Publisher: Bandai
Developer: Bandai
Release Date: 2/24/2002
Date Played: 11/4/2019
Region: USA
Time Played: 41 minutes
What’d you think?: This is a Digimon fighting game, somewhat more in the vein of a Smash Bros-style platform fighter than a Tekken or Guilty Gear, coming out just a few months after Melee. The objective is still to reduce the opponent’s life bar, but each fighter is relatively small and mobile, moving around large stages usually full of moving platforms. Fall off of them into the abyss below, and you just take a little damage and get placed back on top. Character’s movelists didn’t seem deep, they had an “attack” button for basic melee strikes, and each character had two special moves, one was usually a projectile, the other usually moved the character along with an attack. It was pretty simple, but surprisingly fun and engaging. The last fight in the arcade mode was tense. I beat it!
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyktaVpiIWQ
