A new challenger appears!

K.O.Kiki

New HD 2D fighter spotted on Mizuumi.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTmMprmZIw

2D WILL NEVER DIE

Scavenger XIII

That looks pretty sweet just from the style - wonder what it'll play like.

The post on Mizuumi has a screenshot which involves an army of goat-headed guys in suave suits stampeding across the screen. Now that is freakin' crazy awesome!

Doctor DooM

The screens look pretty. Prettier than BB, actually.

Generic_name01

Is this by the guys that did melty blood? Art style reminds me of it

K.O.Kiki

Generic_name01 wrote: »

Is this by the guys that did melty blood? Art style reminds me of it

Not AFAIK

The Higurashi/Umineko franchise is by 07th Expansion, while Melty Blood was by French Bread (and Tsukihime was originally made by Type-Moon)

Generic_name01

Cool thanks. Looks really fun. Hopefully it comes out in america anyways so I can import it with an english main menu.

P.S though I do hate you now Kiki! I looked at this thread because I figured it was about whoever the new guy is in SSFAE

Monkeyto

This looks the business. Though I'll have to watch the series to get an idea of the characters!

Ken B

F you Kiki.

I thought this was going to be the new SSFIV character!



Still, it looks good though!

Sairus

Some in game footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmt09SloUY0

K.O.Kiki

Tag teams?

So. Many. Possibilities!

Monkeyto

It's looking very clean I have to say. Some tag action too! Definite purchase for me!

D4RK ONION

It looks a bit sluggish, dunno if I'll go for it.

Voa

I might play it every so often...but it looks really unappealing to me. Don't think I'll pick up a copy for myself.

Sairus

I always find these doujin fighters can have some amazing animation to the special moves but then make a complete bollocks of the characters' walking animations.
The rabbit girl and the guy with long hair and trenchcoat in particular look ****ing awful when walking in this case.

prenelf

Sairus wrote: »

Some in game footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmt09SloUY0

The Guy at 1:09 looks like a Phoenix Wright poser. Objection! The game looks pretty good though.

erinsoup

More gameplay footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862GKbHFCuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBsxJP3Nvo

It's not fully known who're the Devs behind this yet since they've been keeping hush about it. French Bread briefly mentioned it in their blog but didn't really give any indication that they had worked on it.

http://pastebin.com/YavbAAPW

Have some partially translated move lists too!

Scavenger XIII

erinsoup wrote: »

http://kagami.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list

Careful now, some unsavory ads floating around there if you happen to be at work.

Placebo

im in work i clicked it, its pretty outrageous to be honest

i propose a 1 week ban

Doctor DooM

Yeah label links like that NSFW erin. I could get in a lot of trouble if I clicked on stuff like that in work.

erinsoup

Bah, my adblocker caught that one. Didn't even realize it had any, let alone nsfw ones. Sorry :pac:



http://pastebin.com/YavbAAPW

Totally uncool text version here.

Sairus

erinsoup wrote: »

Bah, my adblocker caught that one. Didn't even realize it had any, let alone nsfw ones. Sorry :pac:

I have Adblocker on here too. I was wondering what everyone was complaining about for a few seconds there.

Oh mighty Photobucket, come to our aid!

Yreval

http://shoryuken.com/media.php?do=details&mid=7515

From the comments:

- The life bar is shared by both characters on the team, as it doesn't change with characters.
- Break Limit gauge is your usual guard gauge, it fills when you block moves and you get a guard break when it's full.
- The gauge that you fill while dealing damage, blocking moves etc. is your second character's SP gauge, so if you want to actually use the gauge that you filled, you must switch characters.
- You may switch characters by spending one stock of your second character's SP gauge. After that, your Assist gauge drops to zero, and you must wait for it to fill to change characters again.
- You may burst by spending two stocks of your second character's SP gauge.
- The gauge below the timer is indeed the Meta-Field gauge, which is filled with time. You may enter the Meta-Field if your side of the gauge is full by spending 1 stock of your first character's SP gauge (there are probably some other conditions I can't see right now). The most obvious effect of entering Meta-Field is gaining abilities of both of your characters. The gauge is drained while in Meta-Field, and you exit it when it drops to zero.

The way you gain meter is interesting, since it sort of encourages a "point character, meter character" setup like KOF. Plus, the meter is the center of why you'd want to switch, since health is shared.
Also, interestingly, burst uses your ally's meter, not your point character's. So if you switch and get hit before you can build any meter for the first character you brought out, no burst will be available even if you have meter for EX moves/supers!

When you enter the Meta World (of your own will, not the opponent's), you gain the benefits of both of your characters' Special Ability. Also, when you use a regular Touch (switch) as opposed to an Attack Touch (offensive switch) or Damage Touch (burst, defensive switch), the character you tag in gains the benefit of the Special Ability of the character you tagged out.

Some rather interesting things going on here.

erinsoup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twPWf9hSrQ

4th gameplay vid
720p!

2-3 more characters pretty much a given at this point. Also looks like you can nullify your opponents metafield at the cost of 2 bars..so uhh, Lots of screen shattering effects! Woo yea!

Sairus

God that is some complicated bar usage.
Charging up your teammates instead of yourself is pretty cool though.

Scavenger XIII

Sounding really interesting, who's in touch with the importers?

UberPrinny_Baal

As said already, the art on the individual frames of animation is very nice indeed, but the way they're actually animated seems kind of .... unnatural?

Looking at the cast of characters, what's the bet this is a fighter originally based on some sort of Hentai game/novel?

Konata

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

As said already, the art on the individual frames of animation is very nice indeed, but the way they're actually animated seems kind of .... unnatural?

Looking at the cast of characters, what's the bet this is a fighter originally based on some sort of Hentai game/novel?

It's based on the anime Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. Well, I'm pretty sure it is anyway, all the characters are the same :P

Scavenger XIII

In turn the anime is indeed based on some sort of murder mystery game.

Fairly sure it isn't hentai but you never know with these things, they'll put random unnecessary sex scenes into just about anything. :pac:

Konata

Sure every anime has a hentai version

But yea, it wasn't originally hentai.

K.O.Kiki

*sigh*
Not all "visual novels" are eroge, or indeed dating sims.

07th Expansion seem to have realised that their strength/fanbase lies in creating murder mystery VNs, so that's what they do.
My guess is they (quietly) teamed up with some other guys to learn the tech necessary for making this fighting game.

Though I'm starting to agree, the walk animations feel a little off -- just not dynamic enough.
They're not bad enough for the Ministry of Silly Walks, but...

Orim

Just to cut away from what is obviously a riveting anime discussion, the second character from the bottom that Sairus posted (Androgynous character that has silent attack on it) has a move listed that is clearly jump forward.