Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid Morphs Classic Franchise Into A Fighting Game

Shoulda been a beatemup, but then that requires level design

This will be the biggest fighting game of April, not like there's any competition...

Er, What ?
Power Ranger on Switch ? 😆

Haven't play a Power Rangers game since the Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and Game Gear days so if they decide to make this worthwhile I might check it out.

Coincidentally, I've been looking for a fighting game featuring teenagers with attitude.

I hope they would include the Megazoids as playable characters as well. And this is from someone who enjoys the Super Sentai counterpart of this franchise.

ouch, rough day to announce your new fighter...

Go go power rangers! I'm looking forward to it but I do have some reservations about it though. Hopefully a collection of power rangers games is in the works.

Wow. Super ballsy going head to head against MK11. I guess this is a good alternative for those that aren't into MK's extreme gore though.

As sad as it sounds, i will buy this game regardless of quality .... don't judge me ...

Red Ranger since pre-school, 1v1 me

@NinChocolate
That's literally what I thought this was until I saw the trailer.
Would be cool to have a beat em up power rangers and bring all the different versions together.

I would have loved to seen an action adventure type game that, while not spanning all 25+ seasons, maybe at least somehow spanned the three (now four) different eras of the show.

Cross platform play, provided it works well, is an excellent idea for a fighting game. They generally don't have the largest active playerbases online so unifying them is a shrewd move. I hope more consider this approach going forward and for that reason alone it almost makes me want to give it a chance. However as others have said announcing this on the same day of the massively hyped MK11 reveal was either very brave or very foolish.

Shazam! In theatres and Power Rangers on Switch!? April is gonna be a fun month!😁😎

I'm not a fan of fighters, and I would prefer a beat 'em up to this, despite not being the biggest fan of those, either. I am glad to see the classic Rangers come back, but if it doesn't have a story, or it does, but Bulk & Skull aren't in it, then I'm passing on this.

@NinChocolate already is one, well lots of them.

Definitely gonna pre-order. I played the mobile game a bit, but I'm not a whale/dolphin and I hardly ever drop money on freemium games, so I can get behind a console version.

I really wish they'd just bring Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Fighting Edition over to the Switch. Just discovered this SNES gem a couple of days ago, a Power Rangers game has no right to be as good as that game is. Definitely recommend checking it out, one of my favorite fighting games on SNES.

As a hardcore Power Rangers fan, I'm looking forward to this, much moreso than I am to MK11 (even if this is likely gonna be the worse game of the two). Yet, I'm already disappointed in quite a few aspects. First off, it looks way too much like the "Legacy Wars" mobile game. So far so that they had to state on Twitter that this is not a direct port and has new mechanics - which is good. I want a fighting game proper, not a rock-paper-scissors simulator. The roster seems rather small at 15, considering the mobile game has some 60 characters in it. And of course, I hope they don't skimp out on the Megazords.

It's been a while since we've had good Power Rangers games. The two 3DS titles were average at best (the zord battles were the highlights). The Samurai game on Wii and DS was pretty good, especially on Wii, but that was Inti Creates.

I was hoping we might get MMPR: Mega Battle as well, but I guess that ship has sailed.

As for people bringing up the SNES titles (and the Fighting Edition) - with Natsume reworking first Wild Guns and now Ninja Warriors, I can see it happening. They did a ton of good Power Rangers games up until the mid-2000s.

As for having the balls to be revealed during the MK11 reveal - the game was leaked prior to the official announcement, so I guess they tried to make the best of it.

Sorry but why'd you guys in NL had already covered Super Robot Wars T, and this one (Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid), but why did you ignore already released Kamen Rider Climax Scramble Zi-O exclusive for Switch only in Japan & Asia with English subs? Have NL guys already familiar with Kamen Rider western adaptations such as Saban Masked Rider (based on Black RX) and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight? (based on Ryuki). It also noting that Climax Scramble Zi-O already have a 1.2.0 update let players to unlock Kamen Rider Woz in few days ago, why did you guys don't let people know about that game?

It would be cool if Alpha was playable and or any of the villans / villan kaiju clay monsters reeta makes in the original.

As well as the zords

Or maybe have the zords be a form of special / ultimate attack for each ranger.

All in all the green rangers lighting looks cool and i look forward to playing as yellow pink & blue.

@WaveBoy To be entirely frank, a lot of his fame is because of him being Tommy Oliver and the Green Dragon Ranger. He is the quintessential Power Ranger.

The best ranger games were on SNES and PS1. The SPD game on GBA is also good just not on the same level as the others.

