I was genuinely concerned that Dead or Alive was, well, dead. On its original launch, Dead or Alive 6 was largely seen as a misfire by just about all camps: Koei Tecmo clearly wanted to elevate it into the rotation for serious fighting games, but on reputation alone it was never going to sit next to Tekken or Street Fighter.…
Koei Tecmo and Team NINJA have announced the definitive edition of Dead or Alive 6, titled Dead or Alive 6 Last Round. The game originally launched in 2019, and in the new version, players can transfer over DLC costumes, premium tickets, and save data. The new game and a free-to-play…
Let’s face it, most of the early Mortal Kombat games are not…
My personal experience with prolific (VERY prolific) Japanese developer, Tamsoft, is mostly…
I was genuinely concerned that Dead or Alive was, well, dead. On its original launch, Dead or Alive 6 was largely seen as a misfire by just about all camps: Koei Tecmo clearly wanted to elevate it into the rotation for serious fighting games, but on reputation alone it was…
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Koei Tecmo and Team NINJA have announced the definitive edition of Dead or Alive 6, titled Dead or Alive 6 Last Round. The game originally launched in 2019, and in the new version, players can transfer over DLC costumes, premium tickets, and save data. The new game and a free-to-play…
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Let’s face it, most of the early Mortal Kombat games are not the kinds of things that you’d like to pick up and play today. In comparison to something like Street Fighter 2, the digitalised character approach that the developer took means clunky movement systems and the combo systems tend…
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My personal experience with prolific (VERY prolific) Japanese developer, Tamsoft, is mostly with its work with the action-based Hyperdimension brawlers, Senran Kagura, and the highly fanservicey stuff like Onechanbara and School Girl/Zombie Hunter. For the most part, these have been like pared-down Dynasty Warriors/Musou games. I wish Bleach Rebirth of…
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It was deeply funny to me to load up Tekken 8 and see that the big philosophical theme around this game is “aggression.” A fighting game promising a new “aggressive combat system,” is surely redundant, I thought to myself, since what is any fighting game if it is not “aggressive?”…
Read MoreWithout a doubt, the fighting game genre is the most intimidating to get into for the first time. It’s a genre that people take seriously and fiercely, and while they can be incredibly friendly, they can easily forget what it’s like to be new and overwhelmed by the technical nature…
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Omen of Sorrow is something that 18-year-old me would have found so totally cool. Drenched in gothic grim darkness, it’s an effort to bring together vampires, werewolves, dark angels, succubi, mummies and… well, Elizabeth Bathory, into a game that looks and feels like an emo kid’s “black-as-their-soul” poetry. While I’d…
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“This is likely a huge turning point for the industry,” a guy on Twitter breathlessly enthuses, after it was revealed that MultiVersus has done quite well for itself at this early stage. Of course, it’s not uncommon for people to have breathlessly excited responses to games they kind of like…
Read MoreCapcom’s previous retro fighting game compilation, 2018’s Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, was an excellent and loving historical record of Capcom’s most valuable property. Four years later the company has done much the same thing with the Capcom Fighting Collection… but if anything I think this is the superior option…
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