I still believe that Blitzkampf is one of the pinnacles of 2D fighters and Subtle Style didnt get NEARLY enough credit for making something this good back in the day.

"Guile, but patriotic for something else" made me chuckle and also its super apt since Guile has Stroheims hair who is also... a friend of angry Austrians.

Didn't know Akatsuki from Under Night had his own game, let alone a game that looks and plays THIS good!

In a roundabout way, this game is why I play fighting games in general. I bought BBtag on Steam a while back and I found myself becoming an Akatsuki main. During my time playing it, I ended up using Akatsuki parry to parry one hell of a combo. That moment made me feel so cool I ended up playing a lot more fighting games.

Found a Nesica cabinet at a Round1 just now, and it had En-Eins Anastasis on it. I saw your name in the crowdfund backers section of the credits, so I wanted to say thanks! Inazuma is sick as hell.

Man, what a great video! Gameplay wise, I think it's a combination of Darkstalkers and The Last Blade; chain combos with nice options for defense, plus a greater emphasis on meter economy. The game's aesthetic is also very unique. While often compared to cubism, I persoanlly get *huge* Osamu Tezuka vibes from characters like Akatsuki himself. This game is a love letter to classic fighting games and now is the perfect time for a new installment, given the current trend of fighting games going back to a greater focus on neutral, as seen in Samurai Shodown and Guilty Gear Strive.

This is one of those games that I just had to pin down a physical copy of the game when I found out about it in college. Glad I did, I can't imagine what it would go for now

I remember finding this game while browsing doujinstyle as a kid and while i was a dumb kid who only knew how to hit buttons, i knew this game was something special and it always stuck in my head

Great video! I feel like ABK and Koihime did accessibility best before all the big publishers did their own takes these past 7 years (and sucked at it).

i have this game in PC, its SO FUN, the characters, combos, parry system,music, so refreshiing, we need a remake or new port

Also I am almost absolutely certain that mycale is the true main antagonist. Lorewise she has been behind the scenes and orchestrating events since ancient times. Her true form is allegedly also a dragon. I bet this would be very apealling for the likes of arc system works

Rewatching these older vids of yours, it dawned on me why I think your vids are more enjoyable than other channels of this nature, and it's because those feel more exploitative, more "what can I show and say for clicks" versus your content which definitely showcases what you love and feel. TL;DR version you're genuine.

It's great to see more content from this channel. I never played this one but I'm happy to hear that it's one of those doujin fighters that managed to get an audience despite the odds.

i honestly hope one day this and EN eins get put on to steam one day they are such fun games

dude I am so glad I found this channel! ive been wanting for there to be someone who talks about these cult classic fighting games. keep it up its awesome content man

I had no clue Akatsuki was a guest character in Under Night In-birth. His kit and gameplay feel so good that he's one of my mains!

Holy shit, this game deserves so much recognition! Good job on covering it.

Hold on, is Perfecti's crouch animation sitting down in a chair? I need to play this character immediately

Nice! I love this game dearly. It wasn't my introduction to fighting games, but it certainly helped me love them even more than before. Fritz 4ever.

Just tried it with a buddy for the first time. We had a blast. Thanks for spotlighting this game. Will continue to play. Love the way (guile) feels in this game.

I love almost everything about Blitzkampf and wish I could watch more matches. I'm getting older and I'm not as good at fighting games as I used to be, nor do I have the time to put in the effort and give fighting games the love they all deserve but I love watching games like these play out and your channel is one of the many I enjoy.

Great video! I’m definitely motivated to try out this game now, glad the guest appearances made me aware of this game

Ahh love doujin fighting games, still have a little collection of physical games i bought when Himeyashop were still around (RIP)

Thanks for the video! Honestly Akatsuki in UNIST alone sold the game to me from the beginning but I wanted to see an analysis with footage first xD Will definetly give it a try

DEFINITELY gonna try this. I've felt that Asuka 120% (NOT FINAL) is great because it also hits a balance between simplicity and complexity many modern games fail to grasp and I'd love to try this and see how it compares...so I will! See, I have a friend who got super hardcore into GGXX back in the day. Literally abandoned all other games and put THOUSANDS of hours into mastering his character...only for Accent Core to nerf them into unplayability and he quit fighting games forever after that. It made me realize that a fighting game CAN be "too complex" and that there's a big danger to that! That perhaps we DO need to make more easy to pick up and play fighters...but BOY HOWDY is everyone doing it WRONG! Auto combos are iffy, auto combos that end in specials are bad, auto combos that end in SUPERS should be a fireable offense, auto combos that end in NERFED supers should get you blacklisted from the industry! A bad auto combo can actually make a game HARDER to play (KOF14 being the worst offender), ending them in Supers makes it too easy to waste meter, and NERFING the super is just screwing over the casual players you claim to be helping! Gah! I could go on for DAYS. Time to update Fightcade 2.

