Worth the buy? New to anime fighters

[Exrial]

Looking to get into anime fighters how does this compare to others? or wait for sale

[Ersatz]

It's not an anime fighter - it's like Street Fighter with an Anime skin. Very neutral heavy.

edit - and there's a free version, grab it and judge for yourself.

[勇気]

It's not an anime fighter. It's wroth it to buy it though.

[breast milk🥛]

No, it's a genuine fighting game. Kinda like street fighter as ^ said, but theres an "easy" mode where you don't have to do directional, and you can do directional moves.

[I>U]

It sits in the right spot between your "traditional (SF, MK)" fighters and an air-dahser (aka "anime fighters", like GGST).

Seriously, I see no other reason to wait if you are willing to spend 50 + 50 USD on the base game and pre-purchase a character pass.

99% of negativity comes from people who got screwed by Cygames with how they sold an update as a stand-alone game.

[I>U]

Now, now.

It's not combo-heavy fighter, but some characters do use air-dasher's mechanics (like 1,5 jumps of Metera) and have close to GGST sequencing (Yuel).

[DarkLeafNinja]

People that say it isn't an anime fighter are lying...

[Ersatz]

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

People that say it isn't an anime fighter are lying...

It's definitely not an anime fighter. People who say that it isn't just don't know what an Anime fighter is.

[DarkLeafNinja]

Originally posted by Ersatz:

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

People that say it isn't an anime fighter are lying...

It's definitely not an anime fighter. People who say that it isn't just don't know what an Anime fighter is.

ok buddy...

[Aphelium]

Originally posted by DarkLeafNinja:

Originally posted by Ersatz:

It's definitely not an anime fighter. People who say that it isn't just don't know what an Anime fighter is.

ok buddy...

When you got everyone saying it's not but you alone believe it is...

[Manslayer]

I mean, this game is basically an anime fighter, just not so heavy on it. It has all the makings of one; long corner combos, carry combos, "burst", guard break + combo extenders, heavy focus on meter spending and building, air blocking.

Honestly, the only thing NOT anime fighter about it is no air dash, but that's about it, everything else is pretty much an anime fighter.

[Kamil118]

Just download the demo and try it yourself. You can play online in free version so you can get a feel for the game.

Free version has 1 perm character (male MC) and the rest of the character pool should rotate with 3 different characters every week.

[Manslayer]

Originally posted by TSC:

Originally posted by Manslayer:

I mean, this game is basically an anime fighter, just not so heavy on it. It has all the makings of one; long corner combos, carry combos, "burst", guard break + combo extenders, heavy focus on meter spending and building, air blocking.

MK1 is an anime fighter then.

I mean do you think DNF duel is an Anime fighter? Because that game has less anime properties than this game, but it is an anime fighter. This game doesn't hit all the checkmarks, but it hits more check marks than the street fighter esque check marks.

[Rhythmless Ninja]

Originally posted by Manslayer:

I mean, this game is basically an anime fighter, just not so heavy on it. It has all the makings of one; long corner combos, carry combos, "burst", guard break + combo extenders, heavy focus on meter spending and building, air blocking.

Honestly, the only thing NOT anime fighter about it is no air dash, but that's about it, everything else is pretty much an anime fighter.

Save for air blocking you literally just described Street Fighter 6 dude. You play heavy neutral till you get a good confirm that'll more than likely send your opponent to the corner for a very heavy corner combo if they guess wrong. And yeah, the Drive Meter is guard breaks & combo extenders for days. Same as this game.

This isn't an anime fighter. This is nothing like Blazblue or older Guilty Gear games. Hell it's not even similar to Strive.

[Lysamus]

If you're looking to get into a fighting game that's anime, this is a solid one to start with. It's a little slower paced than many anime fighters and not very demanding execution wise to just jump in and play.

If you're looking for a game to onboard you into other anime fighters, consider instead Guilty Gear Strive. Granblue is unique in that it's closer to neutral focused games like Street Fighter than most anime fighters, which tend to emphasize fast paced matches, long combo strings and aggression.

[I>U]

Technically, Vira can air-dash (with no air combos). And later patches to the original brought way more midscreen options (like Soriz's 22M).

It's no longer 00'es - there was enough time to lay bridges between the older and the newer subgenre. Though, GBVS do lean to traditional fighters more, I have to admit.