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2D fighters are my favorite genre since ever, they are the most addicting, competitive and time-killing games, Honestly, If I was offered to chose between a 2D fighter or a Free ps3, I would pick the fighter, Even if the ps3 came with a Free Wii.

Im so glad to see that this Genre is still alive and well in Japan, With Snk planning to do a completely remade 2D kof, the announcemtent of "Immaterial and missing power 2" (doujin fighter about tohou) and the following 2 games, 2007 is definitely a good year for us 2D fighter fans.

The first game Im gonna mention, its called Akatsuki Blitzkampf, which definitely takes a different aim than most doujin fighters do, it doesnt want to be a guilty gear copy like most of them, and has an ambientation/characters resembling 2nd World war nazys with electric martial arts among other guys, (think about the bad guys from Metal gear 3), yeah you read that right.

I mean, there is a guy called Elektrosoldat in the game, Rofl, this is a thousand times better than the usual anime girl spam or martial arts you see in fighters, freaking badass.

The game has a pretty hardcore soundtrack, and very old-school style battles with fast proyectiles and short but effective combos, while it doesnt look that gorgeous in animation as melty blood, its a pretty solid and fast game, it includes a special defense which works like the parry system.

I say, a pretty Badass, solid game.

The second one is the more popular, Big Bang beat, Made by the guys who did Melty blood (YAHOO), its a more anime styled fighter, based on some obscure hentai game (hey, Melty blood its based on tsukihime too), this one also features amazing animation and flashy looking combos, with a much more improved combo system and bars, Its pretty awesome looking and the music and presentation are pure win.

While some characters look pretty stereotypical, they look cool enough to deliver, my favorite is the boxing guy, he just looks ready to kick some ass, there is also this guy called seita who yells adds OTOKO to most of his attacks(Otoko means man), pretty manly, other guys are the classic school punk with a wood sword, kind of resembles Johnny, Daigo the Bruce lee impersonator (WHOOO DURAGOOON FAIAAAAA), and the classic crazy guy with knifes that screams like hell.