Stardust Valkyries

Sadly, this games cons are detrimental to the experience and outweigh the cons for me. Short version: Pros: -Incredibly interesting concept of balancing the cast around everyone having shine. -Cool character designs and expands on the existing fighting game concepts. -Good controller support (other than the issue I had explained later). -Online (idk if its good but for an indie game that's more than enough). -Good music -Cool stage designs Cons: -Not so polished animations that feel lifeless at times. -VFXs on moves are so minimal that most moves feel powerless or confusing on what is happening, -Gravity and movement feels clunky and frustrating at times, with a lack of polish. -While characters are interesting, existing global gameplay doesn't have any new features or anything that makes it stand out to other platform fighters. -While the stage designs are good, the platform layout is really strange and overall bland, and the platforms themselves act like walls sometimes which can mes...

pronouns on character select

This game is pretty solid and fun. The combo trial visualizer is cool and I'd like to see more games adopt that. Every character so far has a shine and a few have similar side specials (dash forward, maybe with a hitbox, then you're forced to nair if airborne), which is something to be aware of even though they all act differently, but besides that the characters are fairly unique. Character pronouns on the character select screen is turbo cringe. It would be nice if it was useful information on unique character mechanics instead of Twitter bios.

this game changed my life.

As a developer of another, similar game, I can't recommend this game enough. Really fun with a good heart, and an incredibly dedicated indie dev behind it. Give it a try!

This Ain't It Chief.

We have yet another developer throwing their hat into the platfom fighter ring. After Smash Ultimate, the big boys mainly consist of the upcoming Fraymakers, alongside the brilliant Nickelodeon All Star Brawl and the... Interesting Multiversus. Now we have Stardust Valkyries by Nucko Games. An indie platform fighter starring original characters, advertised as combining platform fighters with anime fighters, and the potential is so huge for something like this! But is that reached? Gameplay: What we have here is basically a platform fighter that takes heavy inspiration from Melee. Meaning you get that game's wavedashing, that game's L canceling, air dodging, etc. Just with this new cast of characters. But there are some new mechanics, mainly being able to cancel some normals into specials. And that's really it, unlike something like Nick Brawl, this game doesn't do much to differentiate itself from Melee. And while that isn't immedietly a bad thing, there are some things that heavily d...

(REVIEW EDITED BASED ON NEW UPDATES THAT ADDRESSed MY MAIN ISSUES) Very barebones game, but the training mode is solid and the character designs are genuinely unique and interesting. The netcode is decent, on-par or better than Rivals of Aether's, at least. Combo trials are a pretty neat feature that I wish other platfighters had. Training mode is pretty solid, too. Some design choices are weird, like how the game registers your tech inputs and L-Cancelling having a tighter window than in Melee, but the L-Cancel thing doesn't matter *too* much due it being a less necessary mechanic overall. Stardust Valkyries *is* pretty much just an online mode and a training mode, but most fighting games are like that nowadays, which more so speaks about the industry overall. Good game now, you should try it if you think it looks cool.

THIS GAME IS BETTER THAN [spoiler] MELEE, GUILTY GEAR STRIVE, COMBO BABIES, PLUS R, MELTY BLOOD, MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA, MELEE, SKULLGIRLS, GARFIELD KART, PUNCH PLANET, SMASH ULTIMATE, ROOF RAGE, STREET FIGHTER 3 (THIRD STRIKE), FIGHT OF ANIMALS, RIVALS OF AETHER, SUBWAY, RUSHDOWN REVOLT, BRAWLHALLA, KNOCKOUT CITY, MORTAL KOMBAT, TEKKEN, ULTRA FIGHT DA KYANTA 2, AND ALL OF THE KING OF FIGHTERS GAMES. [/spoiler]

Better than multiversus