Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax
Japanese PS Vita cover art
Developer(s)	Ecole Software French Bread
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Takaharu Terada
Producer(s)	Ryutaro Nonaka
Composer(s)	Yui Isshiki Sega Digital Studio Kenichi Tokoi Tomoyuki Nakazawa Teruhiko Nakagawa Naofumi Hataya Tadashi Kinukawa Hideaki Kobayashi Tomonori Sawada Mitsuharu Fukuyama Tatsuyuki Maeda Tomoya Ohtani Jun Senoue
Platform(s)	Arcade, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
Release	Arcade JP: March 18, 2014 PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita JP: November 13, 2014 NA: October 6, 2015 EU: October 6, 2015[1] Ignition: Arcade JP: July 28, 2015 PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita JP: December 17, 2015
Genre(s)	Fighting game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Sega RingEdge 2

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax^[a] is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Ecole Software and French Bread and published by Sega. The game celebrates the 20th anniversary of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint, featuring various characters from light novels published under the imprint.^[2] The game was first released in Japanese arcades in March 2014,^[3] and later released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on November 13, 2014.^[4] The console version was released in North America and Europe in October 2015.^[5][6] The game's theme song is "Belief" by Mami Kawada.

An updated version of the game, titled Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition (電撃文庫 FIGHTING CLIMAX IGNITION, Dengeki Bunko Faitingu Kuraimakkusu Igunishion), was released in July 2015.^[7] The update contains additional characters and more balanced gameplay.^[8][9][10] The updated version was released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in December 2015 only in Japan.^[11] The updated version's theme song is "ID" by LiSA.

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is a two-dimensional fighting game, in which two players fight against each using both a playable fighter character and an assist character. Fighting uses three main attack buttons: weak, medium, and strong, along with a support button used for summoning a player's assist character. After an assist character is summoned, players need to rebuild their support gauge before they can summon them again. By building the Climax Gauge with attacks, players can perform powerful Impact Skill attacks, and can also use Blast Icons to perform Blast Attacks, allowing them to escape from combos.^[12] The home version features an original story campaign, Dream Duel Story, and online multiplayer, and supports cross-save functionality between the PS3 and Vita versions. Samples from the represented light novel series are also included as unlockable content.^[13]

In the Ignition update, it adds another assist character slot, but for Blast only instead of Assist. A new system called Ignition is introduced, giving one character in each team a power-up after each round. From the second round on, if the same Ignition on the team's character from the previous round is reused, it gives an "Extra Ignition".

The initial roster features 12 playable characters and 18 assist characters from 22 light novels and the current roster is 19 playable characters and 30 assist characters. The roster features characters under the Dengeki Bunko imprint, among playable characters and assist characters that can be called while in the middle of a round to help the playable character in various ways. All characters are voiced by their respective actors from the anime adaptations, with a few exceptions. A non-playable character known as Denshin (電神) (voiced by Mao), based on the Dreamcast character from Sega Hard Girls, summons the playable characters for their aid to combat a malevolent entity (voiced by Ken Narita) from the organization Zetsumu who takes the form of the captured playable characters, followed by a form of Akira Yuki from Sega's Virtua Fighter series, with Pai Chan as his assist, as boss characters; both Akira and Pai later became playable characters in the console ports and post-Version 1.20 arcade versions.^[14][15]

Eight additional characters (four playable and four assists) were added to the roster by mid-2014.^[16][17][18] The second Sega guests, Selvaria Bles and Alicia Melchiott of Valkyria Chronicles, first appeared in the console ports and later added to the arcade version 1.30, along with other assist characters from other Dengeki Bunko's published series.^[19][20][21] The games' various stages and their accompanying music tracks are based on other Sega titles, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Nights into Dreams..., Shinobi, Border Break, Valkyria Chronicles, 7th Dragon and Phantasy Star Online 2.^[22] The DLC characters from Sword Art Online, Yuuki and the assist Llenn, were released on December 25, 2015. DLC characters from And you thought there is never a girl online?, Ako and the assist Rusian, was included in a future update.^[23]

