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I regret to inform you all that annoying people on twitter are 100% correct this is one of the best fighting games ever made

It's an older fighting game entry than Strive, to be sure, and I certainly wasn't here for this era of fighting games, but I've come to appreciate this more than the more modern titles. If I had to say the primary reason for recommending it, I'd just say that it does everything right. That might sound like a cop-out, but really, I mean it. There's not one thing that particularly drew me in (Strive has its visuals and character designs, personally), but it's just a really solid fighter. It's not being updated anymore, with the exception of rollback netcode being added, and that keeps the community stable, small as it is. It also means that if you pick up a character, you know what you're getting into, the low tiers aren't going to get buffs, and the high tiers are staying that way. There's some comfort in that consistency. But now about the actual game. You've got a roster of varying design quality (chances are, you might only like how 20% of the characters actually look, but I digress) which all play in unique ways. Primarily, this is thanks to the Drive button. Every single character has their own gimmick that they engage with through this button and through their supers and Overdrive (more on that later), which is always integral to their playstyle. Iron Tager is a grappler who can use his Drive buttons to magnetise you, and make a number of his other moves drag the opponent in to be MASSIVELY more threatening. Rachel Alucard can push both herself, her projectiles and the opponent via wind that does not need her to actually perform a move to do (you can simply press the button, and a direction), allowing for her to do jumping attacks and land incredibly quickly, or mix up where her projectiles land, etc. There's much more to this, but I suggest looking at the dedicated wiki for it, called the Dustloop. Overdrive puts these gimmicks into its namesake. Again, per character, but it usually is a numbers increase or allows them to access this gimmick much easier. Going into Overdrive is invulnerable, and can be connected gaplessly into another invulnerable attack as a reversal, but you can also use it offensively by cancelling into it from an attack. You can get BIG damage off of this. But it's also tied to your burst. The only way you have to get out of a combo early. That is an offensive install with your best mechanics tied to the second chance of the game. It's a really nice balance and flow that I appreciate. Defensively, you have a mechanic similar to Guilty Gear's Faultless Defense (pushback, no chip damage), but it's its own meter, rather than detracting from your main super meter. It's required to block some things and also required to get out of certain blockstrings. When you're down, you can get up in a number of different ways to try and avoid dealing with oki on wakeup. Delaying your wakeup can be valuable too, but your opponent has free reign to just continue a combo if you refuse to get up or tech. Your opponent can grab you mid-combo as a desperate attempt to catch you off guard, but this massively increases the window they have to react (in exchange for dealing unscaled damage). It's just a number of mechanics that, coming from Strive and dealing with offence that, while it's not as suffocating as much of the things found here, take less effort and that the defensive player has fewer options to deal with, I have to appreciate everything that this game offers. With rollback netcode, the only thing stopping you from playing it is perhaps a lack of players, though this one is better than a number of others that suffer the same issue.

anime and cool and hard and fun and bros and buff and women and booba and great game play it now please I love you and I hope you are doing well and taking care of yourself like you deserve because you play this game and it makes you good person

Probably my favorite anime fighter oat,all characters feel super unique, only issue is that theres barely any online players but with the amount of single player its fine

I bought this game because my friends kept whooping my ass... They still whoop my ass

A bottomless fighting game with each character having their own special abilities.

There's few fighters that have as high of a skill ceiling. Even fewer capable of blowing your mind as often with all the cool things you can do. Watching good players express themselves is always jaw dropping, always an adventure in "YOU CAN DO THAT???" moments that leave you wanting more. It may not be the most balanced or fair experience on the market. But it IS sick AF,

this game is a very fun fighting game but i think mortal kombat 9 is better as it has more content and this game makes me do frame perfect stuff and makes me want to stroke to bread

wait for sale and convince a friend to also buy it DP on round start get punished wake up DP wiff die repeat next round 10/10

Celica only has one enemy. Her damage output.

Pretty cool game with a nice cast.

The greatest piece of feminist literature known to man.

BlazBlue girls are crazy!

cool game, no people.

Great fighting game

Guilty Gear but with more Goon

Nice gallery.

terrible game

azrael is hot I want him to valiant crush my virginity

arcsys pls revive this series

ITS PEAK

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