Guilty Gear fans may crawl out of the holes now.

BlazBlue is nothing short of amazing and honestly blows SFIV out of the water imo.

There are only 12 Characters but each one is Uniquely different than the others and all VERY balanced. I'd rather have 12 different and balanced characters than 25 characters with about 4-5 derivatives of one character and a distinct difference between low and high tier.

Music: REALLY REALLY GOOD. Arc Systems has always had good tracks on their games.

Graphics: 2D is not dead. Game looks amazing on an HDTV. 3D backgrounds are nice too look at too.

One thing that SF really dropped the ball on the online play, Lobbies. This alone was one of the things that killed SFIV online play for me. Lobbies are 6 person rooms on BlazBlue.

If you like fighting games, do yourself a favor and get BlazBlue. Limited Edition is totally worth it too, same price as the standard edition and you get 2 Soundtracks and a Tips/Strategy DVD (and not like the BS IGN ones, this one is done by actual Tourney players).