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Friday 12 January, 2007
Ok, I haven't played this game for about 2 weeks, since the arcade I play it at is back at home. The game is actually based on a Japanese visual novel game called "Tsukihime", but takes place a few years after the events in that game. The story revolves a young man name Shiki Tohno, who, while walking home from school one day, loses control of his body and kills a girl he sees. The next day, he sees the same girl he killed waiting for him at the same place he had killed her the day before. The girl ends up being a vampire, and then some other cliche game events happen ie: Shiki needs to learn the truth behind his past, fight a head vampire, so on.
At first glance it seems like any other 2-D fast-paced fighter, and it initially reminded me of the Guilty Gear and Street Fighter series'. The difference between this game is the option of being able to counter an oppontent's move by a well-timed hit of an extra button on the arcade panel. Also, instead of a classic bar used to attack with special attacks, in Melty Blood a character must fill their Magic Circuit meter, and then enter "Heat" mode to attack with their strongest special move, called an Arc Drive.
This game offers a huge variety of characters, including some characters in both human and vampire form. It also has a few comic relief characters, such as Neko Arc, who looks like a little creepy cat thing, to Hisui and Kohaku, twins who use an ass-load of weird items to attack.
Overall, I think this a great game. While I don't consider it up there with Guilty Gear or Street Fighter, it is a fun game, easy to get into, but hard to master. I'd be surprised if anyone other than me has actually played this game, since I know a grand total of about 3 people who have even heard of it.
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