Super Cosplay War Ultra is a game which could win the “Massive download” award. If such would be an existing one, of course…
Being a Japanese-made game it, as usual, has great graphics and excellent animations. This is essentially your basic one on one fighting game except with major improvements in features and quality. Super Cosplay War Ultra is arguably the best one I’ve played. It is such upgraded version of Pocket Fighter, with a more advanced fighting engine, where the characters are cosplayers or parodies of cosplayer stereotypes with moves, where they’ll transform into their favorite characters.
Each player is based on one of the many Anime characters that are out there. I couldn't name any for you because I'm not an Anime fan. The players have loads of combo's and special moves that they can perform and are perfectly animated.
Fighting games usually aren’t found on the PC, not the best ones anyway. Once upon a time we played the likes of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 Turbo on PC with keyboard controls. Anyone remember the original version of Mugen, which was used for a homebrewed “clone” of Street Fighter and all the hacked versions that followed? How about Body Blows? Super Fighter? Sango Fighter? Well.. I digress. These days “keyboard fighters” are still being made, but not commercially, instead they are
the realm of “doujin fighters” which is Japanese for fan made fighting games.
Unlike other fighting games, the backdrops in SCWU are animated, instead of being plain static images. Once you have completed the game you will have access to even more characters. The gameplay and graphics are outstanding and are the reason for the large download size.
There are references galore to both games and anime everywhere both in the characters as well as the backgrounds. The Boss is also particularly hilarious with both jabs at cosplay and a parody/homage of “SNK boss syndrome”. The game is very polished with 3D particle effects and tight controls. Amazingly it’s free.
Overall this is an excellent game and a “must-have” for fighting, as well as Anime fans.
