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Description
Battle Arena Toshinden 2 is the first sequel to
Battle Arena Toshinden.
It adds three new starting fighters; Tracy and Chaos with the original game's final boss, Gaia returning un-armoured and with a completely new move set. There are also three new bosses and hidden characters raising the total number of fighters to 15 (up from 10).
Toshinden 2, on top of additional special attacks for every character, adds several running attacks to each character: the ability to strike a grounded opponent with new ground attacks and the powerful Overdrive attacks that one must fill up a bar by using other attacks to be able to use.
Toshinden 2 also does away with the free-form combo system of the original Toshinden replacing it with a simple combo system (i.e. light attack, hard attack, special or light attack, light attack, hard attack, special). The 3D movement in
Toshinden 2 has also been made notably slower to prevent the heavy abuse it could be used for in the original.
As a result, while the core game play is similar, this sequel is more tactical than the original game. Where as in the original Toshinden, one could throw normal attacks (i.e. light slashes) around with fairly reckless abandon and sidestep repeatedly without fear of their opponent being able to counter them easily, opponents in
Toshinden 2 are able to capitalize on individual missed attacks.
As a result,
Toshinden 2 is more balanced than its predecessor. This balance was further tweaked with a re-release called "Toshinden 2 plus" in Japan.
Unlike the Playstation release of the original Toshinden,
Toshinden 2 was not re-dubbed for releases outside of Japan.
Also unlike the original Toshinden, the PC release of
Toshinden 2 for Windows computers, is a straight port of the Playstation version and supports Direct3D rather than specific 3D cards.
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Alternate Titles
- "闘神伝2" -- Japanese spelling
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Critic Reviews
Consoles Plus |
Apr, 1996 |
92 out of 100 |
92 |
Mega Fun |
Mar, 1996 |
85 out of 100 |
85 |
Game Players |
Jun, 1996 |
83 out of 100 |
83 |
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) |
Jun, 1996 |
32.5 out of 40 |
81 |
Video Games & Computer Entertainment |
Jun, 1996 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
Video Games |
Mar, 1996 |
78 out of 100 |
78 |
Electric Playground |
Sep 02, 1996 |
7.5 out of 10 |
75 |
Entertainment Weekly |
Jun 21, 1996 |
B- |
67 |
Computer and Video Games (CVG) |
Mar, 1996 |
62 out of 100 |
62 |
The Video Game Critic |
Feb 24, 2001 |
D- |
16 |
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Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (PlayStation) on May 30, 2001