There is a type of game in Japan that is difficult to climb the hall of elegance, but it develops silently in a niche circle, and while making a basket of scum every year, there are also a large number of divine works that stand out and gradually become an indispensable part of the "two-dimensional" culture.
This kind of game is The Adult Game, which is commonly known as "Galgame", "Love Action Game" and "Yellow Tour" by the two-dimensional gentlemen, we collectively call it Galgame in the article.
Galgame is mostly presented in the form of electronic visual novels, the amount of scripts with hundreds of thousands of words is the main backbone of Galgame, with CG illustration, character painting, BGM, giving players a reading experience beyond the novel, the beautiful girl characters in the game as story transmitters, but also by the player's love. Thanks to their super popularity in the original, sometimes they can even break through the single medium of electronic visual novels and appear in other forms, such as fighting games.
Today, the governor will take stock of the fighting games based on Galgame, some of which are older, and maybe you played them back then!
Eternal Fighter ZERO, or EFZ for short, was developed by the Japanese fandom game studio Twilight FRONTIER. The game was officially released in 2000, and it was not until 2005 that the version was discontinued, and there were finally 23 characters to choose from.
At that time, the game EFZ was actually very popular in China, and when the governor was running exhibitions in Guangzhou and Shanghai, he also participated in the competitions organized by the organizers. Although it did not get the ranking, it is rare to have such treatment as a fan-player.
EFZ's optional characters are all "KEY series" characters, that is, the heroines in several Galgame films such as "MOON", "ONE", "KANON", "AIR" and so on, of which "KANON" and "AIR" were later animated by Kyo Ani, I believe that the old two-dimensional elements have an impression, right?
Most of the moves and styles of the characters in the game come from the story sections in the original game, which also pays tribute to the classic moves of many fighting games. For example, the popular character Kurata Saori paid tribute to the boss Lukar of "King of Fighters", and his killer skill "Magic Shock" is the same as Lukar's "Giant Crush".
For example, the role of Chuan ChengWu is almost a reproduction of Gao Lingxiang in "Moonlight Swordsman 2", the action and moves are almost exactly the same, and the prototype of its killer skill "Wheat Ear Xue" is Gao Lingxiang's "Divine Victory".
The most outrageous thing is Akane Satomura's killer skill, which is like the iconic stunt of the "Street Fighter" series of ghosts, "Instant Prison Killing"! However, the "heaven" in the background has been replaced by "suspect", which comes from the mantra of Akane Nakamura in the original work, "疑です".
In addition to a variety of visual sense of terrier, you can also see the system characteristics of a variety of fighting games in EFZ, which can be described as a collection of hundreds of strengths, and each system can be perfectly integrated, and the biggest essence of the game is not "precision defense" and "attack cancellation".
The so-called precision defense is to defend the moment the player is hit by the opponent, and the trigger will produce blue light effects and the sound of "PING". After the success of the defense, the player can cancel the hard straight time generated by the attack, so as to counterattack the opponent, which is of great significance in actual combat. This is also the difference between EFZ and other fighting games, it will not be blindly suppressed by the opponent to death, and by predicting the opponent's attack, the defender will get more opportunities to counterattack.
In addition, "Attack Cancellation" can forcibly cancel the attack action by consuming RF value (the trigger effect is black screen + blue light), and after canceling the action, you can change the move and play a more flexible COMBO.
Even after 20 years, EFZ's fighting system will not be outdated at all, and many people at that time called EFZ the pinnacle of the fan-fighting game industry, which was completely unrecognizable. In my mind, its status can even be compared with classic fighting games such as King of Fighters, Street Fighter, and Guilty Gear.
Another 20-year-old beautiful girl fan-player game was produced by the fandom group Watanabe Studios.
Watanabe Studios is a group that specializes in adapting Game Maker Leaf's games into fighting titles, and its debut game THE QUEEN OF HEART (The Queen of Fighting) was born in 1998, two years before EFZ. Its covers include Shizuku, Trace, To Heart, White Album and Comic Party, in addition to Shizuku and Trace, the other three works have launched all-age animation, and the sequel to "White Album" has become a milestone work of the future two-dimensional culture.
"Fighting Queen" COMBO combos are more unrestrained than EFZ, sometimes light punch + floating skill + air light punch xN can already play a good damage, if there is no damage correction, it is very easy to kill the opponent in one move.
Compared to EFZ, which has two core systems of precision defense and attack cancellation, the fighting system of "Queen of Fighting" is relatively monotonous, but the 4-player brawl mode adds a lot of fun to the game. To know that before 2000, there were not many games that could be played by four people on the computer, "Fighting Queen" was one of them, and remember that in order to compete for the right to use the controller, several classmates simply put their old lives together, and the other two who failed to grab the controller could only endure the pain of keyboard conflicts and be happy...
