Seriously, what were you expecting ?

[[♚♛♜♝♞♟]]

Well, in my case, I was expecting a fighting game with anime-styled female characters with jiggely attributes, cute voices and an animation that would suggest a +18 rated patch similar to "Sakura Angels/Fantasy/Spirit" somewhere in the dark web.

How about you? I think I might just buy this game for my brother if he's also into this kind of thing so we could play together.

The game seems to have hope, despite it's high price.

[MikuruX]

Hmmm....I already knew about the game when the first version of the game was shown (Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi) years back so with this one, I already knew it was pretty much the same.

At the time, the only thing I wasn't expecting was the mechanics to favor Street Fighter 2 over your typical anime air-dasher games.

[sdarkpaladin]

I think most of us expected it as what it is considering it has the title koihime musou in it...

[moka]

I expected a Soul Calibur like. And finally with a mix between Street Fighter and Soul Calibur i'm satisfied.

[Talk2S@mson]

well I watched a high level tourney of this game in KSB 2016. As well from a TSB stream awhile back. So if I am buying this game I know what I'm getting.

[Harem Route]

I was expecting something of Guilty Gear or rather Arcana Heart level... and got something with basically no depth or moveset variety and a lame story. Meh...

[sbr616]

personally, I *really* like Arcana Heart *and* like Koihime Enbu, like both games' systems, how different they are between themselves, the risk/reward in pressure (while in the former you have options to heavily punish risky blockstrings and also bait said punishes, in the latter, pressure doesn't yield too much damage by itself -- if you land an overhead, you mostly gain frame advantage, rather than a combo, if you land a frame trap that's safe on block, you have to decide between trying to convert into an unsafe on block/negative special, or spending the super gauge), and the fact that both games also emphasize good neutral game (movement and post-clash options in arcana, movement and how easy/quick it is to lose frame advantage in enbu)

[Penwoopydo]

Is it 3D? is it hybrid animation (traditional and skeletal animation)? WHAT IS THIS GAME!!!? (this was gonna be my thread title for this discussion board.

BTW.. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus might be what you, are looking for in anime fighting game.

[MysteryK]

Originally posted by JordyT #13,589:

Is it 3D? is it hybrid animation (traditional and skeletal animation)? WHAT IS THIS GAME!!!? (this was gonna be my thread title for this discussion board.

BTW.. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus might be what you, are looking for in anime fighting game.

Senran Kagura is a Beat Them Up not a Fighting Game like this one.

[Penwoopydo]

Originally posted by MysteryK:

Originally posted by JordyT #13,589:

Is it 3D? is it hybrid animation (traditional and skeletal animation)? WHAT IS THIS GAME!!!? (this was gonna be my thread title for this discussion board.

BTW.. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus might be what you, are looking for in anime fighting game.

Senran Kagura is a Beat Them Up not a Fighting Game like this one.

Still categorised under Fighting on steam, and you can fight 2 on 2 and 1 on 1
Also, I still don't know what the animation style of this game is. :/

[sbr616]

Originally posted by JordyT #13,589:

Is it 3D? is it hybrid animation (traditional and skeletal animation)? WHAT IS THIS GAME!!!? (this was gonna be my thread title for this discussion board.

BTW.. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus might be what you, are looking for in anime fighting game.

iirc it's not 3D, it uses (2D) sprites made of pre-rendered 3D models; so, in terms of graphic style, it's like King of Fighters XIII (sprites made from 3D models), rather than for example Guilty Gear Xrd Sign (3D models which are made to look like anime characters)

gameplay-wise, all of these games (Koihime Enbu, King of Fighters XIII, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign) are 2D; since GGXrd is the only of these 3 games to use 3D graphics during gameplay, it's the only of these 3 games which can be "labeled" as 2.5D (while 3D games which feature movement in the Z-axis such as Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Dead or Alive, Soul Calibur, etc, are known as 3D games)

personally, I don't consider the graphic style to be important. As long as the game is fun to play, being 2D, 2.5D or 3D isn't an issue.