GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-
Underated gem.
Played it back when it was exclusively on Xbox 360 back in 2006-7, Spent countless hours skirmishing with friends. I got extremely hyped when I saw it come to Steam and I just had to instantly buy it and replay it.
Sure, its rough around the edges, has wonky controls at first, not the best voice acting or fluid animation. But once you get the hang of it and your personal theme music starts playing when you’re taking control of the map, then it’s definitely worth it.
It’s not a fighting game like its predecessors and it’s latest titles. This is a MOBA before MOBA’s were even a thing in the popular eye. Think Smite with minion control.
– Real player with 195.3 hrs in game
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Guilty Gear as an action RTS game. It really is mindblowing to me. When I first heard about this game, I was optimistic. I mean, Guilty Gear is a fighting game series! It’s not a RTS or Hack n' Slash series! However, GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE- blends the fighting genre with the RTS genre very well. Somehow, ARC SYSTEM WORKS has found a way to keep the feel of the 2D fighting games on a 3d battlefield. Whether it be a few left-handed-reverse-grip swings with Sol’s sword to keep the bad guys away or a well placed gunflame into a crowd of nerds, the fighting feels somehow…. nostalgic, as if I was playing one of the 2d titles in the franchise. And commanding units (referred to as servants in game) is a nice, smooth experience, so you don’t have to draw up a whole Mona Lisa painting just to get your servants moving. It’s as easy as select, click, click, done. Fighting alongside your servants is pretty awesome, especially when 4 massive armies collide in an area and it’s just chaos.
– Real player with 29.9 hrs in game
Pocket Bravery
Pocket Bravery is inspired by classics from the 90s, such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters. And its SD aesthetic had an influence on games like Pocket Fighter and other fighting games from Neo Geo Pocket Color.
But make no mistake, Pocket Bravery was created to be a new and unique fighting game, with original characters, vibrant colors and a combat system that will impress you, since the game was designed with the focus on high level players. Even so, it has features that will teach beginning players how to develop and evolve in the game.
The game uses the digital pad and four buttons, two for punches and two for kicks. You can execute the traditional commands from the fighting games using the directional pad plus the button to make special moves, super specials or even the final attack. Each character has an element that represents his strength, can be physical or supernatural. You can accumulate up to 2 attacks on the elemental bar. Through this system, it is possible to execute elemental attacks that have different characteristics from the others and bring new offensive or defensive possibilities for the player.
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BlazBlue Centralfiction
I was actually planning to do this after I complete arcade mode with all the characters but I probably won’t even be doing that anytime soon so I might as well review this game now. BlazBlue has done a lot for me throughout the 2 years that I have been playing the series and I hope others will be able to experience something similar to what I did.
I’ll point this out now so that it’s clear: BlazBlue isn’t for absolutely everyone. I’ll just lay out the points that I think define the game.
– Real player with 511.2 hrs in game
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We lived in the darkeness for WAY TOO LONG… BUT NOT ANYMORE MY BROTHERS, TODAY WE WALK INTO THE LIGHT, AND FINALLY BE FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
– Real player with 394.9 hrs in game
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
Thanks ASW/H2 for the great port.
Pros:
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Latest BB available on consoles, now on PC. for cheap. (BBCF is still only on JPN arcades atm)
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Online mode works. Yes, a working online mode. In 2016. Isn’t that amazing?
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One of the best, if not the best, netcode.
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DirectInput Support.
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Single player content. TONS of them. (Arcade, Story mode, Challenge, Abyss, Score Attack, Unlimited Mars, Challenge, Training, an extra story mode, and a couple of stuff for newcomers)
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Tutorial will show you the ropes and Challenge mode can make you master some complex combos.
– Real player with 252.1 hrs in game
Ever since the final game in the series CentralFiction pissed me off to a full degree, I’ve pretty much boycotted the franchise.
But I figured that’s not really fair on this game, considering how much of an advancement it is.
You can now temporarily power up your character in the midst of a fight by pressing all four attack buttons. Each character powers up differently. Ragna absorbs more health with his drive attacks, Makoto’s punches will constantly be at full power and Hazama conjures up that goddamn barrier that drove me insane in the previous game.
