Under Night/In-Birth

[GabrieliosP]

Eltnum's profile has been added to the site. But no sample voices or images yet. Her page is here.

And according to this blog post, Eltnum and Sion are not the same person. In fact, Eltnum doesn't take part in the UNIB storyline and was just added 'cause they felt like it (read: for the lulz and to attract MB players).

[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by GabrieliosP

And according to this blog post, Eltnum and Sion are not the same person.

Too bad a video of her was already leaked, with voice and all.

Of course French Bread would never outright say Eltnum and Sion are the same person. They wouldn't want Type-Moon to sue them. It also sounds like they're just too lazy to make her an arcade story.

[Shadow5YA]

I doubt it, considering they made sure Eltnum had a different outfit from Sion in MB. They don't want Type-Moon involved, but they do want the fanbase.

[GabrieliosP]

Translation of Eltnum's profile. Credits of the translation goes to Paitouch from Beast's Lair forums.

Ability: Precise EXS "Analysis"
Weapon: Ethelite

Due to resembling a "rumored person" that once saved a certain town from a vampire's malicious influence, there're many speculations about her. A woman of many mysteries.

But other than the fact that she calls herself "Eltnum", no one knows a thing about who she really is.

She suddenly appears in town at night, vanishing into the crowds. People feel a sense of awe from her, a so-called "drifter." The night streets belong to her, so she detests adolescents that disrupt their peace, these "rookies". To keep them on the right path, her goal is to methodically give them personal training.

Calling it now.

Teenage boys (looking at you, Hyde and Seth) be careful when walking at night and always wear a chastity belt. Otherwise, memetic molestor-of-young-males Eltnum will get you!

[GabrieliosP]

Lots of news:

According to this post, the game will be patched to version 1.02 soon, and Hilda will be playable. In fact, they added a moveset in her page.

Eltnum's profile got updated. It has now sample voices and images. Also, her VA is Akesaka Satomi.

And someone uploaded in niconico the story mode dialogue of Hyde, Waldstein, Linne and Carmine. Someone from youtube gladly subbed these videos. Beware, since they may contain spoilers.

Spoiler for Story mode dialogue with english subtitles:

[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by GabrieliosP

Lots of news:

According to this post, the game will be patched to version 1.02 soon, and Hilda will be playable. In fact, they added a moveset in her page.

Eltnum's profile got updated. It has now sample voices and images. Also, her VA is Akesaka Satomi.

And someone uploaded in niconico the story mode dialogue of Hyde, Waldstein, Linne and Carmine. Someone from youtube gladly subbed these videos. Beware, since they may contain spoilers.

Spoiler for Story mode dialogue with english subtitles:

Would anyone know where to find a list of changes that come with each patch?

[Von Himmel]

The story actually seems pretty interesting. It's too bad that the choice of the terms that they used always made me cringe whenever they said it (in-birth, re-birth, insulator, amnesia etc).. this one here is from the arcade version, right?

[GabrieliosP]

Yup. You can even see the "insert coin(s)" at the top of the screen.

[GabrieliosP]

Hilda's patch is out.

More subbed videos. This time it is the story mode dialogue of Orie, Gordeau, Merkava and Vatista. Vatista's is separated in two videos and as a bonus, the person also subbed the game's credits.

Spoiler for Subbed videos:

Now only Seth, Hilda and Eltnum remain (assuming the latter two even have a part in story mode).

[Tong]

Huh, couldn't find Yuzu's story
She's my fave chara atm, along with Hyde.

[Asuras]

The story seems... Lacking. Like they just came up with a bunch of fancy terms and threw them around in the dialogue.

[Shadow5YA]

Not going to lie... some of those arcade stories made me cringe, especially Linne's.

I'm supposed to take a little girl being a centuries old clan leader seriously?

[hyl]

Originally Posted by Asuras

The story seems... Lacking. Like they just came up with a bunch of fancy terms and threw them around in the dialogue.

It's still an arcade mode story, not something for the home consoles.

Atleast the story in UNIB is much better than this

YouTube

https://youtu.be/i-rArqXNC0c

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[GabrieliosP]

Yuzuriha's story.

