Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax

Dengeki Bunko:  Fighting Climax is a fighting game with characters from Dengeki Bunko light novels and anime as the playable characters. It was originally released on arcade machines on March 18, 2014, and on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on November 13, 2014 in Japan and October 6, 2015 in North America and Europe. Later it was released again, titled Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition, with more playable characters, in arcades on July 28, 2015, and on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita on December 17, 2015 in Japan. The game was developed by Ecole Software and French Bread.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A pretty good cast of playable characters.  The initial roster consisted of 12 playable characters and 18 assist characters spanning over 12 light novel series.  However, when Ignition was released, there was 20 playable characers and 30 assist characters.
 * 2) Really good graphics.
 * 3) Really good animations.
 * 4) Excellent soundtrack.
 * 5) Good voice acting in both sub and dub.
 * 6) All of the voice actors, both in sub and dub, reprise their roles for all characers except for those that have never gotten an anime adaptation.
 * 7) All of the characters are kept in character so that fans can recognize the personalities that they love.
 * 8) Incredibly fun, fast paced fighting gameplay which makes good use of the abilities that each character possesses in their own respective series.
 * 9) All of the characers are well balanced and none of them feel like they're naturally way more powerful than another.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the roster was nice, it could have still been much larger.  They only used 20 characers from these series, which doesn't even sratch the surface, but there were also 30 characters who were needlessly relegated to assist status.  More were added in the ps4 port.
 * 2) When this game was released it was mostly overshadowed by J-Stars Victory vs., even though that one was released awhile before Dengeki Bunko:  Fighting Climax, for 2 reasons.  One, Shonen Jump is much more popular and well known than Dengeki Bunko, and 2, it was released afterwards.

Reception
Awarding it 4 out of 5, Hardcore Gamer described it as "a love-letter to anime and Sega fans". In contrast, PlayStation Lifestyle awarded it a score of 5.5 out of 10, writing that "although solid enough as a fighting game, the emphasis here is certainly not on gameplay and can often leave newcomers disconnected from the fun." Destructoid said that it "may be too simplistic for most hardcore fighting game fans to enjoy as anything more than an ephemeral lark, but also perhaps still too complex for those that find the genre intimidating."

The PlayStation 3 version of Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax sold 34,671 copies within its first week in Japan, placing it at number six on the video game sales chart, while the PlayStation Vita version sold 25,607 copies in the same week, placing it at number nine on the chart.

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