Preview: Fighting is Magic

By: Derek Yu

On: July 25th, 2012

My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic is a fighting fan game that’s currently under development. Created using 2d Fighter Maker 2002, MLP:FIM will eventually feature 17 ponies from the popular animated show. Each character has its own unique movelist that includes launchers and special magic attacks. The developers have said the game, which uses four buttons, most closely resembles Marvel vs. Capcom in design.

No release date for the game has been set, nor is any demo currently available. However, you can watch a two-hour stream after the cut (taken from this year’s Evolution fighting game tournament):

  • Sidney Ahlin

    In the same way that videogame fans fuck cartridges and Star Trek fans fuck Klingons?

    Also, people are disgusted by a lot of things. I don’t personally see any point in giving a shit about what people fap too, it’s their choice. I dunno why people like you have such dire need to whine and care so much about what people masturbate too?

    Are you some sort of sexual deviant?

  • gayangryfurrycriesatme

    that’s a lot of words, who is angry again

  • TrueMyHeart

    Well, the FAQ at their website says that ”
    Fighting is Magic contains old-school cartoon slapstick, but doesn’t go any further than that. You won’t see any kind of gore, blood, or “realistic” violence in the game.” So, they’ll just beat each other up like they would in the show.

  • Eeeyup

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uLTl0y5YM
    Well, we all know Fluttershy is ready for this!

  • yresyrteh

    fuck man i know but you can geet all sorts of cool hentai games a zone-archive(dot)com

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003632701783 Martin Leykauf

    Buck yes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003632701783 Martin Leykauf

    Whats up with all the butthurt here?

  • JoseG

    This game looks awesome, I can’t wait until it is released.

  • Shattubatu

    I heard that this Cease and Desists for the episodes on youtube were actually done by “anti-bronies” trying to troll by imitating Hasbro and getting the episodes removed.

  • SomeGamer

    Not a brony, but I just love how the “hater’s” arguments below are “HURR IF YOU LIKE THIS SHOW UR A FURRY/STUPID/CHILD AND YOU FUCK PONIES HURR DURR”.
    I don’t think i’ve seen such a circlejerk with “insults” in all my life. You’re more retarded than you claim bronies to be.
    That being said, I don’t think i’ve seen a fan made game that looks this polished. Well done developers!

  • ThemsAllTook

    @Shattubatu: There was a lot of confusion about that. At this point, at least some of the takedown notices are known to have originated from Hasbro. From what I could tell, the pattern was that they’d usually issue takedown notices for reuploaded iTunes rips, but would leave the ones with the Hub watermark alone.

  • SomeoneWithHalfABrain

    Let’s see here…
    A- You never watched it and are assuming it’s bad, therefore argument invalid.
    B- You HAVE watched it and qualify as stupid or a little kid.
    The flaws in your post. There are many.

  • niarBAflaHhtiWenoemoS

    No no no. You see, there’s a difference between bronies and furries. The main difference is that bronies aren’t stupid while furries are. Oh, and the furries are almost entirely centered around porn.

  • PonyFuckerExtraordinaire

    We bronies have a nasty habit of fucking every pony we see. Some even go out of their way to find ponies to fuck. I have a cousin out in Tennessee who owns a large horse ranch, and he invites me to come fuck his ponies for him. After spending so much time fucking ponies, I began growing a horn, which I used to fuck more ponies. Through concentration and focused study (and more pony fucking) I eventually mastered the ancient magic of teleportation, so I immediately sent myself to Equestria, where I continued my rabid pony fucking rampage. Then Celestia came and…
    Well, long story short, I’m not allowed in Equestria anymore.
    And I think a green pony with a hand fetish followed me to our dimension. Whoops. My bad.

  • Sidney Ahlin

    If you truly believe that the amount of words measures the anger of a person… Well, I would probably be somewhat concerned about your intellectual capabilities if that were the case.

    I just pray you don’t actually get into a live debate on TV, it would be rather embarrassing to see a grown man shout “YOU MAD?” whenever someone calmly explains something or tries to make a point.

