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Battle Arena Nitoshinden (1996)

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This is a play-through with a "flawed" character in the PS1 game Battle Arena Nitoshinden. Read on below for more information...

This is an "out-of-bounds" character. In the game's data, there is a bunch of "flawed" characters. All of them are just slightly messed up versions of the regular characters. For this example, I'll show the messed up Eiji.

===== About the flawed character =====
There are several things you'll find about these characters, and that is the fact that they have no voices, no sound effects, broken graphics, and some messed up weapon trails.

The most interesting thing is that these characters mirror their opponent's lifebar icon, name and textures/colours... so for example if you're fighting against Sofia, the character will have Sofia's icon and name under the lifebar, and the character model will have Sofia's colours/textures.

Maybe they intended to have some kind of a special mirror character in the game?

===== About Battle Arena Nitoshinden =====
This is clearly a game that is aimed for the younger players/kids. The characters are all "deformed" and the game is cheerful, slapstick and humor. The atmosphere isn't serious.

Despite what you see in the video, the gameplay does not play anything like regular Toshinden at all... and most certainly does not play like a regular 3D fighting game. It's actually annoying to control (DF or DB makes you roll/slide!), the moves seem to be limited, and gameplay is mostly 'one-hit' strikes.

Interestingly, this game was scheduled to be released in the US under the same of Toshinden Kids but got cancelled.