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Giving each character a play in Dark Awake: The King Has No Name on PS3--bought off the Japanese PSN store. It didn't come to PS3 in the States, but in US arcades it was called "Chaos Breaker." It was made by Eolith, the Korean developer who had previously developed The King of Fighters 2001 and 2002--and perhaps not surprisingly, it's a 3-on-3 fighting game with four attack buttons, and a mechanic where you can exchange fighters for magical items, an echo of the fighter/striker trade-off possible in KOF 2001.
And it plays pretty well! The pre-rendered graphics are different, but colorful, effectively atmospheric, and not as bad as might have been expected really, and the gameplay, while slightly on the simple side perhaps--characters didn't seem to have all that many special moves, and a lot of the numerous magical items do the same things--is lively and challenging. Item powers and super activations can get poked out and extinguished by jabs, which can be frustrating, but hey maybe I just should have been smarter with them or something? Anyway, it's actually a pretty fun game. : ) |
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| | | [April 16, 2017--three years before the video above]
Me muddling through the menus (well, some of them...) and game modes in "Dark Awake: The King Has No Name" from the Japanese PSN store on PS3; in the States, it was an arcade fighting game known as "Chaos Breaker." It was developed by Eolith, the Korean outfit that had previously developed King of Fighters 2001 and 2002, and like them it is a 4-button, 3-on-3 fighting game--but it has a fantasy theme, and pre-rendered "3D" character sprites. You also get magic items you can use for various effects during matches.
I don't get very far through some of the menus because they're nearly all in Japanese. While curiously there is no just Vs battle option on the main menu, if you dig into the the options you find you can switch the main Arcade mode between three different styles: Elimination (the default), Single, and Tournament.
0:22 - Dark Awake intro
1:29 - Practice mode
4:16 - Options
4:19 - (instruction manual)
6:09 - Ranking (leaderboards)
6:46 - Online Mode (didn't find a match : P)
7:15 - Arcade Mode: Elimination (as Nagar, Bernhard, Fina)
13:09 - mid cinematic
16:16 - vs Manticore, the easy mid boss
21:00 - Arcade Mode: Elimination (as Troll, Vritra, Sandra)
33:29 - Arcade Mode: Elimination (as Evetta, Ramda, Elion)
44:07 - Arcade Mode: Tournament (as Cursehead, Zon, Goblin; "Tournament" is pretty neat: the 3-person teams have the fighters pair up in order for 3 1-on-1 battles, then if there are survivors from both sides (ie, one side didn't lose all 3 matches), those survivors face off in 1-on-1 battles, with their health bars at the level they were in their previous match!)
55:30 - Arcade Mode: Single (as Nsidor (he rides a pale horse : o)) |
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