Aggressors of Dark Kombat truely has ultimate combat systems that would evolve beat em ups even further.
see, why can’t modern beat em ups have graphics more like that instead of cheap childish munchkin sprites and pre90’s backgrounds.
With mechanics like AoDK’s design, beat em ups could reach greater heights. but yea, AoDK would be better as a beat em up.
the competitive fighting genre is great and all, but beat em ups are not getting as much ambition, depth and production values as they could be getting.
like look at AoDK’s combat, it’s even more technical than Guardian Heroes and a lot of other games. yea sure it is lacking in roster, but I say if they shifted to beat em up series
and other developers learned its strengths and developed things further, the beat em up genre would reach more amazing heights, and with more incredible graphics too.