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Under Night is not an extremely explosive game, its on the calmer end of the anime fighter spectrum, but that isnt to say that it doesnt have its highlights and is extremely pleasing to watch https://twitter.com/fgcfightclub/status/1265739222595645441?s=21 https://twitter.com/fgcfightclub/status/1265739222595645441
Under Night has a ton of cool combos that you can execute and extremely fun ways to extend combos if your good at managing your resources which I will get into later. The fluidity the system mechanics give you let you do crazy combos like. https://twitter.com/enginojuushichi/status/1306343003364175876?s=21 https://twitter.com/enginojuushichi/status/1306343003364175876
Before I get into the characters, I just want to say for such an old series of games that started for a long time within arcades, the aesthetics, visual effects, stages and characters of this game are all beautiful. It was a serious pull for me personally.
I will be going over every character in this game, since there arent many of them. Ill be starting with the MC Hyde Kido, or pikachu because of his hair. He falls being a standard MC, having gotten his powers by a chance encounter in the night. Hes just a good kid all around.
Basically the other important character, linne, an immortal person who is reborn into the body of a girl when she “dies”, as a result stripping whoever she possess of whatever life they would live. Because of this she wants to find a way to die. Shes a super interesting char.
Next is Yuzuriha. Hydes childhood friend and basically a big sis type character. Optimal waifubait in this game for that very reason. One of the best and cutest personalities within the game where alot of people arent usually happy go lucky.
Orie, basically a holy and pure type girl, one of Hydes classmates and part of the faction in this game that seeks to destroy evil. Ories basically a crusader of justice in the game where most people are super powered assholes who want to pick fights. Also cute nun vibes.
Vatista is a machine who is basically on a mission. Destroy Voids, beings who basically failed the process of gaining power/ becoming In-Births. She has alot of cute and sleepy vibes, yawning and basically going to sleep. Robotic sort of kuudere vibes all the way.
Waldstein, proud warrior and certified big boy of under night. Hes a sort of halfway Void but also still an inbirth which is why hes so huge and evil looking. Wald is one of the strongest characters in verse and has an actual reputation for just going out and fighting.
Gordeau is part of the villain organization in under night, but he isnt a bad person at all. Gordeau has the reputation of “The strongest In Birth” but hes kind of just a really chill dude. Basically a laid back guy youd grab a drink with.
Hilda is the leader of this villain faction called Insomnia. Shes another extremely powerful character in verse. Small issue, to put it bluntly, shes a stupid bimbo. She is not actually a mommy, shes only a couple years older than hyde. Still wont stop her from giving those vibes
The most infamous under night character, Merkava. The screee man himself. Merkava is a Void who maintains human sentience. He is driven by his void instincts sometimes to feast upon power and In Births. Probably the most interesting character in my opinion.
My boy and main, Chaos. He’s pretty formidable even though he has the weakest ability. He uses his book to summon a creature. He’s Gordeaus best friend and is the brains of the operation in Insomnia. Extremely underrated character within the story.
Nanase is Hydes classmate and isnt really aligned to any faction. Shes basically a friendly schoolgirl, and isnt really associated to any group. Kind of just got caught up in the night and gained powers. Shes a cute nice girl though.
Phonon is Nanases friend and isnt oblivious to everything like she is. Shes kind of a rough, punk, tomboy dominatrix character as you might be able to tell by the fit and thr whip.
Wagner is part of the same organization as Orie and is the main person behind it. Shes the fan proclaimed step on me character, one for the step on me move and also cause shes basically a huge bitch in canon, thats the whole thing with her.
Enkidu, a literal badass old man with the weakest powers but can probably beat anybody in the verse because hes a disciplined fighter. He just goes into the night looking for a challenge whenever he can. He joined the villain organization for the sole purpose of fighting.
THE ALLMIGHTY MIKA CHAN. The XD, no thoughts, head empty, only XD. She is part of the same organization as orie and Wagner but does not fit in at all with their serious demeanors. I need no other description than the Mika XD.
For a few crossover characters, theres akatsuki. Basically a japanese android super soldier who is in this game because fuck it, lets have some real mano a mano fisticuffs. Under Night fans eat this man up because of the funny chesto. Thats the whole thing.
Eltnum, where under night fans go migrate to the bathroom because melty. Shes just in this verse because, yes melty. Shes basically a cop in the verse im pretty sure and shes just in the night, shes not really an in birth but shes strong enough to hold her own.
Londrekia is the newest character added in the latest edition of Under Night, UNICLR. Londrekia is sort of in the same grouping as Wagner, but is against her because Londrekias organization hates wagners organization. Lond is basically a well intentioned cool dude.
Byakuya is a... strange character to say the least. He has a sister who died, then gound a girl who looks like his sister, and stays by her knowing shes not his sister but kind of is. Byakuya is also maybe probably a void, not really. The most mysterious character in the story.
Seth is the rival to Hyde. Seth is part of a third organization that does its own thing. This character is an artform. Watching this character do all the things he does is the coolest thing. This is my favorite character to watch in any fighting game, period.
For the final, and my favorite character, it will be Carmine. Carmine is a complete psycho and a loser at the same time. Does whatever he wants in canon. One of the strongest abilities but doesnt know how to use it. Essentially is the superpowered asshole picking fights cause yes
Something I want to talk about with this game is the amazing soundtrack. Alot of other anime fighters use a large amount of rock, when in the under night, alot of the themes match the character and for the most part they are bangers. One of the best is
This game probably has one of the better tutorial modes in the fighting game genre, teaching you alot of actually useful stuff. Its extremely good and if your new to fighting games, youll definitely pick up a few fundamental pieces of knowledge of fighting games.
Uniclr itself is also amazing for attempting to learn fighting games without being over the top difficult. Basic combo structure is the same for alot of characters, once you get the hang of one combo basic combo, you can basically go off with that for awhile before learning more.
The game itself is usually at a manageable price, and doesnt have any DLC unless you really want system voices and cool skins. Whenever I check its usually floating around the 30-50 range so it goes on sale pretty often.
This games future is sort of unclear, but the game is still receiving support, its likely to get another balance patch and there is always the chance of a new character, dont get your hopes too high with that though.
One important thing I should really say with UNICLR is about the online. To put it bluntly, you should definitely use an ethernet cable while playing this game. The online is not the best and its pretty outdated so I highly reccomend using a wired connection for UNICLR please.
This game is extremely enjoyable to play overall. Uniclr was the second fighting game ive ever played after BBTAG and I had watched this game for months. I wish I could have been better at this game cause its honestly really fun with alot of interesting characters.
If nothing else, I want people to at least watch this game, id say this community is probably one of the more niche, small communities with not many people actually having their eyes out for this game. The evo grand finals of this game was the least looked at too.
I want people to watch this game and give it a chance, because in my eyes, this game is criminally underrated. If any game deserves or maybe even needs more people, its probably going to be this game.
Im gunna post a few final resources, starting with a character overview. I described every character so take a look at any character that looks cool or sounds interesting.
heres another character overview, but it gives more of a glean into which characters are easy and hard. Pick who you like though, you can definitely do it.
Heres another guide, just teaching you a few basics that could be helpful for you.
Thats all the resources I can find, but heres sort of a series of one man learning Unist. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Zpep0TMBYQbn-AykGROPDGF8bTMHyS8
If you have anything else you want or need to know, I reccomend you join the Uniclr discord, they have tons of resources there.
If you have anything else you want or need to know, I reccomend you join the Uniclr discord, they have tons of resources there.
Hopefully ive convinced one person to check out #UNICLR . This should be the end of this thread, hopefully this blows up like the blazblue thread. That should be the end of this thread.
