American indie bums are tryna claim doujin games now while ignoring everything those games did to become a success? lmao

Doujin fighters have
>cheap, limited, efficient animations
>a unique gimmick that blends into the fight
>appealing, memorable, toyetic characters
>gravitas, subtlety, and quality just short of arcade release level
>made my people that actually play fighting games

The typical indie fighter has
>full animation like a Disney film (takes 3 times as long to come out and 5 times the budget)
>an oppressive gimmick that becomes the entire game's meta and/or 5000000 hit Screen shake TOD off any hit
>tumblr rejects or just generic unity asset store guys no one even likes ironically
>basically not QA tested at all, just a bunch of stolen moves and memes that date the game before it's even out
>made by some trust fund kid or some Calarts dropout that has never even played a fighter, but just thinks they look cool

You know the sad part? I can't even blame them TOO much. It's a direct result of American culture. It's become a cannibalistic cirlcejerk of gatekeeping. The process is not democratized at all, so half of the people that have the resources to make a game are just the richest trust fund kid with the worst taste. As opposed to Asia where art is more democratized and any poor ghettoite has access to better art education and probably free/cheap college for coding as well.