The Rise and Fall of Bloody Roar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
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Bloody Roar is so sick! Hear the tragic tale of its cruel demise at the hands of Konami and consumers alike!
This is a fairly surface-level analysis of competitive viability and mechanics throughout the series' lifespan. I fully cop to the fact that I don't know everything - there isn't a ton of info already because the series never reached the heights of Street Fighter, but it had so much potential.
So join me in remembering Bloody Roar - and if you'd like to help support the show, here's the link to my Patreon page: www.patreon.co...
**I've been hearing some frustrated people mention they don't like me implying that the competitive potential of the series is nonexistent. Apologies - just assumed it was self-evident. The "most" competitively viable things aren't always the things that become competitive - the point was more that Bloody Roar has fans, and even people who are interested in the scene, but the scene is small. It's not going to be a money game, you know? I'll try to be less loose with that kind of thing in the future. If you're into it, more power to you. As it stands, it's my understanding that Japanese copies of the Xtreme games are the most viable, which would mean lower potential access and therefore lower mass-success.
Sources:
This thread comprises a lot of the early competitive talk on the games forums.shoryuk...
I pulled clips from a couple of tournament matches uploaded to the site • Bloody Roar 2: Oga Tat...
• Bloody Roar 2 (Japan) ...
Lastly, though not featured in the video footage, Jerimiah Isaiah is the current champion of Bloody Roar content on the website / jerimiahisaiah
Hey I just did Dead Space! • The Rise and Fall of D...
"If you like it you're probably 30" how dare you call me out so thoroughly
29 😭😭😭
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Bruh... how did he know
I feel so attacked lol
His a mind reader...
This game is always going to hold a special place in my heart, because my then-girlfriend, now-fiancee and I bonded over it. It was briefly after discussing our mutual love of gaming that she mentioned she was a huge fan of this fighting-game that I had never heard of, and one of our first dates was at her place, battling back and forth while I internally thought that I'd 'take it easy on her' before she subsequently wiped the floor with me, only to find out later that she'd been thinking the exact same thing. Then when I 'got serious', she proceeded to wipe the floor with me yet again.
C Goode You are one lucky man
Lucky BR fellow and beautiful story!
That's actually dope
Shit that didn't happen
C Goode either or you’d got floored lol but thats a good story.
Konami forgetting and or destroying another one of their franchises?
Castle vania: *first time?*
Metal gear: *first time?*
Bomberman: *first time?*
Silent Hill: *ugly crying*
Yugioh: *motorcycle vrooming noises*
Contra ?
Suikoden ?
To be fair, i think Bloody Roar should be saying it. The series ended 15 years ago.
Nah. Bloody Roar was the first who asked. It was destroyed before they went crazy. PS2 era, folks! When Metal Gear was still basking in the glory that is Snake Eater!
Ah Shenlong, lesser known member of the "Dont go near them when their backs is turned" beat em up crew.
Tetsuzankou!
@@Ramsey276one I always remember that "hussah" noise he made with the little flick kick
their Beast Drive walk is the scariest thing in the game
even though Chronos can drain meter on his Beast Drive grab
@@QuantemDeconstructor What that ominous af *Stomp* *Stomp* *Stomp* *BOOM* lol
@@JMorrall89 yeah, that shit's terrifying
"If this sounds good to you, you're probably 30."
Well, I certainly feel called out...
Same
47 here :)
yep me too
29 almost 30 aha
Im 25 and im a big fan so idk
Saw Bloody Roar and had to click.
Same
Ditto.
The Bloody Roar series were my jam back in the day, Shenlong and Yugo main represent!
same
@GamerCalledBen i feel you. i miss the good old days
I rarely bought stuff when I Was a kid because I was afraid of wasting my money on a game that I wouldn't like because my dad couldn't regularly give me an allowance, but when I bought Bloody Roar 2, I never regretted it. It was so fun.
I ended up not buying it for some reasons, but I had a demo version, and it was the coolest thing I ever played
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 I had the demo too, that's why I bought the game. I got tired of only playing the same two characters
This and Capcoms Darkstalkers should really make a comeback, and with the recent mention of adding one of a beloved character from an old capcom FG franchise into SFV. There is a glimpse of hope of whats to come in the future.
Darkstalkers is forever relegated to guest appearance and fapbait duty.
