So... is this any good?

[BULLY HUNTER_69]

Saw some gameplay and I'm not sure this is my kind of thing, what other fighting game would you say it resembles the most?

[Harem Route]

Arcana Heart. Which, in my humble casual opinion is one of the best 2d fighting games out there.

[Wafer]

Not the mainstream ones that's for sure. It resembles Arc System Works Fighters and Japanese Indie Fighters, such as Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Under Night IN-BIRTH, Vanguard Princess, Dengeki Bunko, Arcana Heart.

This game has easy chains for comboing between weak and strong attacks, two assist characters, airdashing, a vanishing guard and proyectile invulnerable rolling for defense.

Characters can double jump and grab in the air.

You use 4 attack buttons, 1 for defense and rolling, and the other buttons are macros for assists or bursting for escaping enemy combos.

[炎 Toby]

Originally posted by Antn:

Saw some gameplay and I'm not sure this is my kind of thing, what other fighting game would you say it resembles the most?

It's a great game, fun story mode as well (imho), I highly recommend it.

[Calcifer]

Daemon Bride and Arcana Heart, animations feels "heavy" compared to other games, so if you are gonna play any Examu game, clear your mind of any other fighting games and prepare for a new experience.

[Axel]

to me it kinda feels like the anime equivelent of marvel vs capcom, you got assists, big damage and just a lot of crazy ♥♥♥♥ in general in the game

[AkaHomura]

it doesn't feel like arcana heart imo. more like blazblue with more assists, and more free form custom combos.
if you like anime style fighters, and don't mind the lack of males, this is a must try imo

[Curly McPubes]

It's very fun but there is not much balance.

Originally posted by persson:

the anime equivelent of marvel vs capcom

Basically this.

[uraizen]

Originally posted by persson:

to me it kinda feels like the anime equivelent of marvel vs capcom, you got assists, big damage and just a lot of crazy ♥♥♥♥ in general in the game

This is a good way to describe it. It's just... fun.

[OlCrunchy]

Originally posted by Simon.cleric:

Arcana Heart. Which, in my humble casual opinion is one of the best 2d fighting games out there.

Besides the button layout it really isnt at all like Arcana Heart. Aquapazza is far closer. Funny enough, yet another Examu game but the similarities are far closer than with AH. The speed, the more grounded fighting, the assists, the stage size. Plus it too is a porno crossover!

If you have a PS3, Aquapazzas a great buy. Its also cheap as hell at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DrZ3UwwGZU

Aquapazza has a couple dudes in it though, which is pretty damn shocking to be honest

[ElJag]

I love it, I get to play with mai waifu Ignis.

[炎 Toby]

Quit calling it a "porno crossover". That's just stupid and is going to give people a bad first impression. It's better to just say eroge. Calling it a "porno" is like saying that movies with random sex scenes (a lot of movies) are porn movies; they're not.

[SonofTzeentch9]

...to be fair, if you don't know what an eroge is and you checked out wikipedia, you'd come away from that thinking that it was indeed a porn crossover =p

While not fair to the source material (or indeed all of the characters, since a few aren't even from Eroges), well, it's a thing.

As for the main thread's question: I kinda agree with the rest of y'all - design-wise it feels like Arcana Heart (and probably Aquapazza) when it comes to the feel of the timing of moves and whatnot. Gameplay is slightly reminiscent of Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, but with added anime (air-dashes, fancy cancels, etc.), giving it a fairly grounded feel despite having lots of crazy stuff happening on screen due to the assissts.

[OlCrunchy]

I dont know what circles you all run in but when something is pitched as "porno fighting crossover" people here get hype.

[Ping]

It is a lot of fun and I am very new to fighting games. It is easy to pick up and play but the final boss for the story took me about a half hour to finally take out. Beating it as Sonico was a giant pain.

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

Look like a next gen Arcana Heart game but doesn't play like one....

I played Arcana Heart 3 Love Max after playing this and realized how much more technical Arcana Heart 3 is. This is a simplified fighter.

So looks and gameplay are decieving.