You're one of my favorite recent finds. I don't particularly enjoy playing most fighting games because I'm trash at them and they make me rage, but I love to follow them. I love seeing the tech people come up with and the way game metas evolve. I love doing armchair labbing, picking apart players's replays. Fighting games are like the perfect spectator sport, even talentless hacks like me can follow along with the great players and have a good time watching. Your videos open my scrubby little eyes to things I wouldn't know about otherwise and I want to thank you for the gift of knowledge they bring me.

Best fighting I've ever played, don't forget it has godlike soundtrack. Marilyn best girl, vanilla>AA.

can we all agree that WW2 was a horrible moment in human history... BUT MAAAAN EVERYONE HAD DRIP! from the allies to the axis OOOOOOF their clothes and uniforms are *Chef's kiss* perfect

Great video! There's a few mistakes and things I'd like explained more but they're more nitpicks than anything else. I love ABK, although EN-Eins is my favorite

Great video, glad youtube is putting this out to more people

one of my favorite fighting games, i did find it weird though that when they got a spot as guest characters, they showed up as ABK and not en eins reps, being the newer game and also somewhat similar to bbtag both gameplaywise and aesthetically. Hopefully FC devs find a way to integrate proper netplay into nesica emulation

You should cover The Last Blade 2, it's also a three button fighter with one-button parries

The sprite style reminded me of those odd old 90s PC games and gaming magazines, that shiny style with no visible outlines... I know I've seen games look like this, but the only thing I can think of atm is the covers/art in stuff like EGM back in the day...

Fantastic video this game looks incredible I'm definitely going to try it out thank you.

I first learned of Akatsuki through Under Night but I fell in love with his design and playstyle instantly. He's legit the only character I play in both Under Night and Blitzkampf lol

This dude single handedly got me into playing blitzkampf and buying UNIB games and bbtag, wish i could get my hands in a copy of en-eins perfektewelt though

The aesthetic goes so hard

Akatsuki Blitzkampf are the first fighting game that I actually enjoy playing all of the character, and even having trouble who will I main (still main Akatsuki, but Kanae, Sai, Murakumo, and E-Soldat are fun as hell) while other fighting game I would just pick 1-2 character and that's it.

This is simply perfect I alwalys show this video to my friends when I want them to try Akatsuki Blitzkampf

I have a long list of great obscure fighting games to try. Yet every video of yours has added a new one to that list. Great channel. So this is where Akatuski comes from? I had seen him as cameo's in other fighters but never knew the original game. I believe he appears on more games that listed. This game looks sooo good.

great video essay, Im rather new to fighting games and you've convinced me to give it a shot! subbed

To this day Anonym is my favorite fighting game character of all time and I wished every fighting game had an Anonym function with different guns.

The Akatsuki series recently saw a brand new entry in Japanese arcades, EN-Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis. It's the updated version of EN-Eins Perfektewelt, the sequel to Blitzkampf that was released in 2010. Anastasis is so much fun. Unfortunately it's exclusive to Japanese arcades at the moment because it's supposed to help revitalize the arcade scene after the pandemic, but my local Round One has it on the NESiCAxLive cabinets. If you live near a Round One I implore you to check and see if they have Anastasis, it's so fun.

Never knew that Akatsuki it was so deep! Man gonna power on my flycast right noow! Thank yoou!

Man.. I remember finding this game so long ago when I was fascinated with doujin fighters. Eternal Fighter Zero, this, Touhou Hisoutensoku and so so many others I would look for online. Huuuuuuuuge nostalgia trip watching this, you wouldn't believe how happy I was to see Akatsuki again in Under Night.

I remember randomly downloading this game’s demo somehow on PC. I loved playing it. Then god mad hype when I played UNIST for the first time and Akatski was in

1:52 *AAAYYOOOOOOOOOO IT'S THE TAAAAAAAAAANK LESS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-*

2D anime fighters are noooot my jam, but this looks SO fun. Your breakdowns of each character and the controls were really good. I'm looking forward to play this.

I like how every character has practicaly the same special move movement

I saw him(Akatsuji) on BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. I have been curious about his origin ever since. Thanks for the video😊

I was just saying this on another channel, it sucks that this game basically will never get any spotlight or attention because it wasn't made by a triple A developer, and in current year, people would have problems with some of the WWII themes or the character designs (it still happens, believe it or not). I happened to see this on a walkthrough, and while I won't deny Marilyn Sue had a good level of fanservice, what really clicked in my mind was the parries that happened, and how cool some of the combos looked. Edit: You want to know something else? I like that the developers made this with the mentality of it being easy enough for anyone to pick up. There's only 3 buttons, but it's got a high skill ceiling so that you can master parries and execution, but it's not super complicated to learn (maybe unless you're trying to do the combos showcased in the video). I wish more games followed this style of development.