Bloody Darkstalkers would be the crossover of the century
Capcom recently renewed their license for Darkstalkers so we may see something from them in the future
@@jamesdreamer5833 plz don't give me hope, I got burned badly since Resurrection's empty promise...
Hell Killer Instinct and Samurai Showdown made a comeback so its possible, but thing is...the people behind those projects had a passion to make it happen. Idk if Capcom has that drive for Darstalkers. I have no hope for Bloody Roar though😓😓
Still got my copy of Bloody Roar for the Gamecube; gods, I loved this game.
Played it yesterday
Bloody Roar 2 has a special place in my heart... one of the first games I ever played
I remember how my heart was shaking whenever I would come across Shenlong in Bloody Roar 2 when I was kid 😖
BR3 is still played at 南森町コーハツ (Challenger Kouhatsu) an arcade center in Osaka, Japan; they have a youtube channel of the same name where they upload some really good matches there
Then what the youtube channel name?
@@minimanimoo8715 like i said, its 南森町コーハツ
Okay thanks
I love how you think the FGC didn't play it because there was something wrong with it. No, the FGC was just the Capcom Fanboy Club back when this game came out. Eighting wasn't a known fighting game company so they never really gave the game much of a chance outside of 3 due to it being such an early PS2 release. Sorry but I remember arguing in favor of these games back when they were new and it was all wall to wall hypocrisy.
It WAS refreshing hearing you go into a bit more detail as to what was wrong with the games though you gloss over or miss a few things (Hyper Beast being new to the home version of BR1, side stepping is a home version exclusive option for BR1, you can switch to hand drawn portraits for BR1, pretty sure you can combo into beast in BR1 just like in 2, tons of unlockables for BR2, BR2 being a high-res PS1 game, BR4's massive slowdown issues). That said, I could have never covered the complaints you have with the games as far too often people just say "I want Bloody Roar to come back but like...better! Like make it good so it can stand up to current games!" and my usual response is "...but Bloody Roar is better than current fighting games". I stand by that statement too, I'd rather play Bloody Roar 1 than any 3D fighter currently on the market. Erm...worth mentioning that I hate how Tekken controls. Left Punch/Right Punch does NOT make ANY sense to me and I've tried for years. I just find Tekken stiff, clunky, unnatural, and confusing. So taking Tekken out of the picture we have...what...DOA and Soul Calibur? DOA5 was good at least (fuck 6) but I'd still rather play any Bloody Roar game except 4. Bloody Roar is just faster, flashier, with a nice big movelist, and wonderful quarter circle inputs that makes it feel like a good blend of 2D and 3D fighters though leaning more towards 3D (while Rival Schools is quite similar in its blend but leans more towards 2D). Soul Calibur...just...makes me sad. That poor series. Call me when they stop cutting content and calling it a sequel. Really 3D fighters are in a depressingly bad place right now.
As for Bloody Roar 4, I think what happened was Konami rushed it. It came out REALLY shortly after Konami bought Hudson so I suspect the game was most of the way through development and Konami just said "Shit it and get it out of here, we're done with this". I hear the Japanese version is slightly better. Glad to hear someone say something sorta nice about Nagi though. I like her and am really intrigued by her story and personality (she's weirdly nice for an angry looking leather clad biker chick and is her moaning in beast mode just the bad dub or does turning into a half finished duplicate of the Unborn cause pain to turn into pleasure for her?).
We need an Evo Alternative where a Franchise like Bloody Roar can stand on it's own.
The first Evo was in 2002, and just confirming what was said, it was basically an initiative to expand the Capcom fg legacy: they played St and 3s, that were old games, and Mvc2 and Cvs2 that were two new games for the time.
Evo was created by hardcore capcucks important in the community, and it took a while for it to be willing and open to many 3d fg's - the guys that ruined Capcom's fg supremacy in the 90s. And even more to other 2d fg's - of course "direct enemies" of Capcom.
Hence the low regard for Guilty Gear in the 00s, despite the fact it was a technical wonder superior to Capcom fg's and it was THE 2d highlight of that decade, and that must have filled the capcucks with jealously because Capcom's fg division completely collapsed at the same time. So they rather stuck to St and 3s, old games, than give wholehearted full support to GG, which was keeping the 2d fg's alive with a technical competence on par with Capcom. Their bias didnt let them promote GG like the star of the events - its deserving place since it was the hot new 2d fg of the time (and if we discard recycled work, Capcom never delivered a mostly fresh fg since the mid 90s).
