Under Night In-Birth

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Under Night In-Birth
Developer(s)Arc System Works
French Bread
Ecole Software
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Nobuya Narita
Producer(s)Nobuya Narita
Toshimichi Mori
Artist(s)Seiichi Yoshihara
Composer(s)Raito
Platform(s)Arcade (RingEdge 2)
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4
PlayStation Vita
Nintendo Switch
Release
September 20, 2012
  • Arcade
    • JP: September 20, 2012
    Exe:Late
    PlayStation 3
    Microsoft Windows
    • WW: July 12, 2016
    Exe:Late[st]
    Arcade
    • JP: July 23, 2015
    PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
    • JP: July 20, 2017
    • NA: February 9, 2018
    • EU: February 9, 2018[4]
    Microsoft Windows
    • WW: August 20, 2018[5]
    Exe:Late[cl-r]
    PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
    • JP: February 20, 2020
    • NA: February 20, 2020
    • EU: February 21, 2020[6]
    Microsoft Windows
    • WW: March 27, 2020[7]
Genre(s)2D fighting game, Visual novel
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Under Night In-Birth[10] is a 2D fighting game co-developed by Ecole Software and French-Bread. Since its initial arcade release in Japan, it received numerous version updates for adjustments and playable characters.

Plot

Every month in modern-day Japan, a phenomenon called the Hollow Night brings forth invisible, immortal creatures called Voids. They feed upon a power known as EXS, which they can gain by attacking humans caught within the Hollow Night. Though the attack usually results in death or Void transformation of the victim, anyone who survives becomes an In-Birth, gaining the ability to control EXS. After surviving a Void attack, high school student Hyde Kido receives the power of darkness. Wishing to be free of her immortal existence, a young girl named Linne offers to train Hyde in his powers on the condition that when he is ready, he will end her life. Finding himself caught in a battle between a group of In-Births vying for control over the powers of EXS, Hyde finds a way to survive until the next Hollow Night.[11]

Gameplay

The game features similar mechanics to other 2D fighting games, particularly to Melty Blood, Guilty Gear and BlazBlue. The game use three attack buttons corresponding to light, mediuma and heavy attacks, as well as a fourth button tied to the game's "GRD" meter. Attacks can be cancelled into each other in any order, as well as into special and super moves. GRD is a tug-of-war mechanic that rewards players for offense and defense, giving them access to Shield, an enhanced defensive technique; Assault, an angled hop/air-dash move; and Force Functions, a character-specific action that serves as either an attack or a temporary buff. Whichever character has more GRD at the end of a cycle gains a temporary "Vorpal" buff, improving their moves and damage and allowing them to use a Chain Shift, which instantly cancels any move and resets the character to a neutral state while giving them extra meter based on the amount of GRD accrued. However, incorrectly guarding moves with Shield causes a state known as GRD Break, which locks a character out of any techniques which require GRD. A more traditional super meter known as the EXS Gauge fills up whenever players land attacks or get hit. Characters can spend half a bar of meter to use powered-up versions of their special moves, or spend a full bar to use their Infinite Worth move, a high-damage super attack similar to super moves in other fighting games. When their health is below 30%, characters have access to Infinite Worth EXS, an extremely strong super activated by pressing all four buttons. A technique called Veil Off can be utilized if a character has more than half a bar of meter, giving a "burst" shockwave that pushes away the opponent as well as a powered up state which grants a damage boost and temporary use of infinite super meter. [st] adds a new feature known as Cross-Cast Veil Off, where characters with at least half a bar of super meter and Vorpal state can cancel combos into a Veil Off burst. In addition to fighting game modes, [st] adds Chronicle Mode, a series of short visual novel-like stories expanding for characters and settings.

