Pocket Bravery Review (Steam)

For this Pocket Bravery Review, we play a game Inspired by classic fighting games from the 90s such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, and The King of Fighters, ‘Pocket Bravery channels the ‘Neo Geo Pocket’ aesthetic for a modern fighting game with a retro twist!

Pocket Bravery Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 12.12GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics settings – resolution, display, brightness, scan lines, CRT filter, grain filter, and chromatic.
• 2D fighting gameplay.
• Can rebind controls for both the keyboard and the controller buttons.
• Edit controls for each player.
• Accessibility options – announcer (default/descriptive), subtitles font size, high contrast, colorblind support, and intensity.
• 8 difficulty levels.
• Rounds can be set to 1, 3, or 5.
• Seven ways to play – story, arcade, versus, online, extra modes, tutorials, and training.
• The tutorial is split into 3 areas – basic, gauge, and technical terms.
• You have a light and heavy kick and punch.
• Blocking will break down your shield icon and when it shatters you are momentarily stunned.
• Uses the back movement for blocking.
• The gray bar above your name is the stun bar, as you land attacks you fill your opponent’s bar, you fill it to stun them.
• You can escape grabs.
• Two controller types – default (standard inputs) and accessible (simple combination inputs).
• Fast loading times.
• The power gauge fills up as you fight and once full you can pull off special moves.
• Full combo system at play.
• The elemental bar is harder to fill up but once full does harder hitting and more game-changing attacks.
• You can pull off breaks to stop an attack or combo.
• S cancels allow you to use half your gauge bar to stop an opponent’s special.
• Cancels are the same as above but for the elemental attacks.
• The online mode consists of causal matches, ranked matches, invites, and ranking.
• The profile is your character card and you can edit – avatar, background, title, favorite character, favorite stage, and your region.
• Uses the title cards like in Street Fighter and the tags for rank like in Virtua Fighter.
• You can see a full breakdown of your stats.
• 16 stages with 12 available at the start and the rest having to be unlocked.
• The shop is where you can buy stages, colors for your Fighters, customisation items (titles/avatars, etc.), and rarities.
• 12 characters with ten available at the start and the rest to be unlocked.
• The gallery houses all unlocked art, sounds, and videos.
• The unlock conditions are shown so you know what to do.
• Combo Factory lets you create and assign your own combo sequences.
• Training mode lets you set up a scenario and practice.
• The extra mode offers – survival, time attack, and trials.
• Versus can be local play or against a CPU.
• Arcade mode is a case of running through opponents until you get to the final boss.
• Story mode houses cutscenes, and stories for the characters.
• Really cool artwork and cutscene work.
• Button mashers can still triumph.
• The way that story mode flows is really cool and different.
• Access at all times to the move lists for your character.
• End of match breakdown.
• Cool animated backgrounds and locations.
• You get a bit of trash talk at the end of a match in arcade mode.

Pocket Bravery Review Cons:

• The tutorial in the story mode is a million times better than the tutorial section in the menu.
• I’m the tutorial mode you cannot skip a move you have trouble with.
• A lot to take in with multiple gauges to fill and a host of cancels and Breakers.
• Takes a lot from street fighters from the world map stage selection in arcade mode to the end of the fight trash-talking.
• You can change the controller type (default/accessible) from the menu.
• The AI can get very cheap, especially on higher difficulties.

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Pocket Bravery:

Official website.

Developer: Statera Studio

Publisher: PQube

Store Links –

Steam