Battle Arena Toshinden

🙂 6.8/10

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Long Box (Playstation - US, Fighting)

Developed_By:

Tamsoft Corporation

Published_By:

TAKARA Co. Ltd.

Released On:

01 Jan 1970

Battle Arena Toshinden is the first sequel to Battle Arena Toshinden , released in 1995-09-09. 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).

The gameplay in Battle Arena Toshinden has been improved over its predecessor. It 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 does away with the free-form combo system of the original 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 has also been made notably slower to prevent the heavy abuse it could be used for in the original.

The game is more tactical than its predecessor, where as in the original Toshinden, one could throw normal attacks 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.

The game is more balanced than its predecessor. This balance was further tweaked with a re-release called " Toshinden 2 plus " in Japan.

The Playstation release of Battle Arena Toshinden 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.

eBay Product ID:

1094 (United States)

eBay Product ID:

1135 (United States)

eBay Product ID:

1145 (United States)

UPC-A:

711719400301 (United States)

UPC-A:

711719420026 (United States)

UPC-A:

796298065837 (United States)