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 Who remembers that Nintendo can make a proper street-fighting game, unlike Urban Champion?
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ARMS is a fighting game developed by Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo. Released in the summer of 2017, this game features characters who can fight with long-ranged attacks and up to four players can choose a fighter and battle using a variety of extendable yet customizable arms to knock out the opponents in a three-dimensional arena.
Why It Deserves ARMS
- The idea of a fighting game that is themed around long-ranged attacks is very clever. This is one of those fighting games that can be unique in its own way.
- The graphics in the game are colorful and well-polished which can be compared to a lot of modern-day animated films, especially the ones that came out after this game.
- Most characters are themed around something and they got unique abilities. Here is the list of some of the characters to make things short and sweet.
- Spring Man - He is based around regular springs hence his name. Despite his basic all-around appearance, he can parry incoming attacks and even use his parry as bait. If he reaches 25% or lower health, his ARMS are permanently charged.
- Ribbon Girl - She is based on ribbons hence her name and she has a unique ability that involves midair.
- Ninjara - Themed around chains, he is a ninja that can vanish and reappear elsewhere. Useful for evading attacks.
- Master Mummy- Themed around mummies for the obvious reasons, he can heal in 10 health increments. His heal can speed up when the block button is held longer. Also has super armor.
- Min Min - Themed around ramen, she can kick when dashing backward on the ground or any direction. If you charge her ARMS longer or complete a throw successfully, she can transform her left arm into a dragon ARM. The Dragon ARM will increase the size and remain charged until Min Min is hit with a charged punch, knocked down, or has the left arm disabled.
- Twintelle - She does not use her arms, but she uses her hair. Twintelle has the ability to slow down incoming attacks while charging her punches.
- Helix - This jelly boy is themed around the DNA. He can manipulate his height and outmaneuver opponents.
- The list goes on!
- The controls of the game work well and do resemble the Wii Sports game Boxing. If you like to play Boxing on Wii Sports, you are in for a treat!
- You can unlock some more ARMS as well as upgrading ARMS by playing the Get ARMS mode. The more you with with the in-game currency (don't worry, it does not use real money), the longer you play. Getting a higher score by smashing more targets will increase the chances of boxes appearing!
- Each ARM is divided into class types. The ones that exist in the game are Curve, Glove, Hammer, Heavy, Multi-Shot, Whip, Missile, Beam, Shield, Umbrella, and Unique. Pick an ARM that best suits your style and get out there to fight!
- There are many types of versus modes in ARMS. You got the standard fight mode, the Team Fight, V-Ball, Hoops, Skillshot, 1-on-100, VS Hedlok, Hedlok Scramble, and ARMS Test.
- After a match ends in ARMS, a replay will be generated. They can be played forwards or backward. You can also set them in slow motion as well as a variety of different camera angles. The replays are automatically saved after a match.
- There's even a Party Match mode. Party Match mode can be played locally or online. Depending on how well you do, you can get currency.
- If you think Party Mode was something else, wait until you see Party Crash. Unlike Party Match, Party Crash has special rules that will allow players to level up and win big prizes. Many of them is a competition between two "Featured Fighters".
- Another online mode is Ranked Match. It just matches that put the players on a similar rank for 1 on 1 battle. Winning the match will cause a bar on the UI to increase while losing will decrease.
- Then there's the Arena mode which is a mode only playable in LAN mode, in a friend lobby, or locally. Players are put into a 1 vs. 1 battle with the other two spectating the battle.
- Achievements exist in the game. You can get badges that are acquired by completing various achievements and reward currency when the badge is added to your collection. The number of badges featured in the game is 360.
- Fun soundtrack. The OST in the game can range from you wanting to jam to you wanting to dance. The main theme is just crisp to listen to. Each character theme fits each character so well.
- Depending on the difficulty of Grand Prix, there are different final bosses you can fight against. You can fight against either Max Brass, Hedlok, or Dr. Coyle. Completing Grand Prix and any difficulty will grant you Ranked Matches mode. If you however beat Grand Prix at level 4 or above, the player is shown an exclusive piece of artwork for each character!
- Spring-Tron is a secret boss in the game and can be fought before Max Brass or Dr. Coyle. You have to play through Grand Prix on at least Level 4 or higher without losing a single round.
- The commentator Biff happens to be the host as an ARMS commentator. He provides fighter introduction and tips to the player. Biff can say some humorous lines like for example: "Apparently he was created right here in this lab...Not gonna lie-this place gives me the creeps. Let's hurry this up and get outta here!"
- Also his name is clever because his name is so similar to an onomatopoeia used in comics when a character punches.
- Speaking of which, some lines are memorable or hilarious, such as Spring Man's, "Boing, yeah!" or most of Helix's gibberish speech.