The jealous fanboys also refused to aknowledge the return of Snk in good form with Kof Xi in 2005. They turned their faces away from Snk in the 90s like they were guard dogs of Capcom, so im aware it would have been very difficult for them to aknowledge some relevance to "Capcom's old enemy" at that time.
The proud capcucks stuck to promoting their old dead (commercially) 2d fg's as the Evo main titles rather than the 2d and 3d hot news of the time.
Now in that whole situation, with a hardheaded Evo staff that refused to move on and accept that the 00s doesnt belong to Capcom, and preferred to continue worshipping old fg's rather than giving honest support to whatever new good 3d and 2d fg of the time, what the hell could you except of their possible judgement about freaking Bloody Roar?
We need Bloody Roar brought back and made into a comeback. I'm bored of Street Fighter, Tekken & Mortal Kombat getting so much popularity. This series has so much potential and 4 fell into tragedy. Just wonder how this series can be made into a reboot? We need a lot of animals not just on land, but also from air & sea!
Have a real human join the roster, who's a hunter/huntress of zoanthropes where the fighter actually calls on a battlesuit to battle zoans in their animal forms.
No we don't need bloody roar back. Why are you borde of the fighting game big 3? And also why tf are you acting like there aren't other fighting games that release and other older but still popular fighting games around to play? Like Skull Girls, Guilty Gear, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Injustice, Blaze Blue, Gran Blue Fantasy vs, Them fighting herds which is brand new based off of MLP:FIM, Smash Bros the list goes on.
Oh and DOA, Soul Calibur are still alive. The only dead fighting game franchises that need to make a return are Virtua Fighter and Killer Instinct. Bloody Roar is cool but it can stay dead and niche. We have too much to play with already!
What is the logic in that? You just said you’d want VF and KI to make a return yet you say there is too much fighting games to play as an excuse for BR not to make a return in spite of saying its a kool game contrast to something rubbish like Shaq Fu or something none of us are asking for. Imo you can never have too much fighting games I would like SNK to bring back Fatal Fury and AOF as its separate continuity from KOF be it a remaster/reboot or long awaited sequel to where they left off, same goes with Bloody Roar I’m in favor of it’s return one day, KI I’m sure is still a thing from KI3 coming out 2013 they’ll drop a new one I’m sure. I'd want VF to comeback and actually have a story this time outside the manual.
I mean I think KI is still a thing they made the last game in 2013 one of the first games on Xbox One so I’m sure there is room for a future installment people including myself still play KI3 and you got to remember KI2 last came out on N64 mid 90s so KI3 is a BIG comeback thats still living its glory imo, plus when you look at it Capcom takes a while to make SF installments between like an 8 yr gap between SFIV/SFV even though they made enhanced editions of IV between even when you look at SF3 Third Strike late 90s with the Alpha and EX series around that time and SFIV 2008 thats almost a decade. Still VF and BR are no doubt still buried and need to be revived like a Phoenix from the Ashes.I think if Konami brings back BR they should HD remaster the first game maybe BR2 also since that’s the best one as a double combo edition lol and the following few yrs make a long awaited BR5 sequel. For VF they need they first off need to make a freakin story actually in the game no one especially these days will dig in the manual to figure out whats going on, character prologues and endings or something, give us a new final boss I’m tired of Dural like everyone, expand the move sets and combos and that should be VF6 should be on par to compete with Tekken with these changes. And yeah thats my opinion on the future we can hope for.
Along with Eternal Champions
They need to make a snake and rhino guy
Who else watches the patreon read just to hear him say "simp GOD"?
literally almost noone. I stayed for Damaged TH-cam Analytics this time
ME I FUCKING LOVE IT OMFG
Yes.
I never stayed for the patreon read so thank you for informing the masses because that was great
This reminds me of thorins league of legends analysis and podcasts/shows at the end one patreon sub is “bluntsmokinganaldestroyer” and gets a callout with all the other subs. Its the only reason i sit through it all at the end🤣🤣🤣
I really enjoy this series, and I think that given how things have changed on a social level you could potentially bring back Fox and Mitsuko, two characters that were dropped for their unconventional designs at the time and would likely be better received now. Twinky girlish assasin fox guy and beefy butch boar mom totally have a place in modern gaming.
