Arc System Works Announces Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes For Nintendo Switch

Ooh nice surprise. Looking forward to it.

Really cool to see this fully announced after the ratings leak. Gameplay doesn't seem too much completely new from the original but that's ok. Might just have to sell my copy of the original so then I can have some extra cash for it

Looks good. İ love this kind of games. What İ saw from this trailer İ loved it.

French Bread keeping sprite based fighters alive.

Yay! Hope to see a certain witch joining the cast.

Very excited about this one. Glad to see an article as the fighting game forum thread is dead here. I really miss Shoryuken some days. Granted I prefer to game on switch whenever possible I was hoping this would go to xbox as well.

My knowledge of Under Night In-Birth only goes so far as, "It was the fourth thing in Cross Tag Battle," but its stuff seemed charming there.

I enjoyed playing the first game (or one of its 3+ re-releases, don't remember which one), so I look forward to this one.

WOOOOOOOW! FINALLY! It's about time! What a happy news! I'm happy. Day one buy for me!
Edit: Seems like Tsurugi and Kuon will be playable characters. Also, Kuon became older... Or... It is his true physical appearance. And that's why he have different seiyû now. He was previously voiced by Ayane Sakura, who also voices Linne. Also, announcer says "Tsû" – Japanese transliteration of English word "Two". But, there's no 2 in the title. That's strange. Maybe, it's some kind of mistake? Hmm...
One more edit: Oh, there's II in the title which I haven't recognized before. My mistake. Sorry.

@Ryu_Niiyama «Glad to see an article as the fighting game forum thread is dead here.»
Well... There's only a few people here on NL that does care about fighting games and play them on Nintendo Switch. I'm one of those people. (I'm a fighting games fan, after all.)
Edit: Even NL staff don't really care about fighting games, sadly.

Nice, that's almost a reasonable title compared to the past versions

Question is will the Switch version support rollback? The way device treat it, it ranges from impossible (Rivals of Aether) to not technically feasible (FighterZ - although ASW have proven that to be true for every other platform as well) to limited (Nick All-Stars) to "yeah, we got it working no problem" (MK11).

@DarkTron I'd say it's likely because Melty Blood Type Lumina (also a French Bread developed game) had rollback on Switch. Even the eShop page states this fact.

@DarkTron Well... French-Bread are NOT lazy Arc System Works. So, probably yes. Melty Blood: Type Lumina have rollback netcode support on Nintendo Switch.

@JohnnyMind UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r] is one of the best fighting games ever created! You will not regret it. Also, 'cause it's a anime fighting game, this game is more friendly than Street Fighter or Tekken. Cast of characters is really interesting. And! There's no clones characters in the game! Like, Dark Ryû, Violent Ken, or ninja characters in Mortal Kombat, for example. Amazing, don't you think? Also, there's good cast of seiyû! Ayane Sakura(Linne), Kôsuke Toriumi(Gordeau), Saori Hayami(Orie), Takashi Kondô(Carmine), and more! And if you're gonna play "story mode" in this game, you need to play Chronicle mode first. Events in Chronicle mode are set before the events of Arcade Mode. After completing Chronicle mode, you'll need to go to Arcade Mode. So, game have "2" story modes, lol. Chronicle mode plays like a kinetic visual novel, though. Gameplay is featured in Arcade Mode and other modes. I've previously mentioned that the Kuon's seiyû changed, due to his true(?) physical appearance. But, there's also Yuzuriha, who's seiyû is replaced at all. Her seiyû, Ayumi Fujimura have taken a indefinite hiatus from the work for undisclosed reasons, sadly. In BBTAG, her role as Konoe Ayatsuki Mercury(Nine the Phantom) was succeeded by Rie Tanaka. And I must say, their voices sounds quite similar. But I do like Ayumi Fujimura's voice as Nine more than the Rie Tanaka's one. Also, UNIcl-r have very good single player content, like any other awesome fighting game! I don't care about online in fighting games, personally. All I do care about is SINGLE PLAYER content, story modes, and fully voiced dialogues, if they are present. Though, don't every fighting game features fully voiced dialogues, sadly. But, I can live and play fighting games without it.
Edit: Game's title is not a combination of randomly chosen words! If you know the game's lore, you will understand the meaning of game's title. Only people outside of fighting games community are making jokes of the game's title.

looks interesting might get this.

Ah my fav genre. I remember liking the first game. Yeah, 100% up for another iteration. Good to read.

How is this franchise compared to BlazBlue? I have BB on Switch and it's great, but this game might be too similar to warrant a purchase.

@JohnnyMind Oh, okay. 😊

@calbeau Well... UNIcl-r is one of the best fighting games ever created, like BLAZBLUE(for me, the best BLAZBLUE game is BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION). UNIcl-r have awesome soundtrack done by Raito aka Masaru Kuba, who's also known as Melty Blood games' music composer and the 1st game's opening singer. And its different from Ishiwarari's death metal OSTs in Guilty Gear and BLAZBLUE games. Story-wise, well... BLAZBLUE and UNIcl-r have different themes/topics. But, UNIcl-r's story is not less interesting than the BLAZBLUE's one(-s). Not so sad/tragic like BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION, but there's enough it's own sad things in the game's story. Amount of playable characters in the game is smaller than in BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION – 21 playable characters. But there's no clones characters like Dark Ryû, Violent Ken, or ninja characters from Mortal Kombat in the game! Every character in the game is quite unique. Seiyû's cast in the game is really good. Some characters shares their seiyûs with BLAZBLUE characters. Gallery mode is not very big like in BLAZBLUE, but it is still good. Modes-wise... There's no analogue of Abyss Mode in UNIcl-r. But in overall, single player content in the game is very good. UNIcl-r is an anime-style fighting game as well. UNIcl-r's Infinite Worth: EXS is analogue of BLAZBLUE's Astral Finish, I suppose. So... BLAZBLUE and UNIcl-r are perfectly coexist with each other, imo. And UNIcl-r is worth playing. Especially, if you're into fighting games or anime-style fighting games. Also, UNIcl-r is easier than BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION.

@Vyacheslav333 Thanks for the detailed comparison. Much appreciated. I'll consider getting this one.

@calbeau I was happy to help. 😊