- Because of the wacky tone of the game, it does have some funny moments that will make you smile like playing as Helix, dunking your opponent in the Hoops game, or Max Brass floating down from outside of the arena with the Parasol ARMS.
- Ever since the game updates, you can get more characters which consist of Lola Pop, Misango, and even the non-playable bosses which are Max Brass, Springtron, and Dr. Coyle. The updates also give you new modes (like a Tournament Mode), the Sparring Ring stage, a Hedlok boss fight in Party Crash.
- It added a gallery where you can spend 50 currency to purchase official artwork. There is also an option to buy all of the pieces at once. Get all art illustrations and the Anniversary artwork will be unlocked.
- The gameplay is balanced between simpleness and challenges. This is giving new players easy accessibility.
- The fighters have a meter that builds up each time an attack is used or when charging. Once the meter is full, you can unleash the power of the Rush just to punch rapidly with their ARMS. There's a useful item to fill up the meter called the Rush Juice where the Rush gauge slowly increases if the player stands in the circular radius.
- Only 4 items exist in the game and they are useful. You got the already mentioned Rush Juice, the healing HP Juice, Fire Bombs, and Shock Bombs.
- The stages here are either simple, creative, and cool looking. Not only do they contribute to matching the home stage of a character, but each of them is different from one another. You got stages like Spring Stadium, Cinema Deux, DNA Lab, Ninja College, Scrapyyard, Ramen Bowl, Ribbon Ring, Mausoleum, Skate Park, etc.
- Interesting Touch: When Spring Man gets new ARMS, the same ARMS become available for Springtron and vice versa - when Springtron gets new ARMS, the same ARMS are available for Spring Man.
Hedlok-ed Qualities
- Old replays are deleted automatically. Though there is a reason for that because of making room for those of newer matches.
- In Party Match mode, players with winning streaks will start with less HP. Sure, you will win more currency, but still.
- Lack of content. This was especially at launch.
- Springtron is basically just a robot Spring Man only he lacks Spring Man's permanent charge. He serves as the fighting game trope of a clone character.
- The tutorial is pretty barebones. It does teach you how to punch, block, jump, and dodge yet that is just about it. Though there is some advanced lessons found in the Help menu.
- Grand Prix can be tough for some since you are using motion controls and the characters have long-ranged attacks.
- Does not let players remap buttons.
- Biff's voice is a little annoying to some players since he keeps making noises during his speech dialogue.
- Unlocking all of the game's weapons is mainly used on time and luck. This is especially for those who want to get everything in the game.
- While the motion controls are fine, the tilting takes a bit of getting used to.
Reception
The game received mostly favorable reviews. It got 77/100 on Metacritic, 9/10 on Edge, 8.5/10 on EGM, 33/40 on Famitsu, and so forth. ARMS is compared to that of the boxing minigame from Wii Sports while also being compared to cartoonish take on some game genres like Splatoon being an online shooter or Mario Kart being a driving game.
Trivia
- The game was intended to have Nintendo characters like Mario from Super Mario and Link from The Legend of Zelda to be used as the main focus. The idea was scrapped because the concept with extendable arms clashed with the characters so making a new cast of characters was done instead.
- The possibility of adding Punch-Out!! characters was considered, but the team was concerned about alienating fans of that franchise and potentially confusing new players.
- Early concepts had characters using external devices to punch opponents. It was decided that the long arms were chosen instead.
- Masaaki Ishikawa said that every single playable character in the game is the protagonist of the game.
- The art style takes inspiration from Dragon Ball and Akira.
- The game began as a wish to see if a behind-the-camera perspective could work in a fighting game.
- Dark Horse Comics intended to create a graphic novel based on the game, it was canceled on March 2021. It would've focused on Spring Man training to reach the top in the ARMS League Grand Prix. Despite Spring Man being the main focus, other characters were intended to appear with Twintelle's backstory being revealed.
- The esports scene is small yet dedicated.
- Twintelle and Helix became internet memes due to their character design.
- Kosuke Yabuki said that adding Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece to this game would never happen because both franchises are in different universes.
- Kosuke Yabuki explained to Masahiro Sakurai that the ARMS fighters are neither cyborgs or mutants, but people who possess the ARMS ability.
- Some of the characters have voice actors who voiced Nintendo characters before:
- Kouji Takeda (Master Mummy's voice actor) voices Daruk in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Groose from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword;
- Kenji Takahashi (Ninjara's voice actor) voices Piston Hondo from Punch-Out!! for the Wii;
- Ayumi Fujimura (Mechanica's voice actor) voices Fi from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, both her and Sheik in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and one of the voice options for its Mii Fighters;
- and Yū Kobayashi (Biff's voice actor) voiced Lucina and Sheena in the Fire Emblem series. Also voiced Wigglytuff in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.
- Twintelle and Min Min are the only ARMS characters to have a page on Wikipedia.
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