Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax
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| Developer(s) | Ecole Software French Bread |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Takaharu Terada |
| Producer(s) | Ryutaro Nonaka |
| Composer(s) | Yui Isshiki
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| Platforms | Arcade, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita |
| Release date(s) | Arcade
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| Genre(s) | Fighting game |
| Arcade system | Sega RingEdge 2 |
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (電撃文庫 FIGHTING CLIMAX Dengeki Bunko Faitingu Kuraimakkusu?) is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Ecole Software and French Bread and published by Sega. The game celebrates the 20th anniversary of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint, featuring various characters from light novels published under the imprint.[2] The game was first released in Japanese arcades on March 18, 2014,[3] and later released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on November 13, 2014.[4] The console version was released in North American and European markets on October 6, 2015.[5][6] The game's theme song is "Belief" by Mami Kawada.
An updated version of the game, titled Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition (電撃文庫 FIGHTING CLIMAX IGNITION Dengeki Bunko Faitingu Kuraimakkusu Igunishion?), was launched on July 28, 2015.[7] The update contains additional characters and more balanced gameplay.[8][9][10] The updated version was released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on December 17, 2015.[11] The updated version's theme song is "ID" by LiSA.
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Gameplay
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is a two-dimensional fighting game, in which two players fight against each using both a playable fighter character and an assist character. Fighting uses three main attack buttons: weak, medium, and strong, along with a support button used for summoning a player's assist character. After an assist character is summoned, players need to rebuild their support gauge before they can summon them again. By building the Climax Gauge with attacks, players can perform powerful Impact Skill attacks, and can also use Blast Icons to perform Blast Attacks, allowing them to escape from combos.[12] The home version features an original story campaign, Dream Duel Story, and online multiplayer, and supports cross-save functionality between the PS3 and Vita versions. Samples from the represented light novel series are also included as unlockable content.[13]
In the Ignition update, it adds another assist character slot, but for Blast only instead of Assist. A new system called Ignition is introduced, giving one character in each team a power-up after each round. From the second round on, if the same Ignition on the team's character from the previous round is reused, it gives an "Extra Ignition".
Character roster
The initial roster features 12 playable characters and 18 assist characters from 22 light novels and the current roster is 19 playable characters and 30 assist characters. The roster features characters under the Dengeki Bunko imprint, among playable characters and assist characters that can be called while in the middle of a round to help the playable character in various ways. All characters are voiced by their respective actors from the anime adaptations, with a few exceptions. A non-playable character known as Denshin (電神?) (voiced by Mao), based on the Dreamcast character from Sega Hard Girls, summons the playable characters for their aid to combat a malevolent entity (voiced by Ken Narita) from the organization Zetsumu who takes the form of the captured playable characters, followed by a form of Akira Yuki from Sega's Virtua Fighter series, with Pai Chan as his assist, as boss characters; both Akira and Pai later became playable characters in the console ports and post-Version 1.20 arcade versions.[14][15]
Eight additional characters (four playable and four assists) were added to the roster by mid-2014.[16][17][18] The second Sega guests, Selvaria Bles and Alicia Melchiott of Valkyria Chronicles, first appeared in the console ports and later added to the arcade version 1.30, along with other assist characters from other Dengeki Bunko's published series.[19][20][21] The games' various stages and their accompanying music tracks are based on other Sega titles, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Nights into Dreams..., Shinobi, Border Break, Valkyria Chronicles, 7th Dragon and Phantasy Star Online 2.[22] The DLC characters from Sword Art Online, Yuuki and the assist LLEN, were released on December 25, 2015. DLC characters from And you thought there is never a girl online?, Ako and the assist Rusian, will be included in a future update.[23]
Playable characters
Assist characters
Other characters
| Character | Series | Voice actor | Arcade revision | Original | Ignition |
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| Heivia Winchellaf | Heavy Object | Kaito Ishikawa | 2.0 |  |
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| Milinda Brantiniaf | Heavy Object | Eri Suzuki | 2.0 | |
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| Airi Kashii | Ro-Kyu-Bu! | Rina Hidaka | 1.0 | |
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| Alas Ramusf | The Devil Is a Part-Timer! | Unknown | 2.0 | |
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| Maho Misawa | Ro-Kyu-Bu! | Yuka Iguchi | 1.0 | |
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| Saki Nagatsuka | Ro-Kyu-Bu! | Yoko Hikasa | 1.0 | |
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- Notes
- ^a : Available as extra, post-arcade and console release content.
- ^b : Unlockable, but unplayable in Arcade and Dream Duel Modes in original game's console version.
- ^c : Akira and Pai were originally non-playable in pre-console release arcade versions of original game.
- ^d : Also appears for certain playable characters' Special and Super Moves.
- ^e : Queser's first name in the game is "Qwenthur".
- ^f : Introduced in Ignition.
- ^g : Both playable and assist characters. If certain playable characters are selected, certain playable characters will instead be assist characters and cannot be selected as the same character who has already been selected from the playable roster in Ignition.
- ^h : Downloadable characters in "Ignition".
Reception
The game currently has a score of 75/100 on Metacritic.[25] Awarding it 4 out of 5, Hardcore Gamer described it as "a love-letter to anime and Sega fans".[26] In contrast, PlayStation Lifestyle awarded it a score of 5.5 out of 10, writing that "although solid enough as a fighting game, the emphasis here is certainly not on gameplay and can often leave newcomers disconnected from the fun."[27]
See also
References
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