BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

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English site: http://blazblue.jp/us/
Japanese Site: http://blazblue.jp/

Game name: BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Developer: Arc System Works, AMI
Creator: Daisuke Ishiwatari, Project BB
Platform: Arcade (Taito Type X2)
Release Date: Winter 2008

Summary (From Wikipedia):
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a two-dimensional fighting arcade game created by the staff behind the popular Guilty Gear series set to come out out in 2008 in Japan. It is a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear. A playable demo was presented at AOU 2008.

The game is being developed for the Taito Type X2 arcade system board, with a 16:9 ratio and 720p resolution. While a console version has yet to be announced, BlazBlue is rumored to be a PlayStation 3 exclusive.

Story:
Before the events of BlazBlue, humanity was on the the verge of extinction from the "Black Beast", a creature of Darkness. Hope came in the form of six heroes who wield 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 New World Void Space Cue Administration Bureau was created to govern the new world which have discovered the use of Armagus. Under the Bureau, Humanity began reconstructing & the world was under their dictatorship. However this cause much dissent for the people due to fact Armagus was use in every issue & the widening socioeconomic gap between those who could use & cannot use Armagus. This dissent would eventually form years later into the The Ikaruga Civil War or The Second War of Magic, when the Ikaruga Union openly rebel against the Bureau. After the war, the Bureau impose a harsher rule on the world declaring anyone defying them will be killed.

On December A.D.2199, several years after the Second war, a branch of the Bureau was utterly destroy by an SS-class traitor named "Ragna the Bloodedge" also known as "the God of Death." His quest was to destroy the Bureau. The New World Void Space Cue Administration Bureau, hoping to stop him, immediately put the largest bounty ever for anyone who could capture him.

Promo Vid (From AOU 2008): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiXL6NWzVXM