Format: Advance
Genre: Action
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami

An odd little game, styled after the Ravemaster anime. This smash-styled game plays like a party brawler and has possibly the most confusing button scheme I've seen yet. So to start off, If you've ever played smash or a marvel game, then you probably know the deal of what's going on. The catch of this game is that you need to perform something called a "finisher" to win a fight in this game. It took me about 30 minutes trying to figure out what was even going on before I looked it up. The top bar is a sort of weird-esc omni-health bar. The more you're winning the more bar you get. When your bar is nearly full of the whole bar and blinking, THAT is when you can use your finisher. Now get this, the FINISHER button is the start button. Yes, that's right, the START button. Oh, and the select button is the pause button. it's one of those weird ones. The A button jumps which is nice, B attacks, and the combination of buttons let you do attacks in different ways. There's also the R button and it's different combinations for specials, while the L button is reserved for powerups when you are successful in a "rush" maneuver. A+B is the rush technique by the way. As far as the story goes, each character has their own storyline(...) and the game has unlockable characters too. There's additionally a ranking mode which plays very oddly, but I can see it adding a lot of gameplay and post game fights. Once you get a hang of the controls, the action is fast and all over the place. Most fights were multi-fights which was an interesting concept as well. The arenas were fairly well done and varied. The art and music was good. The storyline was non-existent. Seriously, you just get thrown into random fights and are left wondering what the hell is going on when the plot finally DOES start up. Another thing this game does which is interesting, it ties your specialty moves to an "Item" your character holds. When your item gets knocked off, you have to either go get it, or fight without specialty moves. This will happen often. The game is fun, but the storyline aspect of it was trash. The game has around 14-ish characters.

All in All, This game gets a score of 8.5 because a few issues holds it back. The confusing button layout and win conditions aren't displayed anywhere. The lack of storyline is a joke. The AI going apeshit when you're about to win also brings the score down. All the problems seem to be jaded issues that they just didn't fix.