The unfinished fighting game you've probably never heard of

[@cheeseboy2251]

The classic combo of “lose one game > counterpick with character with infinite”

[@CrimsonMoonM]

If memory serves me correctly, the character designer for this game would go on to work with SNK during the development of KOF '99, hence why Cool looks like a K' knockoff and Harry has some Maxima vibes going on.

[@Astigos]

It also looks like they took harry's jacket for terry's garou look.

[@Hondunu]

Yep sorta, but also some Cool also went into the SNK's new boss character at the time, Krizalid.

[@dragonlash]

They also fit a bunch of Haiji's kit into 99 Kyo, such as his dp into Kyo's hcb, etc

[@amandacurby8506]

Please do Akatsuki Blitzkampf. You can play as a tank, a nun with an ammo mechanic, Chinese boxer with rush punches and all, one of the coolest shotos ever, and an old dude that plays like a Samsho character. Easy to pick up, play, and have fun. Would make for a great JMCup

[@mitzi3262]

Imagine if the developers stuck it out with this game and it became one of the big three with Capcom and snk

[@bobloblaw8622]

That'd be sick. The sprite work looks amazing

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Psikyo had made other fighting games before, they never would've had a chance to be on that level.

[@slasher8091]

@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN dont they mostly do shmups i remember playing one and was very fun

[@Rickenishere]

Daraku Tenshi is pretty much only known for 2 things: being really cleanly animated & inspiring some KOF99 character designs when the DT devs got absorbed into SNK Cool split off into K' & Krizalid, Harry Ness is basically just American Maxima, Haiji is the reason why K' keeps his sunglasses on, & Whip's lore makes references to "angels & the fallen"

[@ByrneBaby]

Hadn't seen Garou MotW and was like "lemme check this out," and my mind was blown. The amount of effort sprite work makes you exert is never a bad thing, god DAMN. I agree that this game is up there, too.

[@blaire9524]

Game is highly considered as snks 3s

[@luffyistop1258]

Am I trippin or is my boy losing some weight? I SEE YOU 🔥

[@jmcrofts]

we on the grind out here

[@michaeljazzchazz]

@@jmcrofts lookin great brah 🙏 keep up that work

[@WhensMahvel]

"Ness from smash brothers" Phrases that make you feel pain.

[@ambulette]

They actually have an arcade cabinet of this at Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, Illinois. I assume it’s still there. Had a lot of fun playing it there.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

I played it there too

[@kriscubero6778]

Do you happen to know Martial Masters? It's also known among niche fg connoisseurs as being like SFIII when it comes to 2D graphics fluidity.

[@juliuspeter2293]

Yoo dat game is lit scorpion is my favorite character haha the animation on the sprites is pretty nice too

[@JumpingAssninja]

Yoooo that game was the shit 👌

[@shenglongisback4688]

Yass the taiwanese game company IGS Made an excellent game based of the Wong fei hong Movies starring Jet Li. It was their 1st attemp but the 3rd time a charm.

[@shenglongisback4688]

@@juliuspeter2293 that character is based off a character with the same name from operation scorpion

[@nickromano3087]

Martial Masters is the best game China ever made. Really great stuff

[@AnalogLanguage]

Love when you run these obscure fg tourneys such a fun watch to see people learn real-time

[@Inertiatherockband]

This game was mad fun . I did solid on the first round even though I lost lol

[@Ironsharp]

jmcrofts, just want to say I love your content. Fun fact: this was (almost) published by Psikyo, who developed Battle K-Road. I guess Psikyo decided they were better off developing shoot em ups after that game.

[@rvn920]

While I truly love and enjoy this format. JM Cup 4 Life. It would be awesome to get to know some of your players in the JM Cup I feel like I see them all the time yet know nothing of em. You should get one to co-host with you and give us their perspective on how they approach this bum rush to learn a new game and perform.

[@eddylex4921]

That is K' the developer from this game later went to SNK were he designed King of Fighters 99. And he took three characters from Fallen Angel and put them in 99. The game is also rotoscoped like Art of Fighting 3 which is why the animation is so fluid.

[@TheConstantOne]

My brother and I played a cabinet of this game at Galloping Ghost Arcade when we visited Chicago 3 or 4 years ago. It was so fun in the most jank way.

[@silvericepeak]

A third way through the video... Hayji's punch looks like a mini Galactica Phantom, armor and all

[@tsama]

I played this on MAME during my college years, I thought it was pretty cool.

[@justinellison1215]

Downloaded on fightcade on a whim and this game is tight, Onigawara is pretty top tier for me but Haiji has a Ralph from KoF style punch that when fully charged is unblockable and does near fatal damage tho the cpu just dodges it everytime. I thought Yuiren was my wifu then I found out he's a guy then he vecame my husbando. Also when you're in the red on health you have unlimited supers.

