I tried for days to find even a single match. That said, while I aesthetically enjoy the game, visuals can only get you so far and for as much as they perform a lot of the heavy lifting here, there isn’t much they can do to save this game from fading into obscurity.įighting games are as popular as their community is vocal, so it’s always a bad sign when a game is not seeing an active community playing it online. I’m not shocked that the percentage of players that have done this is at 0%, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. However while I really like most of their designs, the game is just so barren and disappointing that it feels like a chore to put in any time to it, which is counter to how the achievements are positioned here, such as playing for 5 hours per character, or collectively for 100 hours. On paper, and through much of its marketing, Omen of Sorrow should be right up my alley, It’s monsters, beasts, and a lot of fan service in its designs, with a cast of characters that I should, by all accounts, be fascinated by. Here, when you beat it, you get a Game Over screen and you’re thanked for playing. Arcade modes have often shown to at least have some sort of ending cutscene for the fighter, even as little as some sort of artwork wrapped around a closing narrative. It’s a shame story mode is not here considering some of these characters are begging to be explained as personally, I dig some of the designs and the uniqueness that they bring as fighters themselves. Here, on Xbox One, you have access to Arcade, Versus, Survival, and Practice, as well as Online battles. You see, the Xbox version of Omen of Sorrow lacks any sort of story mode, something that just isn’t the case on PS4. These titles barely live on in memory as being largely forgotten, often fodder for “worst fighting games ever” videos on Youtube, and well, let’s add one more to that list with Omen of Sorrow, a game that does little to justify its existence and looks to offer even less than the bare minimum.ĭespite releasing back in late 2018 on PS4, and eventually, on PC in 2019, Omen of Sorrow finally has arrived on Xbox One, but oddly, the game that players have had access to on Sony’s platform for the past three years isn’t entirely here in the same capacity. However smaller publishers also got in on this as well, crowding the market even more, releasing unknown titles like Bio Freaks, War Gods, or Mace: The Dark Age to name a few. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken were kings of the genre, with some of the other big publishers of the time getting in their own hits with Dead or Alive, Soul Calibur, and Capcom yet again with Marvel Vs. I remember during the ’90s when every publisher was racing to get a fighting game out.
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