Sirlin Games is bringing its fighting title Fantasy Strike to the Nintendo Switch this summer, it was revealed during today's Nindies Showcase.
Set in a world where "fantasy meets martial arts", Fantasy Strike allows you to harness all manner of elements, items and concepts to create your arsenal of attacks.
It focuses on "nuanced mechanics with simple combos and easy-to-perform special moves" and will boast both offline and online modes.
Here's some PR:
Be an archer with fiery arrows, a colorful painter, a martial arts master who can transform into a dragon, and more! Fantasy meets martial arts in this vibrant world.
The streamlined controls get you to the fun decision-making part of fighting games as soon as possible. All moves are just a single button press, combos are easy, move lists are concise. Though Fantasy Strike is easy to get into, it's designed as a competitive tournament game with an emphasis on depth and balance. It's a mental sport that's difficult to master—just not difficult to control.
Features:
+ Detach the Joy-Con™and give one to each player: now you can play a fighting game anywhere with your friends. Local play supports standard 1v1 fights or a team battle where you have a roster of three characters each.
+Controls specifically designed to work well on Joy-Con™. (Also supports Pro Controllers.)
+ Arcade mode with illustrated and voiced story sequences for each character.Excellent online play with quick match, ranked play (simulated 8-person tournaments), and friend match (allows for 1v1 matches and 3v3 team battles). Online play uses GGPO, the best-in-class networking technology that means there's no input lag.
Will you be picking this one up when it arrives in the summer?
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This one looks cool. One of the few highlights from today's Nindies Showcase in my opinion.
It reminds me of Street Fighter, or that 3d polygon fighter from a few decades ago. I'll be keeping attention to this. Again, I repeat, Ryu must now travel the world, again, to battle the forces of plagiarism. Looks kinda fun.
And the droughts continue
Interesting.
I wanna check this one out.
@therealgamer and your moaning continues ...
I'm not hugely into fighting games but this looks pretty nifty
A one-on-one fighter with online coming to Switch is always welcome. Looked very nice too.
This looks pretty good but I want some of the others shown more. The crazy pool game looks wacky, Garage looks neat, the nice relaxing two player game with a light and a block looks perfect for me and the wife. I’m actually more excited about these than I though I’d be.
I thought this game looked pretty awesome. The colors are bright and beautiful. Obvioulsy reminiscent of SNK fighters. What ever happened to Pocket Rumble?
It's like a simplified street street fighter for those who don't want to learn movesets sort-of like smash... Watch this video.
skip to 6:40 for the game
I really like the look of this, although with the Street Fighter 30th collection coming I'll have a lot of 2D fighters to play.
@Captain_Toad So - that video actually sold me on it. I do like the occasional fighter, typically older 2D ones that I am already familiar with, but I've struggled to get back into the genre with recent fighting games. I lack the time and patience required to become good at them and fully enjoy them. A simplified move set that is easy to play with intentionality, but hard to master, sounds perfect to me.
@Zuljaras - It's his shtick. Like a tired sitcom catchphrase.
One of several games I definitely want to see more of from the direct.
@Captain_Toad - Still furious with Riot about Rising Thunder.
Also need a new Bloody Roar.
@CaPPa too true, though i suspect this will be handy to have for when my group cant agree on which street fighter to play lol
Better than smash
@Prof_Yoshtonics seriouslt, tho... thought maybe a news update
Interesting how this , Pocket Rumble, SNK Heroines and Blade Strangers are all trying to do the same thing.
Looks like people finally got tired of memorizing hard to execute, often illogical button combinations.
I really hope it will inspiring another Developers to bring Kickboxing games again like K-1 Pocket GP GBA.
I miss that Cute Kickboxing games, even though i owned that GBA game.
Definitely interested.
As someone who's been playing this since SUPER early Alpha, as opposed to it's current Early Alpha state, Fantasy Strike is incredible. It turns non-fighting game players into fighting game players. As soon as the Switch was even announced, the development Discord blew up with people wanting it for the system, especially considering it already supports Unity.
This is a huge win for everyone.
@EmirParkreiner SPEAKIN of Pocket Rumble... it's been over a year since its announcement... wonder if it'll ever be released...
Sounds really cool!
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