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The Gods' Wrath Will Befall Us
— Official tagline

Heirs to the Wrath is an upcoming 3D fighting video game.

The game is set to be released for Arcades in December 2019 and later for Nintendo Swith on 2020. By the ESRB rating standards, the game will be rated M for blood, violence and partial nudity.

The game's story focuses on a group of fighters, who have the power to transform into a mythological deity, and their battle for saving the world from ancient gods who want the purification of humanity.

TABLE OF CONTENT please expand to see all the page contents
PLOT
STORY MODE

Chapter 1		Chapter 2
ROSTER
PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
Primordial Program	Eight Seal	Independents
Alec	Caleb	Darren
Amina	JiaJun	Elek-Trode
Lou	Johona	Ezequiel
Saeko	Qingyun	Janka
Zoya		Soledad
		Wei
		Yamatoni
NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
Sophia		Orion
GAMEPLAY
MAIN MODES
Story	Arcade	Versus
Ascension	Practice	Galleries
Option		Online
STAGES
SOUNDTRACK
ARTWORKS
TRIVIA
DEVELOPMENT
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Synopsis

Context

Nature is in agony, the flora is losing its colors and the agriculture never been so low. The media calls it the Wilting and it's a slow end for the world.

Many people feel that the gods themselves backfire on humanity, they are right. Ancient gods from various mythologies decided to punish humanity and to slowly erase them with the ambition to purify the world.

Luckily, not all the gods want the end of the human race, some deities choose to fight against the Wilting but their only chance it's to act in the human world itself. It's why they reincarnate into humans, losing their memory but not their powers. Since the start of the Wilting, thirty years ago, we are starting to see simple boys and girls with the capacity to transform themselves into a god-like form, a Deity, we call them the Heirs. They have enhanced physical abilities in addition to their divine powers, making them the perfect fighters. They will fight against the other gods' armies whether they are spirits, demons or even humans.

The majority of the Heirs, as a distant descendant to a devoted believers like an oracle, a shaman, a priest or even a king, are chosen by their Deity and born with their power. If not, others were given their power as the Heirs can give their Deity to someone else but only right before dying.

Not only the Heirs are in the front of the line in this fight for the humanity, multiple governments ally their force and formed the Primordial Program. The Primordial Program is an intergovernmental operation with the aim of unifying the Heirs, finding them around the world, and stopping the Wilting. They assemble the Heirs in their headquarter in Tokyo where they learn to fight and use their power.

Unfortunately, on the other side, there is The Eighth Seal. A sinister cult composed of powerful people waiting for the divine purification of what they call a "corrupted world". They are the allies of the Wilting. Their aim varies between the members, if some of them want to help the Ancient Gods to gain their favor, other wants to become one of them. As the Primordial Program, they seek for the Heirs but manipulate them to become their weapons. There are the first enemy of the Primordial Program, the Ancient gods' servants. As an occult organization, The Eighth Seal performs devastating rituals from various ancient religions. They learned to manipulate the power of the Heirs and how to transfer a Deity to a Heirs from another person.

Enter the age of the divine resurgence where the future of humanity
depends on fights with mythological proportions!

Roster

Heirs to the Wrath features a roster of 16 playable characters that could be selected by the player. Each character has their own Deity transformation, moveset, personality and they are all part of the game story. A fighter, or an Heir, is a human with the ability to transform himself into a deity form giving him divine power in relation with his transformation. For example, as the Heir of Helios, Titan of the sun, Alec uses his power from the sun and can fight with a fire whip.

Depending on their story, a fighter is, sometimes, related whether to The Primordial Program, an intergovernmental operation fighting against the Wilting or to The Eighth Seal, a secret cult fighting for the Wilting.

Playable characters

ZOYA	SAEKO	ALEC	QINGYUN	CALEB	YAMATONI
	AMINA	LOU	JOHONA	JANKA
ELEK-TRODE	WEI	SOLEDAD	EZEQUIEL	JIAJUN	DARREN

The Primordial Program

The Primordial Program is an intergovernmental operation with the aim of unifying the Heirs, finding them around the world, and stopping the Wilting.

Alec

Age: 20 years-old
Nationality: Greek
Deity form: Apollo (God of the Sun - Greek Mythology)
Alternative form: Helios (Titan of the Sun - Greek Mythology)
Fighting style: Kick-boxing

Alec is the game main protagonist. Despite being a very aggressive, impulsive and short-tempered man, Alec has also heroic tendencies and is caring to stop any injustice. He has a playful way to fight but can quickly lose his temper.

Alec is a student who was informed one day that his mother, Sophia, worked with a secret intergovernmental organization: The Primordial Program before dying in a mysterious accident. Hard set on finding out the truth, he set off on a journey to seek out his mother’s whereabouts as well as those of Yamatoni, the sole survivor of the accident where his father lost his life. During this very journey, Alec found out that his mother had been captured by the Eighth Seal who wanted him, her son.

In his hostility towards the Eighth Seal, he accepted to Zoya to join the Primordial Program.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

ALTERNATIVE DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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Alec has no particular strength or weakness in his stat, he is a balanced fighter. As a Kick-boxer, he uses simple and fast techniques with a large variety of punches, kicks and knee kicks.

In his Deity form, Apollo, Alec invokes the power of the sun, his deity attacks are mostly punch with incandescent fist. He gains Power and Speed making him more offensive.

In his Alternative from, Helios, Alec keeps the power of the sun but he is, also, equipped of a flame whip which helps him to gain in range.

With his offensive ability to give damage even against the opponent's guard, Alec can be tricky to defend against.

ABILITY: Alec still make (minimal) damage when his hits are blocked.

ALTERNATIVE DEITY: Alec transforms himself in Helios when he's using the Titan transformation.

WRATH MOVES

THE LAST SUN
Alec charmed his opponent with an incandescent stares, he then catch him by the throat and repeatedly smashes the opponent in his face before a last solar punch.

ARTEMIS' DUSK
Alec invokes the Moon goddess Artemis who pieces with a lunar arrow the opponent.

ALTERNATIVE WRATH MOVE

CHARIOT OF THE DAWN
Alec embarks in a chariot conducted by two fire horses, runs at his opponent, catches him with his fire whip, flies with the chariot before throws the opponent on the ground and finally tramples him.

Amina

Age: 22 years-old
Nationality: Cameroonian
Deity form: Oya (Goddess of the Tempest - Yoruba)
Fighting style: Capoeira

Amina is a gentle and caring woman. Despite being still young, she has strong ambitions and hope to, one day, have her part in the establishment of a better world.

Amina is a Heirs who choose to work as a nurse for the Primordial Program instead of being in the Operative Division. Helped by the Research Division of the Primordial Program, she wants to find the best treatments for the particularity of the Heirs, like helping them to control unstable powers or heal them when they are hit by other Heirs. She wants to find a scientific way through the surrealist world of the Deities.

One night, she found a really deranged Heirs, Darren, she tried to help him but he was quickly taken by her superior, JiaJun. Since that day, she started to have suspicion about the true activities of her organization.

GAMEPLAY

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Amina is a fighter good on speed but weakened by her low health and range. As a Caopeira practitioner she uses complex and acrobatic techniques with a large variety of kicks and spins.

In her Deity form, she invokes the power of the wind and is now armed with a machete and a flywhisk, her attacks increase surprisingly in range, compensating her first weakness, as each of her move are accompanied by a gust of wind.

Despite her low health, her ability helps her to make damage on his opponent even in guard mode, giving her efficient defensive strategy.

ABILITY: When Amina is in Guard Mode, she summons a tornado around her which can hurt the opponent.

WRATH MOVES

NINE RIVERS
Amina invokes an onslaught of rain and thunder which turns in nine electrified waterspout targeting the opponent.

EPAHHEY, OIA!
Amina summons spirits of deads to capture her opponent before give him multiple hits

Lou

Age: 15 years-old
Nationality: Luxembourger
Deity form: Cernunnos (God of animals - Celtic polytheism)
Fighting style: Random

Lou was living a carefree life before her parents rejected her when they discovered her power. At a young age, she was taken by the Primordial Program where she met Sophia who becomes a second mother for her, and the only person that she could trust after the betray of her own parents.

As her powers give her the ability to control the animals and read their minds, she quickly becomes one of the most useful Heirs for the Primordial Program when they need secret information.

Her naivety and childish nature makes her easy to manipulate and it's why the Eighth Seal secretly approaches her and are slowly guiding her to their plan.

GAMEPLAY

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Lou is relatively weak in her Human form comparatively to other fighters particularly in Power as her hits gives little damage. Her unique fighting style is intended to be random, childish and overexcited.

Fortunately, she really gains her strengths in her Deity form, Cernunnos, where all her stats increases. As Cernunnos, Lou summons multiples animals into the fight, she can use rabbits as projectiles, birds as shield and can even be helped by much bigger animals like deer, wolves and even bears.

ABILITY: Lou can launch animal projectiles from behind the opponent's back even if he is in front of her.

WRATH MOVES

LUCKY COINS
Lou seats cross-legged and a gigantic purse filled with coin appears. She, then, launches the coin into the opponent. The effect of this Wrath move are random, it can do few damages or being particularly devastating, also there's a chance that Lou regains Health or doesn't even come back to her Human form once the Wrath move finished.

HORNS & TORCS
Lou takes off a torcs from one of her horns and launches it to the opponent. Through its path, the torcs will increases its size until being able to ties up the opponent. Lou will come back to her Human form but will be able to attack the fighter during a certain amount of time with him being able to protect himself (he can only move around)

Saeko

Age: 19 years-old
Nationality: Japanese
Deity form: Izanami (Goddess of the creation - Shinto)
Alternative form: Izanami (Goddess of the death - Shinto)
Fighting style: American Kenpo

Saeko is a young woman with a joyful but introverted personality, once she used to someone she becomes less reserved and brings an always positive attitude. She is an overthinking woman which it's why she easily worried.

She is part of the Primordial Program. Despite her worried and submissive nature, she wants to help the world against the Wilting. Four years ago, Saeko's village was, under the attack of an Ancient God, she was saved by Wei but at the price to be the sole survivor. Horrified but determined to never let something like that happens again she asked Wei to teach her his martial arts, Wei accepted and brought her in a forest where he lived as a hermit.

When she felt ready, she decided to quit her isolation with Wei and to come back to Tokyo where she could join the Primordial Program.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

ALTERNATIVE DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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SPEED

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Saeko has good Power and Speed making her an good offensive fighter. As a Kenpo practitioner, she uses quick strikes from all her body (kick, punch, elbow, knee) with rapid stance transitions.

In her Deity form, Izanami (Creation), is armed with a broken naginata, she becomes faster and has more Health and even stronger Speed.

In her Alternative from, Izanami (Death), which is a much darker and violent version of her standard Deity form as she invokes the power of the dead. Saeko changes her posture to be more creature-like, she doesn't have a spear, this time, but long nails looking like stakes which increases her Power.

Despite her low Health, Saeko has a faster regeneration, which can help if the player chooses some retreats to help her to regain her life.

ABILITY: Saeko has a faster regeneration of her Health as Izanami

ALTERNATIVE DEITY: Saeko transforms herself in Izanami (Death) when she uses the Deity transformation after fulling her Deity gauge with the Mercy system

WRATH MOVES

PILLARS OF HEAVEN
Saeko attacks her opponent with multiple punches, each punch is accompanied by a marble pillar appearing from out of the scene and smashing the opponent.

HEAVENLY JEWELLED SPEAR
Saeko's broken naginata is repairing by itself, Saeko rises her weapons and dances with it. The ground surrounding the fight starts to deform itself and to attack the opponent

ALTERNATIVE WRATH MOVE

SHADOWLY LAND OF THE DEATH
The fight is plunged into the dark, we can still see the silhouettes. Saeko screams and attack violently the opponent, there is sometimes burst of light when we could see Saeko savagely hits her opponent with a horrific expression.

