ah, I didn't realize it was on US PSN!! I'll go for it.

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Posted by exodus on February 04, 2021 at 19:02:09 EST in reply to Fighting EX Layer, Arika's self-published fighting game with some of the wacky characters like "Skullomania" that they put in those Street Fighter EX games on PS1/PS2 that I haven't played, is on sale for the next few weeks for $7.99 on PSN, for PS4. The sole paid DLC character is Terry Bogard, for an additional $4.99. The game is fairly bare-bones as far as modes and stuff goes but I have succeeded in having fun with it in my first two hours with the game (and there's a randomized Survival-style "Kumite" mode tucked away in the CPU settings in Training mode); certainly worth $7.99, anyway, if you have any interest in a fairly solidly-built SF-style fighting game that does some different things. Quite nice stages and music, and some interesting-looking character designs I'm looking forward to trying out. from Paleface.

ah, I didn't realize it was on US PSN!! I'll go for it.

n/t

Worldwide simultaneous release on 6/28/18, according to GameFAQs. : )

(Paleface)

(12:40:22 02/05/21 EST)

looks like I'm quite wrong then! anyway I bought it and played a few rounds - it seems fine!

(exodus)

(14:08:17 02/08/21 EST)

Damn the faint praise! So far I've been hot or cold on the characters. Darun (aka Zangief) is fun, but Kairi is just a colorless Ryu--and that's saying something. :P Jack is Boxer with more options, quite nice! Garuda is playable but I'm not sure what he is exactly. And I haven't played him yet, but I find it amusing that in such a small cast, they have a Dan analogue in Allen, and he's even voiced by Dan's voice actor. : D ... Say did you know that "Exodus" is a character from the prequel, Fighting Layer, and apparently survives in EX Layer as a musical theme?

(Paleface)

(17:51:03 02/08/21 EST)

if they'd kept the exodus character in I'd have to keep playing!

(exodus)

(23:12:46 02/18/21 EST)

Ha! You’re never going to play this game again.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:17:33 02/08/21 EST)

you may be on to something here!! but as with all fighting games, who really wants to play them without somebody else.

(exodus)

(23:11:53 02/18/21 EST)

I do anyway. : o

(Paleface)

(23:39:50 02/19/21 EST)

I do when there's a story or a world or something to grab on to, but there's not toooo much of that here.

(exodus)

(15:20:56 03/01/21 EST)

Yeah, it's kind of funny how the entire story for a character is a single screen with some text that shows up at the end. It's actually nice not having to fight a boss though. ; )

(Paleface)

(19:26:48 03/02/21 EST)

I prefer real in-person opponents but I also spend a lot of time in Practice and Arcade mode. I’ve played stuff like Soul Caliber DC a lot in its massive one player mode but in the end I feel cheated by mediocre fighting wrapped in glitz. I’d rather play Super Turbo by myself than grind for points to unlock silly hats. One exception might be Street Fighter EX on PlayStation since that had a crazy awesome practice mode, IIRC, even though the game was lame.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:20:15 03/01/21 EST)

Arika developed Street Fighter EX as well as Fighting EX Layer, and they did put something pretty neat in the practice mode here: you can set it to what it called "Kumite" mode, and face random opponents in endless fights at the difficulty level of your choice. They all take place on the training stage, but otherwise it's pretty much all I need in a fighting game, mode-wise; ever since I came across a mode like that in DOA5, it's felt weirder and weirder to me that more console fighting games *don't* have one. Virtua Fighter and Tekken do, and I guess that's a big reason why they're my most-played series at the moment. You can do something similar in a lot of SNK's console port training modes (and with randomized stages!), but usually not at a very challenging difficulty level.

(Paleface)

(19:34:39 03/02/21 EST)

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