Characters

The game features all 21 playable characters as of [cl-r]. The guest ones include Sion Eltnam Atlasia (middle name dubbed as “Eltnum”) from Melty Blood and Akatsuki from Akatsuki Blitzkampf. The game features Japanese-language voice acting.[12] Some main characters later appeared in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle with English-dubbed voice actors.[13]

  • Hyde Kido (城戸 灰都(キド ハイド), Kido Haido): A high school student and one of the survivors of a Void attack. He is the current wielder of the dark magical sword Insulator.
  • Linne (リンネ, Rinne): An ancient immortal princess of the Night Blade and the current leading organization of the Hollow Night. She was cursed into a Re-Birth alongside her twin brother and the former wielder of Insulator, Kuon (クオン), where they are reincarnate endlessly in their respective host bodies. Her current incarnation is that of an elementary girl.
  • Waldstein (ワレンシュタイン, Warenshutain): A wise man and Linne's guardian. He is a former member of the anti-Void organization Litch Kreis member, until his defection to Nights Blade during a war between two said organization.
  • Carmine Prime (カーマイン・プライム, Kāmain Puraimu): A young man with a violent attitude, who uses blood in combat.
  • Orie Ballardiae (オリエ・バラーディア, Orie Barādia): A soldier of Licht Kreis whose parents were killed by an intelligent Void. She went undercover in Japan under alias Orie Harada (原田 織依(ハラダ オリエ), Harada Orie), where she met Hyde.
  • Gordeau the Harvester (ハーヴスター・ゴルドー, Hābesutā Gorudō): A hired mercenary and one of the co-founders of Amnesia, an organization which seeks to dominate the Hollow Night. He abandoned his full-time membership of Amnesia, after a freak incident involving the death of a fellow founder of the organization, Roger the Survivor (サーヴイヴー・ロジャー, Sābaibā Rojā).
  • Merkava (メルカヴァ, Merukava): An amnesiac intelligent flying Void. He is suspected to be the murder of Orie’s parents.
  • Vatista (バティスタ, Batisuta): Unit code, 10,067. An ancient "Autonomic Nerve" designed as an anti-Void weapon. She use have had a seventh wing, which is currently the current form of the sword Insulator, wield by Hyde.
  • Seth the Assassin (アサシン・セト, Asashin Seto): An assassin of the Night Blade. He met Linne when she was under the alias of a young woman, Chitose (チトセ) back in his childhood life. He received a pair of daggers Eliminators from his contractor.
  • Yuzuriha (ユズリハ): A female samurai and Hyde's best friend. She is hailed from a clan who once served Nights Blade, and founded the fighting style Dual Moon Blade Swordsmanship.
  • Hilda the Paradox (パラドックス・ヒルダ, Paradokkusu Hiruda): The leader and co-founder of Amnesia.
  • Bloody Chaos (ブラッディ・ケイアス, Buraddi Keiasu): Real name 明日真 景(アスマ ケイ) (Asuma Kei). Amnesia's chief strategist, who can project, and manifest the object he obtained. He fights alongside Azhi Dahaka (アジ・ダハーカ, Azi Dahāka), a controlled Void summoned from the Book of Chaos Code he stole from Litch Kreis’ library shortly before joining Amnesia. He is also Seth’s contractor, and like him, also unaware where the former got the Eliminators from nor knowing when the daggers were created.
  • Nanase (ナナセ): A middle school student who is attacked by a Void and turned into an In-Birth. She falsely blames Hyde for her transformation despite the rescue.
  • Byakuya (ビャクヤ): A middle school student accompanied by his “sister”, Tsukuyomi (ツクヨミ). In truth, the real Tsukoyomi was killed in the accident where Byakuya lost his sanity and becoming an In-Birth, until he met a former member of Demon Society, Strix (ストリックス, Sutorikkusu), whom he thought her to be his real sister’s incarnation.
  • Phonon the Chermeti (シュメティ・フォノン, Shumeti Fonon)): Nanase's best friend, who adopts a chunibyo personality. She was a former member of an In-Birth school club EFG, until she left he club after fully learn her EXS ability.
  • Mika Returna (ミカ・リターナ, Mika Ritāna): Orie's friend and fellow Licht Kreis operative.
  • Gaien Enkidu (円鬼堂 凱庵(エンキドゥ ガイエン), Enkidō Gaien): A former martial artist and member of Amnesia.
  • Miyashiro Erika Wagner (宮代(ミヤシロ)・エリカ・ワーグナー, Miyashiro Erika Wāgunā): A powerful member of Licht Kreis.
  • Londrekia Light (ロンドレキア・ライト, Rondorekia Raito): A member of Ritter Schild, a male only branch organzation of Licht Kreis from the result of Waldstein’s defection to Nights Blade.

