Did you know people made single-player fighting games? I played one last week.
The Kotaku editorial database indicates that before Kamen Rider is released for the DS this year, Yie Ar Kung Fu may have been the only single-player fighting game ever made.
After all, why would anyone make a single-player fighting game? Isnāt that just a brawler?
Ah, but they do exist.
After I checked out the new Matt Hazard game last week, a rep from that gameās publisher, D3, let me try the companyās Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight fighting games. Thereās one coming to the Wii, one to the DS, both based on a several-decades-old Japanese series that has a Power Rangers aesthetic.
I was about to skip the DS version, figuring it was more of the same. But then the D3 rep said it had this unusual quality, not that he suggested it was a selling point.
The DS game is made by Natsume. Both games have a single-player mode comprised of challenges that the player against one or more fighters from the show. Butā¦ the DS game only has single-player.
I was befuddled as to why theyād leave out a second-player option. I was told itās because the design of the game is more focused on leveling up your own character. The more you fight, the more powerful your character gets, in stat-progression ways that supposedly would make it hard to balance for multiplayer gaming. So the DS game may look like itās simply another fighting game with another twist.
But youāll be playing this fighting game alone, if you play it.
Which is kind of how I played Street Fighter II.
Which is why I stank at Street Fighter II.
This is different, yes?