Hans, Fox's real name had nothing wrong with his appearance, he simply killed himself upon realizing he killed his mother in his BR1 ending.
@@jacksonpeds5298 Nah I know. I was just remarking on his character design/species. :3
if fox make a return he will be really popular cuz hey it a femboy fox
I never got to play with them since the first one I played was Bloody Roar 3. But femboy fox and butch-boar mom would be HELLA received now
KBash: "There will be no Animorphs reference! There will be no BNA reference! There will be no Emperor's New Groove reference!"
Furries: [steeples fingers expectantly]
What about Killing Bites?
@@TheIDcard123 aka Bloody Roar but with rape.
@@TheIDcard123 I was thinking the same thing.
There's also another anime involving people who can transform into animals called K.O. Beast which *looks back at Wikipedia page* had Takehiko Ito (Outlaw Star) as the Character Designer *looks again* Sam Reigel and Liam Ó Brian *looks one more time* and hey Koyasu was in this as well.
Pain is knowing I’ll never get to batter people with ShenLong ever again.
Just because a game didn’t make it into EVO doesn’t mean it doesn’t have “competitive play potential”.
totu, whom you’ve unfairly criticized in this video for “squashing the pachinko rumor”? Yeah, he’s been uploading videos of BR3 arcade high level play for at least 5 years. So if Jerimiahisaiah, totu, TN Power & Krizyugofox Games have all been steadily uploading high level play of BR2, 3 & Extreme (GC) from the US, UK, Japan, Taiwan & Colombia respectively for numerous years now, how does this game not have the potential for a scene again?
And all these references to the SRK threads are missing one thing: They were made before social media. Meaning that ONLY English-speaking FGC purists diligently frequented them. And as established, those threads are largely misinformed when it came to Bloody Roar's "balance issues".
I appreciate the effort you put into making this, and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with you about the series’ presentation issues. But claiming this series doesn’t have any nostalgic backbone from which it can be properly revitalized is simply untrue. I should know. I’m from Saudi FRIGGIN Arabia 🤣
Agreed!
It might not be as frequent in the mainstream of the fgc, I do see it quite often from time to time recommended in some way or another.
This video's script felt too dismissive and ignorant, not that the video is bad per say...
I think you probably shouldn't take the 'didn't make it to Evo' thing seriously. It's abundantly clear that he's being facetious every time he says it. He didn't exactly take a shit on the game; balance issues were the norm in 90's fighting games. Bloody Roar certainly had it's admirers, myself included, but it remains very niche to this day.
@@keystonelyte I must establish that I agree with his criticisms of the series' presentation and I am seriously one of the most outspoken critics of BRtrashass4 you will EVER meet in life LOL!
That said, my issue doesn't lie with KBash's opinions on Bloody Roar. It lies with the LONG-spread inaccuracies that this series 'wouldn't hack it as a competitive game', because that, my friend, is simply not true. And the REASON I insist on dispelling such inaccuracies is that I've seen too many people spend years of their lives dedicating themselves to proving that the vast majority of the Bloody Roar games are, in fact, prime subjects for high level play.
The EVO thing just set me off. Oh, and dissing totu was a low blow.
Finally, if KBash KNEW that Jerimiahisaiah was "the current champion of Bloody Roar content on TH-cam" yet only mentioned him in the description, this acknowledgement of his HAD to have been an afterthought.
@@gamingntea I don't disagree with the sentiment that it is competitively viable. The game that is largely considered to be one of the best competitive fighting games, SF3: Third Strike, is wildly imbalanced, with the parry mechanic completely ruining balancing further.
The fact of the matter is that the best competitive fighting games have one thing in common; they are largely both fun as hell to play AND watch. My favorite fighting game to date is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, and despite being a 20 y/o fighting game, it had a massive community compared to what you'd think, and is actively competitive to this day on Fightcade and Red GGPO.
It's fun to play and watch, its innovative as all hell with its mechanics, its animations are slick, and the music is awesome. It's also wildly imbalanced and 2 characters are straight up banned on the existing competitive scene. I'd argue that the imbalance makes the games inherently more interesting.
