''Battle Arena NiToshinden'' is a 1996

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developed by Japan Vistec and published by

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for the

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. It is a spin-off from the ''

Battle Arena Toshinden ''Battle Arena Toshinden'', released as in Japan, is a 1995 fighting video game developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara for the PlayStation. It was one of the first fighting games, after ''Virtua Fighter'' on arcade and console, to boas ...

'' series. It was only released in Japan; it was planned for the US under the name of ''Toshinden Kids'' but was canceled. ''Nitoshinden'' features

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characters, similar to those in ''

Virtua Fighter Kids is a 1996 installment in the ''Virtua Fighter (series), Virtua Fighter'' Fighting game, fighting video game series, and a super deformed version of ''Virtua Fighter 2''. It was developed by Sega AM2 on the ST-V arcade board, unlike ''Virtua Fight ...

''. The title is a combination of the franchise's name with the Japanese term .

Gameplay

The gameplay of ''Nitoshinden'' is different from the main series. Each characters' move list has been reduced to 6 attacks; 4 standard attacks, a special attack and a desperation attack. The normal attacks roughly correspond to standard ''Toshinden'' attacks. There is a hard attack, light attack, low attack and either a medium or 360 degree attack (depending on the character). There is no real combo ability but some attacks can be chained together. The game features a different defense system to standard ''Toshinden'' games. The side step moves still exist, however blocking of other attacks is now done with a parry button that repels an opponent's attack, stunning them for a short time. Areas in ''Nitoshinden'' are all

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-based locations and feature walled-in arenas, similar to ''

Battle Arena Toshinden 3 ''Battle Arena Toshinden 3'' is a 1996 fighting game developed by Tamsoft and published by Takara for the PlayStation. Released in December 1996 and globally in March 1997, it serves as the sequel to ''Battle Arena Toshinden 2''. There were chang ...

''.

Characters

Existing characters from the ''Toshinden'' series in this game are: *Eiji *Ellis *Sho *Sofia *Tracy *Vermilion Unique characters that only appear in this game are: *Baifu *Ryuji * Rika (guest character)

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1996 video games 3D fighting games Battle Arena Toshinden Japan-exclusive video games Multiplayer and single-player video games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation (console)-only games Takara video games Video games developed in Japan {{fighting-videogame-stub