Zoya

Age: 21 years-old
Nationality: Ukrainian
Deity form: Gabriel (Archangel - Abrahamic religions)
Alternative form: Lucifer (Fallen Angel - Abrahamic religions)
Fighting style: Systema

She can be stubborn at times and she always wants to dive into danger while ignoring the warnings of others. Her attitude is generally straightforward and she doesn't let anyone talk her down. Underneath the tough exterior there is a soft feminine side, though she doesn't always like to show that part of herself.

She has an unstable power as being the reincarnation of two opposite entities. Becoming uncontrollable, her family gave her to the Primordial Program. With her young age, she saw a new paternal figure into her chief, Yamatoni. One day, he and other Heirs never returns from a failed mission. Being rejected from this mission by Yamatoni, she became the sole Heir in the Primordial Project with Amina and JiaJun.

Since then, Zoya became in charge of training and leading the new Heirs into the fight against the Wilting thanks to the demanding training she received from her past mentor. She later learned that he had survived but also contributed to the fail of the mission, he was a betrayer. Since then she swears to destroy him.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

ALTERNATIVE DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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SPEED

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Zoya is a balanced fighter with no advantage in particular but weak Speed. As a Systema practitioner, she uses mostly punch and elbow strikes but also a large variety of pressuring grappling.

In her Deity form, Gabriel, Zoya invokes the power of light. She gains wings and a sword which helping her a lot with her mobility (Speed) giving her the ability to double jump and to do impressive back dashing.

The same thing happens with her second form, Lucifer, despite that Zoya gains in Power, making her a more offensive fighter. She uses more intimidating moves as she invokes, this time, the power of evil.

ABILITY: With her wings, Zoya can execute double jump and double back dashing.

ALTERNATIVE DEITY: Zoya transforms herself in Lucifer if she did enough counter attack before using the Deity transformation

WRATH MOVES

BAPTISM
Zoya throws herself on the opponent and sticks him to the ground before grabs his head and sucks is life in multiples light effects.

RAPTURE
Zoya transforms herself into a fiery six-winged beings, the Seraphim, with two wings they cover her face, with another two they cover her feet. She, then, gains maximum stats. This form lasts until she miss a hit or a combo.

ALTERNATIVE WRATH MOVE

MORNING STAR
The room is obscured, you can see black goats hiding in the corners, Lucifer advances towards his opponent saying strange words with an intimidating but joyful look. The opponent starts to float and then smashes repeatedly the ground.

The Eighth Seal

The Eighth Seal is a sinister cult composed of powerful people performing devastating rituals for the Ancient gods. As their rival, The Primordial Program, they seek for the Heirs but manipulate them to become their weapons.

Caleb

Age: 18 years-old
Nationality: Canadian
Deity form: Amaguq (Wolf-god - Inuit mythology)
Fighting style: Jujutsu

Caleb is a kind young man, though rather naive, he often finds himself manipulated by Qingyun, whom he considered as a mother. He can appear at times violent, but only doing so out of love of his "mother". Because of his upbringing by Qingyun, he always acts professional and maintains well-bred social behaviors. He has respect for the abilities of his opponents, albeit not always agreeing with their methods, and maintains a sense of honor and a code of ethics when battling them.

Caleb was adopted by Qingyun and brings to Japan to be a subject to the Eighth Seal. Since his first year, he was trained to be determined, efficient and fast. He learns during all the children about the horror of mankind and what the Ancient God is right with the Wilting. Despite having a tender nature, once the combat starts he becomes a machine and no feeling can't change his mind.

GAMEPLAY

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Caleb is a balanced fighter despite his relatively low Health. As a practitioner of Jujutsu, Caleb is efficient with counter attacks with a large variety of pins, joint locks and throws.

As a wolf Deity, Caleb becomes a werewolf in his Deity form gaining claws and fangs, he's fast and powerful. As he invokes the power of ice and snow, he gains various moves related to the snow as he can use ice punch or throw blizzards.

His ability give him strong advantage when the fight is moved near of a wall. Caleb can jump on walls and tackles is opponent, his damage are also stronger during wall combos (when the opponent takes hit by being throw against a wall in the same time as being subject to a combo)

ABILITY: Caleb can easily do powerful wall attacks and wall combos

WRATH MOVES

BLOOD AND BONES
Caleb jumps on his opponent and savagely bites and scratches him, drawing blood.

WINTER SOUL
The arena takes blue tones and the opponent exhales mist. Suddenly, Caleb pegs his claws in his opponent's heart and emerges with his soul, the opponent collapses before regaining his soul and emerges.

JiaJun

Age: 23 years-old
Nationality: Singaporean
Deity form: Anito (Ancestor spirit - precolonial Philippines)
Fighting style: Nan Pai Tanglang

JiaJun is a member of The Eighthh Seal who stole the power of a Filipino Heir. He is a highly unstable individual, he frequently breaks the fourth wall and displays multiple potential mental disorders, including, but not limited to: attention deficit hyperactive disorder, manic depressive disorder.

Despite not being taken seriously by the rest of the Eighth Seal council, JiaJun has a unlimited knowledge about the occult arts and the science. His dream it's to have an army of Heirs and test them to their limit. He sees the Heirs as irregularities who needs to be dissected, despite being, now, one of them.

GAMEPLAY

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SPEED

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JiaJun takes advantage with his Health and Speed which compensating his low Power and Range. As a Nan Pai Tanglandpractitioner, his moves place a heavy emphasis on close-range fighting with mostly hand and arm strikes and grappling but with a limited use of low kicks. Due to his messy personality, JiaJun can have the most random and ridiculous moves to distract his opponent.

In his Deity form, an Anito, JiaJun transforms himself into a statue-like creature made of stone, his limbs become extensible providing him incredible range making his most punishing weakness into his biggest advantage.

With his ability, JiaJun can cancel any of his ongoing combo to detract his opponent's anticipation and to chain with another combo.

ABILITY: JiaJun can cancel any of his combos

WRATH MOVES

PAGDIWATA
JiaJun practices a ritual invoking multiple Anito, suddenly a carabao appears and JiaJun slashes its throat throwing a gush of blood on his opponent.

MANANGGAL
JaiJun severs its upper torso and sprouts huge bat-like wings to fly into the opponent and drinks his blood. As he makes damage to his opponent, JiaJun gains health.

Johona

Age: 26 years-old
Nationality: American ( Navajo)
Deity form: Ahsonnutli (Goddess of Creation - Navajo)
Fighting style: Taekwondo

Johona, her real name Atsidi, is a biological man who defines herself as a woman. She is a hot-blooded, psychotic assassin working for the high members of the Eighthh Seal. She only joined this secret cult for being able to kill and not face any consequence.

Recently, she becomes the bodyguard of the most promising Eighth Seal weapon,the young Caleb, but she is also undercover to keep an eye on Qingyun and her jeopardizing secret ambitions.

GAMEPLAY

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Johona is an useful fighter for a rush down strategy as she has strong Speed and Range but low Health and Power. As a practitioner of Taekwondo, she puts emphasis on head-hEighth kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques.

In her Deity Form, Ahsonnutli, Johona gains in health and speed. As she invokes the power of universe, she has stellar moves with the faculty to be, in the same time, a high, mid and low attack.

ABILITY: Johona can perform until 16 moves combos in her Deity form.

WRATH MOVES

NIGHT CHANT
A dark night falls on the arena, the opponent is then attacked by two coyotes as Johona admires fiercely the scene.

THE FOUR JARS
Four jars appears and empty their contents on the opponent, a black, a yellow, a white and a blue clouds, as the opponent aspires the clouds, he falls suffocated and then screams in pain for, violently, expire the clouds.

Qingyun

Age: Unknown (supposedly) 32 years-old
Nationality: Unknown (supposedly Chinese)
Deity form: Kali (Goddess of Time and Power - Hinduism)
Fighting style: Muay Thai

Qingyun is the game main antagonist. She is a cold and vain woman who sees herself as the ultimate Heir. She's convinced by the Heir superiority and by the submission of the humans.

Qingyun is presented as a Chinese woman, "presented" because she was, in fact, created by JiaJun under the order of the Eighth Seal. Qingyun doesn't know her true nature as JiaJun gave her false memory. She is still in deny, despite that she's always wearing glove on her hands and hiding her forearms because her skin is turning into blue and her upper limbs are splitting themselves in two. As an artificial Heirs like Darren, her Deity form is hardly stable.

She maybe works for the Eighth Seal, as one of their most influential member, but she has her own agenda, Qingyun secretly draws a plan to put the humans under the supremacy of the Heirs.

GAMEPLAY

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Quingyun has a powerful human form compared to other fighter giving her advantage from the start of the match. As a practitioner of Muay Thai, she privileges the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, and shins with an emphasis on rotating hip movements with almost every hits.

In the other hand, she gains less stat after she transforms herself. In her Deity form, Kali, Quingyun gains another pairs of arms and four scimitars.

ABILITY: In her Deity form, Qingyun gains multiples range (low, mid and high in the same time) attack.

WRATH MOVES

DEMON SLAYER
Quingyun dances around her opponent slashing him multiple times with her swords.

ACT OF DOMINATION
Quingyun catches her opponents with a serpent and then smashes him to ground. As her opponent lays on his back, Quingyun steps on his torso and then repeatedly kicks it.

Independents

Some fighter has their own agenda. They could just want to have a normal life despite their power, working alone to their own mission or even going back and forth between the Primordial Program and the Eighth Seal.

Darren

Age: 33 years-old
Nationality: Australian
Deity form: Mamaragan (God of Thunder - Australian Aboriginal mythology)
Fighting style: Pankration

Darren lost his humanity, he is now reduced to a resentful creature that is forced to live in the misery of his condition. He is violent, can't be tamed and restless.

Darren was zealous member of the Eighth Seal. He believed the Eighth Seal would contribute to saving the earth and the humanity. Though, when Darren discovered the horror of the Wilting, he choose to expose them but was quickly taken by JiaJun who made brutal magical experiments on him. The rituals converted Darren into the first synthetic Heirs who never existed. Because of how unstable the experiment was, Darren is always in a transitional form between his human and Deity form.

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Darren begins with a transitional form between his former human form and his Deity form. He has incredible Power but low Speed. As a pankratiast,Darren has a variety of locking, chocking and throw techniques.

When he is fully transformed, he gains stone axes fixed on his head, elbows and knees which gave him a more violent moveset. In his Deity form, Mamaragan, Darren invokes the power of lighting. He also gains more Speed to compensate his previous weakness.

ABILITY: Darren lasts longer in his Titan form.

WRATH MOVES

LIGHTING MAN
Darren intimidates his opponent by hissing and, then, strikes him with multiple fiery lighting spears.

RAINBOW SEASON
Almudj, the Rainbow Serpent, flies over the fight and trigger heavy rains. During 20 seconds, all Darren's thunder attacks becomes and guard breaking and are more efficient in power and range. After the delay, he comes back to his "human" form.

Elek-trode

Age: 20 years-old
Nationality: French
Deity form: Sekhmet (Lioness Goddess - Egyptian Mythology)
Fighting style: Inspired by Pop dance moves

Elek-trode is a DJ but, before that she is a dreamer, she wants to be known for her music and her shows. She has an extroverted personality and don't take anything seriously. Being the daughter of a French minister has been forcing her to keep low profile in her career causing her to never reveal her identity or even her face during a show.

When Elek-trode, real name Romane choose to become a DJ, she run away from her well-off life to Tokyo but, that's not the only reason why she moved on, she also wanted to avoid the press because of her fear to be revealed as a supernatural being. She's just starting to have a name in the night community in Japan, what's despite being her dream make her nervous, that's why she's buying the service of Janka, who keeps her aware of what the others know about her.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

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POWER

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SPEED

RANGE

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At first, Elek-trode is a relatively weak fighter as her Human and Deity form don't have remarkable stats but her ability gives her a great advantage as she can have maximum stats in Power and Speed if she stays in her Deity (or Titan) form long enough but she will still be weak in Health.

