The Future of Fighting Games Begins Today!
A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called "motes." In desperation, the motes summon heroes from a variety of parallel game worlds to face off against each other in one-on-one combat. The tournament victor has the potential to be awakened as the Blade Stranger—the savior who can vanquish Lina and protect the motes from further harm!
Developed by Studio Saizensen, Blade Strangers is a hardcore old-school fighting game. The streamlined four-button control scheme makes it easy for beginners to deal out damage from day one…but the intricate combos, counters and specials give tournament-caliber players plenty of opportunities for frame counting, chain construction and hit-box science.
Release Info:
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, PS4, Steam
- Release Date: August 28 2018
- Developer: Studio Saizensen @saizensen_EN
- Publisher: Nicalis @nicalis
- Price: $39.99
- Players: 1 to 2
Features:
- Fighter roster includes popular characters from previous Studio Saizensen and/or Nicalis games, including Code of Princess EX, Cave Story+, the Umihara Kawase series and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+. Other surprise entrants include the well-known indie superstars Shovel Knight and Gunvolt.
- Accessible and intuitive controls designed to bring fresh blood to the ranks of fighting game players everywhere.
- Play offline Story, Missions, Arcade and Versus modes or try to climb the leaderboards in the highly-competitive Online modes.
- Tutorial and Training modes are available for beginner and advanced players.
- Each character has alternate color settings and their own familiar "home" stage for players to select.
- Proprietary development system transforms 3D models and animation into 2D spritework; every frame looks like a gorgeous anime drawing come to life!
Blade Strangers is a 4 button fighter with simplified inputs.
Moves and Skills
Every character has Light and Heavy attacks, as well as Skills (special moves) which are performed by pressing the Skill button with a direction. There are no quarter-circles or half-circle movements.
The fourth button is the Special button, which performs a sweep if pressed together with Down, an Overhead attack if pressed with either forward or back, and an anti-air if pressed on its own. Pressing the Special button and the Skill button together will perform an EX Skill - an enhanced version of the original move.
Ultra Skills
Pressing Heavy, Skill, and Special buttons together will unleash a super powerful move that uses 1 bar of your meter! If you press the buttons twice quickly, you'll do a level 2 Ultra Skill which uses 2 bars.
Partial Movelist:Every character has Light and Heavy attacks, as well as Skills (special moves) which are performed by pressing the Skill button with a direction. There are no quarter-circles or half-circle movements.
The fourth button is the Special button, which performs a sweep if pressed together with Down, an Overhead attack if pressed with either forward or back, and an anti-air if pressed on its own. Pressing the Special button and the Skill button together will perform an EX Skill - an enhanced version of the original move.
Ultra Skills
Pressing Heavy, Skill, and Special buttons together will unleash a super powerful move that uses 1 bar of your meter! If you press the buttons twice quickly, you'll do a level 2 Ultra Skill which uses 2 bars.
Characters:
From left to right, starting with the top row:
Solange - From Code of Princess
Ali - Also from Code of Princess
Liongate - He too, is from Code of Princess
Master T - Guess what? Yep.
Curly Brace - From Cave Story
Kawase Umihara - From Umihara Kawase
Noko Yokoyama - From Umihara Kawase
RANDOM - From ?
Emiko - Also from Umihara Kawase (A GIANT CAT OMG)
Helen - From Blade Strangers. An original character
Shovel Knight - From...Shovel Knight
Gunvolt - From Azure Striker Gunvolt
Lina - Also from Blade Strangers
Isaac - From the Binding of Isaac
Quote - From Cave Story
Stagelist:Ali - Also from Code of Princess
Liongate - He too, is from Code of Princess
Master T - Guess what? Yep.
Curly Brace - From Cave Story
Kawase Umihara - From Umihara Kawase
Noko Yokoyama - From Umihara Kawase
RANDOM - From ?
Emiko - Also from Umihara Kawase (A GIANT CAT OMG)
Helen - From Blade Strangers. An original character
Shovel Knight - From...Shovel Knight
Gunvolt - From Azure Striker Gunvolt
Lina - Also from Blade Strangers
Isaac - From the Binding of Isaac
Quote - From Cave Story
Screenshots:
Videos:
FAQs:
- What modes are there? Story, Tutorial, Missions, Arcade, Versus, Training, Online
- Is this an airdasher? No
- What kind of netcode are we looking at? It's delay-based
- Is this poverty FGC? ...Yeh, probably
- Who is this game for? People who like FGs with a strong neutral game like Street Fighter, people who like giant anime cats, Umihara Kawase fans, Shovel Knight stans, and the millions of Nicalis fanboys all around the World. Especially in Europe.
- What is Umihara Kawase? This.
- Will I just get comboed to death? There's a meter that diminishes during combos. Once it runs out, the combo ends.
- Is this getting an Arcade release in Japan? Yep
- Really? Yep
Will update when available
Links:
Character Intros
17 Minutes of Gameplay (GameSpot)
Nicalis Blog: Techniques and Tactics
Nicalis Blog: Know Your Modes
Discord
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Hidden content
Random Switch Boxarts!
Please let me know if I need to add or fix anything. This is my first OT, thrown together last minute because it didn't seem like anybody else was going to do it!
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