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This was originally released in 2008 on Sega Naomi hardware. It's the first game of the Melty Blood series which can be considered a sequel rather than an expansion or port of a previous game, which the events of this game take place exactly one year after the death of Night of Wallachia in the true ending of Melty Blood, followed by the events of Melty Blood Re-ACT in relation to White Len and Aoko Aozaki and some events of Melty Blood Act Cadenza, what are the story-modes of White Len, Neco-Arc and Neco-Arc Chaos when he faced Neco Chaos Black G-666. It features many drastic new mechanics, two new characters, and 3 different fighting styles for all characters known as, Full Moon Style (Power), Crescent Moon Style (Speed) and Half Moon Style (Simple). Half Moon and Crescent Moon Style stands out for Act Candenza veterans, while Full Moon gives those in the previous installments the most tweaks to the characters moveset (e.g. Tohno Shiki can use one of Nanaya Shiki's attacks in his Full Moon version). The game also shows a new final boss, known as Dust of Osiris, who is responsible for events caused in the game and also for the return of TATARI phenomenon in Misaki Town. She is the final boss of the story-modes of most of the characters. The character Neco-Arc Chaos was again a non-selectable character, but Neco-Arc can be selectable via a code. Also the game has gained the addition of pairs Neco & Mech and Koha & Mech as not selectable characters and enemies of story-modes of Miyako Arima and Neco-Arc respectively. Compared to Act Cadenza, the game features three entirely new playable characters, as well as several new alternate versions of existing characters in the PS2 version. Half Moon Style changes not only the way in which life and Magic Circuit meters function but also each characters' basic and special attacks. Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code is an arcade port of the PS2 version. The characters formerly exclusive to the PS2 version of Actress Again are now available for use, and the game runs on Sega's RingWide arcade system, as opposed to NAOMI like Act Cadenza and the original Actress Again. It later included an online multiplayer option, and an online matching mode. The matching server was taken down on 10 October 2014, however the direct connection is still available. |