– Real player with 97.9 hrs in game
Election Year Knockout
A really fun Punch-Out style game, featuring funny parodies of US politicians (Crenshaw being one of my favourites and you’ll see why). Each opponent has their own gimmick that’s fun to figure out, and are all satisfying to beat up. There’s no deep political commentary or anything, just parodies mocking US politicians, much like how the Punch-Out games mocked stereotypes of different nationalities and cultures. The EX boxers are all fun, souped-up rematches against the fighters, serving as a really nice bonus newgame+ for after you’ve done everything else. Much like the Title Defence fights in Punch-Out Wii, these are much harder than the original fights and offer a huge variety of newer, more devastating attacks for each rematch that the player will have to learn and adapt to. The challenges in each fight help boost the game’s replayability, there’s 10 for every fighter in the game (5 for normal and 5 for EX) and they can be tough to figure out, but extremely satisfying once you’ve got them all. The roster is quite limited, however the devs have considered adding more boxers if the game gets enough traction (personally I’m hoping for Bojo to get in). I’d definitely recommend if you’re a fan of Punch-Out or if you just like taking the piss out of US politics.
– Real player with 24.4 hrs in game
Not one hundred percent flushed out and people who want to complete everything will be frustrated at some mission because you have no clue why something did not count. But for the most part and the main gameplay, this is just gorgeus. plays nice and funny. long and hard at the later fights until you know what you are doing
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4
Amazing graphics, great gameplay, fun game overall. 10/10 if you have friends coming over and an extra controller to play with them :D
– Real player with 77.4 hrs in game
amazing game i loved the shit out of this game cause you can keep fighting for hours apon hours at a time and keep trying new combos
– Real player with 76.3 hrs in game
Schwarzerblitz
The day is June 1st 2020. I log onto my steam account and go about my normal gaming habits but this time I come across a unique game Schwarzerblitz. My love for this game can’t be described in simple words but yet I will try. To give background to before playing this game my marriage was callapsing slowly as, I, felt helpless to fix the mess that I created. My disabled adopted cat that suffers from the rare condition of “Blatoma Bicundrius Condition” (BBC for short) had been taking up most of our time and giving me and my wife little to no free time. As any couple this slowly created a rift between us. The girl I fell in love with, the beatiful girl who I spent each night sleeping next to, the amazing women I knew, slowly started slipping from my grasp. I knew things had finally slipped from my grasp when our weekly trip to Spyro’s Subway (our favorite reasturant) had then turned into a monthly occasion and then a yearly occasion until we each had forgetton the place where we once fell in love. Honestly the fights had gotten worse. I was a mess. A foot difference in the bed turned into 2 feet, and then 3, until I was sleeping on the couch, and then finally she said we needed a break. I was at such a low point. I needed a break so I logged onto the computer to play a game before I cuddled up with moreese (the cat) to go to bed. I check the free games and there it was- Schwarzerblitz. The sight of such a godsend beautiful game made me cry. The game in its elegant beauty reminded me of all the reasons I fell in love with my wife who was no longer at my side. I started grinding on the game becoming the absolute best I could be and thats when I started streaming. I would try to impress my wife by mentioning things from her favorite show, “Peppa the Pig” but she just wasn’t buying it. Streaming the game I started to amass massive views very quickly from my high skill level. I would never show my face however because I was nervous. Until one day. My wife and I had been re-hashing old memories and she let it slip she was watching a streamer who played this very same game. My heart stopped and hers did too when we realized me and him were one of the same. All the old emotions came back and we started hugging each other like we were the only two people in the world. Two days later my account had been removed from twitch because they labeled me as having to big of a schwarzerblitz ;) (if ya know what I mean). But things had once again came to a stop. I spent many nights alone with moreese pondering how to get my wife back. It finally hit me. I entered the Schwarzerblitz competition with 68 other contestants where wed battle