[@djsiddiki3430]

How broken is this game?

[@smokingone]

bro that artwork reminds me of this old SNK game I used to play in arcade where like your body parts fall off as you take damage (at least I know that happened to the mantis guy, others maybe just clothing rips and you get bloodied).

[@TehThespian]

That animation is extremely clean, i can see why maybe this wastn finished. It looks extremely labor intensive

[@LocalJanitor6]

Damn I remember this game, had no idea that it was an unfinished game it was pretty fun

[@feloniousmonk2926]

I love this game. It's so broken though. The environment and characters look so gud.

[@lessthanbrilliant3672]

I was so distracted by the single shadow on the ground that the fighters have to share.

[@CageVsCage]

Game looks really good .. would love to play it

[@Chimpy1]

Perfect was sooo cheap with those infinites

[@Bushidoblacc]

I like how Haiji is literally just Jet from Yatagarasu. I guess it’s actually the other way around huh?

[@Bones98]

Interestingly, this game was at a university student lounge room arcade machine when I was a student.

[@Copperhell144]

That's a very "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down" kinda title

[@netmatrix75]

PSiKYO is famous for sircraft shooting games like 1945 Strikers. It makes sense that the main protagonists looks like pilots. Even the color scheme mirrors the shooting game.

[@ArvelleWhitaker]

Stumbled on the website for this years ago...couldnt find info on it since it was all in japanese. Cool stuff

[@SethKasso]

Guile Win Quote did a great video on this game

[@FaminedNinja]

That's how I learned about this game. I really look forward to him making more videos

[@gaminglakitu]

I had no idea Psikyo made a a fighting game. I mainly know them for their shooters. This game honestly seems pretty cool and it sucks that they weren't able to release it elsewhere to polish it up some more

[@ChillavaKirby]

Occupation: A killer

[@wfjhDUI]

These sprites are incredible. They appear to move like 3D models.

[@DarthcrackbabY]

They were 3d models drawn on 2d sprites. Like Art Of Fighting 3

[@davidtran9444]

Groove on fight flavored art style

[@EMGGYourImagination]

FINALLY! Some content on this hidden gem!

[@HYLOBRO]

This would've been a lot more interesting and enjoyable without PerfectOrange tbh. He kind of ruined it for me. I found the game interesting and would've liked to see the strats and characters developed in such a short time, but no. It could've been cool to see what else the game had to offer.

[@SoulShaded]

I agree 100%. I feel that way whenever he's in a tournament, generally. It feels like he just goes for cheese or whatever is utterly OP/broken. It's not fun to watch. I can imagine it isn't fun to play against either.

[@HYLOBRO]

@@SoulShaded Yeah it really left a bad taste in my mouth, and you know he knows how scummy it is, because he played a different character first. Then, as soon as he loses ONE match, he says "I can't allow myself to lose so I'll be a twat and infinite everyone".

[@servebotfrank4082]

We have two hours to learn the game, usually not much time to find anything so whatever you find within those two hours is what you find.

[@HYLOBRO]

@@servebotfrank4082 That's cool, I like this series and find it entertaining. I just think this particular video would've been better if the grand finals wasn't two people trying the same strategy that involves taking complete agency from whoever gets hit by it. That isn't very fun to watch imo.

[@servebotfrank4082]

@@HYLOBRO Remember that the whole point of this series is to play underplayed games and see how quickly we can break them. An unblockable infinite in Blandia immediately made Jurane a terror. Every one wanted to see Moliopp lose and it's very fun to try to see people form strategies to beat it on the fly. Hell, I think there were clear strategies against the infinite (it seemed to be vulnerable to reversals on block) so it's not like it was an auto win button.

[@heardofrvb]

Actually, you can also freely use supers at low health. The system is actually similar to one of the systems from KOF 98.

[@idioticeskimoe5149]

Kinda sucks to see that my first tourney win ever wasn't on film

[@myu5519]

There are a lot of images out there for Daraku Tenshi (mainly unfinished art and storyboards); plus rare fanart on Japanese sites. IIRC there is supposed to be a remake but I think it is too good to be true. A lot of characters here inspired KOF characters (Cool inspired K’, Harry Ness inspired Maxima, Haiji Mibu I would say a mix of Yashiro, Shen and Kyo (in terms of moveset IIRC). Dunno about the others but I do think Yuiren inspired Shion (given the whole crossdressing thing as both are extremely feminine looking men lol). My favourite here is Haiji Mibu; idk why but he is lowkey attractive to me haha

[@wbl_unlimited]

Any updates on that supposed remake?

