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Thank You Melty Blood For Adding Fate/Stay Night’s Saber, My Sword Wife
4I didn’t pay much attention to the anime fighting game Melty Blood: Type Lumina until just yesterday, when the developers made the official announcement that Saber, Fate/Stay Night protagonist and the “King of Knights” herself, would be joining the new game’s roster. After seeing her video gameplay debut, I immediately acquired the just-released game and…
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Fighting Games Have Come A Long Way
It’s common knowledge that fighting game sprites have grown larger and more refined as technology has improved, at least in those rare few games that still use them. But I never truly appreciated how big of a difference there is between the classics and their modern counterparts before now.
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Six Japanese Fighting Game Series With Robust Plots
When I was a kid in the days of the original Street Fighter II, the plots in fighting games consisted of the instruction manual, the before battle/after battle one-liners, and a single picture at the end of the game — if that. Even then I wished for meatier plots in fighters; and over the years…
