Arcana Heart

[Duck]

Now, this is a new fighters released here by Atlus, why is that kinda a thing for MSF? It's the all female cast. Yep, you know an anime girl type? Chances are it's in this game. Ninja? Got it! Maid? Got it! Miko? You betcha.

Now what's the best thing about the game is the fact it's 2d. I have a deep love for 2d fighters. They are still an enjoyable past time for me. This one is very fluid, but the speed isn't near Guilty Gear or Marvel vrs Capcom 2, but it's got a fairly deep combo system.

3 major attack buttons. weak, medium and strong, right? That is also coupled with the S button, which is a homing dash, to keep up your long combos. Combo's seem to chain fairly easily, but I haven't gotten the homing down yet, so I launch them up, and I can't continue the combo.

But none of that is anything that's not normal, but what makes this different is the Arcana system. Your 11 characters can choose one of 11 arcana which add moves or buffs on to your character. So that means you can have 121 different variations of characters.

I haven't even really scratched the surface yet, but this seems to have a lot of replay value with buddies who don't mind playing a fighting game with a lot of pink.

[Mitera Nikkou]

For the PS2, eh?

I might pick this one up down the road.

I don't think too many guys would have a problem getting this game, seeing as there are plenty guys who play female characters online already.

[Hira Kanaki]

True, though the final boss suffers from SNK boss Syndrome...but I still like the game though.

[Duck]

Yeah, the final boss spams supers to fill up the screen, and doesn't stop if you hit her on some. Plus if you don't beat the egg, she starts off with 9 bars to do that OMG U so DED attack. I have yet to beat her.

[Mitera Nikkou]

The game's telling you to take it seriously despite all of the girls.

[Hira Kanaki]

True, though, I learned something about the final boss, It's okay to "cheat" well at to me against the computer...I kept spamming the Wind Arcana style projectile and won, though this was on it's normal diffuculty, so I'm not sure if it'll work on higher diffuculties.

[Duck]

I was set to a different arcana. But her spamming all those specials.. really irks me.

[ZeroForever]

decent game, the homing system instead of a dash system takes some to get use to.

Last guy.... ugh took me forever to beat her the first time. After that though i figured it out so she's not to terrible.

The AI is pretty dumb so just repeated knock down moves with a slight pause so she stops blocking to initiate her attacks beats her.

i have more problems with the egg form now then i do with her final form with some characters.

[Hira Kanaki]

Truthfully that egg can be beaten easily with the Bhanri Arcana, and/or characters that have a projectile attack.