Melty Blood: Actress Again, despite its silly name, is a no-nonsense fantastic fighting game that's sure to please casual players and hardcore fighting game fans alike, despite some small issues in presentation and balance. The storyline is solid if one has the interest in searching it out or can read Japanese, there's a good variety to the game modes, the visuals are mostly solid thanks to the artistic design and the fluid animations, and the audio of the game is top notch in all respects. The gameplay basics are simple to pick up and will feel familiar to most fighting game fans, but the advanced play mechanics are exceptionally diverse and complex, and the Moon style system is a surprisingly interesting addition that adds to the depth of the game by offering numerous fighting styles per character and changing up some special moves depending on the character and style. The characters are a little pixelated and don't compare to more modern 2D fighting games, the gameplay mechanics can seem daunting at first thanks to the immense amount of things one can do in battle to turn the tide or press the advantage, and the game suffers from SNK Boss syndrome and features a few unbalanced playable characters, which may put off some players. Overall, however, Melty Blood: Actress Again is a fighting game fans of the genre shouldn't be without if they have access to an import-ready PS2, as it's one of the best fighting games to come out in a long time in every way that matters.
With the announcement of Project x Zone, one has to wonder if it will ever come to America, unlike Namco x Capcom. Leviathyn.com's Jason Fanelli looks at some of the great games that haven't reached our shores. They are stuck in the land of the rising sun.
SHUT UP ............
"games that bring credence back to a seemingly failing genre. That Nintendo didn’t want to resurrect the JRPG is baffling"
Nintendo has localized more japanese rpgs and published more than any time in there 30 year, over 20 this gen........you dont think nintendo cares about rpgs?????????
PANDORAS TOWER GOT LOCALIZED GENIUS....................... Do you think in any other gen even NOE would of touched it? NO
Now please if yo dont know anything about rpgs stop writing about them.
I am so sick of this site which basically popped up out of nowhere last week, spams articles with zero research, and then forces us to deal with it
I would rather educate the ignorant generalizers
not to mention just to bring up how cowardly this site is they will ban you if you disagree and cant argue back
YES. Do them now. The only problem is that Nintendo doesn't want to localize them for some reason. I would love me some Layton x Phoenix action. (No homo brahs)
GI: The first time I had ever heard of a "crossover game" was when I was back in school and the first SNK VS Capcom was released. Of course, from there, the majority of "crossover games" seem to be fighting games (ie: Smash Brothers, Marvel VS Capcom, etc). And, of course, in Soul Caliber 2, based on which console you were using, you could access a special extra character.
And to some extent, I have to wonder why.
Well look at Kingdom Hearts. That is essentially a crossover game. I think more companies should do this if it makes sense to combine both game worlds into one. Who here thinks Borderlands x Brink would be a good idea?
just throw the free running from brink into borderlands 2 aw well as the customization and that would be gold
My point exactly. That's more genre blending than crossover, though, but still. Resident Evil x Silent Hill or something like that could be good. Even better, Alan Wake x Silent Hill. Silent Wake?
yeah, i was trying to think of a good cross over but couldn't come up with something
I'd like to see more cross-overs and cameos...Dante and Bayonetta are a match made in hell. It would be perfection...only if Platinum games made it tho.FTW!!!
Diehard GameFAN writes: Here we are: The beginning of 2010. Now that 2009 is officially done and over with, it's time to reveal the winners of Diehard GameFAN's 2009 Gaming Awards. Like all awards, there are those that will most likely agree with us, those that will most likely disagree with us, and those that will display an amazing lack of maturity and respect for opinions other than their own. With that in mind, please remember that these are awards from the Diehard GameFAN staff. We all debated, squabbled, eventually voted and in the end, these are the games that won. This is in no way shape or form saying that our opinions or picks are better than the list you have in your head…but this is our site, this is our list, and these games will go down as the official winners. We do hope that reading this makes you want to go out and try the award-winners you have yet to play. If you are interested in a specific staff member's pick, you can always read our individual staff commentaries. With that in mind, we present to you what we at Diehard GameFAN feel are the best games of 2009.