In her Deity form, Sekhmet, she gains the power of the sand and fight with a was-sceptre. Her fighting style borrows from pop star dance moves, chaining sensual moves emphasizing hip and abdominal movements but also frantic and rapid arm dances.

ABILITY: The more time Elek-trode stays in her Deity Form the more Power and Speed stats she's gaining.

WRATH MOVES

GODDESS OF HEALING
Priestesses appear. They pray and dance for Elek-trode. Elek-trode gains some life.

GODDESS OF THE BLOOD SUN
Elek-trode transforms herself in a wind of sand and appears near of the opponent for slashes him and throws him away. She, then, redoes it again two times with her last hit being the most brutal.

Ezequiel

Age: 24 years-old
Nationality: Argentinian
Deity form: Tau (Evil God - Guaraní mythology)
Fighting style: Pradal Serey

Ezequiel appears to be a vicious and calculating psychopath. He does not feel any empathy or regrets making him a very detached man.

Ezequiel, despite being a Heir, got a merciless hatred for his kind, in fact, Ezequiel is a cold assassin with the aim of eliminates all the Heirs, and then kills himself, to stop the Wilting. He is persuaded that they are the source of our perishing world.

After killing his own family, he attacked other Heirs through his way until being captured by The Eighth Seal and locked up, due to his dangerous and powerful nature, in a top-security cell. Since his imprisonment, he's quietly waiting for his moment.

GAMEPLAY

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Ezequiel has good Power stats from the start, as a practitioner of Pradal Serey, he has kicking techniques using mostly hip rotation and has a variety of clinch fighting techniques.

When he transforms into his Deity form, Tau, Ezequiel sees his Health stats decrease but his longs claws give him a better range in his attacks. His ability takes advantage of his clinch moves as he can absorb the Deity gauge of his opponent during a grappling technique, he can even make his opponent comes back to his Human Form if he succeeds to empty his Deity Gauge.

ABILITY: When he throws his opponent or executes a counter attack on him, Ezquiel absorbs the opponent's Deity Gauge.

WRATH MOVES

LUISON
Ezequiel attacks his opponent before grabbing him and launch him to a dog-like human, Luison, with pale and sickly looking skin and eyes. The dog, then, attacks the opponents biting him brutally.

MOÑÁI
An enormous serpent with two colorful antennas over his head, Moñái, catches the opponent with his fangs, before shaking his head and spitting out the opponent on the ground.

Janka

Age: 29 years-old
Nationality: Hungarian
Deity form: Su iyesi (Spirit of water - Tengrism)
Alternative form: Od iyesi (Spirit of fire - Tengrism)
Fighting style: Pencak Silat

Janka is an always confident and vicious woman, she is one of the best freelance secret ops spy in the world. Lot of characters will learn that they can't trust her. Her first motivation will always be the money and she will be exclusive to anyone or any organization placing her in a true neutral position.

Janka started her career as a courtesan but when she starting to get along with powerful men, she gained numerous high value information about the politic and business spheres that she could sell. Being agile and stealthy due to her Heir power, she soon became a spy and began to accumulate a global reputation.

In the fight between the Primordial Program and the Eighth Seal, Janka seems to have a lot of useful information for only who can offer her services.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

ALTERNATIVE DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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STATS (ALT.FORM)

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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Janka has a good Speed and Range, as a practitioner of Silat, she has, in her moveset, a variety of joint manipulation and chained movements.

In her standard and alternative Deity forms, Su iyesi and Od Iyesi, Janka gains a nearly intangible body, where she can practice move normally impossible for normal human. To take advantage of it, she can extend rapidly her body to dodge hit.

As Su iyesi, Janka invokes the power of water and as Od Iyesim the power of fire.

ABILITY: Janka has efficient reflex defence, side-steps and evasive moves which help her with a good mobility.

ALTERNATIVE DEITY: Janka can transforms herself in Od iyesi after she gets hit by a combo over 10 hits.

WRATH MOVES

SKY FATHER
A white goose flies over Janka and lands on her back giving her wings, Janka grabs the opponent fly with him and when she's high enough caresses her opponent's face and throws him to ground.

WATER SPIRIT
Janka moves seductively forwards her opponent. As she moves, water submerges the arena. Janka gently lies her opponent on the floor before, brutally, turns him over and makes him drowning in the water.

ALTERNATIVE WRATH MOVE

BLAZING SOUL
Janka disappears in flame, the opponents searches for her. She then appears behind him, he turns to her and he's hypnotized by her. Janka takes his hand and stares his opponent right in his eyes. His opponent begins to scream out his pain as he's being burnt by Janka.

Soledad

Age: 22 years-old
Nationality: Chilean
Deity form: Xōchipilli (God of Art - Aztec)
Fighting style: Snake Kung Fu

Due to her trauma, she assisted to a massacre and was left for dead, Soledad possesses a detached, cynical outlook on life. As a result, she turned into a determined, secretive and, sometimes, rude woman. It doesn't show much but, deep down, she is still a young woman passionate by all kind of arts.

Soledad wasn't born Heirs, when Ezequiel started his rampage in South America, Soledad, was one of her victim despite being human. Left for dead by the murderer, she was rescued in time but not without aftereffect. Soledad starts to become a Heirs, gained the power of a man that Ezequiel killed before attacking her, but the worst effect that she gains a emotional link with her aggressor and can feel his presence. She choose to use this effect for taking revenge but before comes to him she has to train herself. When she was ready, Ezequiel was abducted far away from her.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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Despite her low Power stats, Soledad has good Health, Speed and Range with her Speed and Range become stronger as she transforms herself. Using the Snake Kung Fu, Soledad fights striking her opponents mostly with her hands from angles they wouldn't expect with sinuous and fluid motion.

When Soledad becomes her Deity form, Xōchipilli, she uses the power of the flowers.

Soledad is the only fighter with an ability activated during her Human form as her Deity gauge fills up faster than other characters.

ABILITY: Soledad has a faster Deity gauge regeneration. She is the only character to have her ability activated during her Human form.

WRATH MOVES

SEVEN FLOWERS
Soledad continuously hit her opponent, each hit make appears flowers. At her last move, Soledad invokes a gust of flowers which elevates the opponent before dropping him on the ground.

TEMICXOH
Soledad dances graciously and charms the opponent who starts to dance with her. The dance becomes more and more vigorous and the opponent panics before breaking his body.

Wei

Age: 29 years-old
Nationality: Taiwanese
Deity form: Jade Emperor (High God - Chinese Mythology)
Fighting style: Shorinji Kempo

Good willed and well-spoken, he seeks whole-heartedly to repent for his past in the Eighth Seal. He concerns himself over other people's welfare and respects those around him.

Wei is the Heir of a powerful and authoritarian god, the Jade Emperor, who would deny Wei's own free will wanting him to be the leader of the war against the Wilting. With the fear to become his Deity's puppet, Wei started to use the martial arts to channel the power in him but with approximate success. As he travelled the world to know more about his power and the Deities, he was approached by a member of the Eighth Seal who promised him serenity and a better world.

Wei quickly discovers the real intention of the Eighth Seal and fight against them when they tried to annihilate a Japanese village. He saved the young Saeko but the rest of the village was destroyed. During four years, he took care of Saeko, teaching her, his knowledge and martial arts. When Saeko chose to live on her own in the city, Wei stayed in the mountains as a hermit.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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Wei has good Power and Health. As a Kenpo practitioner, he uses quick strikes from all his body (kick, punch, elbow, knee) with rapid stance transitions.

Wei, as his Deity form, the Jade Emperor, invokes the power of the sky using clouds and wind in his attacks. As the Jade Emperor, he also gains the ability to counter a throw attack, meaning that his counter can now interrupt basic attacks and throws.

ABILITY: Wei can counter his opponent's throw attack.

WRATH MOVES

THE FOUR DRAGONS
Wei chains four very powerful hit each accompanied with the apparition of a different dragon. By order: the Yelloe Dragon, the Long Dragon, the Black Dragon and, finally, the Pearl Dragon.

THE DAWN OF JADE OF THE GOLDEN DOOR
Wei invokes two double of him made of an orange light. The three Wei do elaborate combos on the opponent, throwing him between them or hit him all in the same time.

Yamatoni

Age: 43 years-old
Nationality: Japanese
Deity form: Odin (God of knowledge - Nordic Mythology)
Fighting style: Marine Corps Martial Arts Program

Though he appears menacing, Yamatoni is a kind man with great patience. He is a man whose words can bring joy and understanding to others, and he sets out to inspire others with confidence. He has strong determination and likes to be on the front lines when it comes to dealing with problems.

Before being the Director of the Primordial Program, Yamatoni was a courageous soldier, even a legend on the battlefields. During a mission, Yamatoni found a dying young man, he tried to help him until the man finally passed away but not without giving his power, since then Yamatoni became an Heir. With his new power, the Japanese government named him Director for their secret operation against the Ancient gods. One day, Yamatoni discovered the Eighth Seal, a cult working in favor of the Wilting, he launched a mission against them using the best soldiers of the Primordial Program, despite his military experience, the mission failed and he was the sole survivor of his battalion. Since, rumors are that he is now on the Eighth Seal side... For Zoya, his former protegee, Yamatoni is the man to shot down.

GAMEPLAY

HUMAN FORM

DEITY FORM

STATS

POWER

HEALTH

SPEED

RANGE

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Yamatoni starts as a balanced fighter. As a practitioner of the MCMAP, he has large variety of chokes, holds, and throws making him a good fighter in close quarter combat.

Becoming Odin with his Deity transformation Yamatoni gains Speed and Powers he also gains new combo to his throw attacks.

ABILITY: Yamatoni can perform long and unique throw combos.

WRATH MOVES

STAMPEDE
Yamatoni breathes into a gjallarhorn, suddenly an Eighth-legged horse appears and Yamatoni rides it, it is also accompanied by two ravens and two wolves. It then tramples the opponent.

ÆSIR
Two ravens bring to Yamatoni a gigantic spear with thunder around it. He, then, elevates the weapon and throws it towards his opponents.

Non-playable characters

Sophia

Sophia is Alec's departed mother. She was a scientific student when she gives birth to her unique son. When Alec begins to show his Heir's power, Sophia and her lover started to feel threatened and been overtaken by the situation. She, then, searched for help and came across The Primordial Program. She first entered in the program for her son but, soon, she became employed in the Research Division and, later, even became the Director of this division.

During her time in The Program, she finds herself attached to Lou, a very young Heirs who saw her as a mother figure.

One day, Yamatoni organized an operation against The Eighth Seal, she convinced them to accompanied the troop as a supervisor on the execution. The operation was a lethal failure as lot of the soldiers died in the confrontation against The Eighth Seal, only Yamatoni seemed to survive.

Since then, we have no clue of Sophia but there is a lot of reasons to believe that she was abducted by the enemies. This is why, five years later, her son Alec joined the Primordial Program with the aim of finding her or at least know what happens to her.

Orion

All the experiment successes of JiaJun come to one point: making Qingyun the most powerful being on Earth by giving her an artificial Deity.

Due to her luminescent Deity form, Qingyun calls herself Orion. In this superior Deity form, Qingyun has access to a larger and more dangerous moveset who makes her the ultimate fighter and a real challenge for the opponent. Her new Deity form is 3 meters-tall making her the tallest fighter in the game.

Gameplay

Heirs to the Wrath is like typical 3D fighting games, it plays with 7-buttons corresponding to moves including motion, attack, guard, throw or, as we see later, transformation. As most of the fighting game, Heirs to the Wrath focus on an attack/defense strategy where the players have to take advantages of his opponent's moves to gain a chance to attack or, inversely, to anticipate a disadvantaging situation and entering in a defensive strategy.

