The Dark Age Of Anime Arena Fighters

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• JA

  @jarrodeaston6373 · 2 years ago

  Here is my thing. Arena fighters can be amazing. The problem I have is that ALL of these games are rushed, made on a shoestring budget and have terrible design decisions.

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• PA

  @patrickthegamer7142 · 2 years ago

  Cursed Clash didn't set a record for the most refunds, some guy on tiktok said that and everyone spread it around I believe

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• MO

  @moolcazy3805 · 2 years ago

  Consumers are not tired of Arena fighters, consumers are tired of bad games

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• KE

  @kenonerboy · 2 years ago

  U didnt give storm 4 and dbzbt3 enough credit. Ppl still love arena fighters, they just dont like being scammed.

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• NE

  @Nerwrax15 · 2 years ago

  One's Justice 2 is the best example of a development team taking criticism and feedback seriously and creating a better product for it. All its really missing is a sizeable budget, doesn't matter how good your development team is, they'll only be able to do so much with what they are given and they are definitely not getting the same love and budget DBZ and Naruto typically get.

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• TO

  @ToriWasTaken1 · 11 months ago

  &quot;Oh cool a new anime game is coming out&quot;<br>&quot;Oh, its an arena fighter&quot;<br>Literally everytime

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• PI

  @PikaPower131313 · 2 years ago

  Kill La Kill If is such a tradgedy. What a great game with so much potential. I hope to see a game like it in the future.

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• SE

  @sebasss5153 · 10 months ago

  yeah so sparking zero selled well but died like in 2 months and bandai didn’t cared less and dropped ANOTHER arena fighter being Bleach Rebirth of Souls and we got ANOTHER arena fighter Hinokami Chronicles 2 and we got announced ANOTHER arena fighter MHA Alls Justice, so I guess we’re actually trapped in the cycle of hell

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• CO

  @conyXcony253 · 2 years ago

  I will never forget seeing people actively defend Cursed Clash when it was incredibly obvious the game was looking rough

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• YR

  @YR20 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I feel like arena fighters can be fun because it&apos;s a 3D fight where you can run around anywhere which can fit the style depending on the Anime. If they do make good controls and gameplay then we probably wouldn&apos;t have this problem

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• LA

  @laubra5227 · 2 years ago

  I stand by the fact that almost every single battle based Anime would be perfect for a devil may cry style game

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• SH

  @Shahars71 · 2 years ago

  I think the biggest culprits in this curse are Spike Chunsoft. Their games are shallow with boring gameplay and cheap visuals, games like Jump Force and OPM are the prime examples of rushed development leading to an undercooked product that leaves fans ultimately disappointed. CC2&apos;s games might be samey, but their presentation is top notch and I think that&apos;s ultimately what anime fans want out of these sort of games, and it looks like Spike Chunsoft is taking a page out of their book with Sparking Zero, considering how visually impressive that game is shaping up to be.<br>I also think that this recent trend of anime games trying to be more competitively viable is really healthy for the genre, it&apos;s better for arena fighters to be properly considered and respected as a subgenre of fighting games rather than relegating them to cheap, silly party games. The best games to feature this sort of direction are Demon Slayer: Hinokami Chronicles, and My Hero: One&apos;s Justice 2. Both of these games received proper balancing updates with feedback from the community, and had competitive communities for a while. Now on its own that doesn&apos;t say much (Jump Force also has a competitive scene) but it&apos;s moreso that these games feel like their mechanics were designed with proper competitive fighting in mind, the cast feels more balanced than your average Storm game, and the gameplay is much more deliberate than those games too. One&apos;s Justice 2 specifically feels like more like a fighting game than an arena fighter (if that makes sense) because every character plays completely differently, and both combos and neutral in that game feel more like what you&apos;d get in a standard anime fighter over the usual button mashing you&apos;d see in Storm games.

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