Blazblue, what a game - and like any game it's sucess really hinges on the multiplayer.  Clearly the best time to play this or any other fighting game online is right now, past midnight in North America.  Right now its still pretty early in the Land of the Rising Sun.  I've have had a ton of excellent fights against Taokakas, Arakunes, Litchies...man one really amazing LItchie I fought 3 times in an hour, it was embaressing, she won every single fight.

I find fights during 'the day' or when North America is playing is still good but Japanese people > Canadians/Americans playing this game.  They know how to play Jin and not be cheap about it, they can destroy you with NU and they can make Taokaka incredible.  Specifically they have honour - they dont drop any matches, they always have their voices set to Japanese, they always let the full intro and outro go even when the fight is over and you happen to win.  I have not found any of them to use Tager but that might be just me.

Even in Street Fighter 4 - while you'd get the Ken spams of North America, a player from Japan took the character seriously and I never had maybe only one total fierce shuryuken total per match with them.  I always looked for Japanese prefered rooms in Street Fighter 4 just because of this, the fights were a lot more mature and interesting.

What do you guys think about this, am I just nuts or do we just suck at playing fighting games?  Or games in general?

On a side note, is this just me but does it seem like both the rage quitter and the rage quit-e are both punished in Blazblue?  I noticed my incomplete games now is at 2 - one from earlier in the day when it said "lost connection" during the fight, which I only could assume he dropped/quit from the fight.  The second happened when I quit the fight when I for some reason challenged a dude whos name was all in red.  Not knowing what this means (this means guy is prone to rage quitting) he, I assume, quit during the match and then my screen froze but the game was still going, the music in the background.  I had control of the guide and I sat there for about a minute until I quit to the dashboard.  So now I'm at 2 but I definently never quit ever boys and girls, dont worry.

I found it really diffulcult to finish DS1, the game was a lot of verbal diarreah and the nonsene really took its toll on me about halfway in.  There was a lot of things I enjoyed about it but for a game that came out at the same time as Persona 3 it left a lot to be desired.  How the sequel here handles the plot and the actual gameplay is so much better than the first game it's ridiculous.  Honestly if you played the first game, you'll really appreciate this one.  No more running back to the shrine to get your Summoner upgrades, no more having to get full loyalty to fuse as you can fuse anytime you want pretty much, no more abusing the combat system, no more irrelevant stats.  Now magic is actually important and meaningful.  Expanded inventory - side missions or case files to take, better way to capture demons, through negotiation.

What finally sold it for me was when I bumped into that healing demon whose name alludes me right now and the first thing she said to me was something to the affect of, "Oh dont worry, I dont charge as much as I used to" - that was amazing and she was true to her word, instead of charging thousands of yen she only took 300 yen from me.

I know I might only be one scene in but this game is totally one of the better console RPGs I've played so far.  Killer soundtrack as well, a lot of remixed tracks from the first game.  I whole heartedly reccomend this game to anyone who likes SMT games, the first DS or RPGs in general.