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Melty Blood

Original character design by Takeuchi Takashi

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Melty Blood (メルティブラッド, Merutei Buraddo?) is a 2D fighting game series, developed by TYPE-MOON and French-Bread (known as Watanabe Seisakujo prior to 2003), and is a spin-off or alternate sequel to Tsukihime. Therefore it ignores the events from Kagetsu Tohya.

It has also been adapted into a manga series, featuring art by Kirishima Takeru and serialized in the CompAce magazine, published 2005.

Plot:
"The story of Melty Blood follows one year after Satsuki Yumizuka's discarded route in Tsukihime (which is planned to be included in the upcoming remake). Shiki Tohno hears of a new series of murders in Misaki similar to the one's that took place in Tsukihime. Whilst searching for the murderer he meets Sion Eltnam Atlasia who initiates a fight with him, attempting to capture him. After the fight she reveals that her reason for trying to capture him is to get in contact with the "True Ancestor" (referring to Arcueid) so that she may acquire information on the "cure for vampirism". Shiki then decides to help her with this task.

The story moves through a series of fights. Depending on the outcome of the fight the story will branch in one of two ways. Ultimately this corresponds to the ending of the game."

Melty Blood Re-ACT

An expansion to the original game, featuring an 'Arcade Mode' whose storyline takes place after the original Melty Blood. The expansion made numerous changes in regards to character balance and to remove many infinite-combo sequences. Also, new movesets were created for the doppelgänger characters, whereas in the original, most of these characters had nearly identical movesets to their counterparts. It also made changes to the game's mechanics and added several new characters, though only two are playable.

Melty Blood: Act Cadenza

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Melty Blood: Act Cadenza is an arcade port (not a sequel) of Melty Blood to the NAOMI system by Ecole. It featured new characters, new gameplay mechanics and a re-organized storyline. On August 8th 2006, a port of Act Cadenza to the PlayStation 2 was released. However, it is not a completely accurate port of the arcade version, as it includes several balancing changes and revisions to gameplay.

Melty Blood: Actress Again




Actress Again is the first game of the series (since Re-ACT, at least) which can be considered a sequel rather than an expansion or port of a previous game. It is an arcade game, and was released in September, 2008. It features many drastic new mechanics, and has three versions of each character.

Source: Type-Moon Wiki

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