In development since 2015, Blazing Strike is a fighting game that is slowly but surely starting to make its mark on the Versus Fighting scene. Made by one and only person, under the name of its own development studio, RareBreed Makes Games, Blazing Strike has officially unveiled its very first announcement trailer, a few months after finding its publisher in the person of Aksys Games . A release window has also been revealed, 2022, all in all confirmation that the game will land simultaneously on PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4 and even PS5. Big ambitions for this title which was originally intended to pay tribute to the 2D fighting games of the golden age of a genre popularized by the titles signed Capcom and SNK. Blazing Strike was also largely inspired by the games which made the glory of the arcades and the NeoGeo, in particular in its graphics which recall the SNK productions of the 90s. This is not by chance. if Blazing Strike will be played with 4 buttons (as on NeoGeo), knowing that the gameplay is strongly inspired by Garou Mark of the Wolves with its Just Defended system. Obviously, the Capcom pros will say parry Street Fighter III Third Strike way, especially as the Custom Combos seem to have been taken from Street Fighter Zero / Alpha 2.
On the content side, RareBreed Makes Games promises a neat Story mode, Arcade mode, Versus mode and an online game that will take into account GGPO’s netcode rollback, which proves the attention paid to future online competition. . In short, this Blazing Strike does a lot of good for a genre that deserves much more attention in 2021.
