DreamMix TV World Fighters

DreamMix TV World Fighters
GameCube cover art
Developer(s)	Bitstep[1]
Publisher(s)	Konami Takara Hudson
Engine	RenderWare
Platform(s)	GameCube, PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	^JP December 18, 2003
Genre(s)	Versus fighting game
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer

DreamMix TV World Fighters (Japanese: ドリームミックスTV ワールドファイターズ Hepburn: Dorīmumikkusu Tībī Wārudo Faitāzu) is a crossover fighting video game developed by Bitstep and published by Konami, Takara and Hudson for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in Japan on December 18, 2003. The game crosses over characters from Hudson and Konami's video game series and Takara's toy lines.

Story

A fledgling television program has been suffering from poor audience approval, and the station that carries the show has informed its producers that they will have to rectify the situation or face inevitable cancellation.

An unorthodox plan is implemented: broadcast a contest pitting various superstars from differing realities in physical combat in order to increase ratings.

Gameplay

The game sees up to four players controlling fighters from various franchises. The game revolves damaging opponents and taking their life in the form of heart shaped coins. A meter at the bottom indicates how much life characters have remaining. If a player loses all of their hearts, they will enter the Super Pinch state in which they shrink in size and their soul will fly around the stage. If another character retrieves their soul before the player can, the player is knocked out though can still walk around the stage in shrunken form to interfere with the remaining fighters. The last fighter standing at the end of the round wins. The two main modes of play are World Fighters, a single player campaign, and Character Soul Survival, a multiplayer battle. There are also minigames available.

Playable characters

Up to four players can choose from seventeen playable characters, each with their own themed backdrop, from video game and toy series such as Konami's Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Gradius; Hudson Soft's Bomberman, Adventure Island, and Bloody Roar; or Takara's Transformers, Beyblade, and Micronauts.

Characters	Origin	Voice actor
Simon Belmont	Castlevania	Hideo Ishikawa
TwinBee	TwinBee	Mayumi Tanaka
Power Pro-kun	Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū	Naoki Kawaji
Solid Snake^a	Metal Gear	Akio Ōtsuka
Moai^a	Gradius	Yasunori Masutani
Bomberman	Bomberman	Tomoko Kaneda
Takahashi Meijin (aka Master Higgins)	Adventure Island	Tokiyuki Takahashi
Yūgo Ōgami	Bloody Roar	Hideo Ishikawa
Momotarō	Momotaro Densetsu	Rika Komatsu
Manjimaru Sengoku^a	Tengai Makyō	Kazue Ikura
Binbōgami^a	Momotaro Dentetsu	Yasuhiro Takato
Convoy (aka Optimus Prime)	Transformers	Tesshō Genda
Takao Kinomiya (aka Tyson Granger)	Beyblade	Motoko Kumai
Microman	Micronauts	Kenji Nojima
Licca Kayama	Licca-chan	Miwa Matsumoto
Aska^a	COOL GIRL	Yumi Tōma
Megatron^a	Transformers	Seizō Katō

^a Hidden character

Additional information

• One of the hidden backgrounds is based on Treena's Tree House from the Treena & Her Forest Friends ("Koeda-chan" in Japan) toyline, and can be obtained by completing story mode with Megatron.
• Devastator (the combined form of the six Constructicons) stands motionless in the center of the Transformer-themed environment; his chestplate can act as a platform during battle.
• Mujoe (known as "Mister Meanie" in the U.S. manual for Saturn Bomberman) appears in this game as a co-host and the final boss. In addition, several bandits from the Hige-Hige Gang cameo in the cut-scene before the last fight as his support crew.
• Haruna, an overzealous female NPC that acted as one of the game's two emcees, made her debut in DreamMix TV World Fighters.

References

1. Bitstep - works (Japanese)

External links

• IGN profile for GameCube version
• Release information for PlayStation 2 version from GameFAQs
• Crunk Games review