Ex Kamen Aid Rider War Fighting is an excellent solo fighter game.

This is basically a 3D fighter with simplistic controls.

X and Y are your attack buttons, B is jump, and A is special attack.

You can cycle through your special attacks with the L and R buttons,

and when your power gauge has filled (either naturally or by holding down L + R),

you can unleash a stat boost, new weapon, or summon.

This sounds incredibly simple, and it is, but there are little touches that keep things fresh.

For one, you will often be holed up in a room with three other guys, and they will attack from all sides.

You can tap them to change your target (which is awkward), or you can just press down and X to perform a breakdance-style kick move,

knocking down everyone around you. You can also double tap in any direction to dodge in that direction,

which is very useful for avoiding powerful attacks from the front and taking advantage of any lag that follows the attack.

Ex Kamen Aid Rider War Fighting is broken into variations on this theme: mission mode, one-on-one, and what appears to be a survival run.

Nothing is explained, so you’ll have to figure a lot out on your own.

The instruction manual, gives you the button layout and bids you good night.

Thankfully, Kamen Heroes is easy to learn. You’ll unlock the majority of new content in mission mode,

where you select a fighter and then start pummeling fools. Experience, new specials, and additional characters are unlocked here.

While most mission goals are as simple as “kill everybody before the timer runs out,”

you’ll start getting more complex goals in no time, such as defeating your opponent with a summon or other special attack.

Mission mode sort of resembles the same mode in the Soulcalibur series, but without the dumb story.

In fact, Ex Kamen Aid Rider War Fighting seems to lack any sort of plot, which is probably a positive.

The game looks incredible; better than most game fighters, in fact.

The character models are large and impressively detailed, and are animated smoothly.

Despite having four or five characters onscreen at once, I never experienced slowdown.

Backgrounds are static images, but they rotate to give the illusion of depth.

Happily, both the Kamen and their rider enemies are quite different.

Although a few pallette swaps are present, for the most part they are quite distinct

(you will end up fighting way too many “Red Minions,” though). The sound, however, is noticeably obnoxious.

The same faux-metal tune plays throughout most of the game, and your character’s phrases are terrible.