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There’s a thinly laced story attached to this sword fighting game: You’re a young warrior, part of an “ancient race of twelve”, coming from the farthest reaches of the universe to do battle. Nevertheless, that’s not what makes... See more » There’s a thinly laced story attached to this sword fighting game: You’re a young warrior, part of an “ancient race of twelve”, coming from the farthest reaches of the universe to do battle. Nevertheless, that’s not what makes this game so fascinating. The fact that Mode 7 has claimed to create a real sword fighting experience for fighting-fans is just the start. Determinance utilizes some amazing physics that allow players to fly around free-roaming environments and do battle against up to seven other opponents. Put aside your thoughts of Mortal Kombat, Virtual Fighter, or even One Must Fall. Determinance takes a completely different route using a free-form, mouse-guided sword scheme. It may sound a bit off-centre, but in reality this tactic allows gamers fluently to swing the sword any way they want. This is achieved by adjusting and using guided mouse strokes to influence the direction of the character’s swing and the force of the blow behind it. If anyone has ever played the under-rated Lucasart title, Jedi Academy, then you’ll know exactly how the sword fighting is handled in Determinance. The only difference is that the swing of the blade is completely separate from the characters’ body movements in Determinance. Certainly, this feature helps keep the battles more entertaining, and balanced, as players focus more on attacking and defending rather than running about like a chicken without its head. I suppose that’s another very high point for Mode 7...Determinance fly-based combat keeps things in the sci-fi anime realm. Financially challenged fighting-fans don’t usually get original fighting games. From the few original games available, even fewer feature flying. For those thinking about Dragon Ball Z games, those are still a long way off from being decent in my book. The dated 3-hit combo, and uninspired take-turn back-and-forth fighting scheme, featured in DBZ games are completely out-classed by Determinance. Determinance, and its mouse-to-sword mechanics, brings the fighting standard to a completely different plateau. Adding the lightning fast flying that takes place only makes it better as its high quality fits the high quality of the game. Since they are fighting in the air, striking and blocking has a large impact on the characters themselves as momentum from attacking and defending an assault can put players at an advantage or open them up to enemy attacks. Attacks can also be designated to striking specific body parts, which highly impacts how much damage is dished out. Players can also combine flying with attacking; conjoining spinning thrusts while flying straight into an opponent renders interesting results. Flying attacks are especially exciting and challenging as players can adjust how they aim the sword while swinging. For any player who genuinely wanted to imitate the fighting style of Count Dooku from Star Wars Episode II, it’s actually possible in Determinance. Players can also mock the classic kung-fu martial artists with a lot of spiral sword thrusts. I was very impressed with the way the sword fighting and adjustments were handled. Adjustments are made by a combination of a key and by swinging the mouse in the desired position. Adjusting the sword determines how the character swings. Pointing the sword straight-forward and aiming it as far down as the character’s wrist, will give players a more classical fencing style. Keeping the sword aimed downwards and slightly behind the character allows players to execute the skillfully adept cuts and cross slashes from some samurai techniques. The list of possible approaches goes on and on. Every different sword fighting styles and techniques that you can possibly think of from any game or movie can easily be imitated with the controls in Determinance. The game features sixteen different swords, one of which fans of Final Fantasy XII: Advent Children will recognize as being similar to Kadaj’s twin-bladed sword. It’s one of the more difficult swords to master, but ranks high on the cool scale. There’s also medieval long-swords, scimitars, broadswords and See less »

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