C'est gratuit donc n’hésitez pas une seconde a essayer ce jeu il est très prometteur avec un mode solo façon roguelike très sympa (le seul problème majeur est que les personnage ayant gagné des niveaux et donc des stats en plus les ont aussi en mode versus local donc ça rend le jeu déséquilibrer

new review to match the new version

easy to learn, hard to master gameplay, great music and a color scheme that's easy to look at
it's really fun to play around with, i recommend

Head 2 Head is an amazing game. With just a few simple design decisions, they've distilled a fighter down to it's barest essence, and it works SO well. The combat is responsive, fun, simple to learn, but hard to master. The AI in Survival is also plenty challenging for a newb like me without being overwhelming. While meant to be a single player experience, the addition of rollback multiplayer later will make sure this game has longevity. I can't wait for the Gacha elements to get heads with stat buffs. Hopefully this game does well enough that we can get new playstyles. Grapplers, Zoners, and Rushdowns would all be awesome! So far, Head 2 Head is a 10/10, and I can't wait for more!

I... wasn't expecting this?
When a friend of mine reccomended me Sonic Smackdown I went for a little digging of the team behind this fan game. Turns out they were working on other projects, including this funky-looking one called Head 2 Head.
I really liked Sonic Smackdown, so I went and bought Head 2 Head afterwards. I mean, 5 bucks for an indie fighting game, I'm going to play a few rounds than never touch it again right?

Boy was I wrong.
The pure core gameplay of Head 2 Head is the most fun I ever had with a game in years. I am genuinly shocked at how good this game actually is. And there is only local play and survival game modes at the moment!
Fantastic soundtrack, a bold artstyle that just works...

ArcForged you have all my respect (and my money), go crazy with this and all your future projects I love what you do.

I'm gonna be honest the dashing only system is really bad. I feel like walking, and jumping are very important aspects of fighting games, and I think that the game really struggles without these features. That being said I think that this game is promising, and the head/body move thing is really cool

The game is fun and simple!

Easy infintes!

its really early but id say keep a eye out as it develops or buy it so you can follow its growth. the only thing that bugs me is no moving without dashing and jump is a natural forward jump which i need to get used too

From the creators of Sonic Smackdown: ArcForged, comes Head 2 Head, A simple 2D fighter collectathon where you collect tons of heads to mix and match to create various playstyles. The game has a very unique concept and execution, which I will further elaborate into this review.

Gameplay: 4/10

The combat itself feels very off-putting. As someone who is extremely used to motion inputs, manually dashing, air-dashing and using 4 attack buttons, this game feels so awkward for me. And before you comment, this isn't a skill issue, it's a design choice I can't get behind. The game controls as follows: You can dash left and right by pressing said directions once. This can be done both on the ground and in the air. While sparring a very easy to grasp control layout, you also have access to 5 attack buttons: Strike (X/Square), Jump (Y/Triangle), Anti-Air (B/Circle), Projectile (A/X) and Skull (RB/R1). Pressing Skull twice results in a super, and pressing it once with a corresponding attack button performs a different string of attacks. While the simplicity is great and all, everything feels super off-putting. Nothing feels natural about the combo flow of this game, thus making combos feel awkward. If we were to compare this to say: Sonic Smackdown, Origin of Storms or UMVC3, this simple layout design choice isn't for me. The lack of crouch, motion inputs, meter or proper burst and an L M H S button layout annoys me. If this game had traditional elements from SSD or OoS, like motion inputs, double tap for dashing or 2 button presses, I would play the hell out of this. But as of now, I don't like playing it. While the gameplay itself, at least, isn't that fun, it isn't to say it's not interesting. The features for this game are pretty unique. Being able to change entire UI colours, fighter colours and stage colours seperately, it feels nice combining various colours. On top of that, the elements of a roguelike and a collectathon put into a fighting game sounds nuts, but he made it happen, and for that I give props. Each head you collect grants different stats, as for the stats themselves I don't quite know how each statistic works. With the ability to mix and match heads and bodies (bodies are basically characters, and each one is different), there's a pretty healthy amount of combinations. You can roll skulls to unlock new heads, but it uses skulls as a currency for a gacha machine, which is cool for a game like this.

Graphics: 8/10

Persona meets League of Super Evil, A very interesting blend of minimalist artstyle and cell shading in one game. Nice, vibrant and a little edgy.

