Dot Fighters

December 31, 2006 Takase Takase
Fighting
About

Dot Fighters is a 2006 2D Fighter Maker doujin game by Takase, the guy who made Arm Joe. It only contains 4 characters drawn in an extremely retro, pixel-art style. Despite the small amount of content, it is pretty infamous for its larger filesize. It contains a full soundtrack and voice acting. The game requires that your computer's locale be set to Japanese in order to play.

Looks can be quite deceiving with Dot Fighters, as it actually contains a fairly complex gameplay system, which is arguably better designed than Arm Joe's. Unfortunately, Takase has retained the same design ethic for Dot Fighter resulting in vastly overpowered characters and moves.
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Release Date December 31, 2006
Developer Takase
Publisher Takase
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective Side view
Themes Action