Like many fan-to-personality fighting games, "Fighting Queen" also has a very rich spoof and tribute elements, but it is mainly based on the reproduction of the original meme, such as Yuki Morikawa's LV3 must kill skill, which is to reproduce the famous scene of the "White Album" Line, the fact that the protagonist splits his legs, the East Window Incident, the two girls tear up in front of their faces, the famous line of "I slept with Tommy", the governor remembers the 30s from his 10s! This plot is so shocking, the tears of the two women make my heart like a knife!
Since everyday Galgame heroines such as the Leaf Club and the KEY Club can fight, it is not surprising that nitro+ is a hot-blooded hard faction that launches a fighting game.
"Nitro+ Burst: Heroine Brawl" gathers the heroines of more than 10 game works of Nitro+ Society, including "Phantom Hell" EIN, "Ghost Cry Street" Kong Ruili, "Vampire Fighter" Mora, "Slayer" Al, "Saya Song" Saya, etc., I believe that some senior Galgame players are familiar with these old faces.
As for why the character is mixed in with a Saber... Don't forget that Fate/Zero is the author of Fate/Zero (to be fair, Fate/Zero is one of the best Fate works I've ever read, not one), plus he and Mushroom are old friends for many years, and it's very simple to get a copyright.
The game was originally only available on PC, but because of its popularity, Nitro+ launched an arcade version and added several optional characters and support characters, including Nirto+ characters involved in the production of animation, such as Amy of "Gargontia on the Star", Chang Shou zhu of "PSYCHO-PASS", and Yuki Shōgun of "Gakuen Island".
The overall style of "Nitro+ Burst: Heroine Brawl" is a bit like "Guilty Gear X", the characters use a five-headed body image, the action details are very well done, the game belongs to the type of strong sense of attention, if you are used to playing "King of Fighters" people may not like this style, but once you accept this setting, it is easy to get on the head.
Among the many characters, the governor's favorite use is Shaye. In addition to my own enthusiasm for "The Song of Saya", it is also because Shaye's various meat block moves in "Nitro+ Burst: Heroine Brawl" greatly satisfied my curiosity, and her must-kill skills are so cool, watching the HIT number soar, the pressure of the day is instantly eliminated!
In recent years, the Fate series has successfully broken the circle, turning the Type Moon Society from a small and medium-sized enterprise that mixes well in the niche game circle into a model in the Japanese game industry. With a variety of product licensings and a few occasional music CDs, the game set is enough to feed the company, and even several other companies.
As the old predecessor of the Fate series, the game "Tsukihime" was also extremely popular that year, selling more than 100,000 sales as a fan game, ranking among the three gods in the Japanese fandom, and also laying the foundation for commercialization for the type of moon that was still a fandom at that time.
In 2002, Sheryu collaborated with Watanabe Productions to launch a fighting game based on the theme of "Tsukihime" called "MELTY BLOOD" (commonly known as "Tsukihime Fighting"). Although the characters and screens of the original "Moon Ji Fighting" are still pixel style, and the balance of character strength is not good, but the flaws are not hidden, with wonderful and cool special effects, the "Moon Ji" world's special battle screen that can only be expressed through words is faithfully re-presented in front of the player's eyes, which can't help but make fans' blood boil.
Subsequently, the "MELTY BLOOD" update iterated several versions, and also launched arcade and PS2 games, and was selected more times to become one of the competition items of the Japanese fighting game festival "Fighting Drama", which can be said to be the most famous and colorful work in many fan-to-peer fighting games.
It is worth mentioning that in September 2021, shortly after the remake of the original work "Moon Hime", "MELTY BLOOD" also ushered in a new work "MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA" that has been missing for 7 years, and adopted 3D modeling, 2D rendering to reconstruct the picture, greatly strengthen the skill special effects, and add more animation performances. It can be said that it is highly borrowed from the wealth code of "Evil Gear", but there is still a gap between the overall "Evil Gear Xrd -SIGN-".
In addition to the above several games, over the years many Galgames have jumped out of the original field and tried to turn to a larger market, such as Leaf Society's "Things of Praise" has been 20 years since its inception in 2002, and has been crawling on major platforms for so long, and also launched a mobile game version in 2019.
In addition, there is also the "Love Ji Wu" derived from "Love Ji Matchless", although the original painting is very good,but the game system is difficult to say, in addition to not being fun, everything else is good, and it also proves that not every Galgame is a way to live!
All right! Today's article is written here. Classic games are never outdated, strange games can be remembered for a lifetime, I am the game governor, we will see you next time!