The unfinished fighting game you've probably never heard of 

The classic combo of “lose one game > counterpick with character with infinite”

I like how Torao is just Ryu if he actually was in real life: a smelly hobo in a gi

If memory serves me correctly, the character designer for this game would go on to work with SNK during the development of KOF '99, hence why Cool looks like a K' knockoff and Harry has some Maxima vibes going on.

Imagine if the developers stuck it out with this game and it became one of the big three with Capcom and snk

Please do Akatsuki Blitzkampf. You can play as a tank, a nun with an ammo mechanic, Chinese boxer with rush punches and all, one of the coolest shotos ever, and an old dude that plays like a Samsho character. Easy to pick up, play, and have fun. Would make for a great JMCup

Am I trippin or is my boy losing some weight? I SEE YOU 🔥

Daraku Tenshi is pretty much only known for 2 things: being really cleanly animated & inspiring some KOF99 character designs when the DT devs got absorbed into SNK Cool split off into K' & Krizalid, Harry Ness is basically just American Maxima, Haiji is the reason why K' keeps his sunglasses on, & Whip's lore makes references to "angels & the fallen"

Hadn't seen Garou MotW and was like "lemme check this out," and my mind was blown. The amount of effort sprite work makes you exert is never a bad thing, god DAMN. I agree that this game is up there, too.

Do you happen to know Martial Masters? It's also known among niche fg connoisseurs as being like SFIII when it comes to 2D graphics fluidity.

"Ness from smash brothers" Phrases that make you feel pain.

Love when you run these obscure fg tourneys such a fun watch to see people learn real-time

While I truly love and enjoy this format. JM Cup 4 Life. It would be awesome to get to know some of your players in the JM Cup I feel like I see them all the time yet know nothing of em. You should get one to co-host with you and give us their perspective on how they approach this bum rush to learn a new game and perform.

They actually have an arcade cabinet of this at Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, Illinois. I assume it’s still there. Had a lot of fun playing it there.

This game was mad fun . I did solid on the first round even though I lost lol

jmcrofts, just want to say I love your content. Fun fact: this was (almost) published by Psikyo, who developed Battle K-Road. I guess Psikyo decided they were better off developing shoot em ups after that game.

I played this on MAME during my college years, I thought it was pretty cool.

Game looks really good .. would love to play it

A third way through the video... Hayji's punch looks like a mini Galactica Phantom, armor and all

Damn I remember this game, had no idea that it was an unfinished game it was pretty fun

I love this game. It's so broken though. The environment and characters look so gud.

This was cool to watch. It would of been even better had we seen you play.

FINALLY! Some content on this hidden gem!

That animation is extremely clean, i can see why maybe this wastn finished. It looks extremely labor intensive

bro that artwork reminds me of this old SNK game I used to play in arcade where like your body parts fall off as you take damage (at least I know that happened to the mantis guy, others maybe just clothing rips and you get bloodied).

Downloaded on fightcade on a whim and this game is tight, Onigawara is pretty top tier for me but Haiji has a Ralph from KoF style punch that when fully charged is unblockable and does near fatal damage tho the cpu just dodges it everytime. I thought Yuiren was my wifu then I found out he's a guy then he vecame my husbando. Also when you're in the red on health you have unlimited supers.

My brother and I played a cabinet of this game at Galloping Ghost Arcade when we visited Chicago 3 or 4 years ago. It was so fun in the most jank way.

Stumbled on the website for this years ago...couldnt find info on it since it was all in japanese. Cool stuff

I like how Haiji is literally just Jet from Yatagarasu. I guess it’s actually the other way around huh?

Perfect was sooo cheap with those infinites

I was so distracted by the single shadow on the ground that the fighters have to share.

That is K' the developer from this game later went to SNK were he designed King of Fighters 99. And he took three characters from Fallen Angel and put them in 99. The game is also rotoscoped like Art of Fighting 3 which is why the animation is so fluid.

Groove on fight flavored art style

Interestingly, this game was at a university student lounge room arcade machine when I was a student.

These sprites are incredible. They appear to move like 3D models.

