My Little Pony-Inspired 2D Fighting Game Will Leave Early Access April 2
Screenshot: Mane6
Them’s Fightin’ Herds started in 2011 as a fan-made preventing sport referred to as My Little Pony: Combating is Magic. The mission was shut down by Hasbro’s attorneys in 2013, solely to return in 2015 with a brand new title and unique characters designed by My Little Pony collection creator Lauren Faust. On April 2, the four-legged fighter lastly launches out of Early Entry on Steam. April 2 Whereas rather a lot has modified, it’s nonetheless a My Little Pony sport at coronary heart.
It’s been one hell of a experience for Them’s Fightin’ Herds. Over the course of 9 years it has reworked from a fan mission cobbled collectively in 2D Fighter Maker 2002 to a full-fledged unique preventing sport operating on Lab Zero Video games’ Skullgirls engine. When Hasbro’s stop and desist saved developer Mane6 from letting My Little Pony characters Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Sprint, Fluttershy, and Rarity do battle, Friendship is Magic’s creator stepped in and gave them six new four-legged pals “impressed by” the favored ponies.
Illustration: Mane6
Arizona the cow, Velvet the deer, Oleander the unicorn, Paprika the alpaca, Pom the sheep, and Tianhuo the half-horse, half-dragon usually are not Hasbro characters in any respect. Solely considered one of them is a full-blooded pony. Any similarities to the personalities of My Little Pony’s important characters is solely coincidental. On function. Shhhh.
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Them’s Fightin’ Herds has been in early entry since 2018, racking up a slew of very optimistic critiques on Steam. With solely six characters to juggle, it’s very well-balanced and a ton of enjoyable to play. It’s obtained animated on-line lobbies, a pleasant tutorial, and a retailer the place gamers can store for clothes for his or her foyer avatars. The 1.zero launch, being published on Steam on April 2 by Humble Bundle, provides the start of an episodic story mode that can little doubt additional distance its fiction from that of any hypothetical Hasbro property.
It does my coronary heart good to see a fan mission come to fruition, particularly one I’ve been carefully following for the higher a part of a decade.
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