Month: September 2018

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Breach is the mutant child of League, Left 4 Dead, & Diablo

At PAX West this year, we had the chance to be among the first people in the world to play Breach, the ambitious new genre-brending ARPG from QC Games. Breach is a combination of mechanics and genres that make for something pretty unique in the F2P space, and we’re lucky enough to say that it also plays pretty dang well to boot.

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The SNK website is counting down to a new game announcement for Sept. 10

With SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy hitting stores in just a few days, some folks may be wondering about what’s next for SNK. Well, it seems that they will be revealing their future plans soon enough!

SNK has just put up a new page on their website with the title “New SNK Game Announcement”. The page lists a countdown to the date September 10, 2018 with the words “A new dawn rises…”

While SNK is known primarily for their fighting game franchises, this doesn’t automatically mean that we’re getting a new Neo Geo Battle Coliseum. Aside from their mobile game efforts, the company also has dabbled in several other genres. For all we know, this “new dawn” could herald them moving back to shmups, platforms, or golf games.

Source: SNK

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Learn about Studio French Bread’s design philosophy in latest episode of Exploring Fighting Games Extra 8

Learn about the history and design philosophies of Soft Circle French Bread!

Recently, in their 8th episode of “Exploring Fighting Games”, the Chemical Lovers decided to look at the design philosophy behind an increasingly-popular studio in the fighting game community, French Bread. This episode walks us through the team’s humble beginnings as they created small amateur fan games and doujin works. They eventually desired to create a licensed, professional, product, sending a proposal to visual novel company “Type-Moon” requesting to create a fighting game based off of their popular visual novel, Tsukihime.

However, they faced unique challenges when development began, as they had to strictly adhere to the source material, with heavy negotiations on creating each fighter’s moveset and play style. Despite these hurdles, the game they made (Melty Blood) went on to become a hit in Japan. They faced a crossroads with the transition to a larger screen size and increasing popularity of high definition resolution, as they lacked experience, and felt trying to release an HD sequel would be a risky gamble. Thus, they decided to create an original property, that became the game they’re currently known for, Under Night In-Birth.

While the differences between the two titles are vast, they both emphasize battle planner Komone Serizawa’s core beliefs that it is their responsibility to ensure that each fighter plays how player’s initially imagine based off of their looks. You can see the full video below, as well as further discussion in Bas Gros Poing‘s article.

For an alternate perspective on what makes Under Night so unique, check out Bloobop’s recent editorial on its “freshness.”

Source: novriltataki; Bas Gros Poing