it out to see who was the best. Long story short I won and now my wife is back in my hands while moreese is cuddling at our feet. Thank you schwarzerblitz you saved my marriage and saved me from losing everything. There was one uncalculated risk I never accounted for. I never read the terms and conditions to this game and by doing so I made a fatal mistake. I contracted HIV as a result. How they did this I do not know. Im sure Schwarzerblitz has their ways beeing such a high up they must have all sorts of connects. But contracting the deadly disease wasn’t all bad. Now I get to play Schwarzerblitz all day, sadly though moreese had a infection and poo pooed and pee peed and threw up all over my pc. I never cried so hard. Now when I want to play my beloved Schwarzerblitz I cant without my pecee goinmg WWWWHHHHRRRRRR really hard a lot. SOME of the pooppy comes out when this happens but its poay because its trying to clean itselfso i cna play Schwarzerblitz even more. I know that my HIV will be cured soon if I ceep playing Schwarzerblitz until I rekindle my audacious love anad youthfullness with my wife and cat ([moreeze] (in case you forgot)). Im sure that even the governmnment would get helpeded if they played Schwarzerblitz more. I know thtat people dont like taxes season but if Schwarzerblitz could revive my marriage then Schwarzerblitz could use the powers of Schwarzerblitz and revive governmenmts. Now I know wat your going to be say: Schwarzerblitz is just a game.
– Real player with 77.0 hrs in game
I’ve been a fighting game enthusiast for years and even though I will probably never what anyone can consider “good” at this kind of games, I still love play them and improve if I find something that I like.
And “Schwarzerblitz” (german for “Black Lightning”) almost immediately catched my eye.
I mean, a game that is a homage to old 3D fighting games? What is there not to love?
At first I was admittingly somewhat put off by the graphics. I’ve never been a fan of the PSX Retraux graphics style,
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
Escaping Hell
It’s a fun indie game that mixes up its presentation and has a unique sense of style. I like the theme of being kind to yourself and how the gameplay supports that.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
This is not a beautiful game but it was created with a lot of heart, is fun and I appreciate that.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Injustice™ 2
General Information
Injustice 2 is my second fighting game ever, the first being MKX. The game plays very similar, with some slight differences such as the clashing system replacing the breaker system, and the blocking system all together. You’ll like Injustice 2 if you enjoy other NRS fighters.
MICROTRANSACTIONS
Since microtransactions are currently a hot topic in the gaming community, I thought I would mention how microtransactions impact Injustice 2, and the gameplay.
– Real player with 1214.3 hrs in game
You like DC characters? You like fighting games with deep mechanics? Then this is the game for you.
Injustice 2 is an EXCELLENT fighting game. The mechanics are quite similar to Injustice: Gods Among Us but definetly have been improved. I like to think of Injustice 2 as an alternative updated version of Mortal Kombat X just with new additions. Speaking of that Injustice 2 does offer some new things such as, the gear system, a loot box system, (which is actually done really damn well) multiverses, and having the AI to play battles for you.
– Real player with 161.8 hrs in game
BLACK CLOVER: QUARTET KNIGHTS
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I’m a Fana Main (Fana Best Waifu)
The game is well optimized and has a good story (None-Cannon), with difficulty settings, to incite challange, the games AI is absolutely terrible in that when you’re playing through the story they do absolutely nothing at all, and when you’re in a multiplayer game because it couldnt find anyone to match your skill level, it matches you against bots who just slap you around 24/7. (Magna & Gauche Bot NEED NERF PLS)
– Real player with 49.6 hrs in game
First off, it’s hard to decide, if i recommend it or not, because actually… i do neither.
i bought it, because i like the series, even though i had read and seen the bad reviews. And guess what: they were mostly justified.
- What i really liked, is the story. It has a mixture of actual anime-cutscenes, 3D-animated cutscenes and 2D-only text cut"scenes". The whole story is pretty much like an extra arc for the anime.
o But the cutscenes sadly lack a tiny bit of detail, as if a few frames and text parts were missing, so some things weren’t 100% clear for me in the Asta-part of the story.
– Real player with 25.2 hrs in game