Battle Fantasia/Trivia


 * Dueling Games: It had the great misfortune to come out alongside Street Fighter IV.
 * This is only true for the PSN version of the game which was released on December 22, 2009, The game was released in arcades on April 26, 2007. On an interesting note, Yoshiro Ono, producer of the Street Fighter 4 series commented in an interview that Capcom wasn't interested in releasing a new SF game if it wasn't 3D, but he wasn't sure if it was possible to make a game with 3d graphics and keep the 2d "feeling" until they watched Battle Fantasia -- a game that in his words inspired the SF4 series.
 * Executive Meddling: Inverted, in this case, the decisions could be considered to have made the game better, YMMV for the 1st one since the game was planned to be a traditional 2D sprite based fighting game but was decided that it had to use 3D graphics instead, since Arc System Works didn't have a 3D game by the time, the 2nd one was the adition of the Heat Up system, afraid that the game was too different from the Arc System Works formula, they asked for a mode that could allow more Combos options, leading to the Heat Up system which adds more depth and also more variety in gameplay since it's unique for every character.
 * Screwed by the Network: The American PlayStation 3 release was delayed over a year and forced to go download-only because SCEA does not allow retail discs without English voice acting.