![]() A lot of time in each match is devoted not to actually fighting, but watching little cutscenes whenever a character activates a heavy attack. Blocks are unreliable at best, stun locks are brutal, enemy attacks always receive priority, and unmissable ultimates will instantly knock off half of my health bar.īutton mashing is the way to go in 'Burning Blood', because the combo system is relatively light. After the first story arc is finished, the difficulty ramps up significantly, from challenging to cheap. There’s blocking and combos and combo breakers and everything else I'd expect from a modern brawler. It starts out tamely enough, with mechanics gradually being explained throughout each fight. The main avenue of gameplay is the Paramount War, a campaign of sorts with scripted opponents and the occasional objective, like surviving for a set amount of time. It’s all very exhausting to watch, to be honest. The subtitles are in English but still make no sense, but from what I can gather, a rubbery young man named Luffy is the leader of a band of Straw Hat Pirates and they are looking for treasure, and of course there are all kinds of bad guys trying to stop them. Heavily stylized, grotesquely deformed characters slap one another mercilessly with explosive, screen-filling attacks while screaming angrily at one another in Japanese. Being completely uninitiated in the lore of 'One Piece' (or any form of manga or anime, for that matter), my first fight in 'Burning Blood' was a bit of a shock. ![]()
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