#BATTLE FANTASIA REVIEW WINDOWS#

Battle Fantasia retains a number of features of its predecessor including fast-paced gameplay, colorful anime-style graphics, and over-the-top effects, yet was designed to be a more basic representation of the fighting genre. The game's development was headed by Emiko Iwasaki, who had previously served as illustrator for the company's Guilty Gear series, and features three-dimensional character models restricted to a two-dimensional plane.

#BATTLE FANTASIA REVIEW WINDOWS#

A Microsoft Windows version, ported in collaboration with DotEmu and distributed via Steam, was released on Jas Battle Fantasia: Revised Edition. It was later released in the PAL region in 2009 for both systems by 505 Games (Europe) and Aksys Games (Australia). Originally released in Japanese arcades in April 2007, the title was ported to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 home consoles in Japan in May 2008, with a North American Xbox 360-exclusive version released in English in September 2008 by Aksys Games. That being said, it does not hold up real well to bigger budget recent releases in the genre either.Battle Fantasia ( гѓђгѓ€гѓ«гѓ•г‚Ўгѓіг‚їг‚ёг‚ў, Batoru Fantajia) is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works. Aside from a few missing options and the sluggish online play, there is not a whole lot that is wrong with Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~, and if you are in the market for a unique, colorful 2D fighter? Then you could do a lot worse than Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~. While it has an outstanding pedigree having originally been designed by Arc System Works, this is only a slight improvement over the original console title that underwhelmed me a few years ago.

What it amounts to is Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~ feels a bit like the budget fighting game that it is. This is an older game, and as a result the price on it is only around fifteen dollars. None of these things alone is a deal breaker, but they do diminish the experience in Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~. Things like tweaking the visuals to improve performance are as lacking as an English voice cast. There is a real lack of options in the game as well. I suspect there is something in the gameвЂ™s netcode that needs to be updated, but it makes for a somewhat rough experience if your preferred method of play is online. I really do not know how else to describe it, other than to say characters feel incredibly sluggish вЂ“ almost as though they are moving through water when playing online. Things are not so smooth when you hop online, where the game just feels poorly optimized. Still, the majority of combat does feel good вЂ“ at least if you are playing offline. I can usually more than hold my own against tank-like opponents with greater health, because my play style allows me to usually keep from getting hit. Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~ is a fairly easy game to pick up, but it is not a hard fighter by any means. It sounds better on the drawing board however, than it works in practice. A slower, more hulking character might seem an easier target and an inferior fighter, but if he has nearly twice the health of his more nimble opponent, the idea is that this balances things out.

This is meant to give the characters some counter balance, and allowed the team at Arc System Works to do something that was a little different in balancing the characters and their in-combat skills. In an effort to make the characters more unique from one another, they had different amounts of health at the start of the fight. I played this game several years ago on the Xbox 360, and at the time Battle Fantasia ~Revised Edition~вЂ™s greatest strength was also its biggest weakness.

Battle fantasia review