Fighting games are an important genre in gaming but one with an interesting history on mobile. Even in the earlier days of the App Store developers had successfully brought traditional fighting games to the touchscreen using virtual button control schemes. For the most part these worked surprisingly well and big brands like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and King of Fighters provided solid fighting experiences for mobile gamers.
That said, not everyone could get behind the whole virtual buttons thing in a genre that was built around manipulating physical controls in a precise manner. This led to the rise of what I’ve been calling the “swipe fighter." Games like Marvel Contest of Champions and Injustice boiled movement and combat mechanics down to tap and swipe gestures that worked beautifully on the touchscreen but provided a much more condensed experience. The swipe fighters are fun for what they are, and games like Skullgirls have shown that you can have that condensed fighting experience while still retaining a lot of the strategy of a full fighter, but they’re still no replacement for a full-blown fighting game. I’ve often wondered why a developer hadn’t tried to combine the two ideas. A fully free movement fighting game but with swipe-based controls that would work well on a touchscreen. And now someone is finally trying to do just that. HeroVersus: The Legend of Ki Masters is a new mobile fighting game developed by members of the F...