@@keystonelyte Notice how I never maintained that the balance in the Bloody Roar series was perfect. Hell, Uranus from BOTH BR3 & X is banned AF!
The reason I prefer to highlight Bloody Roar over some other FGs is the fact that I've yet to play a fighting game series with multiple installments that are instantly fun to gamers who don't know SHIT about fighting games, yet each has some of the steepest mastery curves I've come across in FGs! That part has always been hard to sell to potential fellow FGC enthusiasts, and yet Bloody Roar has always done that with ease! I still remember how many of my family & friends would hold impromptu tourneys for BR2 & 3 even though they all HATED fighting games AND we all couldn't compete for SHIT! LMAO!
The furry market wasn´t ready back then
@@sridrawings4510 It’s already ruined
@@TheHuskyK9 can just remaster one of the original 3 games and not the ones after or just make 5 but better. I mean it has been 3 generations of consoles so it can happen
@@Cosmic-Turtle wasn't a joke, mate.
@@Cosmic-Turtle bruh
@@akiradkcn Shut your noise tube, you number... I just got really tired of constantly seeing furry jokes. Forgive me.
Bloody Roar is such a sad tale when it comes to 3D Fighting games. It had a pretty cool concept, some interesting characters, and while the gameplay was not really as smooth as Soul Calibur or Dead or Alive, it still was a neat series that was brimming with potential. My first entry into the series was with Primal Fury on the GameCube. I remember seeing a review of the game on G4's X-Play way back in the day, had to be around 2002-2003 and I remember telling my brother about it as we were both into 3D fighters and we ended upboth saving money to get. We get it and while we did acknowledge that it wasn't as fluid as Tekken 5 or Soul Calibur 2, we still really liked it a lot. We would spend so much time playing it and we considered ourselves fans at that point, enough to get Bloody Roar 4 the day it came out. At the time, we didn't really notice anything too wrong with it at first until we noticed just how broken the gameplay was from matches either taking longer than you'd think they should or over in an instant. And then of course the awful voice acting (So bad it's hilarious). Yeah we had really mixed feelings about BR4 and we came to the conclusion that where we though that Primal Fury was better.
I eventually did get around to playing the first 3 BR games and I had fun with all of them, even BR1 despite the nightmare fuel that was the character designs lol. The music was awesome in all the games but it was a given since I like Rock so eh lol. And yeah, I can agree with all you said about BR3, it was where the game truly was starting to get somewhat of a footing of what it wanted to be. Like I admitted before in your Soul Calibur videos, I was never really a competitve or heavily technical player, I don't know all the fancy fighting game terms outside of the basics and it just comes down to whether I enjoy playing the game or not and Bloody Roar just happened to be one of those games.
It's really depressing where Bloody Roar has ended up because while it did have a very rough to experimental type of run, it would've been so cool to see carry on into the PS3/360 era. I mean could you imagine how cool a next gen Bloody Roar game would've looked graphically? And plus, I'm more than sure they would've found a way to make the gameplay work and make up for the "meh" of BR4. And considering that Hudson Soft went defunct in 2011, it seems that Bloody Roar may stay in the ground for the rest of time. I still remember when there was rumors that Bloody Roar 5 was in the making only for it to be fake lol. I'd like think that maybe we'll see Bloody Roar come back but with Konami's track record with how they've been handling their games (or lack thereof with those damn Pachinko machines), yeah the BR series is pretty much doomed but hey, miracles can happen sometimes right? lol Anyway awesome review, it's nice to see more people talking about these games~
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"...Whining guitars, screaming people, if you like it you're probably 30."
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Touché.
I would get home from school and play Bloody Roar for hours. Love this game.
I find it hilarious that Kbash mentions Bloody Roar caught attention in Vietnam because that’s where I first ever heard of it. I was at a relatives house and they let me play some games on their PC and this was the game they suggested. It was pretty lit but I had no idea what I was doing. But when I found out the name of the series a few years back I immediately knew it was the same game I played back in Vietnam.
One punch button, one kick button, and a block button.
