It's exactly what it promises to be. You pick your waifu, and start kicking butt. No engaging storylines to be found here (although it has a 1P "story mode" for fighting increasingly difficult AI).

IF YOU ARE NOT USING C: FOR GAME INSTALLATION, these may occur:
-The game likes to hang in the background after playing. You currently need to force it to close via Task manager.
-Music will abruptly stop after three seconds, every time.

Other things to mention:
-The game RESPONDS ONLY TO THE FIRST KEYBOARD LAYOUT YOU TOUCH. Touched Player 2 inputs first? You're Player 2 now. Until you restart the game, at least.
-The character sprites could have used some polish. Take a good look at hi-res still images.
-Look, if you're reading these reviews, you were going to buy it anyway. You have a coupon and all. If not, the discussion board is full of people giving them up.

Not the most polished fighter. Or the most balanced. Or the most content rich.

But good god it's fun. All the mechanics feel solid, the controls are pretty intuitive, and it's hype as hell.

It's easy to make up combos, come up with gimmicks, and adapt to whatever your opponent is throwing at you. Honestly this game is just well put together and a joy to play.

I can't vouch for any of the singleplayer content or the netcode as I've only played local versus mode. But I think it stands up pretty well just based on that.

Love this game, me and the one other person online had a great time.

When I was spending a year away from my regular school at my local community college, I always hung out in a room on campus where there were guys playing YuGiOh, Vanguard, emulators via a Nintendo Wii, and one guy always playing various fighting games.

There were 3 I remember the most, Tekken 6, BlazBlue (Don't remember which one though), and this game. I played it with him a few times, liked what I saw, but I couldn't get my hands on it, lack of a Playstation to put the disc into and all that. So, when I woke up to see that this game got released on steam and I had a coupon given to me because of some cross-promotion with Skullgirls (another phenomenal fighter), I spent little time adding the money to my steam wallet to pick this one up.

We've got a fun roster of colorful characters from various Nitro+ series, but I only immediately recognized 3 of them. Saber from Fate/Zero, Super Sonico because I spend too much time in the gutters of the internet, and Saya, who I am amused is in a game on steam considering the content of her native game. Everyone else is a mystery to me, and while that is a turn off for plenty of people (games like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and Melty Blood have the same issue), the fighting is so good that I don't think it matters.

The fighting in this game is some of the best I've experienced, with silky smooth controls, a lot of opportunities for mix-ups, recovering is surprisingly easy to accomplish compared to most fighters I've played, and solid mechanics. You can call in one of your two chosen assist characters with the simple push of a button (which I assume depends on the controller), you can activate this sort of cancel that refills some of your health and rapidly increases your special gague, there's even a dodge of sorts, something that you don't see too often in fighting games.

The online even works really well, assuming your opponent has a good signal. I played a few matches against 2 or 3 opponents with a good signal, and I had virtually no input lag, minimal slowdown, and barely any freezes, and I'm stuck on dorm wifi at the time of writing.

The keyboard controls are mostly customizable, you can change everything except for the movement keys (ASDW for player 1, arrow keys for player 2). Controller compatability is there (as it should be), but I have no idea how many controllers are compatible. I have a 360 controller and it works perfectly (well, as perfectly as it can since the controller is not conducive to fighters), so those options are there.

There is a big flaw however, and its one that will drive away anyone who isn't a fighting game enthusiast. This game is not beginner friendly. There are no tutorials of any kind to help you learn how each character plays so you can figure out which one fits you best. Video tutorials exist, but most people aren't going to look those up. So if you're considering buying this, just note that figuring out who you're good at is a crapshoot unless you look up external sources.

Other than that though, this is a solid fighting game and another wonderful addition to my collection.

Moe meat girl forever!

She nitroplus on my blasters until I heroines infinite duel

This game has Saya

my boyfriend beats me in this game and irl

I recieved a steam coupon for this when I logged in. Steam knows me too well.

guilty gear? more like balls gear.
street fighter? balls fighter.
Tekken? kiss my balls.
dragon ball fighterz? fight my balls.
melty blood? bloody balls.
blazblue? balls blue.
skullgirls? balls girls.
marvel vs capcom? iron man's balls.
undernight in-birth? under my balls.
acrana heart? acrana balls.
mortal kombat? mortal balls.
injustice? just balls.
king of fighters? king of deez nuts.

Nitroplus Blasterz is way, way more accessible than I expected it to be, and a lot of fun to pick up and play. Maybe my limited time with Guilty Gear and BlazBlue set up the assumption that "anime fighters are fun to watch, but have 500 different interlocking complex systems that make them utterly unplayable casually", but Blasterz seems... pretty straightforward? The core systems and commands seem pretty easy to wrap your head around, and It "looks" cool enough even early on that it's fun to play even if you're not dropping ultra-tourney level "tech".

The commands are the usual fireball and dragon punch motions and pretty common across characters, and there's only one charge meter to keep track of and it tends to work the same for everyone (powered up specials take up 1 out of 3 bar chunks, a dial-a-combo chain attack thingy for 2 chunks, or your ultra-mega-super-super for 3 chunks). You've got light/medium/heavy attacks like most fighting games, then a "guard" button for evasion and combo-breaking, and a "super heavy" button for pushing around and crushing through guard. You can whip out a "break out of any combo" thing once a round, and enter a fire-up mode as well that builds meter along with some other stuff as well. It's all... pretty easy to come to grips with?

While there's not that many characters, getting to pick 2 support characters adds some fun variety to things (a lot of them just seem like extra attacks at different ranges or heights, but others do wacky stuff like pop out powerups, or fill your meter). At least the game gives you a few "recommended" supports for each char too, which is nice.

I dunno, maybe it's just that i'm coming off the initial "oh god, this is impenetrable" impression from the last BlazBlue, or the new Street Fighter 5's disastrous launch of "we're going to introduce a bunch of new systems, but not actually teach you anything about any of them, or how to even use them", Blasterz seems refreshingly straightforward. It's just a lot of fun to play, even at a pretty casual level.