Blade Strangers, the indie crossover fighting game, featuring a lot of cool characters from Nicalis games and other popular indie titles, has officially launched for the PS4, Steam, and for the Nintendo Switch.

Nicalis’ Blade Strangers is a one-on-one fighting game, sports an offline story mode, an arcade mode, a versus mode, and a survival mode. There’s also an online multiplayer mode for one-on-one fights against other players.

The game features a bevy of characters from recognized indie and mid-tier titles, such as Quote and Curly Brace from Cave Story +, Shovel Knight from lopata Knight, Liongate, Master T, Ali and the super-hottie Solange from Šifra princeze EX, and Kawase, Noko and Emiko from Umihara Kawase.

There are 14 playable characters in total.

Prema Boomstick Gaming’s review – the YouTuber that a former IGN reviewer ripped off of – gave it a 6 out of 10. Unlike mainstream gaming channels this means that it’s actually “Ok” and not “OMG stay away it’s a fire dump!”.

The main issue that Boomstick points out is that it only has a few game modes, and there is no really robust story mode present in the game, so don’t go in expecting nepravda 2 or Mortal Kombat X. It’s basically like the old-school story modes from back in the 1990s, so if you’re okay with that then you probably won’t be disappointed.

Even still the game features a lot of basic fighting, simple mechanics, and a deep learning curve based on the basic control layout.

Jedan od najistaknutijih Blade Strangers is that Studio Saizensen took 3D renders of the characters and then animated them, using frame-by-frame rasterization to give the impression that the 3D characters were animated in 2D. This is kind of a best-of-both-worlds scenario, given that it has the response timing and playability of a hand-drawn 2D fighter, but was made in a cost-effective manner that’s benefited from being made in 3D.

Možete pokupiti digitalnu kopiju Blade Strangers right now for $39.99 for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, or on Steam for PC.