* Virtua Fighter and Dead or Alive have entered the chat *
@@SnakeInTheRain throw is a part of punch and guard button. That's throw button is a hotkey. In official arcade board there is only 3 button
@@SnakeInTheRain like i said, BR had throw button, even VF have it. But it's hotkey nothing more, so it's doesn't count
@@SnakeInTheRain vf already had that button. Have you ever play it on ps2, ps3 and dreamcast, dude?
@@SnakeInTheRain if you can perform throw without throw button, then that button is hotkey, that's it
@@SnakeInTheRain should i upload a video for proof :\ ?
I’m 22 and this game is what jump started my addiction to fighting games in general. I find myself thinking ab this game every couple of weeks and I’ve never seen anything ab it until now.
I loved Bloody Roar 2 and I'm still sad it ended up disappearing, but as you point out it followed a bad route on following installments. I would like to see it making a comeback with nowadays graphics, but I have 0 hope on that.
Kinda wish Bloody Roar made one final game
that was like Remix of all games put together, almost like MK trilogy like game,
having all characters from all the series put into one game.
and have different fighting styles something like Street fighter Alpha 3
but it's more like game mechanics styles from all the series
like style one would more Bloody roar 2 like,
two would like the 3rd game style, then etc etc for the other styles.
and locations from almost every game.
Just found this game in a "best joke characters" with Chronos(?) The penguine just yesterday. And look what the feed recomends me, hahaha
fun fact: the developers of bloody roar (Eighting) were the same devs responsible for Marvel VS. Capcom 3: Ultimate. They also worked on Castlevania Judgement, Castlevania fighting game where the character designs were made by the Takeshi Ohbata, the artist for Deatnote
I still play BR4 & 3 with friends via emulators and parsec. This was one of my favorite franchises of all time since soul calibur. I'm glad kbash finally touched upon it.
If I had the power to revive this franchise I would love to.
in South America this game was Huge! (bloody roar 2 mainly), so many good memories. it always shocked me that the franchise died so long ago.
A fighting game where the roster includes animals/animal people is a very interesting and cool idea. I wonder why so few games like this exist? :/ Fighting games where you only get to play as humans are sooo boring now...
Trueeeee
I remember this, vaguely, good memories, thanks for bringing them back to me
I really like this series starting with extreme and i wish it could come back some how, but at least i have the memories. Keep up the good work, have a nice day and don't falter.
I've never heard someone so happy about killing a child before.
And he got a haircut! He looks so handsome! Canadian Handsome, one of the rarer types of handsome there is!
Woah you got a crush on him?
@@lesenfantsterribles2119 You don't??
v true
The combo in this game is crazy fun to pull off
One thing about this game, that might not generate any hype: IT'S A KONAMI GAME...
I love how Konami will actively ruin their games then say:"games aren't selling anymore so we'll just do pachinko machines"
Oh man this brings back memories of my older brother, cousin, and I playing this in Philippines. We lied to my parents about buying snacks to play Bloody Roar and Teken in the arcades.
I only played 3 & 4, and I'm almost 30 so thanks for calling me out. 😂 Also Uriko was my girl, with Jenny as a close second.
Beasterize would be an amazing comeback mechanic in this day and age and you can't tell me different.
Oh how I loved it so I have told so many people about it and they were like I never heard of this.
Bless, two bloody roar restrospectives, one from the Krash Basher himself and one from the Muscles of the Matt, and both with good, proper, respectful insights. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU. God this series deserves more love.
Respective insight? Lol did you not pay attention to what this guy was saying? He was mostly negative than positive, and sounds like he only tried out these games for a day then quit because he didn't like them. The games aren't met to be taken seriously, but some people don't realize which is foolish.
@@ight3817 Even as a bloody roar fan I can agree with some of his statements, because a lot of them are true when it comes to the more recent games, it's not like he spouted total bullshit.
To me Bloody Roar 2 was the epitome of this franchise.
I miss Bloody Roar 2 so much Bakuryu was my go to guy his helicopter grab in beast mode was by bread and butter in a pinch
You know, with the success of the ... furry uprising... I think its a great moment for Bloody Roar to come back. I was actually thinking about it recently while watching BNA.
I recall enjoying Blood Roar 2 back then. I got fairly good at it, but never felt comfortable in other fighting games.
I would love a new installment from this series I watched a tournament of it recently and it was so fun to watch
Bloody roar extreme was incredible
Bloody Roar 4 was released in Japan 2 years before Hudson became a Konami subsidiary in 2005.