Development

The game began development in 2010. Nobuya Narita discussed how it arose from the team's experiences working on Melty Blood. French-Bread originally planned to work on the high-definition title for the game, but development later stalled while Type-Moon went on to work on Mahōtsukai no Yoru. Early prototypes provided the foundation for the game. Narita emphasized they wanted to differentiate the game from Melty Blood, so the lore, visuals, systems and combat flow are much different from the previous work. It marked the team's first game using high definition and features hand-drawn high-resolution sprites.[14] In March 2013, Sega added support for its ALL.Net P-ras Multi service, a distribution network that allows multiple arcade owners to receive copies of the game without providing a dedicated arcade cabinet for each copy. Other games that utilize this service include Arc System Works' Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R and Triangle Service's Game Center Love.[15]

Release

Sega released the arcade version in Japan on September 20, 2012. A major revision of the arcade version, entitled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late (アンダーナイトインヴァースエクセレイト, Andā naito invāsu ekusereito), was released on September 9, 2013. It was announced that Arc System Works would release the game for PlayStation 3 on July 24, 2014,[16] A 2015 release for North America and Europe was later announced.[17] The North American release date, which was set for March 31, 2015, was revealed on the GameStop website. However, Aksys Games revealed the true release date for Exe:Late, they said that the game will be releasing on February 24, 2015 for the PlayStation 3, as well as confirmed there wouldn't be an English dub in Western releases. Exe:Late was also released on Steam for Microsoft Windows systems on July 12, 2016.

A further update to the game entitled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st][18] was announced on May 15, 2015.[19] Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] was released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan on July 20, 2017,[20] then in North America and Europe on February 9, 2018.[4] Exe:Late[st] was also released on Steam for Microsoft Windows systems on August 20, 2018. Exe:Late[st] is then re-titled to the update below, Exe:Late[cl-r], for those who owned PlayStation 4 and Windows versions.

Another revision of the game, entitled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r][21], was released for PlayStation 4 and Switch. It was announced at EVO 2019 for February 20, 2020 release, while Europe released the game on the next day, after it was released in Japan and North America.[22] Its PlayStation 4 version act as a straight update for those who owned PlayStation 4 version of Exe:Late[st], while PlayStation owners who purchased Exe:Late[st] PlayStation version which isn't PlayStation 4 get a limited discount from its launch release date until April 30, 2020 in both Japan and North America, and April 31, 2020 on Europe. Also to the PlayStation 4 owners who owned Exe:Late[st] to update, contents which were added to Exe:Late[cl-r] update remains paid DLCs.[23] A Microsoft Windows port was released on March 27, 2020.

Reception

The PlayStation 3 version of Under Night In-Birth received a 29/40 from Famitsu.[31] Destructoid said that it was "an intelligent, tactical fighting game that I'll surely be playing for a long time to come." IGN said it was "One good fighting game. Maybe it's not as deep as previous Arc System Works games, but successfully achieves what it is aiming: to let the player enjoy it." Eurogamer concluded "an interesting 2d fighting game with a very unique fighting system. Just try it, and you'll be amazed." It was nominated for the category of Best Fighting at The Game Awards 2020, but lost to Mortal Kombat 11.[34]

See also

References

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