by Seignar Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:36 pm
Having only dedicated to 1 Fighting Game series: Blazblue (Trigger, Shift, Shift EXTEND; waiting for Chronophantasma), there isn't much I can say except I don't particularly dislike fighting game, but I do like them fast-paced with combos. I played a couple of others, but I only own the Blazblue series seeing as it appealed the most to me because:
Story - Plentiful story with plot and comedy thrown in at times. Dialogue is entertaining (and amusing at times: "I don't lust after my brother! I'm into young girl- Wait, that doesn't sound right either!" "Ah! Run, he's a pedo!"), voice acting is great and all that. However, I have only 1 complaint for the future sequel about their decision to unify all 20 or so Storylines into 3, but it begs to question if they are removing "alternative possibilities" or just each character's full progression through the story.
Characters - What can I say: Entertaining characters going from the Professional Troll, to the incestuous, psychotic male tsundere; The innuendo cyborg; Red Hulk; 3-way split personality disorder loli; Loli vampire mistress; Silver-touching werewolf butler; etc.
They each also have their own unique playstyle, having entirely different game mechanics for each person (how do they keep coming up with this stuff?).
Visuals - Fun visuals. Great effects during combat, colorful during storytime. They also go around changing the visuals during certain segments (These 4-wall breaking chibi animations).
Sound - Boss music.
The entire fast pace system combat - In between double jumps, dashes, combos, bursting and all that; things heat up very easily.
All in all, it's the diversity such a game had. I like the pace of fights, diversity of fighters and the pleasing details such as those personal remarks they make at each other.
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I also liked Super Smash Brawl. Quite a unique fighter for me. The stages were pretty swell and the ability to make new stages just made things fun.
The only other Fighter I played was Dissidia, a 3D fighter based around FF. It was surprisingly good despite the fact most character could only have up to 12 moves at a time (Characters such as Cecil had 18; in Dissidia 012, I think Lightning had the largest moveset of all) despite having probably like 20 each of them in total. It was probably the fact that you could personally customize movesets and traits such as jumping and dodging.
Also, every character was remarkably unique with their playstyles (Sephiroth was plenty resistant to block-stagger tactics and had a good up-down air game; Tidus was like a fly; The Emperor was difficult to approach; Jetch murdered).
Also, stages were entertaining.
