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For Japan/Asian systems only.
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Release date: Oct. 11, 2007
Genre: Fighting
Version: Japan
Posted by Antonio on 24th May 2010
I decided to change my previous review rating from 3 stars to four. When I first reviewed this game, I had not grasped the importance of dashing in the game AND how it is the backbone of creating very long, quick, and deadly combinations.
Now, after watching video on youtube of expert Arcana Heart players, and seeing how dashing plays a huge role in creating long stringing combos, reading up on all the offensive and defensive capabilities offered by the game,...I can see now how great this game is!
In other words, the more you play it, get better at it, the better and more exciting the game gets.
Posted by Antonio on 1st Mar 2010
Before I got this game, I read people's description of the game. They described it as, "guilty gear, but underwater". They wrote this in reference to the speed of the action.
What they were trying to say was that they considered it as slower in speed to the guilty gear games. I was worried by this before getting the game, but when I purchased it, I was pleaseantly suprised. It isn't slow at all.
It is just that since the characters can cover much more distance due to the dash button...and because battles can go further up into the air, it gives that feeling of less frenzied action than the guilty gear series.
The characters do not move slowly at all. They move pretty close to the speed of all the other 2D sprite fighting games out there.
The character roster is made up of only girls. And that is a good thing if you are tired of muscle bound men with bad attitudes, no shirts on, and even worse scars, making up the roster of most fighting games.
Fear not, because there are 100 hit attacks, viscious combos, and blazing ultimates to get your adrenaline going.
The framerate is joy to see. Skirts move fluidly and not choppy looking, so does their hair, and other things like ribbons and other apparel move just as fluidly. The backrounds unfortunately are not as detailed. A little to static, but that's okay. Facial expressions are really well done.
All the characters are interesting. There is a ninja girl that can float using her cape, a girl that has sisters that help her in her fights, and even a girl that uses a blob of water that she carries and floats in, as a weapon.
If you have a 2D sprite collection, this one game deserves to be in it.