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Actual #58:Roar of the Mad King
Nominator: @Pirateking2000 (4/5 remaining)
Character: Susano-O
Source Material: BlazBlue Central Fiction

Scores:
Aesthetics: 4
Dominance: 5
Damn: 2
Total Score: 11/30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlVOGOGhCQ

BlazBlue's choices are so bizarre, and lately, it's made me realize that RWBY is a fantastic pair for it in their crossover tag-team game: Both series have awesome concepts and a few isolated hits marred by idiotic or uninspired design decisions. Astral Finishes are a great example of this. Some Astrals are badass as hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seX6ULm5vYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVJkqveccnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgX9f-gqDFk

But then you get Susano, who just, uh, swings some spooky black-and-green energy around, doesn't even bother to hit his enemy with it -- doesn't even bother to have the enemy on the screen -- and makes the screen go spooky green-and-black until apparently he's made the arena into a mini-hellscape of some sort? It's a mildly impressive show of dominance, and the aesthetics get an artificially inflated grade for the hellscape looking kinda neat afterward, but it feels so impersonal and bland that it does nothing for me. I admit I'm not a huge fan of "block out the screen" finishers in fighting games unless they're executed exceptionally well, and this ain't it, chief.

I don't know too much about BlazBlue lore beyond the first game because I value my neurons, but isn't this supposed to be the Big Bad of the whole series? The end-all, be-all, dude who's going to end the world? Why would Arcsys give him such a mediocre finisher? Thank god this travesty of a series is over, and they're back to making Guilty Gear again.

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