About Blood Samurai 2:
First and foremost, before the review itself, here’s a little bit of background/backstory in regards to my personal experience with Melty Blood in particular, and Nasuverse in overall (you can skip this and go to “pros/cons” part of the review, if you wish):I’ve found out about Tsukihime for the first time ever sometime in 2002, played the game to 100% completion, after which a year later I’ve watched the first TV series. However, before I’ve started watching the animated adaptation, I’ve obtained the very first version of Melty Blood, which I installed on my PC roughly 2~3 months after it’s initial release date. I’ve been playing that version quite a bit and even organized and hosted a couple tournaments at different anime fan parties, at the time. A couple years after, I’ve “upgraded” the game to “Re-ACT” version and kept on playing it through the early 2000s, right until the moment when “Act Cadenza” was released on the PS 2, in 2006. During that time I was very active in the FGC and by that particular point Melty Blood already became one of my main disciplines of expertise (back then I was primarily maining Satsuki, L/Ren and Miyako). I was continuing on regularly playing Melty Blood competitively (mostly the Act Cadenza) during that period in my life, and I kept on doing so at least until late 2008. Nevertheless, sometime after the year 2008 ended, I’ve started getting some real-life problems (mainly pertaining to my health, my relatives/family members, and my joblessness/unemployment status) on my shoulders and mind, so I kind of “dropped” playing Melty back then, and I actually in all seriousness “skipped” (or, rather, “ignored”, more like) both the “Actress Again” and then also “Current Code” as well, during the period when they were released and ongoing.
