The vibrant retro-funk style of Jet Set Radio is present in every frame of the game, matched only by the groovy tunes you’ll be playing to. A small and tight selection of mechanics to ensure that there’s enough strategy to keep players thinking and on their toes, because Lord knows you’ll need to be both proactive and reactive when that little grey sphere comes hurtling at your face.Ībove the clever design and delightfully fun gameplay, Lethal League Blaze also just oozes cool. Sonata bounces the ball off the air while Candyman makes it phase through the arena for a single bounce. To make matters even more interesting, the playable characters all offer up a special super attack to switch things up even more. Throwing the ball diffuses any weird bouncing angles it’s fallen upon, meaning you can change the ball’s direction in a heartbeat. Why not spike it for an instant speed boost? Maybe it’s going too fast so you bunt it straight up, slowing it down but opening it up to be stolen by your opponent. Sure, you could just hit, but there’s so strategy in that.
Instead of giving all the unique fighters combos and distinct combat stances, Team Reptile rather spent their time perfecting how one can interact with the ball. Maybe I’m looking at it through the wrong lens (far be it from me to speak towards developer intentions) but Lethal League Blaze feels like a fighting game that the developers got bored with, which isn’t a slight to their game at all. Each player has a life bar and a set of lives and if you get hit too many times, or just once with a ball that’s broken the sound barrier, that’s a knockout. Then my opponent spiked the ball, so I returned the favour, all the while watching in awe as with each progressive hit the ball became faster and faster until it was a mere blur on the screen, daring either player to fool-heartedly leap into its path and give it a whack. Which seems manageable enough to start when I first started up a match of Lethal League I was questioning the lethality of this so-called league when the ball was served at me the speed of a cat being told to come in from outside while you hold the door open for it. With every hit, the ball gets a little faster. Two players in a 2D-arena hit a ball at each other. A fictional, futuristic sport that’s been moulded to appear like a fighting game and yet despite my lack of interest in both genres, I keep going back to Lethal League, largely because it’s so much damn fun. So when Lethal League Blaze slid across my digital desk I wasn’t quite sure what I would make of it. How do you remember all their names? They all look the same from so high up! As for sport, I’ve yet to find one that holds my attention for an entire match let alone a season. Whether it be Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, I’ve struggled to fully immerse myself in the nuances of the fighting game genre. For me, I have two of those: Fighting games and sports. My point is, there are some things that we desperately want to love but sometimes just don’t get around to it. Hell, maybe it’s just a pair of jeans that you’ve been hoping will fit after a long and exhausting diet. Lots of people think they’ll get wrestling a shot only to have no idea what’s going on and feel uncommonly concerned for the physical well-being of large men in speedos. Maybe all you’re friends are metalheads and you keep listening to different bands, hoping you’ll get the appeal only to go back to Fleetwood Mac. The online multiplayer feature allows you to invite friends to a private match or even just a quick match.Everyone has that one thing they just keep trying to get into and ultimately never do. If you want to play with friends you can choose Free-For-All, Strikers, Teams, or Lethal Volley. If you want to go solo, you can always battle it out in the Arcade Mode or finish the Story Mode. Despite the game being made illegal, crews still participate to pass the challenge and earn respect.Īs for the features of the game, Lethal League Blaze can be played on your own or with up to 4 players both locally and online. Those who continue to play are called the Lethal League. The game is set in a city called Shine, where the anti-gravity ball game has been banned. The game was originally released last October for Steam, while its release for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in the West has been postponed for the meantime. It is an intense high-speed ball game where the goal is to strike the opposition with an anti-gravity ball that gets faster with every blow. Lethal League Blaze is a sequel to the projectile fighting game, Lethal League. Team Reptile’s Lethal League Blaze releases for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan this July.
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