@Gamerhenky Are there Asian region physical releases with english support for the Kamen Rider games?

@masterLEON Yes, they are. There's even an edition that has the cover in English. From what I've heard, as long as you set your system to "English" even the regular Japanese version will play with English text.

But unfortunately, Climax Scramble looks like a really bad game The only reason I'm still considering importing it is for the novelty of it. Also, supposedly it was just Heisei Riders, but Kamen Rider Black appears on the back cover as well.

Well it looks a little better than the lupinranger vs patoranger game. However I think I will just stick with super sentai battle on wii.

@ilikeike I think it's a great time! Kids are gonna be asking for Mortal Kombat, parents will say no and see this instead

@WaveBoy I have to give him props. If there is anyone that has continued to be the ultimate cheerleader for the franchise, its him. Not to take away anything from other actors and their dedication to the franchise. Many have valid reasons to their limited involvement. I assume Hasbro in the future will continue to call on him if he's willing to continue being involved.

@Mach_Rider Hell no, don't call Climax Scramble Zi-O a bad game please? I haven't played the game yet, considering for my local region (which is Asia and living in Indonesia) and liking Kamen Rider Series, buying Kamen Rider Climax Scramble Zi-O later is my important priority.

@WaveBoy - To be honest, if people are only allowed to make a good fighter because of their pedigree, we wouldn't have some many good indies out there.

I am willing to give this a go, cause I am a classic PR fan and to give Tommy a good beating is something that may satisfy me as much as destroying Pikachu in all those Smash games (which has latter been replaced with whatever potato they call "ridley" in the game now).

I am a hardcore Power Rangers fan. If I'm not wrong, this is the first Power Rangers video game being released in the Hasbro era, although it's being developed by the same team behind the mobile game. I played the mobile game a lot and it's really fun! But I didn't like the selection of playable characters. It seemed pretty arbitrary and a lot of the Rangers I wanted in the game weren't. I know there are a ton of Rangers at this point so it would be hard to have them all, but I hear this Switch game has even less playable characters than the mobile game, so that's not good. Still, I'm sure it will be a fun game, especially for fans of the franchise.

I love the power rangers but this doesn't look too good. Doesn't seem very fluid.

@ALinkttPresent I guess the idea is adding more characters as DLC, whether thats paid or free, they already has a Season 1 pass announced and I see new trailers for new characters in the mobile game. But hey, I guess if that includes Story/Arcade modes for each character, there'll be effort put into the game and DLC. And if the community grows enough, maybe they'll listen to fan's requests.

@Gamerhenky Trust me, I love Kamen Rider too and really wanted it to be a good game, but it looks very, very bad
"Kamen Rider Dragon Knight" on Wii and DS was so much better. As well as the two "Rider Generation" games on DS.

@Mach_Rider I don't see anything bad or awful with Climax Scramble Zi-O. Please, never say like that again!

Release the first Power rangers and the second one from the SNES and well talk.

@ilikeike Mortallllllllllllllllllllllllllll Koooooooooooooooooooombat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Mach_Rider Kamen Riders unite!.... But really I love the series so I'm gonna get Zi-O regardless!

@Travisemo007 I mainly want Dai-Shi from Jungle Fury, and the bad guy from Samurai (forgot his name).

@Reigestugatensho Dekker would be awesome!! Or did you mean Master Xandred? Or maybe Oh-Ah-Ooh, you want Octoroo?

@Dayton311

Not really. Not everyone is into Mortal Kombat or cares for the excess blood and guts. Aside from the fact that I'm a huge Power Rangers fan, I welcome another fighting game to the Switch!

You know I can't wait!

@ilikeike Yeah, there's totally not another fighting game from an acclaimed fighting game developer which recently had a community reveal event to showcase gameplay, and is having a beta test in two months...

That would be blasphemy

modern day mortal kombat is too much gore and blood for me, as well as the fighting mechanics are the least satisfying/crap mechanics ive tried in the past 10 years making it unplayable for me. so i cant wait to try power rangers out!

Same month as MK11? Stupid!

@Mach_Rider Yes! Thank you! I forgot his name!..... I can't decide, I want them all (grew up with my parent's original Mighty Morphin' Rangers/Samurai was the one for my Gen/Favorite is Jungle Fury)

@FrankGarrett game got leaked so they had to release early.

@WaveBoy Think they've already gotten Pennywise (hopely not Jason!) My friends were in an argument as to whether LeatherFace had been used in MKX or if they could use him in the new one.

@WaveBoy You are definitely right about Pin Head! Wish we d have Candyman as well.