DaemonBride:ADDITIONAL GAIN

Fighting game of the year (2008)

Kureha

ゲームは超楽しいです。射撃とダッシュの読み合いがアツい格闘ゲーム。 回線相性にもよるが、ランクマッチでの対戦は基本的に快適。プレイヤーマッチが不成立になりやすいので改善を希望します。

As a PC port (of an arcade game) made by one Japanese guy and self-published by the original studio, this is decent. The fact it received regular updates since launch in particular is a good sign that issues will be progressively addressed over time. I have barely played the game so far, so if you want to know more about the game and its mechanics, there are several reviews about that out there (and even about the original arcade version). Pros: [list] [*]The game's first official home release! [*]Quality-of-life options in training mode, including a hitbox viewer. [*]Rollback netcode. It's not perfect from what I've heard but I have to commend the effort, especially when the port was made by one dev. [*]Mostly stable offline experience barring a few issues listed in cons. [/list] Nitpicks: [list] [*]Due to its arcade roots, the game uses DirectX 9.0c, which means it will suffer from additional input lag outside of exclusive fullscreen on Windows. [*]Subpar English translation, but it was to be expected. This includes the manual which is only partially translated. [*]No music on the main menu, which really feels empty as a result. [*]None of the improvements from the "exAgain" version (balance changes, visual updates), but that's likely down to contractual issues. [/list] Cons: [list] [*]The framerate limiter is broken and caps out at 64 fps instead of the expected 60 fps, probably due to "sleep" instructions causing rounding errors. Thankfully this does not seem to cause game speed to change unlike most fighting games, but I'd assume it can cause issues online. [*]Poor image scaling. It seems to be using nearest neighbour scaling, causing the image and especially any on-screen text to look "blocky". The "screen filter" option seems to either apply a blur filter or bilinear scaling which does not seem very effective. [*]Lots of minor bugs here and there both offline and online: wrong character VS screen and banner in survival mode, broken achievement conditions, issues with lobbies and netcode in online matches... [*]Lacklustre keyboard support with pretty bad default controls and no way of remapping them, but it's apparently being worked on. [/list] Overall not the most modern or polished port ever, but still much more functional than some other releases at launch and with encouraging signs that it will keep being updated and fixed.

Gostei muito da estética, design dos personagens, lore e gameplay. Esse jogo lançou suas versões em 2009 e 2011, exclusivo nos Arcades do Japão.

PEAK. everything with this port is peak Kizawaya is actively listening to the players netcode got fixed in record time every character is viable. BUY THIS PEAK FIGHTING GAME

As a potato PC user I can confirm. This game (version 101) runs on HD Intel Graphics 2000 alone disabling the filters and played on fullscreen at the lowest resolution (my processor is a HP Compaq Elite i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz 3.10 GHz). Technical stuff asside this game feels like a mix of Guilty Gear with some spicing of Jojo and even Immaterial and Missing Power as this game have a "Stand-like" user system, a grazing mechanic to avoid projectiles with your dash and a magic bar system along with the typical special counter. The game have a bad keyboard support for the moment (as it assumes two players will play on the same keyboard) and not all keys are available to chose. Playing with controller is recommended for now unless you preffer to play with the directional arrows along with the keyboard numbers. Anyways, I'm glad this hidden Japanese gem of a fighting game finally got an official western release. (Reizei super desperation move goes so hard)

キーボードでプレイしようとしたところ十字キー以外のキーが全く反応せず、メニュー画面からゲームを始めることもコンフィグを開くこともゲームを終了させることもできなくなりました。 　調べてもキーボードでの操作について記載された文章が見つからず解決しなかったため、やむなく強制終了で立ち下げるしかありませんでした。

As of writing this, this game's performance online is a bit shaky, and the game has a lot of little issues, but the core gameplay is great. Hopefully they iron out the netplay hiccups and fix the weird text display problems. Definitely recommend if you have anybody to play it with. Fun and unique 2D fighter that should've gotten a home version a long time ago.

This game rules