Lethal League Blaze turns handball into a stylish fighting game
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Lethal League Blaze is a game that feels like a distillation of the things I loved about games on the Sega Dreamcast. During that time I was really into sports games like NFL 2K and Virtua Tennis, and also fell hard for fighters like Soulcalibur and Capcom vs. SNK. At the same time, I was also enthralled by the incredibly creative gameplay and aesthetics Sega produced with Crazy Taxi and Shenmue.
Lethal League Blaze combines all of these elements. It’s the sport of handball turned into a fighting game, with the brightly...