General
What kind of game is Project Justice?
Project Justice is a 3D fighting game that more or less plays like a 2D game. It's also quite unique, with a fast pace and sense of style not seen in any other fighting game. The game is pretty neutral-heavy, with a big focus on playing around strong universal defensive options with good movement and checking people with low-commitment attacks.
What characters do you recommend?
Kyosuke, Roberto, and Hideo are good starter characters. They're all characters with strong, simple gameplans that will help you get a feel for how the game flows.
Kyosuke has really good reach all around, while Roberto and Hideo have basic combos that are easy to do and result in high damage.
What partners do you recommend?
Edge, Roy, Chairperson, Hinata, Tiffany, Natsu, Kyoko, and Yurika.
The first two have fast Team-Up Attacks that are fairly safe on block, while the last six recover either health or meter for you (Chairperson recovers both).
Gameplay
How do combos work in this game?
Combos are based primarily around the Textbook Combo chain system, as well as Marvel-style air combos.
Specific chain routes differ depending on the character, but for all characters the general flow of combos is Light > Heavy > Command Heavy > Special/Super.
There's actually quite a bit of input leniency when compared to other games, so just do it slowly and you should be fine.
I keep getting rushed down and can't do anything!
Rushdown in Project Justice can be very strong if you don't properly use your defensive options. Learning how to properly use your Tardy Counters will do wonders to make your opponent think twice about pressuring you. Remember that Tardy Counters are available in the air as well as on the ground! A very common answer to repeated jab pressure (used by characters like Roy and Kyoko) is to chicken block and Tardy Counter with an aerial command normal. A lot of pressure strings also aren't airtight, so you can use your Team-Up Techniques to blow through this pressure.
How do I open people up?
Truly threatening overheads in Project Justice are few and far between, so for the most part you'll be mixing people up with strike/throw or setting up left/right mixups after an some air combos. Also of note is that every character has access to a low throw which will throw crouching opponents and cannot be teched, which kind of makes this your universal overhead.
Tiers
Class order is S -> E, same class is [Strong] -> [Weak]
- S: Roy, Kyoko, Hyo, Hideo
- A: Hayato, Kurow, Kyosuke, Roberto, Yurika
- B: Vatsu, Burning Batsu, Zaki, Batsu, Edge
- C: Shoma, Hinata, Boman, Momo, Natsu, Tiffany, Akira = Powered Akira
- D: Nagare, Daigo, Wild Daigo, Demon Hyo, Gan, Ran
- E: Chairperson
Old Tier List
- S: Roy, Kyoko, Hyo, Kurow, Hideo
- A: Kyosuke, Roberto = Hayato, Yurika
- B: Burning Batsu, Vatsu, Zaki, Edge, Batsu
- C: Powered Akira, Momo, Shoma = Tiffany, Boman, Natsu
- D: Nagare, Akira, Hinata = Ran, Demon Hyo, Daigo = Wild Daigo, Gan
- E: Chairperson
Tech Support
How can I play online?
Fightcade uses Dreamcast / NAOMI Arcade emulator Flycast, that supports Rollback Netcode with GGPO.
Now that this version has native spectating, ranked matches and training functions, it takes priority over older methods of playing, such as NullDC BEAR.
However, Fightcade does not provide game files. Any files needed to play this way, you'd have to find on your own. Or check the resources channel on the Project Justice Discord.
Training mode?
Fightcade emulates the arcade version. The Dreamcast version has a standard training mode, which means you'd need to acquire a separate ROM and load it through Flycast natively, or use another emulator.
An easy to set up emulator is Redream. For some reason, VMU editors don't work with Project Justice. Therefore, in order to have access to the whole roster without grinding story mode make sure you grab a hacked gdi ROM linked in the resources channel of the Project Justice Discord.
