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New characters arrived today in new Melty, Mario and Powered Ciel.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/f/fe/Tsukihime_Mario.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/933?cb=20210929005949
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/typemoon/images/6/6d/Powered_ciel.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/440?cb=20130731094628

Been mostly playing Mario. He's a sadistic guy that looks like a kid and fights with seven puppets controlled by strings attatched to his gauntlets, and plotwise he holds a high position in the church as part of the executioner squad that Noel and Ciel are part of. He's probably not a vampire, but he's got something very fucky going on considering he looks 12 but is older than the other executioners. Totally seems evil but he's more pragmatic good. He's the Carl of the game, though his 2 summons are far more expendable (one is like Carl's Nirvana kind of and can be activated from a distance (but not manually placed and micromanaged, because this game is easier than blazblue), the other rushes in from the corner). His Arc Drive summons Noel, with the finishing blow being yeeting her ass at the enemy, which I think makes Mario the best character in the game.

Powered Ciel was in old Melty (not sure if old Tsukihime? maybe like one CG) and is just Ciel's badass mode (she's a weapon of the church with an immortal body due to her soul being connected to Roa- the infinite reincarnator- and this is her using it to the fullest). This form has absolutely massive range and she has like, at least 3 rekkas that cover half the fucking screen but no air game except for delayed meaty wide range hits. No keys, but she does have a vertical beam sort of like Roa's. I've only played her a bit and she is fun, but she's way less autocombo friendly than Mario is (not as bad as Kouma, but definitely 2nd worst autocombo air combo).

Overall both characters are great but they changed something with shielding oki options and people who are better at the game than me are kinda disappointed. And the lobbies are still shit unless its a 2 player lobby. But still, they haven't charged anything for DLC characters so far, which is kinda wild for a current gen fighting game... but then again Omega Rugal came out today in KoF15 so maybe it's a trend? (it's not but i can hope)