Blade Strangers

The latest fighting game from Studio Saizensen features heroes from Cave Story, Code Princess, Umihara Kawase and The Binding Of Isaac. On top of that, it also has one of the silliest stories we’ve witnessed in a fighting game for some time and one we quite enjoyed. Blessed with exquisite looking animation and a distinctive aesthetic, Blade Strangers is a solid brawler that suffers in the same way as SNK Heroines did in that it focuses on making the game more accessible which results in a severe lack of depth. Special moves require nothing more than an input direction and a button press, while the balancing of characters is a little off. It’s entertaining enough, but there are far better options out there.