  • Nimh

    I´m not into fighting games a lot, but I´m already really curious about this; these people put a lot of hard work and passion into it and want it to be perfect. Ponies or no ponies, I´m going to give this a try for sure.

  • ThemsAllTook

    I know you’re joking, but that’s not entirely inaccurate.

  • SpikeyWikey

    The kind of thread of which I dreamed since I was small.

  • http://twitter.com/keiyakins Keiya

    Everybody will gather ’round, say I look faggy and have downs

    (I’m making fun of the repetitive insults while warping the lyrics to a song from the show on which Fighting is Magic is based. Don’t mind me. :P)

  • angryfurrycriesamillionwords

    it’s embarrassing you have to type books about pony fucking

  • News

    SomeFurfag pony wanker

  • News

    drank the flava-AIDS

  • News

    bawling butthurt bambino

  • News

    hoof smashed crotch

  • News

    explains his jokes

  • News

    IMAX-tier projection

  • Spider Dijon

    Ponies = worst funny trend ever. Looking forward to 2013 when the net got over it.

  • Monsty

    So salty this one.

  • News

    grown man cartoons

  • linger

    Insecure hipsters, everywhere.

  • Space

    I see your downs syndrome is doing well today. Did mommy say you could use the computer?

  • NailBombed

    Pray for the day when everyone grows out of this crap. It’s a plague.

  • Lyn Prayre

    I swear, these haters…

  • Sidney Ahlin

    I doubt you even read books. Though I suppose you’re getting desperate as you know you really can’t counter my argument due to the simple fact that the current topic of this discussion is an objective one.

    Search your feelings, you know it to be true, don’t let your anger and hate blind you.

  • http://profiles.google.com/johnwh John Harris

    I don’t think this is quite how copyright law works. Trademarks have to be defended or else they get diluted, but it is actually hard to lose copyright unless you willfully sign it away, declare it public domain or you create it as a “work for hire.”

    However, it is also a mistake to think that Hasbro is a single entity with a single mind. There are probably multiple people in the company who have the power to initiate takedowns.

    In any event, there are many fan games and this is the one with the most positive buzz. Hasbro would face a severe fan backlash if they went after it.

    I’m on the edges of the pony fandom myself, and I think the most interesting thing about all this is how fan culture is running directly up against corporate culture. I think important questions are going to be answered soon about what “rights” fans can expect regarding their participation in using elements of a copyrighted work, and if it informs a lot of bronies about the nature of copyright and gives them an incentive to change the system for the better, then Hail Celestia.

  • Anonymous

    can’t find anything better to do on the internet than complain about people’s interests

  • News

    meta complaining girlchild

  • Anonymous

    neckbearded bigot with a bad attitude

  • Diode

    I’m not a fan of the series in the slightest, but I must say this looks really, really well done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen

    I’m sick to death of hearing about ponies from this side to 4chan. So whatever, have fun I guess.

  • Maxim

    Now uh, I’m not into 1-on-1 fighters or ponies, but you can’t really argue against this being front page material! It is pretty impressive design.

    Same with the discussion, bronies and anti-bronies alike. Thanks for the laughs, guys! Now I think I’m gonna go watch one of those Three Stooges episodes that ends in a pie fight.

  • Renaud B.

    those combos wouldn’t be out of place in a Blazblue/GG game

  • Faust kicks ass

    And why would we care what *you’re* sick to death about?

  • Sammy

    Who else thinks this game is better than FEZ?

  • Burger Man

    I do. Fez is just a boring game with a gimmick.. kind of like Braid. In short, FEZ just.. sucks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen

    I don’t know; why are haters going all over this article? Why are bronies doing their best to defend the series? Why the hell are you even bothering replying to me when there’s much better troll bait just a scroll away.

  • Anonymous

    It also came from YouTube’s automatic take-down system. If there are enough copyright infringement reports on a video, it is automatically taken off the listing and can’t be viewed by anyone but the uploader.

  • News

    mere half brain

  • News

    BHAT PHONG TIANG

  • Maxim

    Shooting Fish in a barrel stopped being fun long ago. That Fish has already been hung out to dry.