Sirlin Games has announced a new fighting game from Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix lead designer, David Sirlin, that will be released on July 25th. This game is called Fantasy Strike and in order to celebrate this announcement, the studio has released its debut gameplay trailer that you can find below.
As the press release reads:
“The secret to how Fantasy Strike works as both a deep tournament game for hardcore genre fans as well as an introduction to the genre for newcomers is that both ends of the spectrum benefit from the game’s extreme emphasis on strategy over difficult controls. Both types of players can enjoy its innovations in making fighting games more readable and understandable than ever before, which help everyone make the most informed strategy decisions they can.
These innovations include a unique feature never seen in any fighting game before: a visual display of “frame advantage.” These graphical effects communicate which player will recover first after every hit and in how much time. Fantasy Strike also goes the extra mile to get everyone thinking strategically by including, inside the game itself, in-depth tutorial videos for all ten characters narrated by game director David Sirlin.”
Fantasy Strike will offer an Arcade Mode with illustrated narrative bookends, a Boss Rush Mode that allows players draft their own deck of powerups against progressively powerful opponents, and Ranked Mode with built-on-the-fly tournaments and 3-on-3 team battles designed to offer a variety of matchups while removing the concepts of counter-picks. The game will also include four Survival modes, a once-per-day Daily Challenge Mode, and, of course, local and online Versus featuring best-in-class GGPO networking technology for a fast and responsive online experience.
David Sirlin, the game director of Fantasy Strike, said:
“Online play is so important to fighting games that we’re trying to push the genre forward here. Part of that is on our technical implementation of networking which somehow allows me, in California, to play my friend in Tokyo and have it feel totally responsive and smooth. The other part is modernizing the genre conventions for user interface so it’s just a single click to challenge a friend online and a single click to watch any friend’s match. Come try it out with us on July 25.”
Enjoy!
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Sounds so simple that even games ‘journalists’ may be able to play it.
LOL 🙂 10/10 IGN
LOL 🙂 10/10 IGN
Very cool, this looks really good. For some reason it makes me wish a new Darkstalkers was being made. Thanks for the heads up!
“For some reason it makes me wish a new Darkstalkers was being made.”
FIGHTING EX LAYER (for 3D) and Guilty Gear XRD (for anime) is about the closest thing i could think of and recommend. sadly there hasn’t been a Darkstalkers game in so long. I would recommend for Capcom to team up with either ” Arika” studio or ArkSystem works for a Darkstalkers game.
Cool! I have both of those, they are very good and awesome recommendation!
I am waiting for the new Samurai Shodown in winter for Steam. If you don’t have it already totally get KOF XIV that one is great as well and fell under the radar.
Yeah been waiting forever for a new Darkstalkers but Capcom seems to not care about that one 🙁 which is a shame.
Oh yeah another solid choice is the BlazBlue series and the new BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle(I think it is on sale right now too).
Anyways thanks 4 your help ?
Hold on for just a moment…. Samurai Showdown is making its way to Steam in Winter? I did not know this. Maybe my recent time with Soul Calibur VI can scratch that weapon based combat itch in the interim.
Yeah just search for: Samurai_Shodown_(2019_video_game) :in wikipedia and also I have a few EVO insider friends that got more unreleased info on it’s Steam release for this holiday!
I am sure you have seen it already, it looks really epic! There are 4K YouTube videos for the Xbox One X version out totally check em out if you have not. Can’t wait for the PC version! Nice SC VI is solid, especially with the remove DOF mod. We need more weapon Fighters.
Do you have Skullgirls too?In terms of animation is the closest we got of a new Darkstalker game.
I do! The games is really cool _ solid and I enjoy it! The 2D animation is pretty amazing, they got skills in that department for sure.
Really looking forward to Indivisible by them, it should be pretty good and has crazy 2D animation as you would expect.
The closest thing we have of a Darkstalker game is Skullgirls, especially in terms of animation. Lab Zero Games would be a better studio for a new game in the series!
The animations are both slow and fast at different stages, it looks exciting but then not… Weird problem.
Yeah, and the figures and font are bland, never quite convinced me.
Looks like a mobile fighter….