Some people may argue that Nidhoggisn't a typical fighting game, but more of a fencing simulator. It's a game for people who truly love fighting games, but it's also very accessible to newcomers. It's loaded with inside jokes, direct parodies and references, and delightful (if baffling) amounts of fighting game lingo. In story, themes, and mechanics, Divekick is a love letter to the inner fighting game community. Just focus on getting better at dancing back and forth and psyching people out. There isn't a ton of content to explore, but odds are you'll enjoy the base game enough to not let that bother you. Divekick manages to make the meta aspects of fighting games very easy to understand, and its beginner-friendly gameplay has just enough depth to be enjoyable at a higher level of play.ĭespite its basic mechanics, Divekick features a large cast of characters that all play differently from each other - with special moves that you'll need to become familiar with. This unique fighter aims to keep the depth of a conventional 1-on-1 fighting game, while boiling down the gameplay to its purest essence - encouraging players to rely more heavily on mind-games, spacing, and predicting their opponent's moves. You have two buttons in total, and all you can do is dive and kick - just like the title implies. There are no combos, no complex six-step inputs, and not even a movement stick. It's about as simple as a fighting game can get without being mindless (or being Evil Zone). Smash definitely has an enormous and active fan-base, and playing it enough will teach you more about fighting games - but it's also in a league if its own, like all games in the series.Ĭhoose your controller, choose your fighter, and settle it in Smash.ĭivekickis both a great fighting game and a great comedy game. The only catch to Smash being on this list is that, as good as it is, it's also the least like a normal fighting game of any title on this list. While very complex - with a tier-chart that stretches as high as the sky - Super Smash Bros. is fun to learn and get better at because it's so satisfying to play. It's got an enormous amount of content and variables that make it fun and easy to play for hours (if not days) at a time. Last but not least, this game is just fantastic. Because there are so many characters that behave so differently, the average person is bound to find at least one out of the nearly fifty fighters that suits their preferred play-style. It also has the most fluid controls, and is the easiest game in the series to pick up and play. for Wii U and 3DS is the most recent installment in the series, so it's likely the one most people are playing it at the moment (next to Melee, anyway). While every game in this series is great, and most of them would be decent places to start if you wanted to get better at fighting games, I think that the most recent installment released for Wii U and 3DS is the best entry for beginners and newcomers. Whether you're breaking it out at a sleepover, entertaining your cousins young and old at a family reunion, or part of Smash tournament on your college campus, practically anyone anywhere who loves video games is down to play some Super Smash Bros.
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