Inspired by the Bloody Roar series, the overall fighting system is based on the Deity Transformation where the player can transform his fighter into their powerful and more agile god-like form with an extended attack arsenal. In Deity form, the player can execute a Wrath Move, the strongest attack, before come back to his Human form.

The player can also enter in Titan form, more powerful than in Deity form, where he can perform Wrath Move without automatically comes back in Human mode. In this form, the Deity Gauge is flashing and gradually fade away over time, once it's empty, the fighter back to a Human form.

Basic Commands

- KICK

- PUNCH

- DEITY TRANSFORMATION (or Deity attack)

- GUARD (or Throw, or Counter)

or - SIDE-STEP (or Evasion)

- TITAN TRANSFORMATION

- CHARGING FAITH

Display

Your Life energy indicators are separated in three zones:

Green is your life energy. If there's no green area, your characters collapse and you lost the battle.
Red area shows you the damage taken by a hit.
Empty area shows you your lost life energy

The Life gauges will fully recovered in each round (except in Survival)

Below the players' Life Gauge, it's your Deity energy indicator, if the Gauge isn't empty you can transform into your Deity Form.

In Human Form: You can fill up your Deity Gauge by giving or taking hits.
In Deity Form: Taking hits will decrease your Deity energy
In Titan Form: Your Deity energy will slowly decrease until it's empty.

Basic Fight Mechanics

The overall fighting system is based on four offensive commands :

Punch / Kick : Basic attacks that are different while standing, jumping, running, crouching or near-lying and likewise change if certain directions are held or pressed in conjunction.

Deity attack : Basic attacks (Punch, Kick, Weapon, Simple Magic) but only available while in Deity Mode.

Throw + : Forward direction + Guard Button quickly. A grappling move who must be performed within close range of the opponent. The attack differs if you hold the opponent on his side, his back, while he's grounding, jumping, laying or against a wall. You also have Throw combo, with a special button combination to do in the start or the end of a throw move.

Charge attack: Hold on the last attack button pressed (, or ) for charging an attack and make a slow but strong move.

The overall fighting system is based on various defensive commands :

Defense Reflex: A high and middle light guard is constantly activated unless you make an attack. The character do an evasive or blocking move in function of the opponent high or mid attack, most of the time, shoulder and arm movements. Press Down for blocking low attack. As a light guard, the Defence Reflex are vulnerable to Guard Break Attack.

Guard : It can block various attacks, even Guard Breaks attacks, but it comes at the cost begin more vulnerable to Projection or Astonishment effect. As the Light Guard, you have to press Down to blocking low attack.

Sidestep or : There are two sidestep buttons (right/left), if you hold the button, the characters will start a side-stepping according to the direction you chose. If you push rapidly an sidestep button, the character will do a quick evasive move in the respective direction. While Ducking, your fighter will roll on the ground.

Counterattack + : (High/Mid/Low) Back direction + Guard Button quickly. In a short delay, the characters could counterattack a regular attack from the opponent, the result is a armlock/leglock or judo like attack. Depending on the attack, the player will have to direct his countering move in the opposite direction (for example, for counter a high attack put: Low Back Direction + Guard Button). Some fighters have a Great Counter that can counter any attack, but with low damages, without taking account of if it is a high, mid or low attack.

Air/Ground Control: It allows the character to recover after being launched into the air (Air control) or knocked down (Ground control) to escape or, even, to use a landing or rising attack. You can also recover from a knock down before falling by pressing just when the fighter is about to touch the ground, the fighter will, then, spring back up. In certain condition, this recovery move is unable, for example, when a character is knocked into a spiral falling animation.

Jump : The character make a jump, allows him to evade low attacks and executes a landing attack (Air control) or an aerial attack.

Dash: Pressing two times in forward or backward direction in quick succession will cause the fighter to dash a short distance (). It's also possible to backdashing () where you going backward or execute a crouching dash or crouching back dash when you dash crouching forward or backward. With a good timing, some characters can have a double backdashing. It's possible to hold the to make the character run.

Ducking : Two times in the down direction. Ducking allows the fighter to evade high and middle attack and to access to specific offensive and defensive moves. While ducking, there is no low guard.

Facing Backwards: While facing away from your opponent (with your back turned towards them), the fighter has unique offensive moves while turned around. He has no guard and he is more vulnerable to damage and astonishment effect however he is still capable of dodging incoming attacks.

Mockery + : The character will make a mockery against his opponent, this move lightly reduces the opponent's Deity gauge filling. Mockeries are unavailable in Tag Battle or Typhon modes as their inputs are being used to other mechanics.

Deity Mechanics

At the beginning of each stage, both players have a set amount of energy that is used to activate the Deity mode with , which causes the character to change into a Mythological God. Players may transform at any time as much as the Deity Gauge isn't empty (thunders will appear around the gauge). The player can activate Deity Transformation by pressing the Deity button.

In Deity mode, the "Deity Gauge" will decrease according to damage sustained by the character and does not recharge during the current round. If empty the fighter comes back as human when he is hit by an effective technique from the opponent.

When a fighter transforms, if his opponent is too near of him, the opponent will enter in Guard mode protecting himself against the violent wind surrounding the fighter during the transformation process. It's a good way to cancel an opponent's attack.

The player can use the Charging Faith by maintaining

, doing so the fighter sacrifices gradually some of his Life in exchange of fill up his Deity Gauge. This ability is not available if the Beast Gauge is complete. Be careful, you can loose a round by sacrificing all your Life on the Charging Faith.

Some fighters have an alternate Deity form and it's the player's actions that will decide whether or not the fighter will play as his standard or alternate Deity counterpart when he uses the Deity transformation.

The alternate form is more difficult to obtain than the standard. For example, the player could have to make a certain percentage of counterattack before using the Deity Transformation.

This form has mostly a similar moveset despite that the strength or the speed can drastically change. They have also an alternate version of their first Wrath Power and a new second Wrath Power. If the player makes the right actions, he can use the alternative Deity form when using the Deity or Titan transformation, except for the alternative forms that can only be obtain in Titan mode.

Each characters possess a Wrath Move, his strongest attack, which you can use in Beast Mode only, is a type of powerful and violent (sometimes gorish) attack peculiar to the personality of the characters.

If the opponent doesn't collapse after a Wrath Move against him or if you miss the opponent, your character's Deity Gauge will empty and the fighter will come back as a human in an astonishing situation.

Most of the times a Wrath Move starts with a basic first move (Punch, Kick or Grap) with different range depending on the fighter. If this move has failed or has been blocked the Wrath Move is cancelled but the fighter still comes back to his Human form. Some fighters, like Johona are multiple range or, even, unblockable first move.

With

, the fighter transform himself in his Titan form, physically like the Deity form (with exceptions) but with thunders surrounds him. He is more powerful than in Deity form, he can perform Wrath Move without automatically comes back in Human form and his recovery time drastically decreases.

In this form, the Deity Gauge is flashing and gradually fade away over time (20 seconds if the Deity Gauge was full before the transformation), once it's empty, the fighter is automatically back to a Human form. To battle in Titan form, press the Titan button any time.

If the Deity Gauge isn't full, the player will lose up to a large percentage of his health, depending on how much was filled in the beast gauge.

With his ability, Alec can access to his alternative Deity form with the Titan transformation, becoming Helios instead of a "Titan version" of Apollo.

When a fighter transforms himself into his Deity, Alternative or Titan form he gains an unique ability. Each fighters have their own ability which is mostly a bonus on their gameplay. For example, Amina can damage in Guard mode invoking a tornado around her.

Soledad is the only fighter who has an ability activated in her Human form, as she can full more quickly her Deity gauge.

The Mercy activates when a player is low on health (less than 5%), once activated, the player has his Deity Gauge fulls, giving him a last chance to transform and to return the situation.

With her ability, the Mercy System also contributes for Saeko to access to an alternative Deity form.

Advanced Fight Mechanics

Each characters have their own comboset, with an average of 70 moves per fighter, which feature :

Short combo: Simplistic and short-timing combos between 1 or 3 commands. Example:

Long combo: More powerful than the short combos, they are complex but long-timing combos mostly between 4 or 5 commands. Example:

Critical combo: A complex, 5 commands, short-timing combo, the last move will let you set a direction to blow your opponent away but it's easy to dodge or block for the opponent (apart from astonishment situation).

Throw combo: When a fighter grabs his opponent during a throw move, some fighters can vary the throw move using a short combo (Example: ). Some Throw combo, also, necessity particular commands before grapping the opponent (Example: ).

Combos generally lead to Guard Break Attacks.

The fights are based on a rock-paper-scissors like interruption system, in which:

Regular Attacks beat Throws
Throws beat Counterattacks
Counterattacks beat Regular Attacks

When you land an attack of one type that beats another type, like landing a kick (regular attack) when an opponent tries to throw, your attack becomes proprietary and hits the, now, defenseless opponent who has his throw interrupted.

Another particularity, it's the astonishment strategy, the fighters can use different moves to astonishing their opponent, making them confuse and unable to move or use their Defence Reflex, less energy they have more the confusion lasts.

If you are astonished, alternate to recover faster.

If a fighter receives too many hits in a row, the timing for a Counterattack is enlarged allowing a combo breaker. If you use the additional timing, the fighter doesn't counterattack but interrupts the combo and forces back the opponent.

In the same way, if the fighter is taken into a too long juggle combo, the time opportunity for an Air recovery move will also been enlarged allowing a possibility for the fighter to free himself from the juggle combo.

With good timing, some combos or movements (like jumping) can be promptly canceling (stop before the end of a movement of series of movement). This technique opens up opportunities for new attacks.

In the process of doing a combo, another combo can be performed, this is called "Super Canceling". This allows a player to string multiple combos together for monumental damage.

Each fighter has a moveset associated to specific states. For example, While Running (a specific state) can make your fighter execute a tackle if he uses a punch attack.

The different states:

Aerial: When your character is in the air (after a jump for example)
While Running: When the fighter is running.
While Standing: When the fighter is rising from crouch or a ducking.
Ducking: When the fighter is ducking (a double crouch)
Ground recovering: When the fighter is knocked down on the ground.
Aerial recovering: When the fighter is launched into the air.
Facing backwards: When the fighter is facing away from his opponent (with your back turned towards him)
Wall combo: When your opponent is close to a wall, you can have access to Wall combos.

There is also Unique Standing, as some fighter can access to their own specific state. For example, Qingyun can transit into a state where she keeps one elbow high, giving her a specific kick moveset. In another hand, some fighter has a specific state only available in their Deity form, like Houssem who, in his Media form, can move himself without his legs (laying on his tentacles) and use the state for new attacks.

This specific states can also give more vulnerability or advantage towards hit depending on the position of your fighter.

Environment Mechanics

The game presents various size of stages with constant movements and animations (spectators, background animation, weather, ...). The duels take place in interactive and highly-destructive arenas. Various arenas are evolving through a match depending on the remaining time or the fighters' life. For example, the nearer is one of the fighter to be defeated, the gloomier the background will be or an event, like the apparition of spirits, can last the whole round before being complete.

Some stages have particularity to add new difficulties or opportunities as uneven ground, walls, obstacles (like furniture), participating crowd, optical illusions, ....

Fighters are able to interact with the environment of a stage, using parts of the scenery to reposition themselves, get an extra jumps, set up a trap or using available objects as throw weapons.

When a fighter get near of a interactive zone, this zone/object will be slightly highlighted. To use it, the player must press + .

The Jump wall is a particular interaction, if a player jumps on a wall, he can press + for execute a jump wall. The wall won't be highlighted like other interactive zones.

As a multiple tasks input, + , is used in priority for the Environment interaction before the Mockery or the Tag commands.

There are Death Traps in some stages. Fall into this kind of traps will show a, sometime, brutal cutscene. If your opponent falls into a Death trap you win.

