Omen of Sorrow

Okay-ish indie fighting game. Controls and combos are a bit clunky, but thats already expected from an indie title. The roster of characters are supposed to be based on horror movie themes like werewolves, vampires, Frankenstein and shіt, but some chars are basically rіp offs of other games like Sabre Wulf and Kan-Ra from Killer Instinct or Hilda from Under Night In Birth. Some chars are actually more original and fun however, like the Countess Elizabeth Bathory that is a vampire thats basically a puppeteer type of char, controling a dragon made of blood to attack her enemies. Pretty cool. Theres also a Succubus demon woman that is basically useless when shes on the ground but becomes pretty powerful when she takes flight or is in the air, gaining access to a lot of combo strings and command grabs. Interesting concept. Anyways, its a an okay-ish fighter 7.5/10 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3463342756

kind of bad... my first issue is that it feels like the developers are scared to make the player press more than 1 button at once. ex moves have their own button, as do throws. kof figured out this kind of stuff years ago... another gripe i have is that special cancelling some normals costs fortune meter (called a bold cancel). i can understand needing resources for guard cancels and special>special it gets frustrating when you can't even cancel a st.hp on some characters without meter. fortune is an easy come easy go meter, but you also get the third bar (needed to activate the maxmode mechanic) taken away for sitting on it for too long, and the rest of the bar gradually depletes over time. when you lose fortune you gain fate (kind of like the guard balance in calamity trigger where losing one gains the other by the same amount). when you're full on fate, you enter a state called impending doom, which leads to my next issue... doomed is the stupidest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanic ever designed. whoever thought locking characters out of their specials just for losing too much is stupid. i play some snowball-y games but this is on another level and i'm genuinely annoyed that it even exists. imag…

This is overall a good indie fighting game, it doesn't feel as refined as the more expensive fighting games out there but it doesn't feel bad to play by any means. The online does seem to be pretty dead, which isn't surprising, but the game does have a good arcade mode and a surprisingly lengthy story mode. For a game that's less than half the cost of a big modern fighting game (hell this entire game its cheaper than a lot of fighting game DLC) it is surprisingly good and is certainly worth checking out.

Thoughts while playing this: If this came out in the mid 90s I wonder if it would have become a franchise like MK. It's very low budget but it's not bad. If you have fond memories of playing fighting games in the arcades, around the time of SF2:Championship Turbo and Mortal Kombat 2, this will probably hit better for you than other people. Obviously majorly inspired by SF2. Characters have hilarious names like stuff I would have come up with in middle school. It's not deep. I paid less than one USD for this and it is worth it. Am I going to bust it out often? Absolutely not. But if you get it on a major sale you can do way, way worse than this.

Omen of Sorrow is a solid game; however, it could benefit from more fluidity in the combos. Additionally, reduce the frequency of the CPU repeating the same move to avoid spamming.

There are soo many things wrong with this game. hit detection, jumping, animations, ect best to avoid unless you can get it for dirt cheap just to fool around with. good luck with this mess