- Fighting, Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Action
- Iconic ASW characters remixed in 8-bit pixel art! Characters from all the iconic Arc System Works franchises, including Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and the River City series, all meet in a 2D pixel art action game!
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Unpretentious, plot-driven, nostalgic and cool.
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Pure NintendoTrevor GouldFeb 20208/10With an enjoyable story, the novelty of changing between a large cast of characters, and a fun extra game mode, Code Shifter makes up for its shortcomings with many ideas successfully carried out. Bright, colorful, and energetic, Code Shifter is worth a buy for studio fans.
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Chalgyr's Game RoomPierre-Yves LanthierFeb 20208.3/10Overall, Code Shifters, while short, is a fun platformer with plenty of replayability with the difficulty options and a whole other game inside of it. Touching on the issue of crunch time with its narrative while also giving us plenty to see and do within the different coded aspects of the game was a fun approach to why would need to cross some rather extreme terrains. Adding in that upgrades are only granted to doing your absolute best, and there’s more than enough to test those that excel at the style.
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SmashPadFilippo DinolfoFeb 20203.5/5 starsCode Shifter as it is now is a flawed but charming game.
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cublikefootClaire FerrinFeb 2020It’s a mediocre action-platformer that masks its problems with characters from established series. It was cool to see all of these characters together in one place, but when the underlying gameplay is as barebones and boring as it is here, it’s hardly worth the time.
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Nintendo LifeMitch VogelFeb 20205/10Code Shifter is basically a playable version of an unenthusiastic sigh. There is platforming. There is fighting. There is a story. Each of these things is there, but all of them feel underdeveloped or underutilized in their own way, and never really come together all that well.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Arc System Works
- Publisher
- Arc System Works America, Arc System Works
- Released
- January 29, 2020
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric, Side view
- Engine
- Unity
IGDB rating 5.3/10 from 2 ratings.
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