In a less lethal way, the arenas can have Danger Zones (electric fencing, tree, ...) where the opponent takes remarkable damages if he hits it.

In some stage, there is a hidden floor, going through an inner-arena to another come with an energetic cutscene.

Normally, when a characters fall out the zone, he lost for begin out of the ring but in the case of a hidden floor, he will land in a new floor with his opponent joining him.

Once you are in a new area of the stage the remaining round will start in this area.

Tag Battle Mechanics

Tag Battle matches involve each player selecting two fighters to fight with. Players are able to switch their fighters out at any time pressing + (Mockeries are unavailable in Tag Battle), allowing the inactive character to gradually recover some life they might have lost (faster if the character is in Deity form). If the on-screen fighter gets attacked a certain amount of time and the off-screen character's Deity Gauge will gradually fill up.

The second partner will automatically be in Human form except if you use him sooner in the fight and transformed him before trading the fighters (doesn't work for the Titan Mode).

In Tag Battle some affiliated characters have unique and specific Tag moves together. For example, Zoya and Yamatoni are unique tag move because of their affiliation.

Tag throws ( + + + ) are special moves which can only be performed in Tag Battle Mode. Certain characters with affiliations have special projection; these types of tag moves generally do a great amount of damage (particularly in Deity mode) and can astonish the opponent. If the pair is not in a relationship of any sorts, the first partner will throw the opponent in the direction of the second person who then uses a counter-attack.

If the two are in Deity mode you can use a Tag Wrath Move (

+

), as the Tag throw, certain characters have a special move together and if the pair is not in affiliations the first partner will perform his standard Wrath Move on the opponent and the second will use an effective one-move attack.

Alternative Mechanics

In the Ascension mode, you can add Upgrades to your fighter.

Each fighter has four Upgrade slots where they can add their Upgrades which will be activated from the beginning of a fight. They also have two Deity Upgrade slots, the Upgrades in this two slots are only activated when the player transform himself in Deity or Titan form. You can't add an Upgrade that the character already have.

If, at first, you can only use Upgrades in the Ascension mode, you can, later in the game, unlock the option to play with your Ascension fighters (with his Upgrades) on other modes like Versus, Arcade or Practice.

Upgrades can increase the stats of a fighter, give him new faculties or even give him moves from other fighter. There is seven types of Upgrades:


OFFENSIVE Increase the Power	DEFENSIVE Increase the Health and the guard	MOVEMENT Increase the Speed and facilitate the canceling	DEITY Increase your bonus following a Diety transformation They can't be placed on a Deity Upgrade slot

CAPTURE COMBO Add a new combo from another fighter at your fighter	ASSIST Make the game easier They are not allowed in Online fights	DOWNGRADE Give handicaps If used during Online fights the player gains 10% more Online points for each Downgrades on him

List of Upgrades

Offensive Upgrades
Power +	+10% of Power for your fighter
Supreme Power	+30% of Power for your fighter during the first 10 seconds of the round (or of his Deity Transformation or Titan transformation if the ability is in a Deity Ability slot)
Chosen Power	+20% of Power for your fighter but -10% of Speed too
Punch +	+20% of Power for your punch attacks
Kick +	+20% of Power for your kick attacks
Counter Eagle	+20% of Power on attack given on a opponent in air
Wider Throw	Your attack that can throw your opponents will throw them much further
Cross-ups	+10% on Aerial attacks / +20% on Aerial attacks given at the back of the opponent
Defensive Upgrades
Health +	+10% of Health for your fighter
Supreme Health	+30% of Health for your fighter during the first 10 seconds of the round (or of his Deity Transformation or Titan transformation if the ability is in a Deity Ability slot)
Chosen Health	+20% of Health for your fighter but -10% of Power too
Regeneration	Gradual Restoration of your Health Points
Urgent Healing	Filled up 20% of Health Points when you enter in the Mercy System (or when your transform into the Deity or Titan form if the ability is in a Deity Ability slot)
Anti-Stall	Your fighter recovers faster from a hit and from an astonishment
Movement Upgrades
Speed +	+10% of Speed for your fighter
Supreme Speed	+30% of Speed for your fighter during the first 10 seconds of the round (or of his Deity Transformation or Titan transformation if the ability is in a Deity Ability slot)
Chosen Speed	+20% of Speed for your fighter but -10% of Speed too
Hyper Jump	Your fighter jumps ridiculously high
Air Cancel	Any air attack can be cancelled into a jump
Cancel & Throw	You can cancel an attack with a throw move
Deity Upgrades
Deity Attack +	+20% of Power for your deity attacks
Faith	Faster restoration of your Deity Points
King of Titans	Titan form lasts longer
Capture Combo Upgrades
There is 16 Upgrades in this category, each one having a combo from a different fighter to add in your fighter's moveset. You can't add an Capture Combo Upgrade which gives a combo from the same fighter as the one receiving the Upgrade.
Assist Upgrades
Easy Combo	The Critical combo will contain simplified commands.
Easy Evade	Enemy throw can be counter by a counter move.
Easy Block	Guard Break attack can now be blocked.
Easy Deity	You start in your Deity form
Easy Titan	You start in your Titan form
Downgrades
Human only	You are unable to transform yourself into Deity or Titan.
The Wilting	Gradual loss of your Health Points
No Guard	You can't block any attack from your opponent.
Mushroomized	Your movements are reversed (Up becomes Down, Left becomes right, ...)

Sudden Death mode is an unlockable versus mode inspired by the parody fighting game Divekick.

A player loses the round after being hit only once, there's a Double KO when the two opponents manage to hit each other in the same time.

The versus takes place in a strict 2D arena where the opponent are more distant from each other than other arenas, helping the particular gameplay.

Typhon mode is an unlockable versus mode allowing to play with an versus mode inspired by Bloody Roar 4 Health and Beast Mechanic.

the Deity and Life gauges are intertwined, meaning that if the player turns into his Deity Form, all the damage he will take will be only taken on his Deity Gauge. Also, if the Life Gauge is completely depleted, the player will automatically transform himself into his Deity form for the remainder of the round.

The player can uses Charging Faith sacrificing some of his Life for fill up his Deity Gauge, if the player uses all his Life in the Charging Faith move, he will turn into his Titan Form until the end of the round.

The player can come back to his Human form as he wants pressing + (Mockeries are unavailable in Typhon Mode), helping him to dealing with his Life Gauge.

As in a standard versus fight, the Deity Gauge can still be filling up by taking or receiving hits in the fighter's Human form. With the Deity Gauge becoming the Life Gauge in Deity Form, the players can extend their health and use new and unique strategies to play with.

Graphic Design & Animations

Physical Degradation: The fighters can bleed, get bruises or getting sweaty also their clothes can get dirty or wet during the fights as well as they rip during the Deity form and stay this way the rest of the match.
Dynamic Movement: Aerial hair, clothes dynamic and bouncy breasts.
Pose animations: Various victory poses and defeat poses depending on:
- The remaining rounds
- The last hit taken: (mid, high or low / from front, the side or the back)
- The defeat: KO, Perfect or Times Out
- The opponent: If he is affiliated or not

Hit Animations: "Air effect" with the regular hits and Blood will appears with effective hits with also strong reaction from the hit receiver.
Effective hit animation: The camera will zoom in on effective strikes (example: end of a Critical Combo) and go into slow mo in dramatic moments.
Fight Intro/Outro: Quick cutscenes before and after a fight between two affiliated fighters.
Between Rounds: When the opponent is taken K.O., he will tries to get up himself if it's the last round he will fail and fall unconscious. If not, the defeated gets up and the two fighters slightly distance themselves from each other ready for the next round (there is no switch into a default place like most of the fighting games).

The General design (menu, mode select, characters select,...): mix between an urban style and a more mythological style.
Choose your Fighter: When you are choosing your Fighter, you can see his stats (Power, Speed, Health and Range), his type of fighting (Offensive, Balanced, Defensive, Grappler) and how it changes after his transformation
Loading screen: When the game is loading, the screen shows gameplay advice to the players.
Choose your Stage: When you are choosing your Stage, the preview of the stage currently selected will appears taking all the background behind the fighter

Mains modes

Story

A playable mode where you follow the adventures of various characters.

The story mode follows a linear story splits into three chapters, plus a Bonus Chapter, through a series of character swaps. In each chapter, the player will fight with different fighter against various opponents determining by the events of the story. There is multiple cutscenes between the fight as well as some CG movie during the most important moments.

Progressing through the story will make you play with various fighter, if you have difficulties, you can always switch to the Free Training Mode to learn about the playable fighter.

The story tells how a group of fighters with divine powers, the Heirs, has to investigate and to fight against the plan of Ancient Gods to create a new world pure and religious.

Arcade

A classic Arcade mode where the player chooses his fighter and fight a series of matches, each harder than the previous one. This mode has four levels of difficulty:

Easy: Eighth matches the last one being against a predefined opponent.

Normal: Eighth matches the last one being against a predefined opponent. There is also a bonus match against an unlockable character, if the player didn't have one game over.

Hard: Eighth matches the last one being against a predefined opponent. There is also a bonus match against an unlockable character, if the player didn't have one game over.

Survival: An endless series of matches where you have to fight against each playable fighters until a predefined opponent, once this predefined opponent defeated, the row of matches starts over. The more matches you win and the less time you used will increased your final score.

Clear the Arcade mode with a fighter unlocks a little cinematic showing an important moment of the fighter's life. This cinematic can't be unlock with the Survival difficulty due to the face this difficulty can't be finished.

Versus

Versus battle in offline modes, the player can play with another local player or with a CPU (which you choose the difficulty level between 1 and 5). You can also use this mode for watch CPU only battles.

VS Battle: Simple versus with one vs one

Tag Battle: Versu two teams of two members.

Ascension

This mode presents a story in an alternate universe where the player participates to the Ascension Tournament to make his name to the Pantheon. The player will have to choose the fighter and go through 25 matches, each with their own rules and events, as well as 10 secret matches unlockable depending on the action of the player. The player can change his fighter whenever he wants.

Each matches won will unlock new Upgrades or give you Offerings for buying this said Upgrades.

The Upgrades bought can be added on one of your fighters for making him stronger.

The more the player go through the Tournament the more difficult the matches are, as the CPU opponents will not only gain in level difficulty but will also have Upgrades on their own. The rules of the matches will also gain in difficulty as the fighter can loose his defensive commands, can have to fight against three opponents in a row or can have his Deity Form deactivated against an opponent in Titan Form.

Later in the game, you can unlock the option to play with your Ascension fighters on other modes like Versus, Arcade or Practice.

Practice

In this mode the player can learn more about the gameplay of the game and the strategy to become a better player. He has the choice between three sub modes:

Free Training: Practice your fighting skills with various displays: the inputs, the move's damage, the combo damage, the moves range (high/mid/low), the frame counts of a move, the possibility of the move being a tracking move. There is also other useful options: Command recording, multiple CPU mode settings and Instant replay.

Tutorial: Learn, as you complete various tasks, all the terms and regular strategies from the game and, to a certain extent, from the Fighting Game genre. When you failed, the game told you why you failed and what you should do for the next try.

Command Training: Learn and master the combos of a character. You can also see your character automatically makes the combo to have a better understanding of the timing and the movement sequences.

Galleries

This mode presents to the player multiples galleries with video, picture, music or sounds that he win during the game or that he took or recorded himself.

Movies: A collection of cinematic that you unlock progressively through the game. Movies includes: Openings, Cutscenes, Endings, Credit, ...

Hall of Fame: A presentation of each fighters with their story, their complete statistics (Health, Power, Range, Speed, Mobility, Recovery, WEighth, HEighth, High/Mid/Low Power, Throw/Counter Power, Wrath Power, ...), all their lines (as SFX sounds) and an animation presenting the fighter executing a routine from his personal martial art (a kata for example). To see a fighter presentation, you have to complete the Command Training with him.