Character	Series	Voice actor	Arcade revision	Original	Ignition
Akira Yukia	Virtua Fighter	Shin-ichiro Miki	1.2	bc
Akoaeg	And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?	Rina Hidaka	2.3
Asuna	Sword Art Online	Haruka Tomatsu	1.0
Emi Yusaae	The Devil Is a Part-Timer!	Yōko Hikasa	2.0
Kirino Kosaka	Oreimo	Ayana Taketatsu	1.0
Kirito[24]	Sword Art Online	Yoshitsugu Matsuoka	1.0
Kuroko Shiraiae	A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun	Satomi Arai	2.15
Kuroyukihime	Accel World	Sachika Misawa	1.0
Mikoto Misaka	A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun	Rina Satō	1.0
Miyuki Shibaaf	The Irregular at Magic High School	Saori Hayami	1.1
Qwenthur Barbotagee	Heavy Object	Natsuki Hanae	2.0
Rentarō Satomia	Black Bullet	Yuki Kaji	1.15
Selvaria Blesa	Valkyria Chronicles	Sayaka Ohara	1.2	b
Shana	Shakugan no Shana	Rie Kugimiya	1.0
Shizuo Heiwajima	Durarara!!	Daisuke Ono	1.0
Taiga Aisakaa	Toradora!	Rie Kugimiya	1.1
Tatsuya Shibaaf	The Irregular at Magic High School	Yuichi Nakamura	2.1
Tomoka Minato[25]	Ro-Kyu-Bu!	Kana Hanazawa	1.0
Yukina Himeragia	Strike the Blood	Risa Taneda	1.15
Yuukiaeg[26]	Sword Art Online	Aoi Yūki	2.2

Character	Series	Voice actor	Arcade revision	Original	Ignition
Accelerator and Last Ordera	A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Accelerator	Nobuhiko Okamoto and Rina Hidaka	1.2
Alicia Melchiott	Valkyria Chronicles	Marina Inoue	1.2	ab
Boogiepop	Boogiepop	Kaori Shimizu	1.0
Celty Sturluson	Durarara!!	Miyuki Sawashiro	1.0
Dokuro Mitsukaia	Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan	Saeko Chiba	1.2
Enju Aiharaa	Black Bullet	Rina Hidaka	1.15
Erio Tōwa	Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl	Asuka Ōgame	1.0
Floretia Capistranoae	Heavy Object	Shizuka Itō	2.0
Haruyuki Arita	Accel World	Yuuki Kaji	1.0
Hinata Hakamadad[25]	Ro-Kyu-Bu!	Yui Ogura	1.0
Holo	Spice and Wolf	Ami Koshimizu	1.0
Iriya Kanaae	Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu	Ai Nonaka	2.15
Izaya Oriharaa	Durarara!!	Hiroshi Kamiya	1.2
Kazari Uiharuae	A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun	Aki Toyosaki	2.15
Kino	Kino's Journey	Aya Hisakawa	1.0
Kōko Kaga	Golden Time	Yui Horie	1.0
Kojou Akatsukia	Strike the Blood	Yoshimasa Hosoya	1.15
Kuroneko	Oreimo	Kana Hanazawa	1.0
Leafa	Sword Art Online	Ayana Taketatsu	1.0
Llennaeg	Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online	Minami Tsuda	2.2
Mashiro Shiina	The Pet Girl of Sakurasou	Ai Kayano	1.0
Miyuki Shibaaf	The Irregular at Magic High School	Saori Hayami	2.1
Pai Chana	Virtua Fighter	Minami Takayama	1.2	bc
Rusianadeg	And you thought there is never a girl online?	Toshiyuki Toyonaga	2.3
Ryūji Takasuad	Toradora!	Junji Majima	1.1
Sadao Maō	The Devil Is a Part-Timer!	Ryōta Ōsaka	1.0
Tatsuya Shibaaf	The Irregular at Magic High School	Yuichi Nakamura	1.1
Toma Kamijo	A Certain Magical Index	Atsushi Abe	1.0
Tomo Asamaae	Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere	Ami Koshimizu	2.15
Wilhelmina Carmel	Shakugan no Shana	Shizuka Itō	1.0
Zeroae	Grimoire of Zero	Karin Takahashi	2.15

Characters who appear for certain playable characters' Special and Super Moves

Character	Series	Voice actor	Arcade revision	Original	Ignition
Heivia Winchellae	Heavy Object	Kaito Ishikawa	2.0
Milinda Brantiniae	Heavy Object	Eri Suzuki	2.0
Airi Kashii[25]	Ro-Kyu-Bu!	Rina Hidaka	1.0
Alas Ramuse	The Devil Is a Part-Timer!	Unknown	2.0
Maho Misawa[25]	Ro-Kyu-Bu!	Yuka Iguchi	1.0
Saki Nagatsuka[25]	Ro-Kyu-Bu!	Yoko Hikasa	1.0

Notes

Awarding it 4 out of 5, Hardcore Gamer described it as "a love-letter to anime and Sega fans".^[32] In contrast, PlayStation Lifestyle awarded it a score of 5.5 out of 10, writing that "although solid enough as a fighting game, the emphasis here is certainly not on gameplay and can often leave newcomers disconnected from the fun."^[33] Destructoid said that it "may be too simplistic for most hardcore fighting game fans to enjoy as anything more than an ephemeral lark, but also perhaps still too complex for those that find the genre intimidating."

The PlayStation 3 version of Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax sold 34,671 copies within its first week in Japan, placing it at number six on the video game sales chart, while the PlayStation Vita version sold 25,607 copies in the same week, placing it at number nine on the chart.^[34]

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