You block by holding the directional input away from the enemy, and may also "tech" your way out of a combo. Super Moves are devastatingly powerful, but they can be blocked. The gauge is refilled as you take or give damage. There are three levels to this gauge, and the stronger a Super Move is the more of the gauge it will drain. The ponies also possess "super moves" which drain the Super Gauge on the bottom. Each pony usually has a way of refilling her magic meter Rarity the unicorn and Rainbow Dash the pegasus do it by standing still, but Pinkie Pie the earth pony must wait until the round is over. It spends shards from a hexagon-shaped "magic meter" located on the bottom of the screen next to the Super Gauge.
A, B and C are weak, medium and strong attacks respectively, and D is "magic", a special attack that, depending on the pony, requires to be combined with directional inputs or not. The controls are a directional input and four buttons marked A, B, C and D. Twilight Sparkle the unicorn, for example, whacks her foes with a book she's magically levitating, Fluttershy the pegasus is able to summon various woodland animals to her aid, and Applejack the earth pony has a lasso. Each pony (out of the show's six main characters) has her own fighting style and special moves. Special moves are activated with combinations of direction keys and attack buttons in specific sequences. Do this twice and you'll be declared the match's winner. The objective is to employ all of your fighting skills and special moves to completely drain the opponent's life bar before they do the same to you.
If you've played or at least seen any Street Fighter game, you have a general idea of how to play: the characters face each other in 1-on-1, two rounds out of three, martial arts matches. There is also a "Versus" mode for two players to fight locally, and with a special program (separate download) you may play online. Not that there would be one even Lauren Faust noted the "irony" of good friends fighting each other. The one player mode is called "Story", but there is no actual story you just pick a pony and beat the living snot out of the rest (including a clone of yourself, the first opponent) with no explanation. But what about my opinion, as opposed to his? In short, it's the best fan game I've ever played. If someone like that can enjoy it, then yes, it's good. So, after such a troubled development, is the game any good? Let me put it this way: it was recommended to me by someone who hates bronies even more than I do. Tribute Edition was officially acknowledged by Equestria Daily on February 28, 2014. With the project completely dead, Mane6 started work on a different fighting game starring fighting animals (no anthro), with character designs by Lauren Faust herself.īut, as it turns out, Fighting is Magic wasn't completely dead at all a third party group of developers called SquirrelNET modified the leaked pre-release build into the more or less complete Tribute Edition, which adds a 1-player mode and two extra characters. I think the latter happened in March or April of 2013. Two things brought its development to a halt: one, a pre-release build was leaked into the Internet and two, Hasbro (owners of My Little Pony) threatened to sue Mane6 if the project wasn't stopped at once.
It was going to be a 1-on-1 fighting game starring characters from the series.
If you're not familiar with the original "Fighting is Magic" game, it was a fan-made video game project by a development team called Mane6.
I will never understand why a group of people united around a television series about being friendly has its collective head shoved so far up its own ass, unless I believe (and it seems likely, frankly) that they were unlikable jackasses already, before the show came along. With a few exceptions I'm proud to call my friends, I believe the majority (and screw it, I said "majority") of them are arrogant, self-righteous jerks who think their very presence is doing the world a favor. Let me be brief about the pony issue: I love "Friendship is Magic", but I hate the bronies. This game is nothing new by now -it's a little bit over a year old- but since a new version of it is being worked on as I speak (unless it was an April Fools' joke that they'll be showing it at some con), and I have taken to playing it again, and I'd really like for Keira-Jo (and, hopefully, some of my other followers who like My Little Pony) to see it, well, I see nothing wrong with a belated English review.