Artworks: A collection of official artworks that you unlock progressively through the game. Artworks includes: Concept Art, Render, Unused artworks, ...

My Albums: An album for your saved replays and screenshots.

Option

GAME SETTINGS:

Time Limit: Choose how much time lasts a round
- 20sc / 40sc/ 60sc / 90sc / Infinite
Rounds: Choose how many rounds there are during a versus battle
- 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Blood: Choose if some hits show spurting blood or no
- Off / On
Game speed: Choose to accelerate or slow down the fighters
- Off / Slow / High
One Form Only: Choose in what form the fighter will be
- Off / Human Only /Deity Only / Titan Only
Walls: Choose the resistance of the wall around some arenas
- Off / Weak walls / Final round / No walls
Kids Mode: Choose to distort the fighters to give them funny look
- Off / Big arms / Big heads/ Kids

DISPLAY SETTINGS:

With Display Settings you have the possibility to change the graphic of various displays (Life Gauge, Deity Gauge, Fonts, ...) by switching through different visual themes (Retro, Fire, Neon, Antiquity, ...).

You will even be able to change the Gauges position.

OTHER SETTINGS:

Here are the other settings avalaible in the option menu. There are mostly typical options for any video games:

Controller
Sound
Graphic
Savefiles

Heir to the Wrath Online

With the online platform, Heir to the Wrath Online, the player can now fight against online opponents in VS Battle, Tag Battle or Tournament. You can add players in friend list and make your own tournament. Training with online player is also available.

The players will earn Online Points by defeating opponents close to their rank or above (giving little to no points for beating a lower rank). The more Online Points they gain the better ranks they have. A player can loose points with abusive disconnecting. Each player can also be ranked by Connection Priority (How good their online connection is) and Disconnect Ratio (How much have they disconnected during matches).

Some online events will be also weekly appears rewarding the regular online players with a chance to gain unique prize as Online Points and pre-release DLC contents.

ONLINE MODES:

User's Profile
VS Battle
Team Battle
Winner-Stay
Tournament
Training

Plot

Story Mode

The story mode follows a linear story splits into three chapters, plus a Bonus Chapter.

1st Chapter - The Inner God

It revolves around Alec and Zoya and their fight against the Eighth Seal cult.
Click on EXPAND to read the complete synopsis.

INTRODUCTION

Four years ago.

Yamatoni and Sophia are, accompanying by multiples soldiers, in a military camps above a little Japanese village. Some of the soldiers are Heirs and already in their Deity form. Sophia tells to Yamatoni to be prudent, their enemy, The Eighth Seal, are waiting for them. Yamatoni says they have no time to waste, The Eighth Seal wants to destroy the village to take the sacred ground below and the more sacred grounds The Eighth Seal possess, the closer they are to their aim to purify the Earth from humanity and to give it back to heinous Ancient Gods.

As members of the Primordial Program who fight against the Eighth Seal, Yamatoni and Sophia know that each battle against their opponent are determinant for the future of the world. Sophia is scared, she feels that they can't win this battle and, as Yamatoni, advances with his troops she asks him with sadness "Now that we can believe in the gods, do we have to believe in fate?" to which Yamatoni responds "If our fate it's to see our world dying, I wouldn't believe in gods even if I were one.".

"But you are one" she whispers before, suddenly, we see a gigantic figure in the background shines. Everything in the military base start to float in the air including Yamatoni and a terrified Sophia. Some soldiers and objects around them are, brutally, set in a blue fire. From a wide shot, we see military base camps ignited.

THE PRIMORDIAL PROGRAM

Present.

There is various recorded videos and TV news illustrating the situation of the world under, what we call, the Wilting, a slow apocalypse handled by The Eighth Seal. We see faded natures, ruined farm families and evil spirits attacking people. We also see a conference where multiple world leaders annouces the opening of the Primordial Program, an ambitious operation to counter the apocalypse. Accompanying this images, we hear Zoya who is reading a Yamatoni's letter talking how the world changed and how he wants to assume his role against Ancient gods.

Then, we see Zoya in an acrobatic fighting training.

Alec comes to dojo of the Primordial Program Head Quarter in Tokyo where is Zoya. She asks him to wait while she changes her clothes but Alec prefers a fight between us, he has made a long road to comes here and he needs a warm-up. (Fight : Alec vs Zoya)

Later, Zoya and Alec drink at a bar. Alec talks about how his mother, Sophia, told him one day that his life doesn't belong to him, as a Heir, a human with the power of transforming himself into a mythological gods, his destiny is clear: he must serve the humanity and, if he ignores it, it's like choosing to destroy it. Zoya nods, she explains that the humanity are becoming a battlefield between the gods who wants to reset the worlds and the ones who wants to keep it like it is, and they use them, the Heirs, to fight like chess pawns. Alec seems bothered to what Zoya responds "I still understand you, family it's harsh... my parents was afraid of my power and left me here. After that, and despite all the deceptions, I keep searching for someone to take care of me... So, Alec if we can find your mother I will help you, you have my promise."

She continues saying that if the real enemies are Ancient gods, they have to annihilate the Eighth Seal first, as they are the one who lead the gods' fight here among the humans. She shows a picture of the Eighth Seal most recent leader, Yamatoni. Alec, confused, knows him through his mother's files, Yamatoni was a close colleague to her when she worked for the Primordial Program. Zoya knows that if Alec joins The Primordial Program, it's to find answers about his missing mother but she wants to make it clear, Alec has to collaborate, their biggest operation will start as soon as they find Yamatoni's emplacement. There's is no time for questioning, Yamatoni is a traitor and knows too much about the Primordial Program since he used to work with them, we can't let him disclosing anything.

In their return, Zoya and Alec is interrupted by Johona, an assassin working for the Eighth Seal. Johona transforms herself into her Deity form. (Fight : Zoya vs Johona). Johona defeated insults them for going against their true destiny, as Ancient gods' chosen they have to build a new world. She especialy points to Zoya: "I would like to know what Lucifer thinks about your choice?", Zoya can't keep her calm as she's starting to shiver and says "I am Gabreil's Heir and only his", Johona smiles replying "How long will you keep it before the next incident?"

Alec get closer to Zoya as Johona disappears and, then, remarks another presence. The assassin was not alone, a mysterious guy stands in the roof above them. Alec pursues him but he is quickly taken down by what appears to be a humanoid wolf. The wolf then jumps and disappears in a sudden blizzard.

UNSTABLE AND VIOLENT

On his way to home, Amina, a medical researcher for the Primordial Program, finds a Heir, Darren, writhing in pain, he can't control his Deity form. Amina tries to help him but Darren becomes violent. (Fight : Amina vs Darren)

As Darren falls unconscious, Amina calls her colleague to come and help her but a truck stops in front of her. JiaJun goes out of the truck, gets back the unstable Heirs and ties him up to a stretcher before takes board him. Anima doesn't understand what it's happening, she tries to stop JiaJun but she's too weakened by her previous fight to do anything about it. JiaJun, then, finds out that she is from the Primordial Program and, as a member of the Eighth Seal himself, he decides to kill her but Darren starts to move again and JiaJun knows that he has to hurry up if he doesn't want more trouble with him.

In the truck, JiaJun says to Darren that he can't stop the experiment. Suddenly Darren, wakes up in rage, invokes thunder, the vehicle falls on the road. (Fight : JiaJun vs Darren)

NEON NIGHT

Elek-trode finishes her night as a DJ. She catches up by Janka, a spy paid for her protection. Elek-trode doesn't want The Eighth Seal or, even, the Primordial Program to discover her existence mainly because of her renown father, a French minister, and counts on Janka's help. The woman adverts her that the Eighth Seal already knows her secret and now she's in the center of their plans.

Elek-trode doesn't understand how they could find her but Janka confesses to be their source. For Janka, the Eighth Seal members are a better investment. Elek-trode betrayed attacks Janka. (Fight : Janka vs Elek-trode)

FAREWELL

In a forest, Saeko is in search for Wei.

She looks back, four years ago when she tries to escape her village being demolished by the Eighth Seal. She is reminding all her friends and family dying in front of her and how Wei saved her. At first she was afraid, Wei was a soldier for the Eighth Seal, but he felt the guilt seeing Saeko and ran away with her. During four years, Wei, in front of her strong desire to stop the Eighth Seal, learned to Saeko his martial arts in this excluded forest.

Now, Saeko wants to return to the civilization, she has been approached by the Primordial Program and wants to help them. Before leaving, she asks Wei to joins her and the Primordial Program. Wei refuses, he can't go back to the civilization but he's proud of her former apprentice and want to see her progress. (Fight : Saeko vs Wei)

In a dark alley, we see Yamatoni alone. He is on his phone with a mysterious woman. He's telling her, that The Primordial Program are about to take action and they need to be ready. As he's still speaking, we see lots of birds spying him, one of the birds, then, fly away to land on Lou's finger, Lou is one the Heirs of the Primordial Program. Lou becomes really enthousiastic and turns herself towards Zoya saying "He is in town! We found Yamatoni!".

THE TRAITOR

Return in the dojo with Alec, Zoya, Lou and, now, Saeko. Due to their Heirs power, they are the four most powerful soldiers of the Primordial Project and the center of the next operation. Zoya is proud to see her new team and, now that Yamatoni is localized, the operation can finally start. She congratulates Lou to have found Yamatoni, as a Heir of a God of animals she could follow Yamatoni with her servant birds. Zoya also congratulates Saeko and Alec to joining the right side of this war. She asks one more time if the plan is understood by everyone, and as everyone nod, they move on to what should be the Yamatoni's position.

The location is an unsteady building. Zoya isn't surprised by Yamatoni's choice which makes Alec thinks that Zoya knows a lot about him. They attack the place but Yamatoni has a step ahead and counterattacks with smoke bomb and traps. (Fight : Zoya, Alec vs Yamatoni)

Alec is defeated but Zoya, even injured, swears to finish this fight. We, then, learn that Zoya was Yamatoni's protegee during his time in the Primordial Program. Yamatoni rejects her accusations to be a traitor but she won't listen, Yamatoni chooses the hard way and transforms himself into Odin (Fight: Zoya vs Yamatoni)

Zoya beats him but Yamatoni still tries to convince her he's not one of the Eighth Seal leaders. Suddenly, multiple Eighth Seal soldiers surround them and Johona appears fiercely. Lou was a traitor, she revealed their operation to the Eighth Seal. All the Hiers use their power to defeat the others but, weakened by their previous fights, the Primordial Program members can't keep up against their opponent. Johona captures Alec and Saeko. Zoya successes to run away with Yamatoni.

Somewhere, Qingyun makes rituals in what seems like a cathedral interior, despite being in a religious environment her ritual looks pagan. As she focuses on her ceremonial, she speaks with Janka. The spy says that they maybe have captured some of them, Yamatoni is still in the loose and now that the Primordial Program will regain their trust for him, they will soon discover who are the truth leaders of The Eighth Seal.

Suddenly, Caleb enters and interrupts their conversation. Caleb confesses to have followed Johona, he wants to know who is Zoya, what is the Primordial Program. Above all, the experiments on him start to exhaust him, he wants them to stop. Qingyun loses her temper, Caleb has to understand that the experiments are crucial for the future of the humanity and that he doesn't have a word to say about how she's leading the Eighth Seal's mission.

End of the first chapter.

