Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (PlayStation 3)


Dengeki Bunk: Fighting Climax is a 2D fighting game by Sega which stars many manga/anime, and sometimes other video game characters. The story is about an evil being defeating and taking the "data" from other characters and using them to fight whichever fighter you choose. This evil being, Zetsumu, believes that dreams (aspiration dreams not sleepy dreams) are evil, as pursuing your dream deprives others of theirs. The player character must fight their way to him and realize that dreams are beautiful things~



This game is a 2D fighter that also features support characters. Each support character has two attacks they can perform, one by pressing X, and one by pressing the forward arrow and X. These attacks range from defense to attack to special attack, depending on the support character you chose. Your fighter character can perform a weak attack with square, a medium attack with triangle, and a strong attack with O. These can be combined together with arrows and other buttons to perform more moves depending on the character. There are also some special bars that can be used for special attacks and a few other such features. There is also a Dream Duel story mode where you face your character off against specific opponents in the order of your choosing.



Aside from story mode, this game has many staple fighting game modes such as time attack and survival, as well as a versus mode, and an online match mode. You can also customize a player card and, with your winning points from playing the game, you can unlock features such as colour swaps for characters, and voices. You can also view some manga artwork and a few other such things. There are two unlockable characters (plus two support characters), one by beating story mode and one by beating story mode while winning the majority of fights with specials. These two cannot be used in Story Modes.



Characters:
(Because of the large number, I will not be posting support characters. I will also ONLY be posting the characters from my favourite to least favourite based on gameplay since I have not seen/read/played most of the characters anime/manga/video games and can't comment on their personalities or stories too much.)
Tomoka: From Ro-Kyu-Bu!
Kirino: From Oreimo
Rentaro: From Black Bullet
Mikoto: From A Certain Magical Index
Shizuo: From Durarara!!
Yukine: From Strike the Blood
Selvaria: From Valkyria Chronicles
Taiga: From Toradora!
Akira: From Virtua Fighter
Shana: From Shakugan no Shana
Miyuki: From The Irregular at magic High School
Kirito: From Sword Art Online
Asuna: From Sword Art Online
Kuroyukihime: From Accel World

Overall this was a fun game to play and I don't regret buying it, but I have other 2D fighters, such as Aquapazza, that are along the same vein and do what this game does, only better. The story is super generic, literally staying the same except for different dialogue with the chosen characters, which makes it less exciting to play through with everyone. There also aren't as many backgrounds as I would like and most are forgettable. This game is probably much better for fans of these characters, but for someone like me who only knows a few of them, a lot of the impact is lost. Tomoka, however, is the best part of this game, is super fun to use and adorable, and has made me want to look in to Ro-Kyu-Bu! There are some fun attacks though and the game is pretty fun to pick up once in a while, and I like the colour swaps. I just find it a bit lacking, personally.

Verdict:
IT WAS OKAY