Anime Games Need A Break From Arena Fighters

With so many anime games these past couple of years, there's a growing, noticeable pattern in these games that are growing stale — the Arena Fighter.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

I think Arena Fighters are the worst fighting subgenre to go to. Why havent the west gotten Shonen Jump games in the style of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2? Or Anime fighter like DBZ Fighterz but not just dragon ball? Arena Fighters just arent very good fighter imo. Even the best Arena Fighter series Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm I feel is pretty mediocre as a fighting game

[Nasty_Neeeks]

The best Arena Fighter was Tenkaichi 3 and now it’s about to be Sparking Zero. Other Anime series just can’t pull it off as well as Dragonball can

[Skuletor]

Have you seen Hunter×Hunter Nen×Impact yet? It sounds exactly like what you're looking for.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Nah I'll check it out

[-Foxtrot]

We need more AAA anime games that are single player story driven, like you are experiencing another arc or something within that show. It's either fighting games or games that feel shallow with not much going for them, the kind which are made for the sake of it because the fanbase will eat it up anyway.

I want to see a proper well made game by great studios of Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo, Sailor Moon, Dirty Pair Flash etc

[blackblades]

One piece is that one of the anime thats not Pokemon and digimon that ive seen that has plenty of games outside of fighting.

[Michiel1989]

dragon ball, naruto had some pretty good ones although a lot of them are still fighters and I think there are plenty of games from lesser known animes that aren't that, but I haven't really kept up with anime so maybe I'm completely wrong.

[Terry_B]

Agreed.

[S2Killinit]

I would like a pokemon smash style anime inspired games.

[Flewid638]

The entire fighting game genre needs a break from anime.

[Inverno]

There are so many anime that would make awesome action/adventure or rpgs and only the most popular recent animes get made into games and they're always arena fighters or Warriors style. Would love a Full Metal game, or Ghost in The Shell.

[Skuletor]

I was surprised to see a new anime fighting game is coming up based on Hunter x Hunter an anime from 1999.

[Inverno]

Probably capitalizing on hype of a new season rumours going about.

[senorfartcushion]

A My Hero Academia game in the style of Yakuza would be LEGENDARY.

[VersusDMC]

I completely agree after playing the demo to the new jujutsu kaisen game...ugh.

Even the good ones like ultimate ninja storm I'm pretty much just playing to get to the awesome cutscenes.

DBZ fighterz is the last great anime game i've played. Now that i think about it i hope they give Arc System Works the Bleach license...

[glennhkboy]

The issue is: most Japanese Anime's story today IS about arena fighting.

[DivineHand125]

They are all just cash grabs where they reskin the game and repeat the same formula over and over. In recent times, the anime games that offered real innovation were Dragon ball Xenoverse 1 & 2, Dragonball fighterz and Dragon ball kakarot. The Naruto Ultimate Ninja also deserve to be mentioned, however, there are very little updates other than the roster to the gameplay since the second ultimate ninja game

I am hoping that we can get story driven experiences but unfortunately, outside of the dragon ball IP, not many in the gaming community would be willing to give those games a chance if they made such a high investment. We are doomed to seeing low budget games with a few exceptions.

On a side note. I don't know how popular guilty gear is but I would imagine Dragonball fighterz would be more popular in the west, yet ARC seems to not like working on Fighterz that much. They could have released more dlc stages and characters such as the remaining GT characters and the remaining cast from dragon ball super. It seems they couldn't maintain both games and chose to stick with strive.

[jznrpg]

I never buy these games so I agree. I also would like the quality of the games outside of fighter to go waaaaay up. Right now there are a handful of pretty good anime games and almost none that are very high quality. Granblue Fantasy is the best made anime game I can think of . Attack on Titan games were pretty good and a maybe couple other games and the rest is cookie cutter games or low quality.