[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by hyl

It's still an arcade mode story, not something for the home consoles.

Atleast the story in UNIB is much better than this

YouTube

https://youtu.be/i-rArqXNC0c

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An arcade mode story may be all we're getting. Even if french bread does release the game on consoles, it doesn't mean they'll revamp the story. MBAA's story was still the same as the arcade's.

[hyl]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

An arcade mode story may be all we're getting. Even if french bread does release the game on consoles, it doesn't mean they'll revamp the story. MBAA's story was still the same as the arcade's.

Unlike UNIB , Melty blood already has a detailed story prior to AA, in the original and React. So I am pretty sure the story for UNIB will be more detailed in the home console version, seeing we have nothing.
Also it's pretty common that the story modes are expanded for home console versions in other fighting games like Guilty Gear and Blazblue.

[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by hyl

Unlike UNIB , Melty blood already has a detailed story prior to AA, in the original and React. So I am pretty sure the story for UNIB will be more detailed in the home console version, seeing we have nothing.
Also it's pretty common that the story modes are expanded for home console versions in other fighting games like Guilty Gear and Blazblue.

The original MB and Re-Act don't count since MBAA's story is effectively a sequel plotwise to the events in the original.

Also, while I agree that fighting games normally get a more detailed story mode for console release, the point is that French Bread won't necessarily do that because they have not before.

[hyl]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

The original MB and Re-Act don't count since MBAA's story is effectively a sequel plotwise to the events in the original.

Also, while I agree that fighting games normally get a more detailed story mode for console release, the point is that French Bread won't necessarily do that because they have not before.

It's hard to judge that, because they have only made one game that started as an arcade release before getting a home console port and that was MB AA.
All of their other arcade games before AA were ports.

[Shadow5YA]

Some UNIB news taken from Beast Note:

Spoiler for saving space:

4Gamer.net posted an interview with the developers of Under Night In-Birth, Nobuya Narita (France Pan/French-Bread representative) and Kamone Serisawa (battle planner).

Beast Note again has a summary.

- They wanted to do a new Melty Blood (tentatively Melty Blood HD) but they need to find a way to continue the story first. At the time, TYPE-MOON's Kinoko Nasu (author) was busy with Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, so the project is postponed.
- However, UNI is completely new project. It's not based on Melty Blood HD prototype.
- They fear that UNI won't sell because it's an original work (not based on any popular work). They had a bad experience before when they did self-published stuff (doujin).
- They took a challenge by making it an arcade game instead of a doujin game. One of the reasons is there's no real brand new fighting game at the moment.
- UNI is distributed through Sega's ALL.Net P-ras MULTI. (A network that distributes arcade games to game centers, same with Taito's NESiCAxLive and Konami's e-AMUSEMENT Participation. The shops take no risk of losing money on buying dedicated cabinets each game, but they share income with the network owners.)
- The first idea in the development of UNI is "something different from Melty Blood." This's why it has no aerial combo like MB.
- They said MB has "launch, aerial, then air throw" impression.
- They feel relieved after getting good feedbacks from players, especially about characters and world setting.
- UNI is about ground game so they were worried about Hilda which is (as they said) the only projectile-dependent character in the game. (Boss character Hilda was unlocked as playable on November 2.)
- They said Vatista (also has long-range projectiles) is different from Hilda. Vatista is wait-and-see character.
- They said we won't see Eltnum as playable character in November.
- Eltnum is actually a modified test character from "Melty Blood HD." They had some time after the early stage of development and they wanted to add one more character but they didn't have enough time to make a complete new character. They had permission from TYPE-MOON.
- They said there won't be a Melty Blood character in UNI.
- For UNI, they avoid doing frequent small updates like what they did to MB.
- Narita personally wants to distribute [UNI PC version] on Steam.

Sounds like they have Melty HD in development, but they couldn't go any further without type-moon. Nasu probably is still busy, this time with Fate/Extra CCC.

It also sounds like there's no plans for a console release. Most likely they don't have the developers to even port it to a console, or no one is willing to publish their game.

[GabrieliosP]

UNI PC Version?! Yahoo! My prayers were answered!