazeblue to me

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Annon-Guy: Related to the Deleted Scene Ask.

Care to sate the theory part of you my friend? Any thoughts?

https://www.tumblr.com/annon-guy2/777321015597465600/xblaze-code-embryo-scrapped-cgs-and-storyboards?source=share

Having seen more of Lost Memories than Code Embryo, I can confirm that those images would later be used in Lost Memories.

LM is a retelling of events in CE, but the retelling basically removes most of the fluff alternate ending and what if scenarios CE had that were ambiguous about what happened.

If they were ripped from CE though, that mostly confirms they were intended to be used but for some reason got shelved, only to be used later.

Spoilers

Es falls in the Boundary along with Hinata, which triggers Hinata’s true state and she resets events similar to Amaterasu’s intervention, only, she used Es to do this and Es became Nobody.

This was all to protect Touya, essentially, but it removed his memory of ever meeting Es, and all he remembered was the sword Es once used which Mei entrusted to him.

Nameless makes contact with Nobody years later and uses her powers to grant Nobody’s wish, which resets a facet of the timeline again, only this uses up most of Es’s power except for one aspect of it.

Neither Es nor Touya remember much of what happened, but Es is determined to protect Touya in this timeline, and uses the last of her power to do so.

Their ending is somewhat ambiguous in connection with Dark War, but it’s still implied that at some point Es was chosen as the Arbiter, but after she completed her task she returned to live with Touya in her original timeline. Based on what happened in Dark War though, the events of Lost Memories removed Dark War from the Timeline, which resulted in Central Fiction, though some characters from Dark War still exist after Central Fiction.

You could argue that CE’s timeline lead to Dark War, but Dark War was altered by Chrono Phantasma, which in turn resulted in Lost Memories which lead to Central Fiction.

Hinata might be one aspect of the Origin, or not, but at the least it is clear Es got her happy ending after Lost Memories.

[teatipster]

Annon-Guy: Care to share your thoughts and opinions on the Scrapped CG's and Storyboards for XBLAZE Code Embryo?

hiiii hihihihi!!! loved ur post!!! i'm always soooo happy when people talk about xblaze , especially the scrapped content !! there's so much to go through, i could talk about it all day ! like seriously . ive had days where id be wasting hours shifting through the files lol…. it makes me very happy

ANYWAY lets see . this might be long but i'll just try to talk about a few things u discussed and some extras haha

Spoilers Below !!

firstly i love the concept art that was added later on for the pc release !! i mean i assume so, anyway? its not in the other versions … BUT its still a fantastic edition and it adds a new perspective to how the game's story was planned! (honestly i want to know where they were going with the "sechs gets stabbed" ending but also . do i really want unomaru winning that hard ? decisions , decisions......)

many of the cgs u noticed are definitely unused! they are not present in the console version (well, at least the one i've gathered O_O), are not called anywhere in the scripts, and are not called again in the second game (….as far as i've checked… i swear i just did. i swear.) that includes the extra lunch scene (cg026-1), touya with the murakumo (cg067-1), hinata crying at the end of a route (cg079-5), and the gps with the alternate background (cg010-2).

there's more though :D!!! there's always more. (note i did check the script before posting but if im wrong please do correct me…)

there's also:

cg089-2: they made a cg for the end of hinata's route (i assume! :O) ….before it was just her taking off the hood and revealing her sprite wow!!

cg073-2: its the same as cg073-1 but uh. where did sechs go

cg053-2: this is the same as ripper's dash (cg053-1) but inverted lol pretty neat !

cg009-1: rip shikigami raven… very cool cg but my god

cg002-1: news headline????wheres my toi

and my fav...

cg088-3: unomaru doesnt get stabbed . honestly one of my favorite cg's just by how much it messes me up. i was drawing something and accidentally used this as a ref and got the whole background wrong like ohhh my god. i think the only reason it was changed was because they altered where unomaru and sechs met, so the t-system setup wasnt supposed to be directly in front of the camera (but rather to the left) . i think anyway !?!

oh! and for clarity's sake i did try to find any mention in Any other file . i only found "cg009" in a test file in the ps3 version . not even sure if it could be the same one because this was removed in the pc release (unless im rly stupid and cant find it).

and about that mysterious map you mentioned and dubbed as the "mage room" well! you'd be correct! :D about all ur assertions actually

bg025_gauss is only in the test files for code:embryo . this time the ones in the pc version, too, and its not brought back for anything else for code: embryo.

however !!!!it was brought back for touya's memory stones and it's only in the background for kuon and elise while they are in ishana.

despite this i didnt see the clearer background vers. bg025 used in second game (its definitely not in the first) lol oh well!

i think that's enough to share, right ?? thats a lot of nonsense from my mouth! there's definitely still a lot more to talk about but like… i just get excited when people mention the unused stuff so thank you for covering it and also asking for my input!!!!!!!! X3

[starocide]

XBlaze Code: Embryo is a yuri visual novel disguised as anything but one

[pikabysss]

I'm not well versed in what type of animals the calico critters/sylvanian family have. But, I quickly checked online. Here's my thoughts:

Rachel and Amane: bunnies.

Ragna and his relatives: Wolves, Dogs or Foxes (black beast and the such)

Relius' family: foxes (cunning and intelligent)

Bang: a lion or another type of big mammal (bear, elephant, gorilla, rhino, Tiger, ect).

