Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena

 PC
Metascore
64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. We Got This Covered
    Jul 28, 2016
    70
    Blade Arcus From Shining: Battle Arena has beautiful art design and a number of difficulty options, but the limited fighting styles result in a lack of any real depth.
  2. ZTGD
    Aug 5, 2016
    65
    The art design is outstanding, and the fighting is solid, but it really just doesn’t do anything to stand out from the pack. The lack of features and paltry online community mean this game is likely already forgotten about.
  3. Multiplayer.it
    Aug 1, 2016
    65
    Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena delivers an enjoyable beat'em up experience, but lacks the depth of the best 2D fighting games.
  5. GameCritics
    Mar 15, 2017
    60
    BLADE ARCUS from Shining: Battle Arena is a neat little brawler with a decent cast and enjoyable mechanics, but it’s too limited in too many ways to be anywhere near a… shining… example of the genre.
  6. SpazioGames
    Aug 15, 2016
    55
    A quite basic beat’em up, with a decent roster and a pleasant aesthetic. Too bad the difficulty is way too low, and the gameplay feels like simplified in many aspects.
  7. Twinfinite
    Sep 19, 2016
    50
    Blade Arcus from Shining is one of the best games to pick up if your interested in learning or teaching someone how to play a traditional 2D anime fighter. The simple mechanics and beautiful visuals are enough to keep someone enticed long enough to feel adequately comfortable to move onto more popular and complex fighters. But the bare-bones content and uninteresting story/characters certainly won’t keep most around very long outside that.