{"id":13480,"date":"2018-04-18T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2018-04-18T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:55:55","slug":"2d-fighter-blade-strangers-coming-to-switchps4-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/04\/2d-fighter-blade-strangers-coming-to-switchps4-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"2D fighter Blade Strangers coming to Switch\/PS4 in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Saizensen is bringing <strong>Blade Strangers<\/strong>, a hardcore old-school fighting game, to the Nintendo Switch in 2018, though there is no firm date announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called \u201dmotes.\u201d In desperation, the motes summon heroes from a variety of parallel game worlds to face off against each other in one-on-one combat. The tournament victor has the potential to be awakened as the <em>Blade Stranger<\/em>\u2014the savior who can vanquish Lina and protect the motes from further harm!<\/p>\n<p>The streamlined four button control scheme makes it easy for beginners to deal out damage from day one, but the intricate combos, counters and specials give tournament-caliber players plenty of opportunities for frame counting, chain construction and hit-box science.<\/p>\n<p>Fighter roster includes characters from previous Studio Saizensen games (like Code of Princess and Sayonara Umihara Kawase ), Nicalis games (like Cave Story+ ) and other surprise entrants.<\/p>\n<p>Each character has three alternate color settings and their own familiar \u201chome\u201d stage. A proprietary development system transforms 3-D models and animation into 2-D spritework and every frame looks like a gorgeous anime drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The game will have online competition and is touted as having minimum input lag.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpYdn4hYs9o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Saizensen is bringing Blade Strangers, a hardcore old-school fighting game, to the Nintendo Switch in 2018, though there is no firm date announced yet. A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called \u201dmotes.\u201d In desperation, the motes summon heroes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1530,419],"tags":[2127,725,1789,1402],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-switch","category-playstation-4","tag-blade-strangers","tag-nicalis","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-playstation-4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/big_news_blade_strangers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-3vq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14258,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/08\/august-23rd-nintendo-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":13480,"position":0},"title":"August 23rd Nintendo Download","date":"August 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate\u00a0\u2013 This critically acclaimed action RPG series makes its debut on the Nintendo Switch system. 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