Hibiki: a mouse (small and sneaky). A black bird if you want to be basic (like me)

Kagura: some type of strong animal, too. I can only think of a dragon for him (so a crocodile, maybe), but maybe a horse or a deer could work too

Litchi: Panda or a cat or a mouse (lab rat)

Roy: I'd go with mouse because lab rat and he end up in the sewer. So maybe Litchi can be a mouse too.

Makoto, Tao, Kokonoe, Jubei, other characters with animal parts: I think those are obvious.

Tsubaki: A dove (snow bird) or lamb. Something religion coded. Any type of bird could work for her. Or a white rabbit with red tip ears would be cute too.

Konoe and Celica: I'd say the same as Ragna's and his relative, but you could go with something else. But Konoe's eyes look predatory, so I'd say at least a carnivorous animal. Can be a cat like her husband, but I think the cross species aspect of her relationship would be lost. Celica should be the same animal as her.

Terumi and Hazama: I mean... you can look at this reddit post. (The comments even say to give it a hat. That is almost Hazama, omg) SNAKE

Es: She's a fennec in my Xblaze animal AU and my furry AU. She got the perfect hair color that fits with the fur and she's a small but dangerous creature. Maybe a chiwawa if you want to be wild.

Mai: I'd go with an inhabitual animal (a turtle, a frog, a seal maybe) something odd that would fit how special she is (she's a girl who doesn't feel like she fits in because, omg, she's not actually a girl!? I think you got my point.)

Tager: A rhino or a boar.

Bullet: A meerkat

I don't know if you want to do some non-playable characters, but oh well.

Linhua: Cat (she likes cats, I dunno). Or a beaver since she's a hard-working nurse. A bear would work too. (She gives me bear vibes and would make good contrast with Litchi if Litchi is a panda)

Kajun: I would have said a butterfly (because hairpin) but a pink bird/parrot/owl would fit her nicely.

I probably forgot some of them. But that's my thoughts.

i may as well also ask for input here bc i know some of u will be good at answering this: if i were to draw all the bb cast as calico critters/sylvanian families do u all have any ideas on what animals they all would be? i already have some ideas for some characters but i dont have nearly enough furry particles to make good animal comparisons lol

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

Full battle sprite rips from Acht's BBDW appearance! Requested by @triedpklove!

She had these six total complete sprites in her battle sheet, which seems to be the standard for this game; A block sprite, a damaged sprite, two kinds of 'falling' sprites (you could think of them as "being knocked into the air" and "falling back down") and then the two 'downed' sprites, one on lying their back and one lying on their front.

I plan to post the sprites for each of her costumes at a later date!

[annon-guy2]

XBLAZE: Remaster/Remake Idea Poll

Here's gameplay of the two XBLAZE Games to give you an idea of what they are and how they play (They're both Visual Novel Games, but Lost Memories adds "Dungeon" segments);

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Explanations for choices;

Include an English Dub (Dual Audio): Adds an Engligh Dub alongside the Japanese Audio.

More Anime Cutscenes: Adds more Anime Cutscenes outside of the Opening Movie. An example could be Es' introduction scene where it can be animated instead of CG Illustrations and Story Portraits.

Add a "Third" Game to the Duology: Adds a new XBLAZE Game along with the two existing ones, similar to .Hack//G.U Last Recode's exclusive .hack//G.U. Vol 4//Reconnection chapter.

Expand Parts of the Story: Include additional story scenes to answer questions or reveal more that the original two games couldn't do (or believe didn't clarify enough).

Include Bonus BlazBlue DSi/3DS Games: Based from an earlier Hypothetical Collection Poll, include BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale and/or BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma as bonus games you can play.

Simplified TOi System for XBLAZE: Code Embryo: Make the TOi System easier to understand or use to get better use out of it for Story Progression in XBLAZE: Code Embryo.

More Challenge to XBLAZE: Lost Memories Phantom Field Segments: Make the Adventure Sections in XBLAZE: Lost Memories a bit more challenging. For example, the monsters can actually hurt "Me"/Konoe beyond stunning her and their are more hazards. If you die, you'll be booted back to the start of the area you are in or forced to reload your last save.

Dialogue Options for XBLAZE: Code Embryo: Replace the TOi Mechanic with a traditional Dialogue Tree Option to decide routes and endings in XBLAZE: Code Embryo.

Add a Mini-Game Mode: Add Mini-Games based on the XBLAZE Cast. Just a fun bonus mode. Like fighting Unions as Es, Cooking as Hinata, do science stuff as Unomaru or punching training dummies as Drei.

Remix the Soundtrack: Remix the songs and music, similar to what BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma did when it remixed the character themes for the Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift Roster.

Add an 'Elise Route' for XBLAZE: Code Embryo: Add a new story route featuring Elise von Klagen for XBLAZE: Code Embryo. While Kuon is meant to be the heroine to expand on Ishana, Elise could add more to it, although the diviation point would be during the Es/Hinata Route.

Add an Adaptation of BlazBlue: Bloodedge Experience: Adapt the BlazBlue: Bloodedge Experience Light Novel as an extra Gaiden Game.

Here's a Video Example of how the Mini-Game Mode Idea would work and how the DS BlazBlue games play;

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Sechs - Visual Novel Xblaze Code: Embryo

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His name is sex and you can look him up on your school library computer.

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ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

*shakes you* PLAY XBLAZE PLAY XBLAZE PLAY XBLAZE

CODE: EMBRYO / LOST: MEMORIES