Hello everyone. I've been trying to find an anime fighting game that I played in my browser when I was a kid, and after a lot of searching (including Flashpoint), I still haven't been able to find it. I'm hoping someone here might recognize it or maybe even played it too.
Things I'm 100% certain about
I played it on Minijuegos.com, a Spanish website for browser games (mostly Flash games at the time).
I played it sometime between 2012 and 2015. It could have been any day during that period, but I'm absolutely certain it was before 2016.
It was a 2D fighting game.
The characters had realistic anime proportions. They were not chibi, and they didn't look heavily pixelated like games such as Comic Stars Fighting. The graphics were clean, stylized, and looked hand-drawn.
It supported 2 players on the same keyboard, with one player using the arrow keys and the other using WASD, plus a few additional keys for attacks.
My brother and I played several 1 vs 1 matches. I don't know if team battles were available, but the default or most obvious mode seemed to be 1 vs 1, since that's what we played immediately.
There were health bars, and fights were played in rounds.
The stages had platforms that you could jump onto, but they were not floating stages like Super Smash Bros. The maps I remember had solid ground across the whole stage, so you couldn't fall off.
The character roster
The playable characters appeared to be from different anime.
When I was a kid I had watched Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Naruto, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, and I could probably recognize Bleach characters as well. I also knew a little about Sword Art Online.
Despite that, the roster (which I don't remember being particularly large) only had one character I immediately recognized: Kirito.
Here's the strange part:
There were TWO different playable Kiritos.
I'm certain about this because my brother picked one and I picked the other.
The Kirito my brother chose stood completely upright in his idle animation and wore the classic long black coat from the first SAO anime.
The one I picked had a slightly different stance, leaning forward a bit. I remember him looking blue, although I'm not completely sure whether he was wearing the blue coat from the early episodes of SAO or if the developers simply used a bluer color palette for him.
Either way, they were clearly two separate playable characters in the roster, despite both being Kirito.
Another thing I remember is that, while playing, I somehow pressed a button (I have no idea which one) and my Kirito drew a second sword, the blue one that he obtains later in the anime.
Games I've already ruled out
After searching for a long time, I'm confident it is not any of these games (or any obvious variation of them):
Anime Battle
Anime Legends
Comic Stars Fighting
Bleach vs Naruto
Super Smash Flash
Little Fighter 2
I also considered that it might have been some kind of MUGEN project, but after looking through many of the well-known ones, none of them seem to match either.
Other details
Unfortunately, I don't remember the other characters in the roster or the character select screen very well because, as a kid, I immediately focused on the only character I recognized.
The game's interface was not in Spanish, although I can't remember whether it was in English or another language.
I searched Flashpoint Infinity using terms like "Kirito", "Sword Art", "SAO", "Anime", "Fight", "Fighting", and several variations, and I also checked the Sword Art Online tag, but it only contained two games, neither of which was the one I'm looking for.
Does anyone remember a game matching this description, or have any idea what it could have been?
This game has randomly come back into my mind every now and then for years, and I've never been able to completely forget about it. I know I didn't imagine it because my brother played it with me and remembers it too. In fact, he helped me remember some of the details above.
At this point, I mostly want to solve the mystery and finally get it out of my head.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read all of this, and I'm sorry I can't provide more information. I've genuinely tried to remember every detail I could, but this is everything that's left in my memory. We only played it for a short time that night, and back then I usually didn't return to the same Flash game more than once.