The Game and Anime Characters Are The Best Part of This Fighter
By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
Nitroplus is a studio popular for its visual novels—and the anime and manga it has collaborated on. Nitro+ Blasterz is what happens when you take the heroines from these works and make them duke it out in a crossover fighting game. As a fighter, it’s a rather simple one. The face buttons on the controller correspond to weak, medium, heavy, and very heavy attacks. Combining these with ducking and jumping—or common fighting game motions like a down-to-forward roll on the D-pad—give you a large variety of attacks. But while the inputs for each character are largely the same, the attacks produced are quite different across the game’s 14 playable characters. Characters move across the screen at different speeds and have vastly different ranges for their attacks. Some have a large amount of projectile attacks while others don’t have any at all.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1751066956","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); https://kotaku.com/all-the-anime-manga-novel-and-game-characters-in-nit-1747267987 In other words, the game does a great job of making each character feel unique—especially when you customize any given character with two of the 19 summonable partner characters that you can call into battle for a brief time. Likewise Nitro+ Blasterz comes with the expected modes: local and online versus play, a score attack mode, and a story mode. So all in all, it is your standard fighting game. The big reason for playing it is the characters. While Nitroplus is most well-known for its visual novels—most of which have not seen an official English release—anime fans still will likely recognize a few of the 33 characters. There is Saber from Fate/Zero, Akane from Psycho Pass, Yuki from School-Live!, and Angela Balzac from Expelled from