Schwarzerblitz
Details: Video game
Developer: Andrea Demetrio
Genre: Action game
Publisher: Andrea Demetrio
Platform: Microsoft Windows
Description: "Indie fighter Schwarzerblitz pays tribute to early ’90s 3D fighters" - Shoryuken"Schwarzerblitz shows love to early polygonal fighters" - SiliconeraSchwarzerblitz is a love letter to '90s 3D low-poly fighters, featuring 24 playable characters, more than 30 stages, ring out mechanics, classic arcade endings, and a complete story mode. Steel your fists and let the Black Lightning strike!StoryIt's 2065 and the world is not what we used to know. Fennoscandia has sunk deep into the ocean, half of Ireland is ridden by haemophages, nuclear power has been replaced by reality-distorsion-resonance (RDR) power plants, and an alien planetoid has made first contact for more than fifty years, by now.In 2064, a major accident shook the whole Europe: Euterpe, the Italian capitol city, was razed by an explosion of incredible power, followed by a storm of black lightnings. The accounts of the witnesses diverged and no light was shed on the real cause of the disaster. After a one-year manhunt, the Delta Team has finally found a consistent trail, which leads directly to a secret governative project known as Schwarzer Blitz, "the black lightning"...Game Mechanicsfive button system: Guard, Punch, Kick, Tech and Triggerfluid combo system: most attacks can chain into each other, leading to long strings and combosimpact attacks: send your opponent flying with powerful blows - if near the border of the stage, this will throw them out of the ringtrigger attacks: by using a bullet counter, the next attack will break the opponent's guard and increases the hitstun, leading to easier combos and humongous damagetrigger guard / combo breaker: when comboed, you can use a bullet counter to cancel the hitstun and strike back against your opponentMain Features24 playable charactersA total of more than 100 skins (circa 4 per character)36 different stages with animated background elements and ring out mechanicsarcade, survival, time-attack... you name it!5h long story mode with several CG cutscenes, and an overarching story joining all arcade endings togethergallery mode, arcade ending theaterextensive training mode with frame advantage data, tutorials and trialslocal multiplayer, both with joypad or split-keyboard8-way movement in a complete 3D environmentextended movelists for every character, listing every possible chainvaried soundtrack with different genres and tunesmoddable game engine (workshop support planned)controls can be freely remapped in-game. Both keyboard and joypads are supported (both XInput and DirectInput)a drunken shark-mana politically incorrect robotA FRIGGIN' AUSSIE RAPTOR WITH A MINIGUN!
Developer: Andrea Demetrio
Genre: Action game
Publisher: Andrea Demetrio
Platform: Microsoft Windows
Description: "Indie fighter Schwarzerblitz pays tribute to early ’90s 3D fighters" - Shoryuken"Schwarzerblitz shows love to early polygonal fighters" - SiliconeraSchwarzerblitz is a love letter to '90s 3D low-poly fighters, featuring 24 playable characters, more than 30 stages, ring out mechanics, classic arcade endings, and a complete story mode. Steel your fists and let the Black Lightning strike!StoryIt's 2065 and the world is not what we used to know. Fennoscandia has sunk deep into the ocean, half of Ireland is ridden by haemophages, nuclear power has been replaced by reality-distorsion-resonance (RDR) power plants, and an alien planetoid has made first contact for more than fifty years, by now.In 2064, a major accident shook the whole Europe: Euterpe, the Italian capitol city, was razed by an explosion of incredible power, followed by a storm of black lightnings. The accounts of the witnesses diverged and no light was shed on the real cause of the disaster. After a one-year manhunt, the Delta Team has finally found a consistent trail, which leads directly to a secret governative project known as Schwarzer Blitz, "the black lightning"...Game Mechanicsfive button system: Guard, Punch, Kick, Tech and Triggerfluid combo system: most attacks can chain into each other, leading to long strings and combosimpact attacks: send your opponent flying with powerful blows - if near the border of the stage, this will throw them out of the ringtrigger attacks: by using a bullet counter, the next attack will break the opponent's guard and increases the hitstun, leading to easier combos and humongous damagetrigger guard / combo breaker: when comboed, you can use a bullet counter to cancel the hitstun and strike back against your opponentMain Features24 playable charactersA total of more than 100 skins (circa 4 per character)36 different stages with animated background elements and ring out mechanicsarcade, survival, time-attack... you name it!5h long story mode with several CG cutscenes, and an overarching story joining all arcade endings togethergallery mode, arcade ending theaterextensive training mode with frame advantage data, tutorials and trialslocal multiplayer, both with joypad or split-keyboard8-way movement in a complete 3D environmentextended movelists for every character, listing every possible chainvaried soundtrack with different genres and tunesmoddable game engine (workshop support planned)controls can be freely remapped in-game. Both keyboard and joypads are supported (both XInput and DirectInput)a drunken shark-mana politically incorrect robotA FRIGGIN' AUSSIE RAPTOR WITH A MINIGUN!
