491 | Gleam of Force [2010]

It is a sequel to Glove on Fight, but uses an updated engine and a completely original cast. The spiritual successor to Glove on Fight, which has the best opening movie of any game ever, and boy howdy has it ever been upgraded.

Graphics look better, the engine is far more transparent (though the Engrish is hilarious "Backstub" indeed), the character movesets are vastly expanded, and theres a far greater variety in the fighting styles.

While it is a lot of fun to button mash, counter attacks and parries are where the vast majority of your damage is going to come from, so slamming the keyboard like an epileptic ape will only get you so far. Of course, if you miss a parry, then it counts as a counter for the enemy, and if you think you can just turtle, many characters have a throw that can break guards and everybody can guardbreak by entering the "infight" mode, done only when an opponent is guarding that instantly drops the guard (though you can just put it right back up) and gives thecharacter a speed boost for a few seconds to pummel the crap out of the turtler. Its not that complicated though, there are only three buttons, light attack, strong attack, and defense. Most commands are your normal fighting game motions and/or double taps. Most characters cant even jump