Schwarzerblitz

[h1] Bizzarre fighting game with quirky characters. Don't be fooled by visuals though - hit collision is good and gameplay is not half bad. 27 characters to choose from each with its own moveset. You can safely do smooth combos that actually works. Music is good. If you don't mind a different type of fighting game with unusual characters and a bit lacking visuals that plays actually good - try it out. [/h1]

This game is something special. I sat down and binged the entire story mode (Including the "cut content" patch) and....let me just say: I would absolutely love to read the manga. I'd love to see a OVA or something along those lines, a movie even. The way I described it to a friend, and it really struck a cord was thus: Do you remember going to the video rental store as a kid? And there was that game on the bottom shelf that nobody ever rented? And you walked by it a dozen times, always seeing the cover but never being brave enough to spend your one rental on it? Then one day, maybe your mom got an extra credit at the store for returning a movie that was scratched up and didn't work, so she decided to let you rent two games that visit? You picked up your usual favorite, and now, with this extra chance, you suck it up and decide to risk it. "If it sucks, I'll always have my favorite game to play anyway." you think to yourself. You go home...maybe you ate some take-and-bake pizza from the local supermarket, and you play your favorite game. It's great. It's a classic. It always hits the spot. The house is warm. Things are good. You have schoolwork to do but it's friday night. That can wait. That game you've played a dozen times still has it's grip on you. Your stomach is full. You're comfortable. Content.... But then you hit a point where your curiosity finally gets the better of you. You keep glancing over at the other box. The edges are frayed. Not because it's well worn, but because it's been shuffled around on the shelves to reach other games so often. You turn off your favorite game, and open the dusty old box of the second game. There's no manual. Typical. So you take out the game, pop it in, and you sit down, waiting to see if you just wasted your second rental. And over the course of that fateful night....your favorite game isn't your favorite game anymore. That dusty, forgotten, beautiful game takes up all of the time of your rental. Your "favorite game" goes unplayed....you forget you even rented it, some days. Schwarzerblitz is that dusty old game on the bottom shelf of the video rental store that nobody takes a second look at... and it's your go to when you need something that nobody else understands but you. Finding this game is like finding a true hidden gem. It's clunky. It's weird. The story is full of turns you weren't ready for. The characters aren't immediately lovable, but you love them anyway. Not because they were designed to be marketable...but because you've come to learn what they stand for. What they mean to you. And when you invite your friends over to play, they don't understand what you see in the game. But you see it. And that's all that matters. Because it's your little slice of something special. A gateway to a world that feels like it was made just for you. A fever dream of a game that you remember so vividly thirty years later, but can never remember it's name.