Hudson became a company of highs and lows in 2000s, until it was shutdown in 2012.
I too think BR3 was the most "competitively sound" version, though I did enjoy BR2 and BRPF. I do still wish for a new installment built around the good system mechanics found throughout the series. I would love all the characters to return. Sadly, I don't see this happening though.
My siblings burrowed and was allowed to keep BR3 from a neighbor. Best thing ever. Learning moves, mastering and finding hidden beast drives and the secret battle modes you could unlock in the options menu made us take 3 over 4 any day. While 4 allowed for some pretty broken sets with the customization options, it unfortunately took the fun out the game. I remember my Uriko or Ryoho literally KOing anyone in less than three seconds because they pierced defense.
So many fond memories of playing Bloody Roar 2 with my brother back in the good old PS1 days. Spent countless hours trying to do everything in the game. Good times that will never be coming back...
Bloody Roar for the PS2 will always have a special place in my heart, its just always special and a nice thing to have had in my childhood
I can't believe he did not even mention Killing Bites at the start (or Beastars but that's less important)
Or kemono Friends. :D
not mentioning Beastars makes sense cause they're not shapeshifters. Killing Bites was probably not mentioned for a different reason...
@@garuelx8627
Beastars may have been a stretch (don't remember the context) but I'm still sad about the killing bites one, its not amazing but it fits with the theme here
@@NoRegs30 because that anime is super rapey. The cobra's special move involved his hemidick.
Bloody Roar 2 is a staple on my school break back then, almost every class have someone who put on a small tournament every break on their laptop.
yeah I remember trading in BR3 for BR4 and then instantly regretted it.. one additional negative for BR4 you didn't mention.. the stages.. oh lord the stages >_> tiny tiny tiny tiny
Im from South America, and
Bloody Roar 2 is my second best fighting game for the PS1 only topped by MvsC
I loved this game back in the day. I wish they brought it back. I always picked Yugo.
Thanks for mentionning this series! Back when I was a kid, one of my brother's class mates lended us Bloody Roar 2 for the PSX and we spend countless hours on it, almost as much as the likes of Soul Blade, Tekken 3 and Soul Calibur II. Years later I was in a boarding school, and a friend of mine reminded me of BR 2 as she played the japanese version on a PSX as a kid. Eventually, on our free time during wednesday afternoons, we would load it on an emulator on my laptop and play for hours. I even trained during some evenings in my room, and eventually I discovered the likes of command cancels and other stuff I didn't understand as a kid. After that I discovered the other episodes in the series and now I have them all except BR 1 and 4.
Even though there is little to no hope for a revival, at least there is a small but dedicated community playing the games, and following the top 8 on Extreme at Combo Breaker 2022 was a pleasure.
Okay man, I recently saw a Bloody Roar retrospective video but your commentary sold this for me. You got yourself a follow. Good work.
Man, it's sad, I wanted to see Fox in bloody roar again.
Very ironic that with a title containing the word "Roar" in it, it went out with such a wimper and will literally never come back
Even though both fighting games, and anthros are arguably more popular than ever these days.
My review:
I think I remember the second one. It was alright.
Fully agree
I still remember the intro of the bloody roar game I had as a kid... bloody roar 2.. the new breed... still a fun game for the time.
Next you should talk about the Zatch Bell fighting games.
Hell yeah, electric arena was one I actually enjoyed because I really loved the anime. Generally hate 2d fighters.
"Yeah Mole Dude! CUT EM' UP!!!" was the most hilarious way to describe Bloody Roar!
Did a combo on accident, so I tried to do it again in practice. gave up after about an hour and just mashed buttons - got a 32 hit combo through that >.
I loved this game series so much when I was a kid. It was the first fighting game I ever played.
Thank you Kbash for talking about this game and bringing back good memories.
i miss Bloody Roar 2, that game was my jam. ill pour one out tonight
I had so much fun back in the days, that ninja guy bakuryu was my FAv he could turn into a mole
the first two games have a parry like system as well where if you press forward right after a light block you automatically sidestep out of the way
BR2 was my whole game with my childhood. Stun is a beast through and through.
