【Press Conference】Live Perfomance by Yoshida Brothers 『Fight League』launch declaration… Opening battle between Taka & Toshi and GACKT-san who practiced without sleeping!?

Mixi’s <2121> XFLAG studio launched their new smartphone game『Fight League』in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Canada, on June 22.

In conjunction with the launch, today (June 22) at 14:00, at Tokyo’s Belle Salle Akihabara, the『Fight League』launch event was held.. On this day, the performance was done with projection mapping, and with a perspective that makes it feel like you’ve really entered the world of『Fight League』, Hiromisu-san, who was selected through the pre-registration campaign, and GACKT-san formed a tag team, and got into a heated battle against Taka & Toshi. This article is a report of the event.

▲Announcer Tsuji Yoshinari, who was the MC (picture, left), with the official『Fight League』mascot character Nyanya Korobi (picture, right).

The event started with the『Fight League』commissioner, Kusui Daichi arriving. Kusui began by saying,「XFLAG Studio is working hard everyday to achieve our mission of continuing to create battle entertainment that can be enjoyed between friends and family members in a lively manner」, then continued「To create excitement and enthusiasm, we have created new entertainment for the smartphone, and this is what we will be announcing here」, thus beginning the『Fight League』launch event.

▲『Fight League』commissioner Kusui Daichi.

Following this, the Yoshida Brothers appeared and did a live performance of『Fight League』’s main theme song「BE THE BEST TOGETHER」.

▲Melding traditional Japanese culture「Samisen」with the latest technology, projection mapping, the performance entranced the live audience and online viewers.

▲Also,「BE THE BEST TOGETHER」will be available on iTunes, Rekochoku, and mora from today onwards.

From here on, XFLAG Studio’s general manager, Kimura Kouki joined Kusui and introduced the outline of the game.

▲Both of them were members of the same company that developed the hugely popular application『Monster Strike』in it’s early stages. At that time, Kimura (picture, right) was the producer, while Kusui was the main director who led the team.

However, for this game, Kusui’s title is not「producer」but is instead「commissioner」and the reason for that, he explained earnestly, is「Like baseball, soccer, and pro wrestling, I want it to grow into a competition where both the participants and the spectators will get passionate for」.

▲This game’s concept is「a battle game that friends can get excited over」.

▲『Fight League』PV released.

【『Fight League』Overview】
Genre: Tag battle entertainment
Players: 2vs2 (solo play possible)
Platform: iOS＆Android
Release: June 22 (currently working)
Initial distribution countries: Japan / Korea / Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau / Canada

According to Kimura, in this game, depending on the situation in battle and play-by-play situation, it is easy for even those who aren’t used to the game to understand, and it is capable of getting people excited over it.

The rules are exceptionally simple, where you win by getting the opponent leader’s HP to zero. When the characters, known as Fighters, are placed on the board they can attack and the directional arrows for each character determines their attack range.

Aside from that, he introduced Chain Arts, which is activate when when you have an ally in front of your arrow and allows you to deal a great amount of damage.

With regards to the prospects from here on, Kusui said「I want realise it as a global tournament that gets both the players and spectators passionate. The future that we have to aim for is building a tournament that even those who don’t know『Fight League』can enjoy」.

▲In addition to large-scale competitions, one of their other goals is to establish tag leagues in all communities big and small.

Kimura and Kusui then step off stage here, and the video intorducing the 5 Brands in the game was introduced. The brands categories the fighters based on the characteristics that they possess, and their「Design Motifs」were picked from real world inspirations, connecting with those to create designs that give a sense of affinity.

■「18th Avenue」

■「GGG」

■「Athlete Creatures」

■「Justice Professionals」

■「TOYS of the DEAD」

At this point, Taka & Toshi-san and GAKCT-san finall appear. GACKT-san, who sacrificed sleep to practice in the past week, said「I hate being called weak, so I’ll properly show you the results of training」, full of motivation.

▲From left, Taka-san, Toshi-san, GACKT-san.

▲In addition, Hiromisu-san (picture, right) was chosen from 4,404 general public applicants to be GACKT-san’s partner.

▲Before the battle, the Brands that they will be using are introduced. This time Toshi-san chose 18th Avenue, Taka-san chose Athlete Creatures, Hiromisu-san chose GGG, while GACKT-san chose Justice Professionals.

The key point in winning this came is to combine the wisdom of two people together.

▲You can place 2 characters in 1 turn but when you go first, you can only place one, and each turn only lasts 20 seconds. More detailed rules like these were explained.

▲Especially, with regards to GACKT-san’s moves, where he closed the gap from being attacked in the first turn and activated a chain, attacking both the leader and the opponent Fighter at the same time, it was as he said before the battle,「I was pretty into it」showing his knowledge.

During the battle, Taka & Toshi ignored the opponent Fighters on the board and focused on the leader, while GACKT-san and Hiromisu-san properly cleared the opponent Fighters and gradually got control of the board.

▲GACKT-san used the「Fighting Burst」, which is a special attack that can only be used once when the Leader’s HP falls below 2000 points. The effects of「Fighting Burst」differs between the Brands.

In the end, GACKT-san and Hiromisu-san showed perfect cooperation with a chain, and with over half the board controlled by them, they defeated Taka & Toshi and won.

GACKT Team, who won impressively, was presented with 1,000 Fight Money, or 100 Fighters, from Kusui. After the battle concluded, Hiromisu-san said「It felt great at the end when the chain was completed with a Fighter that I placed myself」.

▲On the other hand, the defeated Toshi-san said「As a duo, we’ve been working together for 22 years, so I thought that we definitely won’t lose but the gap between our individual abilities was too wide. But we’ll play it more from here on, and we’d like to battle against GACKT-san once more」, promising revenge.

At the end, with regards to his thoughts on this event, GACKT-san said,「I think that a game that you can play while communicating is something that the current era needs. I think it’s a wonderful thing to be able to be together with the people around you, and enjoy and grow together」, thus closing the event.

Source: gamebiz.jp

Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

Translation © GACKT ITALIA