Pocket Slam + Game Sample - PC/Indie
48This fighter maker project, now known as Pocket Slam +, was not put together by the Japanese, which is pretty uncommon. The game was seeking to emulate the great, but often forgotten, NeoGeo Pocket (Color) and features a number of playable characters and cameos from Capcom and SNK and is a sort of homage to Saturday Night Slam Masters (Muscle Bomber). The game can be found on "Game Jolt" (as well as a link I provided further down) and information about the developer is actually in the ending of the game as well. The short of it, though, is that the game is done by "Ulisoft", with the main man being known as "Ulisan", who is working on a number of games, and as of this writing, there is a "Season 2" of Pocket Slam in the works, which seems rather promising and if it has the characters shown in the ending, should include characters like Arika's "Darum" and SNK's "Angel", among numerous others.
The game system is pretty simple, but enjoyable --- you have characters who can link together various normal attacks, while canceling into special attacks. Each character has one "SUPER" move, that can be done by activating a "Burst" mode and grabbing and throwing an opponent, but during your first activation of "Burst" mode, all your normal special moves become more powerful for a brief period of time...some of them basically becoming super moves, while others are upgraded more along the lines of "EX" versions of moves, much like games like Street Fighter III, etc...During the brief Burst period, you will find, through trial and error, that you have significantly expanded combo chaining potential.
In the (near) future, I would like to sample other games from Ulisoft, as I am a big fan of the NGPC style, having sunk a TON of hours into the fantastic NGPC game, "Match of the Millenium". The NGPC was a pretty neat unit, and it is cool to see a dev that is channeling its audio/visual style in particular, as the style of the NGPC is pretty distinct and recognizable from other portable fighters and the like.
You can get the game at:
https://ulisoft.itch.io/pocketslamplus
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