➤ The battle of the twelve 🎮

Battle Fantasia rests its foundations on the most traditional fighting game genre, namely that of fighting on only two dimensional axes. In the modern world of profound reinterpretations of classic titles, in reality, it still works great and not all the major names have converted to three dimensions, but they wanted to keep their stylistic origins from the first half of the nineties. This game appeared in 2007 in Japanese cabinets, with the idea of arousing in the general public of the Rising Sun that sort of melancholy of the time now past. In reality, Arc System Works was under the illusion that someone had appreciated her work so much that they made a conversion for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 the following year, but the commercial results only partially proved her right. Today that same work, in a partially revised and corrected version, arrives on Steam, a platform that now seems increasingly active also on the front of the vintage Japanese catalog. Someone, at the announcement of an Arc System Works title coming to PC, hoped for the latest incarnation of Guilty Gear, but for the moment it seems that we will have to settle ...

It all looks great ... until you start playing

Enter the arena

Just started Battle Fantasia - Revisited Edition - we are asked to set the desired resolution and the type of controller we want to exploit. We would like to underline this aspect because in the first case, even if we were to choose a common Full HD, we note that the result does not seem native, just look at the steps around the characters and the background elements to realize this.

On the side of the choice of the controller, an inexplicable fact, if you have not set it from the initial menu you will not be able to use it during the game. Having in fact started everything hastily, we wondered why the pad was not supported, but in reality it was all due to this lack of initial decision. The keyboard is then used in a very bad way, asking you to memorize which keys are associated with the strokes and even how to activate the menu, otherwise you will have to press all the buttons, looking for the right one even just to return to the main screen. That said it's fair to say that once you've made your choice correctly, both the Xbox 360 and One pads are supported. This version published on Steam also includes the release of the soundtrack as a free DLC, as well as an overall balance of the style of the fighters that has been revised after the release of the product for the past generation of hardware. The AI also appears to have been rewritten and is now slightly more responsive, offering a more interesting level of challenge., although it is almost impossible to add thickness where it wasn't there before, otherwise having to rewrite everything from scratch. The attacks are in fact the classic four hits to be combined with the movement of the analogue that deals with the movement, although to help you better understand how it works, it is good to know that with a keyboard and a wild "smashing button" you can perform particularly devastating random moves once you find the right "rhythm". Even those who still want to follow the "way of honesty", which involves learning the correct sequences, will not have any difficulty, since there is always the perception that the opponents play a game of their own, proving ineffective in countering our assaults.

The style we like

Battle Fantasia - Revisited Edition - is a Japanese game and as such it exudes all its tradition. The cartoon style includes very soft pastel colors, linked to the autumn season, without excess and always adequate to emphasize the characters who, in the exact opposite, are over the top, like their costumes, interchangeable and unlockable during the story mode. The twenty-four scenarios present are all animated, even if you clearly notice how the textures and colors are flat, as well as having really minimal movements.

The music is well-finished and deservedly have been included in a collection to be listened to. The "Story" mode provides for the narration of the events of unlikely beings from all over the world, committed to challenge each other. One of these, for example, is called Donvalve Du Don, a king who abdicated, invented a steampunk machine and is always drunk, just to give you the measure of madness of whoever you will find in front of you. The other unlikely members bear the names of Marco Van de Land, Freed Velez, Cedric Ward, Face, Watson Livingston, Deathbringer, Odile & Dokurod, Urs Van de Land, Coyori, Ashley Loveless, Olivia Von Roselia. As in any other similar production you will have the opportunity to practice the moves in a specific section, as well as having a gallery where you can admire the models that are gradually unlocked in computer graphics. There is also the possibility of competing online, even if there are not many players at the moment. Every single time we managed to start a game, among other things, the connection fell brutally and certainly not due to errors due to a lack of bandwidth and not even for the fear of a defeat., since the precipitous falls almost always occurred after a few moments of setting foot in the arena.

PC System Requirements

Test Setup

Intel Core i7 950 processor
12 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 video card
Windows 8.1 operating system

Minimum requirements

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / Pentium 4 651 / Celeron D 352 processor
2 GB of RAM
NVidia GeForce 7900 GS / ATI Radeon X1600Pro / X1300LE video card
Windows 7 operating system

Comment

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Your vote

At the cost of being terse, we believe that Battle Fantasia is not a game that deserves to be remembered. It has nothing fancy, although the title suggests the exact opposite, or a particularly brilliant element to rise from the crowd. It's even more anger if we consider that Arc System Works has beloved titles behind it, rightly so, by a wide audience of fans of the fighting game genre. Unfortunately, the PC conversion also has elements that leave a lot to be desired