The Rumor Mill is Turning

Since people won’t stop talking about it, I’ll discuss the finer points of it and my thoughts.

1. Samurai Spirits is owned/produced/funded by SNK until they say OTHERWISE.

2. Dragonball FighterZ was owned/funded by Bandai Namco and is owned by THEM until THEY say OTHERWISE (even if ARCSys helped make the game).

3. BlazBlue Crosstag is exclusively owned/produced/funded by ARC System Works, if it funds anything it will fund ARCSys games ONLY, and none of the other two games described above!

Okay, with that major bombshell out of the way, the person posting this clearly didn’t know those facts, so that makes what they had to say dubious at the outset… or does it?

Looking at the description of the mechanics given, I’d sooner compare the game they are describing with Kill la Kill than anything else, but then, that game’s mechanics have already been fully disclosed by ARCSys (so there’s that possibility out the window).

They certainly dropped a list of character names for the next GG that people DO want, but that list doesn’t include characters that were hinted at in GGXrdRev2′s Episodes (Anji Mito and Happy Chaos).

To reiterate, Daisuke Ishiwatari DID say that they plan on making mechanics more accessible to players, but they said nothing to the effect of deconstructing their games or gameplay, they aren’t taking stuff “away”, only improving what is there. I already discussed this before in the GG Mechanics tag.

Just because people post the word “Leak” doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means… sometimes people get their wires crossed and gain a whole lot of info on a whole lot of games at once that may or may not even apply to the game they think they are discussing.

Samurai Shodown is a much older game series compared to Guilty Gear or BlazBlue, and they have never applied mechanics like Roman Cancels or even airdashing in their gameplay.

That doesn’t mean things won’t change, though, it just means SamSho will grow in the style it is known for.

(That just leaves the Baiken/Hakumen crossover idea, which, while tantalizing for an idea, is probably wishful thinking.)

I hope this closes the book on this poorly written rumor!

For a REAL Leak, you should read/compare GGVastEdgeXT to this and look at how that game turned out!