I love your channel!!!

this pushed me to actually play the game for the first time. really fun! I could see putting a little time into it, I really love the simplicity and the visual design. edit - I'm playing on fightcade so whatever version is on there is what I'm going with.

I think one factor you missed out on making people think it was Nazi themed is the German naming convention. If it is World War 2 themed, that would make most people initially consider it to represent the Nazis most prominently. I love your comment on E. Soldat though, I did not think of the funny parallel between Guile before.

I have never heard of this game, but it does look very fun. When you got to the tank character, it just slapped me in the face. I was so confused.

I knew I had to play this the second I saw Fritz. What a badass moveset.

Now I'm from Germany and I remember seeing the second iteration of this game in a magazine issue from 2009 over here, along when BlazBlue CT was shown

The way these characters are well dressed and their fighting style makes me think about how cool an Usogui fighting game would be based on ranking battles.

The main theme of Blitzkampf is a complete bop.

I love guile win quote

This is the game with the tank in it!! finally I found it!

I always wondered where that skull-face tank came from in BBXT.

Absolutely my fave fighting game

You forgot to mention that Perfecti also appeared in the original akatsuki blitzkampf , although in such game she was only a weird unplayable palette swap of Mycale ☝️🤓

Wow, never been a PC player so I’ve never heard of this. Thank you

I remember trying this game at my local Round 1 and isn't too bad.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf has one of my favorite fighting game rosters because even though there are only 13 characters, those 13 characters are actually made to appeal to different kinds of players. I will gladly take that over games with larger rosters where almost everyone is a homogenized rushdown character, with a few token grapplers or zoners here and there.

Dang the sprites in this game look so good.

Downloaded it the day before my pc died. I'll be playing this again once I got it running again.

Myuria from Star Ocean 4 is basically like Mycale! that's awesome, because Myruia is one of my favorite mages! even similar phonetic syllables within the name. The Dreamcast/NAOMI/Atomiswave era of games presented a lot of unique fighting games. The Rumble Fish being my personal 2D favorite fighting game with Melty Blood from that era. ;)

I remember that game, and I completely ended the whole game in a Day, and played that Like 100 times, it's supers were more likely better than any other games I had played on my whole life 😀

Man wish these characters made into Cross Tag Battle, *sigh* it’s not gonna happen. I would like to see a few of them in Perfecti Murakumo

Wow I never heard of this I want to give it a go. I wonder if you can find this on PSN or steam since it’s got an arcade release man I love just going thru fighting games I try to get my hands on as many as I can. This reminds me of a Neo geo or SS game

Love this. I was turned off by the not so Nazi aesthetic, but knowing that it's just the villains and not historical makes it more palatable. Also I love accessible fighters... Gonna try it

I played this game once at a con and I remember having fun with it. I should see if I can get it on my PC so I can try it out more.

"fritz is a samsho character" yep, that's my boi. anyway, amazing game (like any other game that let's me play a samsho character against normal characters or is simple enough for me dumb to understand), and amazing video too!!

2022 and we still don't get a Steam port with a cheap english translation, if there is a game that deserves it, is this one.

ok this looks dope

oh so thats where funny tank comes from

Beautiful game

Dude I came from that tweet you tweeted, it was funny

"Look Gary there I am!"

nice video. i played this on PC so much when it released in 2007. even though i haven’t played it in years, i still follow the scene and it’ll be the main FG i play when i build my PC. these FGs coming out right now ain’t doing it for me. 💀

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I still like to play this and BBB once in a while.

It have a slight lag on my pc since my videocard exploded but I'll not forget to try it out when I get another edit: the game is cool, just played the arcade and tried characters, like Sai and Adler a lot

this is like SF x MK, it looks awesome!

Welp time to go play this game

This is such a well done video so thanks for that. I just can't get over that WW2 aesthetic, especially for Imperial Japan. The game does seem to play well however.

For the folk by the folk under one unifying will.

As a counter example of a game that did simplicity mediocre-to-bad, I’d bring up Fantasy Strike. It tried to be simpler, but ended up excising high-low mixups.

The height of FGC kinography

Long live the Doujin Fighters!

it's got a tank, so play it

I like the funny tank :)

The thanks at the end brings me so much joy I do not know why

awesome video, interested in this due to rollback on FC2

mycale mains rise up

I found this game in an arcade and my cousin and I played it for at least an hour

5:12 my brother in christ the main protagonist is a 40s japanese imperialist soldier played straight