In honor of 2024's Game Of The Year dropping in just about an hour as of this writing, I wanna go over my thoughts to the best of my abilities. I bought the game again on Steam shortly after buying the sequel, because it was five dollars, and I had lost my ability to play online after cancelling my PS Plus subscription a good few months ago.

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] UNICLR is, by no competition, my second favorite fighting game of all time. If not for the slight nostalgia boost that Skullgirls gets from me, I wouldn't be opposed to calling it my absolute favorite. Under Night's characters are some of the most ridiculous, out-there conceptions of every possible archetype, making no two characters feel at all alike. Better yet, they're all fun to play. For the longest time, I had trouble even deciding on a main. I would watch tournament sets and just gaze in awe of each character's toolkits, before trying them out later and attempting to put in the time to learn them myself. One of the few rosters I would call practically perfect.

This is the part where whea starts talking about how good music is. 9.9 times out of ten, if anybody is going to know anything about Under Night, it's gonna be the music. For good reason, to be fair. UNI can evoke a tremendous range of emotions with its OST, slow and soothing, loud and overwhelming (teehee), can I tell you about this eurobeat remix of Pachelbel's Canon? Not to mention the vibes it throws you into just on the character select screen, good lord I cannot gush over Raito's music for long enough.

UNIB is everything it needs to be. Fun, fast-paced competition, amplified by fun, fast-paced music. Competition that, no matter your selection, will be enjoyable all throughout. That's what I call a good-ass fighter.

and you bastards better hop on uni2, i dont wanna be matching up against the same guy over and over again to the point where they just start declining my matches