One Punch Man A Hero Nobody Knows - Playthrough Part 1

Started playing One Punch Man A Hero Nobody Knows - a game based on the hit anime and manga series. Here you get to create your own hero and rank up in the Hero Association by doing side quests and fighting monsters. The controls are of a typical 3D Bamco fighting game - you mix up light and heavy attacks to get combos, you can jump and guard and also activate special moves costing you energy. Your hero unlocks new moves and fighting styles when he meets heroes who have them. There's a tag system where you can swap with another hero who is assisting you in a fight and sometimes you have to wait for their arrival. You can also customise your apartment, but I don't think this has any effects on the gameplay - it's just an extra feature. In a way this game reminds me of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games, where your custom character gets to interact with the story of anime in a tangential manner. Towards the end of this gameplay session we have to hold off Vaccine Man, who is an absolute beast. Then in a typical fashion Saitama arrives and saves the day with one punch. He's pretty much invulnerable and utterly broken as a character in a fighting game, but that makes him fun and true to the anime. You unlock heroes you meet for the free fighting mode that was featured in the demo, but for the life of me I couldn't find where you access that mode.