Picked up the game on the Steam Halloween sale for 99 cents. Played the game for about 45 minutes and beat Arcade Mode with two characters (Beat and Mia) without losing a round.

It's a decent little fighter, ESEPCIALLY for the price I paid. Very reminiscent of 90s fights where they were just starting to use Supers, Cancels and the like. Think Street Fighter Alpha, but not as good. Still, I more than got my money's worth and I'll pick it up from tiem to time to see the other characters' endings.

The game is good, just note that there is no vsync option, so you'll have to go to the NVIDIA Control Panel to manually turn it on for this game. Also join the discord

This game is crazy well priced for $2. There's issues with some of the mechanics as the meta develops (timer scamming options, poor meter management and unbalanced characters), but it definitely is worth your time. If this game got a bit more of a zoomed in camera and had some tweaks done to it, I'd bring it to my local FGC events.

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Battle High 2 A+ offers a ton of fun for experienced fighting game players and newbies alike! It's a blast to play with friends and in training mode, offering difficult combo challenges and plenty of characters to explore.

just needs an online mode

really fun fighting game. no reason not to get it at 5 dollars. just wish there was online!

Battle High 2 A+ is not a quality fighting game, not even in comparison to mediocre arcade fighters of the 90's. Movement is choppy throughout the game (I've only played training and arcade mode), and special moves, especially supers, are often difficult to execute even though their commands are simple. Speaking of special moves, there are apparently no EX moves, despite that there is a three-section super meter; in other words, your super meter increases by three stages, yet you can't do anything with it until it reaches maximum capacity.

There are yet more problems with this game. The excessive pushback that one suffers from successfully attacking an opponent makes executing combos a difficult task. Combo execution is further complicated by the small size of the sprites: it is difficult to use spacing to one's advantage when the sprites seem so distant from the player's perspective. (My computer opponents actually spent most of their time shadow boxing on the other end of the screen!) Lastly, there are serious audio issues with this game regarding volume levels, specifically. The audio seems fine in the menu, pause screen, etc., but during matches, the music volume plummets. I have my music volume set to twice the value of the voices and sound effects, yet I can hardly hear the music during matches. Lastly (for real this time), while stage artwork appears smooth, the sprites are roughly pixelated. If everything were pixelated, this would actually be a smaller concern, but since only the sprites are pixelated (again, roughly so), it makes the whole scene look rather awkward.

The game's only saving grace, I think, is in its character concepts. In arcade mode, I played Principal, who is basically a school principal and aspiring dictator with psychic powers, including the ability to conjure large fists of psychic energy. I tend to appreciate goofy character concepts such as this; unfortunately, the game's overall flawed design made playing the character burdensome, not fun. Halfway through arcade mode, I found myself hoping that the experience would be over soon.

In conclusion, although the game has an interesting concept, it plays so poorly that I wouldn't recommend it even if it were free. If you want a cheap fighting game, make a big wishlist and wait for something much better to go on sale for $5 or less... or just buy Last Blade 2 for $10 and call it a day. :)

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I will soon rewrite my review.

Battle High 2 A+ is an arcade/console-like 2D action brawler fighting game set in a high school. Gameplay consists of button mashing to pull off combos (weakly). The problem here is less in the concept (there's many successful arcade fighting games, there's even a brand new Street Fighter game that's doing great), and more with the terribad technical implementation, that will quickly put gamers off (and it certainly did, check out the peak player count below).

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

The artwork here is terrible, it's a blend of old retro pixel "art" used as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, and some of the most amateurish MS-Paint style drawings I've ever hurt my eyes on. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can do graphics properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result of these decisions.

The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. To make matters worse, there's no mouse input, despite this being sold on PC as if it were a PC game. This is unacceptable and somewhat insulting to PC gamers. It's a good demonstration of the poor attitude the developer has towards PC gamers, and this attitude has resulted in yet another defect in this game.

PC gamers will be insulted by the presence of console peasant children's toy controller prompts, despite this being on PC. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're developing for.

While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this game was never accepted on the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 6 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

Battle High 2 A+ is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.