Ehrgeiz is a 3D fighting game that features some characters from Final Fantasy VII. Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart are playable in the arcade and the PlayStation versions, and Sephiroth, Yuffie Kisaragi, Vincent Valentine and Zack Fair were added to the PlayStation version's roster. Ehrgeiz differs from most 3D fighting games by drawing heavily from the concepts of wrestling games and Dream Factory's own Tobal series, which allow for full 360-degree movement and do not require fighters to be facing each other at all times.
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wherever tifa lockhart and vincent valentine go, i'll be there
shitty in a very distinctly cool way. makes me miss when i'd walk into the arcade of a movie theater or w/e in the late 90s/early 00s and chuck a few of my parents' quarters away on something barely playable that looked rad as hell to my idiot child brain. i love how easy it is to cheese the AI with spamming specific attacks, the whole experience is just a flailing mess and it rules. makes me wanna boot up power stone or something, it's been like two decades since i've even thought about games like this, but i know my life is only enhanced by their existence
tifa's design here makes her look like an action figure for pervert otakus, but w/e i like spamming triangle and juggling the bad guy when they're close and spamming tifa hadouken when they're far away and winning. girls are so cool. i like the powers dog that has a red XIII alt and the animorph girl and the guy who shoots rockets out his leg. don't like the old guy with the annoying stick or the yoyo cop tho. i'll play the minigames and quest mode someday maybe, idk just something about blasting through an arcade mode that appeals more to me in these types of games
adding this to my "games that would fucking rule at slumber parties even though i'm turning 32 in a week and all the friends i could have slumber parties with are productive adults who live halfway across the country from me and also i have crippling student debt" list! shirtless sephiroth tho
shitty in a very distinctly cool way. makes me miss when i'd walk into the arcade of a movie theater or w/e in the late 90s/early 00s and chuck a few of my parents' quarters away on something barely playable that looked rad as hell to my idiot child brain. i love how easy it is to cheese the AI with spamming specific attacks, the whole experience is just a flailing mess and it rules. makes me wanna boot up power stone or something, it's been like two decades since i've even thought about games like this, but i know my life is only enhanced by their existence
tifa's design here makes her look like an action figure for pervert otakus, but w/e i like spamming triangle and juggling the bad guy when they're close and spamming tifa hadouken when they're far away and winning. girls are so cool. i like the powers dog that has a red XIII alt and the animorph girl and the guy who shoots rockets out his leg. don't like the old guy with the annoying stick or the yoyo cop tho. i'll play the minigames and quest mode someday maybe, idk just something about blasting through an arcade mode that appeals more to me in these types of games
adding this to my "games that would fucking rule at slumber parties even though i'm turning 32 in a week and all the friends i could have slumber parties with are productive adults who live halfway across the country from me and also i have crippling student debt" list! shirtless sephiroth tho
Just a real fun time playing with someone who also has no real prior knowledge on how to play.
I went into this completely blind, and lost my shit when I accidentally scrolled onto Sephiroth.
Honestly, it was a lot of fun. It was jank and stiff as hell but it definitely had charm and love put into it.
Really enjoyed Yoko and her yoyo mechanics, however you can't beat playing as Cloud and just wacking Tifa in the corner with your Buster Sword.
The Quest mode it had, whilst ambitious for what it is, left a lot to desire and I felt my will to live decrease by the second the longer I played it. But...
That Main menu SFX.....
LEAVE ME ALONE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Honestly, it was a lot of fun. It was jank and stiff as hell but it definitely had charm and love put into it.
Really enjoyed Yoko and her yoyo mechanics, however you can't beat playing as Cloud and just wacking Tifa in the corner with your Buster Sword.
The Quest mode it had, whilst ambitious for what it is, left a lot to desire and I felt my will to live decrease by the second the longer I played it. But...
That Main menu SFX.....
LEAVE ME ALONE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Very much a guilty pleasure, sure it's kinda weird and jank but it's got so much charm, a bunch of cool character designs, it has the goddamn cast of Final Fantasy 7 playable, a load of extra content to unlock, a bunch of minigames and a whole-ass dungeon-crawler game included because why the hell not?
I'd take this anyday over the absolute slop fighters that get released nowadays.
I'd take this anyday over the absolute slop fighters that get released nowadays.
Not even the FF VII cast could make me believe this is any masterpiece. But it's a overall decent game.
Fighting doesn't have much strategy, it's more about being in a 3D ring with not much controlling movement.
The weird story mode didn't helped either and wasn't interesting for me.
So, to recap:
- a mediocre fighting game
- a weird clunky Mystery Dungeon/Rogue-like game
It's still impressive that it is both featuring also some hilarious minigames, I'll give the credit for that.
Fighting doesn't have much strategy, it's more about being in a 3D ring with not much controlling movement.
The weird story mode didn't helped either and wasn't interesting for me.
So, to recap:
- a mediocre fighting game
- a weird clunky Mystery Dungeon/Rogue-like game
It's still impressive that it is both featuring also some hilarious minigames, I'll give the credit for that.
No word of a lie, “God bless the ring,” is the coolest subtitle for a game.
Quest mode is cool, but pretty repetitive, and the combat is a little goofy with the balance; however, I love Ehrgeiz for all of those reasons.
Quest mode is cool, but pretty repetitive, and the combat is a little goofy with the balance; however, I love Ehrgeiz for all of those reasons.