LIST OF BATTLES

Fighters	Arena	Details	Difficulty
Alec vs Zoya	Serene Dojo	First round : Tutorial Only in human form	Level 1
Zoya vs Johona	Skate Park	First round : Tutorial on Deity form Johona starts in Deity form Lucifer form unavailable for Zoya	Level 1
Amina vs Darren	Cherry Street	Darren starts in Deity form	Level 1
JaiJun vs Darren	Freeway Chase		Level 2
Janka vs Elek-trode	Cyber Nightclub		Level 2
Saeko vs Wei	Distant Forest		Level 2
Zoya, Alec vs Yamatoni	Apartment 13	First round: Tutorial on Taggle Battle Only in human form	Level 4
Zoya vs Yamatoni	Apartment 13	Yamatoni starts in Deity form	Level 4

2nd Chapter - A New Myth

Introducing Soledad, the only girl with the power to find the Eighth Seal HQ
while Saeko and Alec have been made prisoners by the cult.
Click on EXPAND to read the complete synopsis.

IN GOD'S HANDS

Somewhere in Chile, an aged woman prays in a little chapel. Soledad appears saying her that Yamatoni has found "him" and she has to join the Primordial Program. The other woman, who is revealed to be Soledad's mother, consents, she will keep praying for her protection. Soledad doesn't need that, she can only count on herself. Her mother smiles, she always knew that her daughter will do great things, and now she has this gift and can save humanity.

Soledad asks her mother how does she know that it's not Him himself who started the end of this world to what her mother responds that Him will always be on the side of his creation, like a mother.

Soledad does not believe her and chooses to leave in silence. As she's walking, the shot moves out and we can see more and more of the Chilean village where the scene takes place, and we see more and more of the devastation caused by the Wilting.

DESPAIR

In the Eighth Seal HQ, Lou speaks with JiaJun, now that her task is completed, she wants to see Sophia. JiaJun laughs and presents her a crane with strange organic tissues on which he claims to be what remains of Sophia. Lou, heartbroken and furious, attacks him but she is blocked by Johona (Johona vs Lou).

JiaJun explains that it was only Sophia's fault, her vanity leads her to her death. JiaJun orders to conduct Lou where she won't be a nuisance. The girl, even injured, defends herself and defeats the men who tried to take her before Johona finally knocks her out.

THE MISSING LINK

In the Tokyo airport, Soledad walks down the stairs of the aircraft in front of Yamatoni and Zoya waiting for her. We learn that Soledad became an Heir during a massacre caused by another Heir, she was given her power by a dying man but she was also hit and left for dead. Since her first transformation, she made a weird bound with his aggressor and can feel his presence. The Primordial Program needs her because, in accordance of Yamatoni's source, the infamous Soledad's aggressor has been captured by the Eighth Seal. If they find him, they will find the Eighth Seal HQ.

In the Dojo, Zoya trains Soledad already very skilled (Soledad vs Zoya). For the fun, Yamatoni joins the fight on the Soledad's side and Amina, invited by Zoya, joins her side (Zoya, Amina vs Soledad, Yamatoni).

They, then, receive a visit from a government representative, their operation plan was validated and they can operate as soon as possible.

WHISPERS

Janka, in the museum, is rejoined by Yamatoni. She's his source. Janka adds that Qingyun, who is in charge of the Eighth Seal here in Tokyo, is preparing something independently of the rest of the cardinals, the cult leaders. If she succeeds the consequences will be irreversible. Despite Yamatoni's insistence, Janka doesn't want to say more so Yamatoni suggests a fight if he wins, she tells everything, Janka accepts (Janka vs Yamatoni).

Yamatoni is defeated but still has a question for Janka, as he sees her six-point star pendant falling form her neck, "A believer?" he says. Janka holds her pendant tight before responding "We are not gods, Yamatoni, this Deities, they are like us, limited to this world, somehow to this reality. I still believe in a greater force beyond all of it, he's maybe not the one I think He is, but I know He's there watching on us." Yamatoni confesses being surprise to see some humility in a person like her.

DON'T LET THEM HAVE YOU

At a night club exit, Johona finds Elek-trode, Elek-trode understands right away that Johona is sent by the Eighth Seal, she tries to run but Johona is faster, the confrontation is inevitable (Johona vs Elek-trode).

Elek-trode wakes up in the Qingyun's office with Johona behind her. Qingyun knows that she's a Minister's daughter. Qingyun goes straight to the point, she is there because they need her father to contribute to the Eighth Seal. Elek-trode refuses to be threatened, her father won't help them, he doesn't make deal with terrorists.

Qingyun expected that, she then plays a videotape where we can see Elek-trode transforms herself. The girl laughs, for her, even this video won't help them, the Heirs are seen as hero working with the governments to fight against The Wilting, she will just be annoyed if her secret it's out but not enough to blackmail her own father. Qingyun does not loose her temper saying that maybe now she can say that but, soon enough, she won't have the same discourse.

Johona gets a call form JiaJun something bad is happening right now at the confinement section, we don't hear more. Johona informs secretly Qingyun who, this time, can't control her irritation against JiaJun's irresponsibilities. She orders to take Elek-trode to her cells, saying to the prisoner that if she can't use her as a hostage, she could still use her as a subject for new experiments. As Elek-trode leave the room, Qingyun asks Johona to take care of their sudden annoyance.

Johona goes out the office but stops and briefly sees Caleb spying on them.

Qingyun asks why she is hesitant to leave the office, Johona feigns to not have seen Caleb and responds: "The Eighth Seal asked you to get this girl and forced her father to give us the authority to take sacred grounds in France and you seemed to be succeeding in this task but I can't help myself to think that you have other aim in mind." Qingyun gets angry about how Johona authorizes this kind of discourse with her. Johona adds that she is not her servant, she is there, from the other cardinals' orders, to execute the plan and to see if everything goes as expected, and with this in mind, she has doubts. Quingyun says that she can do her mission in the way she wants, she is one of the Eighth Seal cardinals, she doesn't have to wait for the confirmation of other, if she wants to do more than just threaten a brat for the cult she will. Johona replies that "Loki, Lucifer even Zeus... among the greater gods there always are traitors.", she then leaves and winks at Caleb.

APPROACHING DANGER

In the dark, we can hear a man scream before sounds of flesh being tear apart.

The scream wakes Alec and Saeko. Their awakening is brutal as they don't know where they are and as they are surrounded by dead bodies. Alec understands that the bodies are the men who was taking them earlier when they were trapped by the Eighth Seal. From the surrounding, they are in what's looked like a cathedral and maybe underground.

As they explore the place, Saeko, finally, sees who caused this onslaught, Darren. He succeed once again to escape JiaJun. The monster stops and turns his eyes toward the two prisoners with the severed head of a guard in his hand (Saeko, Alec vs Darren). Alec is ready to continue the fight but Saeko stands between them. She thinks Darren is not their enemy and can help them, and asks him if he wants to join them to get out of this place. Darren quietly stares at them but finally jumps and disappears.

LOU

In their evasion, Alec and Saeko find Lou under what seems to be ritualistic experiments. At first, despite Saeko's advice, Alec refuses to help this traitor. Lou, crying, explains that she only wanted to help Sophia. Alec understands that his mother, Sophia, helped Lou during her time in the Primordial Program and before being taken by the Eighth Seal. As they have the same goals, to find Sophia, Alec frees her.

Appears, then, a really angry JiaJun. He is too busy about the Darren's escape to see the trio. Alec wants to fight him but Lou needs her revenge on him (Lou vs JiaJun).

Suddenly, Darren jumps in the place and attacks the group, JiaJun runs away (Saeko, Alec vs Darren).

In front of Darren's pain and sadness, the group lets, pitiful, the suffering Heir fades in the shadow. Alec and Saeko get closer as she searches comfort from the situation.

Lou explains that they tried to make her believe that Sophia is dead but she doesn't believe it. She learns that they keep other hostages in the deepest ground of this place where they run their most horrific experiment. If Sophia is alive she must be there. She also explains that there is also a dangerous prisoner there and he's nicknamed the Heathen, when Lou was still in JiaJun's hands, he threatened to give her to the Heathen if she didn't calm down.

DARKNESS FALL

In a forest, the rest of the Primordial Program, Zoya, Soledad and Yamatoni, locates the secret cathedral constructed under a sacred ground, Johona welcomes them (Zoya vs Johona).

Defeated, Johona flees. the group then combines power to open the ground and to create an entrance to the Eighth Seal HQ.

Hearing an earthquake, Caleb stops his experiment and get dress before coming across Alec, Saeko and Lou. Alec wants his revenge (Alec vs Caleb).

Caleb asks them to stop, he wants to join them. He explains that he did not understand what the Eighth Seal was about, they always hided him the truth, he thought that they wanted him to save the world not to annihilate it. Saeko asks him why have they captured Alec and her, but Caleb doesn't even know why they set a trap for the Primordial program group as the principal mission now is to blackmail government representatives (like Elek-trode's father).

Another earthquake happens, Caleb wonders what could cause it? Lou answers him, it's the other Primordial Program members, Zoya would never let someone being taken by the Eighth Seal. Caleb remembers that Zoya was frequently cited by Qingyun, she even asked Johona to spy her.

In another area of the Eighth Seal HQ, Zoya and the rest of the Primordial Program team arrive but they only found Qingyun who was waiting for them.

Return to Alec and the others. At this point, everything becomes clear to Caleb, Qingyun did not follow the Eighth Seal operations, she's on her own. Caleb says that "Qingyun did not care for you two. She did not trap the Primordial Program for kidnapped you, she wanted Zoya but she did not succeed so she kept you three alive to...", "Bring Zoya to this place." continues Saeko.

Return to Zoya. Qingyun smiles and then brings to herself a terrified couple, Zoya recognizes them they are her parents. Her parents seems more afraid of their daughter than Qingyun herself, they start to scream "Devil!" at Zoya and to pray God to save them from Satan. Zoya in tears, implores them to stop, to listen her she can control her power now. As she's saying it, she hears her Deity forms Gabriel and Lucifer talking to her in her mind. Gabriel asks her to remain strong but Lucifer laughs and says that it is now his turn to play. Zoya can't support this voice and falls down.

Return to Alec. He now understands what Caleb and Saeko are trying to say, Zoya is the most powerful Heirs in their team, Qingyun wants her power.

Return to Zoya. Qingyun smiles on more times and then slashes the throats of Zoya's parents. Zoya overwhelmed yells with an inhuman scream and spectacularly transforms herself into Lucifer.

We can now see, behind Qingyun, a camera turned on meaning that everything that is happening is recorded.

End of the second chapter.

LIST OF BATTLES

Fighters	Arena	Details	Difficulty
Johona vs Lou	Prison Yard (Empty version)		Level 3
Soledad vs Zoya	Serene Dojo		Level 3
Zoya, Amina vs Soledad, Yamatoni	Serene Dojo		Level 3
Janka vs Yamatoni	Classical Museum		Level 4
Johona vs Elek-trode	Freeway Chase		Level 4
Saeko, Alec vs Darren	Cathedral of Apocalypse (Empty version)		Level 5
Lou vs JiaJun	Prison Yard (Empty version)	The fight ends abruptly, before the K.O., with the Darren's entrance	Level 4
Saeko, Alec vs Darren	Prison Yard (Empty version)		Level 5
Zoya vs Johona	Distant Forest		Level 4
Alec vs Caleb	Prison Yard (Empty version)		Level 5

Stages

A battle takes place in a Stage. Each stage has its own settings and, sometimes, his own rules. It can be really useful for a player to know the specificity of a stage to take advantage of it. Each stages of Heirs of the Wrath are associated to a fighter and, most of times, illustrate a part of his country of origin and the culture.

Some stages have two versions. In most of the case, it is one original version and one more basic version (with no specific gameplay like uneven ground or traps) but others has two completely different versions like Distant Forest that has a version during summer and a second during winter.

Outside the fights, the stage also appears in the Story mode and mostly serves as a decor for characters encounters.

List of stages

There are 16 stages in Heirs to the Wrath.

Apartment 13

Associated Fighter: Yamatoni

A substandard and unsafe housing with very fragile furniture and walls. During your fight, you will crash into a bed, a closet even a toilet destroying everything all around you.

