Colorful neon looking pixel art, inspired by 80s Japanese aesthetics, with more than 10 playable characters that each have their own quirk and reference to Indonesian diverse cultures.
The game features a up to 4 simultaneous players, plus single player story mode campaign - if you don t have friends or enemies to fight against. Smash your way and be the best Ball Brawler in the galaxy! Choose between ten young hard-boiled teenagers, each with unique Ultra skill that can turn the tide of battle, and pit them on a tournament that will determine their fate on the Intergalactic Society. Ultra Space Battle Brawl is guaranteed to pump your adrenaline with its Funkot music beats and over-the-top 80s visual aesthetics. Easy to learn yet hard to master, Ultra Space Battle Brawl is a fun competitive game fit for settling disputes, be it with your friends and family or rivals and arch nemesis. Mixing Pong with high-speed action of a fighting game is a surprising good mix and there is a lot of appeal here if you can look beyond the brutal AI.īy: Zachary Gasiorowski, Editor in Chief myGamer.Settle your inner aggression with dignity in Ultra Space Battle Brawl, a couch party game where Street Fighter meets Pong on steroids. The soundtrack sounds like it was also ripped from a Mega Man game and the voice quips are entertainingly absurd. The pixel art is gorgeous and the ridiculous, over-the-top presentation really gives this title its charm. Also, the production values are much higher than you would expect them to be. Ultra Space Battle Brawl (Dangen Entertainment) Undead & Beyond. Playing against your friends and smack talking is really the way to go here. Import Tsuri Spirits Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco) Ultra Street Fighter II. While there is no online multiplayer, this title does offer easy split Joy-Con support for multiplayer. Ultra Space Battle Brawl isn’t perfect, and it is even a little unfair, but it is always super intense. If you do manage to complete the single player campaign, an unlockable gallery adds some bonus viewing content. However, these bonus stages are nowhere as intense as a heated back-and-forth battle where you just need to hit the ball away from your goal aiming is considered a luxury.
This mode basically acts as practice as it is possible to learn how to aim each shot. In fact, it is possible to get the ball “stuck” inside the barricade so it bounces around inside the crystal to yield an almost instant defeat.ĭuring single player, the player will encounter bonus games in which the player will have to whack the ball into chickens. Some stages, like the first stage, are straightforward with the crystal extending to the top and bottom of the screen, but later stages incorporate bumpers and smaller crystals. This is because each stage changes with the opponent. Defeating the first couple opponents is possible with some struggle but the middle and later stages are extremely difficult. The problem is the AI seems to know where the ball is going to go at all times, making luck more of a factor than skill.
Single player against the computer AI provides a rather challenging experience. Each playable character also varies in stats such as speed and power too. These power attacks can range from a nonstop barrage of punches to more power blasts. The Street Fighterness comes into play in the form of super moves that can be unleashed once the power bar fills. This mixture blends two-player Pong with single player Break-Out into heated battles. Guarding each crystal is a set of barricades that take a couple hits to destroy, just like a game of Arkanoid. Once the crystal takes enough damage, that player loses. Two players on opposite sides of the screen face off to whack a ball into the opponent’s crystal. Gameplay is very simple and easy to immediately understand there is no tutorial and there is no need for one. Displayed through a sport-like venue, this Pong-fighting game offers some heated local multiplayer options and high difficulty battles against some ruthless AI. If you took the zany cast of characters and presentation from Street Fighter and mixed it with classic Pong, you would get Ultra Space Battle Brawl.