The Game Awards 2021: Best Fighting Game Winner

This year, there are five nominees for the "Best Fighting" category for 2021: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles , Guilty Gear -Strive- , Melty Blood: Type Lumina , Nickelodeon All-Star brawl stars walkthrough , and Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown . This year showcases a variety in fighting game types similar to past years, showcasing a multitude of anime fighters, a platform fighter, and the revival of a classic 3D fighter as well. Oftentimes it's inherently difficult to quantify what's the "best" fighting game in any given year because of the breadth of different fighting games, but in terms of The Game Awards , there's a pretty clear winner for this y


The roster of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl would see a similar treatment as it would pull characters from Nickelodeon's franchises over disparate time periods. By sticking within Nickelodeon's own history, the roster saw a variety of characters from its past like Helga from Hey Arnold! as well as more recent favorites such as Aang, Korra, and Toph of Avatar fame. Drawing its roster from even obscure parts of its own history with characters like Oblina mirrors Nintendo's tendency to do the same with Super Smash Bros . roster choices. The main form of combat in Nickelodeon's brawler also borrows heavily from Nintendo's initial fo


Games that share the same genre space can and will inevitably also share ideas, concepts, and even gameplay mechanics and inspirations. Some games more directly try to capitalize on the success of others within that space with varying results due to the mindset that goes into their development process. Perry mentions that, as time goes on, these games can be examined " through another lens " away from the games that seemed to directly inspire them and rather on its own merit. While PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale may only have the benefit of retrospect to shed the image of being an inferior Super Smash Bros. , **Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl ** 's time in the sun today provides a blueprint on how games can properly take inspiration from better games while learning from the mistakes of the past as those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat


Of all the fighting game nominees for this year, it's clear that Guilty Gear Strive is the frontrunner for this category in nearly every regard. Guilty Gear as a series had become very popular with Guilty Gear Xrd and Rev 2 , and saw renewed success with the rollback update for Accent Core +R , but Guilty Gear Strive saw an explosion of popularity across the whole fighting game scene. Casual and competitive players, whether they were fans of the series or anime fighter newcomers, flocked to Stri

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Speaking with Screen Rant, Cam Perry likened the release and failure of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale to the DC Extended Universe compared to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perry compared the situation to how the movies within the DCEU have faltered in comparison to the MCU, stating, " It's one of those things where 'Oh I see how successful X is doing. I want to do it but with my things - I want that now, so let's just kinda cut corners and do it', which then leads to subpar media. " In keeping with the MCU comparison, Perry highlights how Nintendo had many years to develop its mascots, building to the roster of Super Smash Bros. over time in a gradual way similar to the growth of Marvel's Cinematic Universe. PSABR 's haphazard roster and its gameplay changes from Smash further highlight a dissonance between the development of the title and the understanding of its succ


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While conceptually exciting, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl was ultimately a bit lackluster in execution. Gameplay-wise, the game was largely excellent, melding some of the classic mechanics of Super Smash Bros. with the many quirky Nickelodeon characters on its roster. However, aesthetically speaking, the visuals and animation were the only bits of character exemplified from these iconic characters; no voice acting, little to no interaction between characters, among other issues that amounted to a lack of polish for the game. While it certainly looked like a Nickelodeon-fueled platform fighter with solid gameplay, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl had surprisingly little charac


Released by THQ Nordic last year, Rehydrated was a return to a game many players grew up with. Its "Overwhelmingly Positive" review aggregate on Steam as of this writing suggests it was successful, despite some having quibbles with the redesigned title. The art style didn't appeal to everyone, and some new additions were considered superfluous, but ultimately the game succeeded in its aim to harken back to SpongeBob's many 3D platformer titles from the mid-2000s. It even reintroduced cut concepts from the original game like a giant mechanical Squidward b