Toshinden wii, boxart and gameplay video.

[The_vagabond7]

Kenology said:

Maelstrome said:

The_vagabond7 said:

Maelstrome said:

Kenology said:
Looks just as shallow and pointless as the original Playstation 1 game.

really though, arent almost all fighting games shallow and pointless. id say this is no worse than street fighter.

Clearly not a fighting game fan. Unless you're just going to make the argument "aren't all videogames shallow and pointless?". All fighting games are definitely not created equal.

i am a fighting game fan. but i do admit fighting games tend to be somewhat generic in the first game if its not a spinoff.

characters tend to be templates. story is there but may be easily ignored(still true for most fighting games.)

what point are you getting at?

Street Fighter was never a shallow fighting game.  And story has nothing to do with anything.  I'll give you an example of how I'm defining depth in a fighting game:

Compare something like Mace: the Dark Age to Soul Calibur and you'll see.  The fighting mechanic in the former isn't as fully fleshed out and realized, the characters don't have as many moves, and the subtle nuances in the gameplay that encourage fighting with strategy as opposed to just slugging it out just aren't there.

 

Whatever, Primal Rage and Blaze Blue are practically the same when it comes to depth and strategy. Just spam jump kick and win! They are all practically the same until the third or fourth iteration, that's when they start to define themself!