UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys: Celes is the latest in the rather niche “anime fighting game” franchise developed by French-Bread, famous for the Melty Blood series. Will this game add to the ever-growing landscape of fighting games in 2024, or be condemned to death on arrival? The Midnight Hour Approaches For fans of the lore […]
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River City: Rival Showdown – Review
River City, aka Kunio-Kun, is one of those franchises I would have never put money on becoming something that would get localized with such reliability, considering its history. Be it River City Girls or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms spin off, we are not being forgotten in Kunio’s adventures, and this new title is […]
BlazBlue: Entropy Effect – Review
BlazBlue has seemingly always prided itself on strange titles, much in the vein of the completely nonsensical naming conventions of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Big hair and daft names aside, one aspect BlazBlue hasn’t fully capitalized on yet is spin-off titles. But things are about to change with the Early Access release of BlazBlue: Entropy […]
DNF Duel – Review | Switch’s Time To Duel
Originally released on consoles and PC back in 2022 to a warm response, DNF Duel quickly suffered the curse of the fighting game drop-off. Now, with the support of a roadmap and a massive update schedule, DNF is ready to become the street fighter in its Nintendo Switch debut. DNF Duel is a 1vs1, 2D […]
River City Saga: Three Kingdoms – Review
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. You may know it as the basis for so many of the Musou/Warrior and Ambition titles. And this time…..it’s not either of them?! No dear reader, the cast of Beat ‘Em Up classic River City/Kunio-Kun is taking over this time! Polish your shoes and tape your fists; It’s time […]
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – Review | A Beary Good Time
Anime, JRPG, and fighting game fans can rejoice. The P-1 tournament is back. Grab your tarot card or evoker, strengthen your social links, and have a great day at your Junes. It’s time for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. Persona has become a little bit of a household name since Atlus released the enhanced port of […]
Guilty Gear -Strive- – Review | Roll On Rollback
Guilty Gear -Strive- the delayed fighting game messiah is finally available to purchase worldwide and be a next favorite fighting game. Published by anime powerhouse Bandai Namco, you can find this on the PlayStation or PC. I was given the chance to sit down with the game and Strive to tell you if it’s worth […]
Kowloon High-School Chronicle – Review
Are you a fan of school-based visual novels? What about anime? Classic first-person dungeon crawlers? Indiana Jones? What if I told you there was a game that took all of those things, grabbed a steamroller made from an infinite number of smaller steamrollers, and mashed them together into one game? I suspect you would brandish […]