I'm currently 16 years old and this is a game me and my bro would play when I was like 4 so he usually won most of the time, but for awhile since then I kind of didn't know if what I remembered of Bloody Roar 3 was real or a just a fever dream till I brought it up to my brother and he confirmed it. I really think they should make a new one, soul calibur has charm but I like my fighting game characters to use their fists, I know I could just plat street fighter but it doesnt have the nostalgia of Bloody Roar 3 for me.
really wish they would remaster or remake this game with some newer mechanics, i loved this game to death wish it would come back
Whenever I have a few minutes to spare in a break when I'm out, I play some Bloody Roar Primal Fury on my phone instead of a freemium game. I love that game.
me and my brother were talking about bloody roar just the other week it would be awesome to see a ps4 edition or ps5 now.
This is a series I sorely miss. Busuzima the Chameleon was always my favorite character.
Anytime I see a video on Bloody Roar I instantly click and in the back of my head I hope that supporting any and all Bloody Roar videos that pop up in my feed as recommended that someone, somewhere is plotting a secret revival for the series next gen.
This was my jam bloody roar 3 is too nostalgic. I can still close my eyes and see the cover art.
1, 2, and Primal Fury were very good.
OMG I just played the second game yesterday with my lil’ bro
Are you serious?? You have noooo idea how much I want to play BR2 with my brothers or dad again. My dad introduced me to that game when I was like 5 I believe, and it was one of the only games that made me crack up or be extremely competitive with family. So many awesome memories I'll always cherish!!
I fucking miss Yugo and the mole dude😩😩
This series was so underrated. I only played Bloody Roar Extreme, but even that game alone was very different from other fighting games i had played at the time like Soul Calibur and DOA. I'd always go to Bloody Roar if i had been bored with those games. This series had huge potential if they had kept going. With how hot ArcSys is now with GG Strive and FighterZ, i would aboslutely LOVE if they brought back Bloody Roar, especially with the engine they have. The transformations would be SICKKK.
When I was a kid and was shopping at target with my mom, I passed by the video game section and they had bloody roar to play for free. I picked randomly picked this blond girl and was pretty blown away when she turned into a bat girl and was comboing people in the air.
It made me buy 1 game from this series, but I eventually got board.
lil' mistake about bloody roar 1 there, you do have a universal anti-corner pressure tool that you can use called guard cancelling, basically the moment you get hit, if you time a diagonal press correctly, your character moves in the Z axis depending if the direction is up or down-ish.
there's also universal super armor moves you can do that can tank 1 hit if you know you can punish some mashing. think all of them can be done using quarter circle backwards punch.
kinda of a weird oversight tbh.
I am loving this more-regular upload schedule. Keep up the great work, mate!
I only played the first 2 but they were great games with very in depth combos. And the first bloody roar does have a dedicated side step button. I always made it the triggers.
It was only called Beastorizor in NA arcades, my ntsc copy on the ps1 shelf says bloody roar.
These kinds of videos only break my heart.
Honestly, I would play Bloody Roar 1 anytime. I never cared that much for graphics, as long as I'm having fun, it's fine by me. Besides, I'd be better now than I was back then so more fun.
I mean, turning into a Zoanthrope right when you are about to get hit or about to hit? That's so great in itself. The raw power of the transformation, the soundeffect and the roars! I really want a remake!
I only played bloody roar 2 and this game haunts my memories now as a 28 year old.
Bloody Roar 2 defined my childhood. I always use Uriko, Alice, Long, Bakuryo, Jenny.
I could've sworn in Bloody Roar 1 you can change the 3D renders to the anime versions. I sure did.
It's in the menu, I think they call it the "Arcade" art. Also, you can use either the arcade or console music, which are stage based or character based, respectively.
@@LeoMidori I knew I at least slightly remembered correctly. Thank you.
Video ain’t even begun yet and I want a Pt. 2 already!! Long live bloody roar!!!
I remember just button mashing bloody roar with my friends, never really understood fighting game concepts, but hella fun
But I can totally see and can only hope that bloody roar could make a return with actually depth and hype!
The love and hate relationship of me and this Franchise man...
Didn’t even know there was a Bloody War 2. I loved the first game even though my disk got scratched and I couldn’t play it anymore 😫
I want to see a revival or predecessor of Bloody Roar and how the new generation get way better from learning the past mistakes
Bloody roar in the medieval age would be sick
Fully agree