(This is part of a series of party game reviews for party games that I messed around with alongside a good friend in a weekend. I'm writing them with time inbetween each review to avoid flooding so I can still have friends after this.)

I don't feel like I'm qualified enough at fighting games to give this an accurate score, but I can definitely see the appeal behind Project Justice. It's one of the most stylized fighting games of its time, with a pretty colorful cast and tons of wacky team attacks and special attacks and an art style that still holds up pretty well today alongside a banging soundtrack. The story mode is just pick your favorite cast of characters in a batshit high school story that somehow justifies the need to beat up other high schoolers... perfect. The combos are pretty easy to pick up, and the solid dodge and parry mechanics allow for a lot of creativity via quick thinking defense. Definitely giving this another go with friends when they're over during the summer, this was a blast.

Oh man, Project Justice. One of the greatest fighting games I personally have ever played. It has charm around every corner, in all the character designs, the movesets, the stages..this game has it all. Project Justice is the sequel to the lesser known Rival Schools, a Capcom game released in arcades in 1997, and later PS1 in 1998. It features vastly improved visuals, more characters, special attacks, and a full blown story, one for each "school". Mechanically, this game feels amazing to play. Snappy dodges, alpha counters, and team attacks are everywhere, never feeling like you're helpless in any situation. Interrupting your character being team attacked by sending out your own teammate to do some damage never gets old. It's fast and crazy and chaotic, just like how I like my games. There's no get-out-of-jail-free cards here, no combo breakers, but the ability to prevent yourself from being damaged is everywhere, and always comes with its own risks. Stylish as hell combos and high flying air combos add to the chaotic nature of the title, always able to make even beginners feel great. Variety is key in the roster, every archetype seems to be covered. Moe girls, hot-headed protagonists, and edgelords are all in there. Topped off with a great soundtrack to beat up the rival schools to, makes for a great experience with friends, or even jamming on story mode yourself.

The gameplay is improved upon the first because some characters that i felt were kinda janky in the first now feel much better, like Roberto and Roy, my complaints are about the double specials still being a bit repetitive, and they also repeated the thing when a male is paired with a female and it's still useless, the triple special is a good addition, but they could work in different ways depending on which character you're controlling is activating. Even with this, it's really really good and probably has my favorite aesthetic from the fighting games i've played, alongside SFIII 3rd Strike, the thing just looks really stylish in everything

This game rules. One of the characters is a photographer for her high school's newspaper who attacks by blinding people with her camera's flash. Every character can punch people thirty feet up into the air and start doing air combos. There are separate throws for if you're standing or crouching, and crouching throws will always land if you're in range. This game's like if Marvel Vs Capcom had 3D fighting game sidestepping and you never had to play as your assist characters if you didn't want to. This is a great game to bring to your local fighting game events because it's hilarious but also has enough to it that you can take it seriously as a fighting game.

I LOATHE tekken for stagnating 3d fighting games, We will never get project justice, fuc, hinokakera or super dbz ever again.

Everything about this game is so tragic, some of capcom's best characters will never see the light of day again (Why akira instead of fucking batsu in sfv???), there's some balancing issues and shitty system mechanics (The tag team shit is absolutely useless when your only supers are level one and do amazing damage) and as I said before the greatest tragedy is the death of the 3d anime game.

Play this game and then go play fuc and then if you're a real motherfucker get the fuck on hinokakera.