Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight!

Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight! is a 2003 crossover fighting game developed by Shaba Games and published by Activision, for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Nokia N-Gage. It was released in North America on November 2, 2003, in Europe on November 5, 2003, and in Japan on January 23, 2004. The game was later added to the Backwards Compatibility program of the Xbox 360 and Xbox One for original Xbox games.

Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight! is a crossover between various Bear Bones properties, including Malachi Universal, Sarah, The Kutabatas, My Hero Academia, Azumanga Daioh, Fairy Tail, Rave Master, Demon Slayer, Medaka Box, Attack on Titan, The Kidriends, Aiden & Koop, Sypha and Time Warped. The stages and gameplay modes reference or take inspiration from these franchises as well. Unlike Bear Bones All-Stars! and Bear Bones All-Stars Racing, it is similar to the first Super Smash Bros. game by Nintendo, in that the main objective is to use each character's unique skills and the stage's hazards to inflict damage, recover health, and ultimately knock opponents off the stage.

Upon release, it received generally favorable reviews from video game critics, with praise focused on the interpretation of the Bear Bones brand as a video game, its multiplayer mode and graphics, while criticism mostly surrounded its lack of content and some aspects of gameplay, such as bugs and glitches, as well as some similarities to Super Smash Bros. The game was also a commercial success, with recorded sales of over 5 million worldwide.

Gameplay
Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight! is a crossover fighting game bringing together several playable characters from the Bear Bones franchises, such as the Bear Bones mascot Malachi, in one epic battle on an arena that plays very similar to the Super Smash Bros. series. Up to four players (human or CPU controlled) can control a character and fight on a multi-tiered 2D stage. Players may use various items that appear randomly to get the fighting edge over their opponent. Additionally, the stage may use set elements in order to take out other players. For example, in the Tyrusville stage, players can open a door from Malachi's house. Each playable character has their own special move set that uses different elements from their respective TV shows. Each has an up, down, side, and neutral attack. Most characters have a projectile attack.

The game features a traditional single-player arcade mode, in which players must defeat several randomly-selected opponents, followed by a character-specific rival battle and, ultimately, a battle against the game's main antagonist and final boss, the Evil Collector. A "Training Mode" is also available in which players can manipulate the environment and experiment against computer opponents without the restrictions of a standard match. Multiplayer modes include time-based matches, where players compete to achieve the most kills within a time limit; stock-based matches, where players attempt to be the last one standing; and kill-limit matches, where players compete to be the first to reach a certain number of kills. The game also features a single-player challenge mode, in which players attempt to complete specific objectives. The game also includes a stadium mode where players can compete in minigames.

Completing matches and fulfilling objectives with a character will gain them experience points; leveling up a character will unlock bonuses such as character bios and a special video.

Playable characters

 * Malachi
 * Mitsuru
 * Jarek
 * Scott Pig
 * Darlene
 * Izuku
 * Sarah

Unlockable characters

 * Aiden
 * Chiyo
 * Nicolas
 * Sypha
 * Haru Glory
 * Dak
 * Eren
 * Natsu
 * Medaka
 * Tanjiro

Non-playable characters

 * Lord Phantom
 * Fighting Doppelgangers

Starter stages

 * Tyrusville (Malachi Universal)
 * Toonpolis (Toon Friends)
 * Suburbia Park (Wonderful Darlene)
 * Animalcity (The Animal Farm)
 * Rollerbound (Sarah)
 * Star City (Bear Bones Universe)
 * U.A. High School (My Hero Academia)

Unlockable stages

 * Toy Room (Aiden & Koop)
 * Chiyo's Summer House (Azumanga Daioh)
 * Lavender Kingdom (Sypha)
 * Lab Station (Legend of Galactic)
 * Debacle Village (Rave Master)
 * Shiganshina District (Attack on Titan)
 * Hakoniwa Academy (Medaka Box)
 * Tsuzumi Mansion (Demon Slayer)
 * Magnolia Town (Fairy Tail)

Plot
Coming soon!

English

 * Mala Miles as Malachi / Jarek / Lord Phantom
 * Frank Welker as Scott Pig
 * Tom Kenny as Mitsuru
 * Tara Strong as Darlene
 * Charlie Adler as Nicolas
 * Billy West as Eren
 * Charlie Schlatter as Dak
 * Cam Clarke as Izuku / Aiden / Natsu / Tanjiro / Haru Glory
 * Anndi McAfee as Sarah
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Sypha
 * Jeannie Elias as Chiyo
 * Lacey Chabert as Medaka

Development
Development of Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight! began in 2001 under the codename Bear Bones All-Stars Fighters after the the success of Bear Bones All-Stars.

Release
Bear Bones All-Stars: Battle Fight! was first shown at E3 2002. During the presentation, Bear Bones promised unlockable characters, stages, bonus levels, and power-ups. Before the game's release, the official website included weekly updates including screenshots and character profiles. IGN reported that 20th Century Fox advertised the game throughout showings of Lost on the Island across the United States.

Legacy

 * Main article: Bear Bones All-Stars: Fighting Royale, Bear Bones All-Stars: League Fight, and Bear Bones All-Stars Smackdown!

Three additional fighting games were produced following the success of this game.