Battle Arena Toshinden
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Developed_By:
Tamsoft Corporation
Published_By:
TAKARA Co. Ltd.
Released On:
01 Jan 1995
Battle Arena Toshinden is the first sequel to Battle Arena Toshinden 2 .
It adds three new starting fighters; Tracy and Chaos with the original game's final boss, Gaia returning un-armoured and with a completely new move set. There are also three new bosses and hidden characters raising the total number of fighters to 15 (up from 10).
Battle Arena Toshinden , on top of additional special attacks for every character, adds several running attacks to each character: the ability to strike a grounded opponent with new ground attacks and the powerful Overdrive attacks that one must fill up a bar by using other attacks to be able to use.
Battle Arena Toshinden also does away with the free-form combo system of the original Toshinden , replacing it with a simple combo system (i.e. light attack, hard attack, special or light attack, light attack, hard attack, special). The 3D movement in Battle Arena Toshinden has also been made notably slower to prevent the heavy abuse it could be used for in the original.
As a result, while the core game play is similar, this sequel is more tactical than the original game. Where as in the original Toshinden , one could throw normal attacks (i.e. light slashes) around with fairly reckless abandon and sidestep repeatedly without fear of their opponent being able to counter them easily, opponents in Battle Arena Toshinden are able to capitalize on individual missed attacks.
As a result, Battle Arena Toshinden is more balanced than its predecessor. This balance was further tweaked with a re-release called "Toshinden 2 plus" in Japan.
Battle Arena Toshinden was released for the Playstation on 27 September 1995 and unlike the Playstation release of the original Toshinden , it was not re-dubbed for releases outside of Japan.
The PC release of Battle Arena Toshinden for Windows computers, is a straight port of the Playstation version and supports Direct3D rather than specific 3D cards.
UPC-A:
711719609926 (Germany)
UPC-A:
711719622321 (United Kingdom)
UPC-A:
711719622529 (France)
UPC-A:
711719657323 (Australia)
UPC-A:
711719677222 (United Kingdom)
ASIN:
B00004TMNW (United Kingdom)
Sony PN:
SCES-00002 (Australia)
Sony PN:
SCES-00232 (France)
Sony PN:
SCES-00700 (United Kingdom)
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Input Devices Required:
Gamepad
Save Game Methods:
External Storage
Multiplayer Options:
Same/Split-Screen
Number of Offline Players:
1-2 Players
Number of Players Supported:
1-2 Players
Multiplayer Game Modes:
Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS)
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