Modes: 5/10:

As of now, we don't have access to Arcade or Head Hunter mode, but we do get Survival (earn skulls with it to buy more heads), Online, Versus, Free Play and Head Case, which is where you can view your collection or roll for some heads. Nothing crazy yet so, I'll give it a modest score.

Story/Characters: N/A

Story doesn't matter here. Won't count it.

Music: 9/10

Composed by the one and only TNHGameRemixes, composer for SSD, OoS and H2H. He makes amazing music, go check him out!

Online: ?/10

I put a question mark here since no one is currently playing this game online. I've tried multiple times to matchmake with other people, but with no luck. From what I see on steam though, it does have GGPO rollback netcode, which is a CRUCIAL aspect to all fighting games. It's great to see it with GGPO, so this is a good sign.

Overall: 5/10

Controls feel super clunky, unfamiliar and strange, the concept itself is really interesting, and the features here are nice. If the game had traditional controls like a regular 2D fighter, I'd give this game more time to play, but for now, it's not worth it in my opinion.

The game is a refined, simplistic, and just so much fun. I've played for a while and it's a breath of fresh air to have such a beginner friendly game. And with the large amount of move-set options, 4 bodies (as of writing) and so any heads, it feels like I could do anything in the game.

I guess the only issue I have is the Gacha skull system, but hey, that may just be my terrible luck,

This game is sick as hell. It takes a bit of time to get used to the simple controls, but the game itself offers a surprising amount of depth for the amount of moves each character has. However, as good as I think the game is, I have a few complaints with it. Since I have no friends, I'll only be covering stuff revolving around singleplayer.

Basically, there's 4 buttons with 3 directional for each (Back, Neutral, Forward) and then there's a bunch of different moves that are character-specific which are usually tied to your movement. This kinda leads into my first complaint I have with this game.

First, I had to find out all of this myself through trial and error, because the tutorial seems to not work properly. Whenever I get to the point where the game asks me to do a dash forward or backwards, my inputs stop being registered and I get softlocked.

Second, your combos can feel a bit limited, due to the fact that there is an auto-burst mechanic that triggers after the 10th hit of a combo. I really love the way how some moves can link and cancel into each other, but I never get to test the limits of the combo variety, because the burst triggers every time I try to keep a combo going.

Third, rounds in this game go by insanely quickly. Damage is high, so I assume that's why that auto-burst mechanic exists. Personally, I think the damage should be lowered and the burst should trigger later or be reworked. However, if the developer wants to keep things the way they are then I'd at least want a game mode where I can tweak those mechanics myself, because I really want to try and see how long a combo can go on for.

Fourth, defense kinda sucks. There are 3 defensive options in the game, not counting the auto-burst. There's blocking, parrying and Skull Charge. I have no complaint with Skull Charge, but I do want to talk about blocking and parrying. Blocking in this game is awful, because this game has no walking, only dashing. And since you need to hold back to block, you'll usually drive yourself into the corner at light speed if you want to block, making it really difficult to use unless you're already cornered.

On the opposite spectrum, parrying is extremely powerful. It's similar to the Street Fighter III games, where you press forward shortly before an attack connects with you and it both SFIII and H2H, it is a powerful defensive mechanic that leaves you at frame advantage and can be fished for, due to the fact you can parry both in the air and on the ground, while only needing to press forward to parry. I've always slightly disliked parrying in the SFIII games due to how strong it is as a universal mechanic. Parrying can also make fighting the AI in this game really unfun, since they can just perfectly parry any move whenever they feel like it.

Besides that, I have one last complaint. That being that the grappler in this game is extremely powerful. Grapplers in fighting games are usually held back by their big hurtboxes, slow movement, difficult motion inputs and short effective range. This game, however, allows the grappler to move like any other character in the game, having both ground- and airdashes with the ability to also combo into and off of his grabs, meaning he can deal massive amounts of damage from a single hit confirm.

He has a simple combo he can do from anywhere on-screen to ToD, that being Back Strike into Neutral Anti-Air into Skull Charge into Super. When I first got the Stage 20 of this game's singleplayer mode, the boss, who was a grappler, instantly murdered me on round start, which caught me by surprise. Ever since then, I've had PTSD whenever I tried to fight him.

Besides those things, I think this game is really fun from a singleplayer perspective. Not sure how much I'd enjoy online play, since both players will likely just play the grappler and fish for a Back Strike.