Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Review

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Any game with the term Climax, usually is a mixed bag of fan service driven characters spiced up together into some ether magical, or a dud from the start. See how I diverted from anything pornographic? Darn it too late! Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax mixes together a short stack of current favorite manga/Anime characters into a colorful and explosive experience. The top of the food chain for cross franchise is Marvel Vs Capcom 2 for me, setting that standard pretty high. However it did do one thing for me, truly make me respect the fighter genre a lot more then my previous memories other then quarters into a few arcade cabs going against whopper smelling man-children for the sake of taking turns at a local pizza place, or Mall. Dengeki Bunki takes characters from such franchises as: Strike the Blood, Heavy Object, Virtual Fighter, The Irregular at-Magic High School, Black Bullet, Valkyria Chronicles, A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific- Railgun, The Devil is a Part-Timer!, Sword Art Online, Accel World, and more. Originally the game was released as a arcade game put out in Japan. The vibe spoke to me when first diving in blind that was for sure. It has a fair difficulty curve on the characters all having a good balance and perk others do not have. For example I went with Rentarō Satomi of Black Bullet for most of mt time in the game, as his contrast to my play style worked pretty well with juggling.

The story mode is set up in eight stages. You chase down a cyber demon or whatever he is called. Zetsumu. After cycling through a set of characters you then are rewarded by a catchy J-pop style sound track while seeing the credits to the set of novels you may know or not. I will be honest, I only really know of perhaps one of them called Sword Art Online. Never personally partaking in reading or watching any of the shows related. But I really enjoyed what they stapled together for what worlds and themes each show had going for it. Not a strong, “OMG” I love this sort of relationship with the game, just where I can say “that was not too shabby!” Dream mode is another aspect to the games story mode. I can not give away too much detail behalf of the mode. I will be super vague as possible on behalf of the mode. I will only state that you can have storied battles, and they are pretty cool. Even though I personally do not know any of the characters I have played. Featuring some witty dialog. Nothing more will be said, just take my word for that if you enjoy a chunk of the shows or novels shown on the list, you will get tingled maybe. I just bluntly said “cool” and moved about my game play.

Gameplay is a single character rule set with a support character as a combined attack for you use whenever they are charged up. This said charged attack is usually charged quite often. As I mostly spam it whenever I can. I am as you would call a button masher. Multiplayer I leaped into once the game went public to everyone’s finger tips. I will say, felt like a blast every round. Aside from some network issues handled decent enough to warrant a consistent match up here and there. For die hard Anime fighters, this game is a delight. Each character felt fresh never lacking in strategy in light depth. The games soundtrack is not as great going against others out there. Not to discredit it. Just say it is more or less not one of my favorites.  You get a small collection of game modes like classic ones such as: training, versus, and online as I just mentioned possible. Once you complete a session of Story or whatever else you can earn credits redeemed for mostly cosmetic, or various banners for your personal use online or just to collect. The characters in scale look great with superb cut scenes. Each movement and attack animation are drawn beautifully. Flowing the fighting with the flashy combos each character can perform. The game itself is not a stand apart from any cross over fighter I have played but it is still a pretty damn good game.

In Closing:

The game itself is done well enough where many fans will enjoy the characters offered. It would have been cool if you may play as some of the assisting characters but hey maybe they will do some DLC or something like that. *shrugs*  The story mode was pretty decent offerings some alright routes between all of the characters tossed into this fan service trail mix. you get a fun online mode to hone your skills against many players who bought the game along side you. The game can be picked up at a affordable price. If you love solid Anime fighters. Then you will be in heaven. IF you are not a fan of any of the novels or shows. There is still something there for you.

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