Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late’s is a new fighting game from the people who brought us Melty Blood. Arc System Works have joined with them to brig the game to the US and now French Bread has sat down with Siliconera to discuss their new game. Frist off the difference between the two games Melty Blood is based of off a novel making it a hard line to walk between the fans of Tsukihme and fighting game fans in general.
“The “occult motif” makes it easier to give characters reasons to fight, so we feel that it works well with a fighting game. It was difficult with Melty Blood, keeping in consideration the line where players that are fans of the original works would be satisfied, making it necessary to insert components that conformed to the source material while also put in fighting game components that weren’t present in the original source material (making Hisui and Kohaku fight in a comical way). Conversely, Under Night In-Birth’s setting and characters were intended to be for a fighting game from the very beginning, and did not have much effect on the creation of the game. Other than Waldstein’s large body, it was a very straightforward game to design.”
To separate itself from the rest of the heard French bread decided to do a supernatural fighting game in modern setting as compared to Blazblue who is supernatural fighter set in the future. Also keeping a simple, balanced and unique fighting system helps.
“About the setting and characters, we saw how there weren’t many original fighting games that had the feeling of the Japanese light novels popular with youth audiences. BlazBlue is all-out fantasy. Arcana Heart is a game with only female characters and is targeted toward male gamers. We thought about highlighting this title’s uniqueness and originality by aiming for the middle of these ideas.
The distinctions of this game from BlazBlue, is the game’s emphasis on simplicity by focusing on the two options of strikes and throws, as well as the intensity of players reading each other by keeping tabs on each other’s gauges and the other player’s situation. In addition to this, by fusing the stylishness from connecting speedy combos with the fundamental Grind Grid system, we like to think a sense of uniqueness was achieved.”
Now for those who are wondering about their other game Melty Blood and the future of the game that is on hold. The article states that plans are undecided and if the opportunity arises they will discus it then. For fans of the franchise you will have to what until Typemoon is done with the Tsukhime reboot first as Melty Blood is a sequel of that game so when they are done we will be able to see where it goes.
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