Fighter's Island: Destiny

Fighter's Island: Destiny is a crossover fighting game published and developed by Ultima Games. It is the fifth mainline entry in the Fighter's Island series. Having been announced two months after the last balance patch for Fighter's Island: Champion of the Sphere released, it was released on February 2023 for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Gameplay
Much like the previous two entries, Fighter's Island: Destiny utilizes 3-D graphics in a 2.5-D plane. The traditional 6-button layout is used, but in a surprising twist, the gameplay is taken from not a Street Fighter title, but from Ultima Games's Heavy Hitters 3. Focus Attacks, a mechanic in both the Street Fighter and Heavy Hitters series, returns here, but also added is EX Mode, which functions similarly to MAX Mode from the King of Fighters series. The super gauge system is taken from Heavy Hitters 3 as well, where each character has at least three super moves (two Level 1s and one Level 3). The Level 1 supers normally cost one bar of meter to perform, but can be enhanced by pressing two punch or kick buttons at the cost of an additional bar. When in EX mode, the enhanced super is used automatically.

Similar to the last Fighter's Island, this game contains a story mode, but it is very different. Players take control of director Josh Garriga's new OC Kim, a faun from another realm who prefers to covort with humankind, to save the multiverse from a powerful time mage in an open world perspective, similar to games like Jump Force and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. The main hub-world is Fighter's Island, where a temporal device similar to Crash Bandicoot Warped's Time Twister is held, though players can travel off the Island to Nerseytown, which serves as a hub for shopping for various needs, including eating food, buying upgrades, and conversing with the townsfolk, similar to the Yakuza and Judgement series.

Game Modes

 * Arcade (face off against seven combatants in a brand new tournament before going up against the boss)
 * Story (embark on an epic journey to save all of humanity)
 * Versus (play a single match against a human or CPU opponent offline)
 * Ranked Match (play a match against a human opponent from anywhere around the world; wins and losses count towards your online ranking)
 * Casual Match (play a match against a human opponent from anywhere around the world; can rechallenge opponent or quit session as often as you need as the fights do not count towards your ranking)
 * Survival (go up against a series of battles against a number of the roster; you have only one health bar, so make it count)
 * Mission (complete a series of missions with a given character)
 * Shop (use in-game currency to purchase items for the gallery, alternate colors for the characters, survival mode enhancements, and more)
 * Gallery (view artwork, music, and more from the game)
 * Options (adjust various game settings here)

Characters
The full retail roster consists of 24 characters. Game director Josh Garriga said he wanted to provide a healthy mix of returning and new characters to the franchise, reflecting on a mistake he made with Legend of the Sphere's roster. In addition, two bosses are unlockable by completing certain conditions. The game's full roster reveal trailer teased series veteran Solid Snake as the first DLC character for the game, and the launch trailer revealed that five more characters would be joining him after as the year went on.
 * Ryu (Street Fighter)
 * Kim (new OC) (new)
 * Cassie Cage (Mortal Kombat)
 * Spider-Man (Marvel)
 * Zero (Mega Man)
 * Izuku (My Hero Academia) (new)
 * Spawn (Spawn)
 * Joker (DC)
 * Ken (Street Fighter)
 * Potemkin (Guilty Gear) (new)
 * Mako (Kill La Kill) (new)
 * Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Robocop (Robocop) (new)
 * K' (The King of Fighters) (new)
 * Juri (Street Fighter)
 * Goku (Dragon Ball)
 * SpongeBob (SpongeBob SquarePants)
 * Jenny (My Life As a Teenage Robot) (new)
 * Simon (Castlevania)
 * Dragon (The Savage Dragon)
 * Bugs (Looney Tunes) (new)
 * Dinosaur (The King of Fighters) (new)
 * Gohan (Dragon Ball) (new)
 * Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
 * Kharklona (new OC) (new) (boss)
 * Kage (Street Fighter) (new) (secret boss)
 * Snake (Metal Gear) (DLC)
 * Yang (RWBY) (new) (DLC)
 * Kintaro (Mortal Kombat) (DLC)
 * Athena (Psycho Soldier) (new) (DLC)
 * Venom (Marvel) (new) (DLC)
 * Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) (DLC)
 * Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) (DLC)

Stages

 * Fighter's Island
 * Rapsod Mansion
 * Optic City Square
 * Jellies Stadium
 * Underground Pit
 * Matsumoto Estate
 * Traveling Subway
 * G-ASP Center Stage
 * Kahn's Koliseum
 * Tail Lick Newsroom
 * Ginger's Throne
 * Grand Foyer
 * Thick Jungle
 * Ultima Parade


 * Beachfront
 * Robotics Facility
 * Junkyard Brawl
 * Temporal Tower
 * Dimensional Rift
 * Castle Ruins
 * Gridlock (training stage)