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X: Unmei no tatakai [Playstation]
Note : This game was released exclusively in Japan, but is easily playable through a PSX emulator.
Extra note to anime fans : This game is based on X, an anime series (which also got a movie adaptation) by CLAMP.

Published : 2002
Genre : Fighting (special)
Ryona rating : 3/5


Ryona:

• Three distinctive female fighters out of a roster of eleven.
• Emphasis on projectiles, which include various forms of energy, magic, and even fire. However, each character also has several sets of melee attacks, and closing up on an opponent is easy.
• Two of the female characters can wield swords.
• Beautiful presentation with lots of special effects.
• The free aerial movement (see Gameplay Note) allows not only for different camera angles but also for attacking your opponent from above, diagonally right-and-below etc.
• There is no ground for a fighter to fall on, but they can be hurled into the Cube's wall which usually makes them stunned for a couple of seconds.
• Each fighter has a Psy bar which can be filled by concentrating, allowing them to perform special moves and Super Moves. The lower a player's health, the higher the Psy bar can be filled to.
• Certain grabs, attack throws and special moves are portrayed cinematically.

Gameplay note:
This game plays exactly like Psychic Force. The fighters are flying and fighting in midair while inside a floating cube-shaped force field. Pressing Up or Down causes the fighter to move in the Y Axis (as opposed to jumping or crouching as in most other fighting games) while facing their opponent. This allows the fighters to attack their opponents from any angle.


Female Characters:

• Arashi is a cold and stoic girl who was raised by Shinto Priests, and the object of Sorata's affections. She wields a big sword and fights with it as ruthlessly as humanly possible.
• Yuzuriha is a schoolgirl, part of a mystic clan whose members are able to summon wolf spirits. She can send her wolf to attack or bite her opponent, or transform it into a sword with which she thrusts them.
• Karen is a mature call girl, who often enters battle with her "work clothes" ,and is able to manipulate fire. In her grab she grapples her opponent's head between her shapely legs in gymnastics fashion before flaming their faces.

Screenshots:

Note : The first two images of the last row of the second set of screenshots are two of Kusanagi's grabs. In the first he slams Karen face-first into two walls, while in the second he breaks her arms and neck.