Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes Deluxe Edition

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes is the fourth entry in French-Bread's 2D fighter, set in the Hollow Night — an event that falls over a city once a month and turns anyone touched by it into something else. Mechanically it is built on the GRD gauge, a shared meter along the bottom of the screen that both players fight over by advancing, blocking well and controlling space. Whoever holds it when the timer ticks gets Vorpal state: more damage, better options and access to Chain Shift, which cancels the flow of a combo and lets you rewrite a blocked string on the spot. It rewards positioning rather than execution memorisation, which is why the series has a reputation for being unusually readable for a niche anime fighter. Sys:Celes redraws the whole roster, adds new characters, rebuilds the story mode and finally brings rollback netcode to online play, with ranked, casual and lobby modes. The Deluxe Edition adds the post-launch characters, extra colour packs for the roster, the original soundtrack and a digital artbook.