Xionic

Yay Nine, can't wait to hear about how she plays. From the looks of that screen though, seems pretty fun!

I'm gonna assume that by the time a console release IS announced, these acts would have already come out on arcade. So I'm betting they'll be in the release from the start or at least unlockable (aka finishing act I, then act II is unlocked etc etc).

Wow what an opening, visual and music wise. I'll definitely second on that 'an opening every arc' thing, it specifically says act 1. Might mean there'll be significant story changes with each one? Pretty exciting. Definitely not complaining about the tradition break here, getting it earlier than expected!

I'm almost betting on the opening being shown, another trailer or something like that, but a release date would be just fine too. Either way, yay more news hopefully.

Ooooh exciting, I like how they're treating the arcade story more seriously it seems.

It's Jubei guys- It'll be interesting if it's a completely new character, I know people were wondering if they'd introduce newbies or not. It'd be nice to just know sooner rather than later, everyone's going crazy over this. A piece of the art for every new character lot/arc maybe? I'll stop now, this is more suited to speculation. If CP's arcade run is anything to go by, can we expect Nine (provided she's not available first up), Mystery hand dude/lady/person/order jin/hakumen without armor/whatever, and a couple others to be made available at set dates after release like the murakumo's?

The filter could be messing with everyone, making it look brown, who knows (doubt it, the pattern is different, more like jubei's original sword but it isn't). All of this is just speculation atm. All we can say is it's "Jin", or something resembling him.

Love the visual, Nine looks totally awesome (everyone looks awesome). I agree that there's probably another side to the visual, probably to hide something exciting or just because they couldn't fit it in the spread. The fact it's so close and they're planning some cool story-related stuff is pretty exciting. Also love how it's cut off in a way that cuts all but Jins arms out, makes me laugh, he basically got wazowski'd.