Guile Win Quote did a great video on this game

Occupation: A killer

This game looks crazy, some of the attacks almost looks like 2D tekken

I had no idea Psikyo made a a fighting game. I mainly know them for their shooters. This game honestly seems pretty cool and it sucks that they weren't able to release it elsewhere to polish it up some more

PSiKYO is famous for sircraft shooting games like 1945 Strikers. It makes sense that the main protagonists looks like pilots. Even the color scheme mirrors the shooting game.

That's a very "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down" kinda title

Daraku Tenshi reminds me so much of the art from Front Mission 1, does anyone know if any of the same artists were on it?

Kinda sucks to see that my first tourney win ever wasn't on film

Kind of hilarious how scrubby the game got at the end but for some reason was kind of hype still. Some good ole' fun.

Not enough people saying it.. but the pixle art in this game looks so good! 👀

Looks like when you hit "max" super is available. There's a short window of when you can use it. Not sure if extra damage or speed is active as meter drains.

There are a lot of images out there for Daraku Tenshi (mainly unfinished art and storyboards); plus rare fanart on Japanese sites. IIRC there is supposed to be a remake but I think it is too good to be true. A lot of characters here inspired KOF characters (Cool inspired K’, Harry Ness inspired Maxima, Haiji Mibu I would say a mix of Yashiro, Shen and Kyo (in terms of moveset IIRC). Dunno about the others but I do think Yuiren inspired Shion (given the whole crossdressing thing as both are extremely feminine looking men lol). My favourite here is Haiji Mibu; idk why but he is lowkey attractive to me haha

"Ness from smash bros", that's not gonna trigger anyone.

This game was in the states I played it as a kid in the 90’s🤷🏾‍♂️

Actually, you can also freely use supers at low health. The system is actually similar to one of the systems from KOF 98.

Crofts, have you ever played UNICLR? I feel like you might get a kick out of it, if you haven't, and either I'd love to see you cover it.

The 1st match white hair is a fake Ralph from king of fighters

I remember reading about this game. It got some mild controversy over one of the characters being a trans woman (the one you see all video above jmcrofts)

That game pissed me off man. Not the worst though, super pretty also.

Yo I keep missing these, what is the cadence for these tournaments?

14:02 that's was a punish

Any updates on that supposed remake?

Does Fightcade let you play any of the single player content or is it just for multiplayer?

This would've been a lot more interesting and enjoyable without PerfectOrange tbh. He kind of ruined it for me. I found the game interesting and would've liked to see the strats and characters developed in such a short time, but no. It could've been cool to see what else the game had to offer.

we got a discount Kyo, homeless Takuma, and Frankenstein child of Chang. KOF4EVER

Is that Torao guy a dig at SNK?? lol... Also, the other one doesn't look like K', he actually looks more like Yashiro... although he plays more like Ralph it seems... Game looks dope though, too bad they never finished it, some real quality in the artwork.

Has any Console Release? Also, Have you ever played "The Rumble Fish" ? Rumble Fish 1 & 2 are pretty Good

reminds me of Akatsuki

For the all go ruthenium

Yo, I never knew Torao had an infinite

Shoutouts to the algorithm

Did I hear wrong or is the game available for fightcade?

Battle K Road when?

More like Daraku Roche: The Fallen Onigawara.

How and when i can play the next "fightcade frenzy"???

Isn't Harry Ness the inspiration for Maxima?

Looks Neogeo-ish?

what is the story of this game? How it looks so good and was never finished?

Where is Willow!?

I JUST watched a video about this game in the channel GuileWinQuote (check him out, 5K subscribers but does great FG content). Really fun and weird game!

Infinite super ez to do its qcf 2 into 4 on repeat

play dbz hyper dimension

3 min rounds lol

i despise the character design on Roche im ngl

Do touhou fighting game!

Perfect Orange needs to go take a shower, why is your first thought to find a broken move.

Psikyo made a fighting game???

They clearly used 3d models and drew everything over them so everyone looks like the girl with creepy long limbs from SF3 3rd Strike.

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