[@antonsimmons8519]

Crofts, have you ever played UNICLR? I feel like you might get a kick out of it, if you haven't, and either I'd love to see you cover it.

[@iamseph]

"Ness from smash bros", that's not gonna trigger anyone.

[@daveirhardbrace8492]

This was cool to watch. It would of been even better had we seen you play.

[@tylerhorn3712]

Looks like when you hit "max" super is available. There's a short window of when you can use it. Not sure if extra damage or speed is active as meter drains.

[@sargassosea3432]

Kind of hilarious how scrubby the game got at the end but for some reason was kind of hype still. Some good ole' fun.

[@fendijesus5897]

The 1st match white hair is a fake Ralph from king of fighters

[@lemrphy]

This game was in the states I played it as a kid in the 90’s🤷🏾‍♂️

[@phoenixlich]

I remember reading about this game. It got some mild controversy over one of the characters being a trans woman (the one you see all video above jmcrofts)

[@myu5519]

Just out of curiosity what kind of controversy was there? From what I am aware, Yuiren was a crossdressing male (not trans)...

[@phoenixlich]

@@myu5519 sure, sounds about right. Japan is extremely -phobic, something weebs tend to ignore. it's not what stopped the game from being completed, or anything like that. Think of it similar to Poison being a "newhalf" in Japan and a pre-op "trans woman" in the US so american censors would be okay with beating up a chick. In the case of this game being more modern, certain marginalized groups found the depiction of the character an offensive representation for whatever reason. Thus mild controversy.

[@Check.ur.theism]

Not enough people saying it.. but the pixle art in this game looks so good! 👀

[@FabricioAragao-ym8bg]

How and when i can play the next "fightcade frenzy"???

[@trig0.012]

14:02 that's was a punish

[@Is-wunny]

Has any Console Release? Also, Have you ever played "The Rumble Fish" ? Rumble Fish 1 & 2 are pretty Good

[@juanduplays]

Yo I keep missing these, what is the cadence for these tournaments?

[@chudeexiste7329]

Did I hear wrong or is the game available for fightcade?

[@jmcrofts]

yep

[@Zevaeros]

Battle K Road when?

[@sayonarakid]

what is the story of this game? How it looks so good and was never finished?

[@DoublemanFM]

Isn't Harry Ness the inspiration for Maxima?

[@jacowboy]

Is that Torao guy a dig at SNK?? lol... Also, the other one doesn't look like K', he actually looks more like Yashiro... although he plays more like Ralph it seems... Game looks dope though, too bad they never finished it, some real quality in the artwork.

[@terrysalt]

Does Fightcade let you play any of the single player content or is it just for multiplayer?

[@Draggzilla]

That game pissed me off man. Not the worst though, super pretty also.

[@cc_tw]

we got a discount Kyo, homeless Takuma, and Frankenstein child of Chang. KOF4EVER

[@JoaoLucasK]

Yo, I never knew Torao had an infinite

[@Hinokami386]

Where is Willow!?

[@moe3235]

For the all go ruthenium

[@BBHood217]

More like Daraku Roche: The Fallen Onigawara.

[@PerfectOrange-Goblin]

Shoutouts to the algorithm

[@Azazel5021]

reminds me of Akatsuki

[@rasui80]

I JUST watched a video about this game in the channel GuileWinQuote (check him out, 5K subscribers but does great FG content). Really fun and weird game!

[@HarryRETRO]

play dbz hyper dimension

[@Mugiwara2k]

Perfect was such a scrub, what a lame way to win a tournament.

[@slasher8091]

Infinite super ez to do its qcf 2 into 4 on repeat

[@boyikaruz8415]

i despise the character design on Roche im ngl

[@kranbabushka7887]

Perfect Orange needs to go take a shower, why is your first thought to find a broken move.

[@servebotfrank4082]

We have like two hours to learn the game. What you learn is what you learn. Also everyone runs for broken shit too. We had so many Roches because he looked like a top tier at first glance.

[@kranbabushka7887]

@@servebotfrank4082 if I’m learning a game for a nothing tournament where the point is to not know how to play, I’m gonna run towards the fun moves not the broken ones, but to each their own.

[@gibranalfil9881]

Do touhou fighting game!

[@viniciuspedrosa2405]

3 min rounds lol

[@thegoose8663]

They clearly used 3d models and drew everything over them so everyone looks like the girl with creepy long limbs from SF3 3rd Strike.

[@kalebparham]

Psikyo made a fighting game???

[@ricanbee2849]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@ikuzoburandeon]

Looks Neogeo-ish?