You can access to new rooms by throwing the opponent through a wall. You start in the bedroom.

Apartment 13 has one unique version

Specificity:

Danger zone: Furniture and some walls
Hidden Zone: Kitchen, Living Room, Bathroom
Interaction: You can kick on debris, throw your opponent's head in the lavatory pan
Victory by Ring out: Throw the opponent through a window

Cathedral of Apocalypse

Associated Fighter: Zoya

In a Cathedrale-like architectures. You can see strange and gigantic silhouettes of angels and demons behind impressive stained window of the cathedral overhangs you. The Cathedral of Apocalypse is evolving during a fight depending on the current winner

If the Player One has the more life: The Cathedral will illuminated and golden flames will appears giving birth to angels.
If the Player Two has the more life: The Cathedral will be darker and red-lighted, and you will see a demonic silhouette behind the stained windows.

Cathedral of Apocalypse has one unique version

Cherry Street

Associated Fighter: Saeko

A simple japanese pedestrian street with a row of colorful, semi-detached houses in a side and a row of cherry trees in bloom and bicycle. You can see a white tramway in the background. It's one of the most colorful and peaceful stage for a bloody violent fight. Wind animation with petal and bright sun contribute to the arena aestheticism.

Cherry Street has one unique version

Specificity:

Interaction: You can jump and catch a tree branch and then swing yourself to the left or the right for an extra jump

City Roof

Associated Fighter: Caleb

On the top of the world, you have a impressive panoramic on all a North American metropolis. In this arena you will be under the light of helicopters. In the last round, one helicopter will crash on the arena (under the attack of a random character), the zone will be highly dangerous, a lot of things will happen like fire, fall of the antenna, engine explosion. Be ready !

City Roof comes in two versions:

DEFAULT
BASIC - The helicopter won't crash.

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out
Danger zones

Classical Museum

Associated Fighter: Lou

With a Greek revival architecture, the museum in one of the most luxurious place to fight. It is divided in two areas :

Classical: A platform with, painting and a long red carpet. You can access to the Last Dinosaurs zone if you throw your opponent through the entrance or to the Avant-garde zone if you throw your opponent through a window.
Avant-garde: You can only access to this zone if you falls through the window. The theme of this area is the optical illusion, and there's various reflections and light effects for destabilized the players' mind.

Classical Museum has one unique version

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out: In the Classical zone if the opponent fall from the high platform
Hidden Zone: Avant-garde zone
Optical illusion (Avant-garde zone)

Cyber Nightclub

Associated Fighter: Elek-trode

It's a techno-rave night club reserved to the most underground community. There's a lot of dances, parties going on around you but you're here for the fight and it's exactly what make this nightclub than popular: the violence. You will be in a neon environments, lots of light animations, sexy dancers and all of that conducted by the Disc-jokey' mix.

Cyber Nightclub has one unique version

Specificity:

Interaction: You can jump in the crow to be carried on out the stage and immediately to the opposite side of the stage.

Distant Forest

Associated Fighter: Wei

Due to the numerous wind-singing bamboos and an absence of wildlife, this forest is known for being exceptionally relaxing. You can find a shallow lake in his center and a rocky cavern in the extreme left. This forest has a historic association with old demons, be careful, it is said that these ghastly spirits glide between the bamboo plants.

Distant Forest comes in two versions:

DEFAULT - During a sunny summer day
FROZEN - During a winter night and all the arena is snow-covered. On the lake now frozen, the fighters glide along.

Specificity:

Sliding zone: Frozen lake in the Frozen version

Freeway Chase

Associated Fighter: Johona

Get ready for high-speed action. You are fighting on various big vehicles dashing off on a freeway at night. The environment will change between streetlights, temperate rainforests, construction sites and highway tunnel. Beware, using your strongest moves can cause brutal accident, forcing you to jump on another vehicles. Your reflex will be tested here.

Freeway Chase comes in two versions:

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BASIC - The fight stays on the same vehicle with no risk of accident.

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out, if the opponent falls from the vehicle
Quick Time Event (QTE) when the fighters have to jump from the vehicle

Healing Spa

Associated Fighter: Janka

A communal bath house which uses hot water from a natural, rocky hot spring in the end of a waterfall. This bath house is quite relaxing within an Art Nouveau architecture, with one large wall separating the sexes. During the fight, which take place in a deep foot sap, you can break the barrier, the result is random, which type of naked people will you surprise behind? If you begin an all-female fight, you will start in the ladies side otherwise you'll start in the gentlemen side.

Healing Spa has one unique version

Outch! Ring!!

Associated Fighter: JiaJun

You are fighting on the set of an overexcited game show. Colorful, light everywhere, a big audience encouraging their favorite. It is a fun and unpretentious level where a beautiful lady presenter can shows up anytime for make a commentary. In the end of the match the presenter will interview the winner and different animation will play depending of his success. (Bigger Animation if he wins all the rounds)

Outch! Ring!! comes in two versions:

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2D MODE - A strict 2D arena (no side-steps) where the opponent are more distant at start from each other. You, also, can't move until the "Go!"

Pantheon Coliseum
	Associated Fighter: Alec You will be in the center of a gigantic Greek Coliseum encouraged by a breath-taking crow. With marble, flags, sleepy big cats and gigantic statues of Olympic Gods are part of the surrounding. You can also admire in the background, the outside of the Coliseum, a beautiful Greek island landscape with white and blue houses. Pantheon Coliseum has one unique version

Prison Yard

Associated Fighter: Ezequiel

The sinister prison yard of the Eighth Seal. You fight in a suspended cage with esoteric lights, surrounded by levels of balcony and prison cells. A lot of evil spirits encourage the fight, and when the hits become too violent the cage starts to swing itself. Be careful when you get close of an evil spirit, he can hit you or grap you for letting your opponent some free hits.

Prison Yard comes in two versions:

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EMPTY - Only available in the Story mode, it's the same arena but without the presence of spectators or evil spirits.
SURVIVAL - It's in this version that you fight in Survival Arcade Mode. Here, the more the matches carry on, the more the background becomes populated and brutal. In a certain point, they will have a pure chaos between the evil spirits. The arena will be badly light, blood will splash and spirits will jump on the cage trying to attack the fighters.

Specificity:

Danger zones

Serene Dojo

Associated Fighter: Qingyun

A majestic dojo with a classical Chinese architecture. There's a lot of statues, engravings who recall ancient gods from various mythology. If you throw the opponent through the paper wall, you will fall into the wood bridge.

Serene Dojo has one unique version

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out: If the opponent fall from the wood bridge in the water.
Hidden Zone: Wood Bridge

Skate Park

Associated Fighter: Darren

Graffiti, smoke, police sirens, rusted containers or trolleys, posters, garbage containers this place is unsafe and unwelcome. When you're fighting more and more skaters, punks and other misfits will assist to the match and cheer their favorite with flags.

Be careful when you get close of the crowd, they can hit you or grap you for letting your opponent some free hits.

Skate Park has one unique version

Specificity:

Danger Zone: The crowd

Step-Pyramid

Associated Fighter: Soledad

The fight start at the summit of an Aztec pyramid where you are above and surrounded by a dense tropical forest. If the fighters fall too much on the ground the roof where they fight will collapse and the fighter will fight in to bottom of Pyramid. The interior of the Pyramid is an Aztec temple with lots of engravings, statues and even a throne. The vegetation spread all over the place as there are a lots of enormous tree roots and luminescent fungus which light the place.

Step-Pyramid has one unique version

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out, if the opponent falls from the top of the Pyramid
Hidden Zone: Pyramid interior
Death Trap: Trapping pit in the Pyramid interior
Interaction: You can open the Death Trap with the lever

Sunrise Beach

Associated Fighter: Amina

Relaxing is easy on this Cameroonian beach during a sunrise: sand soft and white as sugar, brilliant sunshine and azure waters abound but you're here for the fight. While you try to beat each other, you can see various animations like Beach-volley, sandcastles and crabs. If you go to the extreme right, you reach the rocky reefs and their wild waves.

Sunrise Beach comes in two versions:

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BASIC - There is no uneven ground.

Specificity:

Victory by Ring out. In the rocky reefs, you can win if the opponent falls in the water.
Uneven grounds (particularly in the rocky reefs) forcing new strategies as it can change the range of the fighters' attack.
Interaction: You can kick on beach balls

Sound Design

Soundtrack

The game soundtrack ranges from gentle house to IDM trips through raucous synth melodies and hip-hop loops showing a variety of beats packed, all of which help to bring out an emotional and dream-like dynamic in opposition of the high energy tunes of most of the fighting game scores.

If the score mostly focus on electronic beats, there is sometimes classical music elements (choir, cello and violin) and heavy metal elements (riff with electric guitars, distortion sounds and vigorous vocals) adding variety and powerness to the soundtrack.

Others

Voice acting incorporates accents depending on the origins of the character speaking.

Artworks

Logos

Character Designs

Others Artworks

Unofficial Artworks & Fanarts

Thanks to all of you who took the time to draw the characters of Heirs to the Wrath! If you did an art about this game and want me to share it here just post it in the comments.

Development

With the revival of the fighting games market since the release of Street Fighter IV, the HTTW team wanted their own license able to stand out among the 3D fighting games represented by a very limited number of series (Tekken, Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive).

Taking inspiration from the changing form gameplay of a Hudson Soft fighting game series, Bloody Roar, the HTTW team developed the idea of Heirs to the Wrath with strong emphasis of a modern gameplay aiming to the esports tournament market.

An intriguing storyline, charismatic fighters and attractive design were developed so that the game can appeal to both casual gamers and the Western audience as well as garner a fanbase.

For the design, the HTTW team wanted the characters to have an impression of realistic proportionalities in anatomy but with slightly alteration (more slender, less broad shoulders, ...) to give them attractive bodies. Also, their physical traits must have corresponded to their nationality.

Even before the official launch, 5 DLC were announced each of them will add a new fighter, a new arena, new topical outfits for the fighters as well as balance rectifications. The DLC will be release every 6 months for a still to be determined price. During the same announcement, the HTTW team stipulated that, depending on the success of the game, they have plan for a sequel or a re-release.

Trivia

All the Wrath Moves are directly inspired by legends and myths surrounding the Deity.
Lots of deities was considered for the fighters, even Deity from less conventional mythologies as Cthulhu or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
From this survey, Elek-trode is voted first favorite fighter from the players as she gains 32% of votes. The second being Darren with 16% of votes.
You can read on Alec's pants δύναμη (dýnami) meaning Force in Greek.

Credits

Thanks to the people who helped me in this project, I am glad to have you!

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Synopsis

Context

Roster

Playable characters

The Primordial Program

Alec

Amina

Lou

Saeko

Zoya

The Eighth Seal

Caleb

JiaJun

Johona

Qingyun

Independents

Darren

Elek-trode

Ezequiel

Janka

Soledad

Wei

Yamatoni

Non-playable characters

Sophia

Orion

Gameplay

Basic Commands

Display

Basic Fight Mechanics

Deity Mechanics

Advanced Fight Mechanics

Environment Mechanics

Tag Battle Mechanics

Alternative Mechanics

Graphic Design & Animations

Mains modes

Story

Arcade

Versus

Ascension

Practice

Galleries

Option

Heir to the Wrath Online

Plot

Story Mode

1st Chapter - The Inner God

2nd Chapter - A New Myth

Stages

List of stages

Apartment 13

Cathedral of Apocalypse

Cherry Street

City Roof

Classical Museum

Cyber Nightclub

Distant Forest

Freeway Chase

Healing Spa

Outch! Ring!!

Pantheon Coliseum

Prison Yard

Serene Dojo

Skate Park

Step-Pyramid

Sunrise Beach

Sound Design

Soundtrack

Others

Artworks

Logos

Character Designs

Others Artworks

Unofficial Artworks & Fanarts

Development

Trivia

Credits

Comments