Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax
Promotional image for original arcade release featuring Asuna (left) and Shana (right)
Developer(s)	Ecole Software French Bread
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Takaharu Terada
Producer(s)	Ryutaro Nonaka
Composer(s)	Yui Isshiki Wave Master Kenichi Tokoi Tomoyuki Nakazawa Teruhiko Nakagawa Naofumi Hataya Tadashi Kinukawa Hideaki Kobayashi Tomonori Sawada Mitsuharu Fukuyama Tatsuyuki Maeda Tomoya Ohtani Jun Senoue
Platform(s)	Arcade, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
Release date(s)	Arcade JP March 18, 2014 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita JP November 13, 2014 NA Q3 2015 EU Q3 2015
Genre(s)	Fighting game
Arcade system	Sega RingEdge 2

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (電撃文庫 FIGHTING CLIMAX, Dengeki Bunko Faitingu Kuraimakkusu) is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Ecole Software and French Bread and published by Sega. The game celebrates the 20th anniversary of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint, featuring various characters from light novels published under the imprint.^[1] The game was first released in Japanese arcades on March 18, 2014^[2] and later released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on November 13, 2014.^[3] The console version is planned for a North American and European release in Q3 2015.^[4][5] The game's theme song is "Belief" by Mami Kawada. An announced update in May 2015 will include a more balanced system of gameplay and a redheaded playable character.^[6]

Gameplay

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is a two-dimensional fighting game, in which two players fight against each using both a playable fighter character and an assist character. Fighting uses three main attack buttons; weak, medium, and strong, and a support button used for summoning a player's assist character. After an assist character is summoned, players need to rebuild their support gauge before they can summon them again. By building the Climax Gauge with attacks, players can perform powerful Impact Skill attacks, and can also use Blast Icons to perform Blast Attacks, allowing them to escape from combos.^[7] The home version features an original story campaign, Dream Duel Story, and online multiplayer, and supports cross-save functionality between the PS3 and Vita versions. Samples from the represented light novel series are also included as unlockable content.^[8] An update in May 2015 will contain a more balanced system of gameplay.

Character roster

The roster is composed of characters from several light novel series under the Dengeki Bunko imprint, among playable characters and assist characters that can be called while in the middle of a round to help the playable character in various ways. All characters are voiced by their respective actors from the anime adaptations, with a few exceptions. A non-playable character known as Denshin (電神) (voiced by Mao), based on the Dreamcast character from Sega Hard Girls, summons the playable characters for their aid to combat a malevolent entity (voiced by Ken Narita) from the organization Zetsumu who takes the form of the captured playable characters, followed by a form of Akira Yuki from Sega's Virtua Fighter series, with Pai Chan as his assist, as boss characters; both Akira and Pai later became playable characters in the console ports and post-Version 1.20 arcade versions.^[9][10] Eight additional characters (four playable and four assists) were added to the roster by mid-2014.^[11][12][13] The second Sega guests, Selvaria Bles and Alicia Melchiott of Valkyria Chronicles, first appeared in the console ports and later added to the arcade version 1.30, along with other assist characters from other Dengeki Bunko's published series.^[14][15][16] The games' various stages and their accompanying music tracks are based on other Sega titles, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Nights into Dreams..., Shinobi, Border Break and Phantasy Star Online 2.^[17]

Playable characters

Assist characters

See also

• Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus
• Under Night In-Birth

Notes and references

External links

• Official website (Japanese)