‘My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic’ Is Looking Shockingly Solid

Well, here’s a sentence that I never thought I’d write as long as I lived: There was a My Little Pony fan-game showcased at fighting game mega-event Evo 2012, and it was well received. In fact, in the able hands of professional players, it even revealed itself to have some shocking depth to its combo system. Freeware fan-game My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic has been in the works for over a year now, and while progress seems slow, they’ve got a fair bit to show for their efforts. Here’s the latest gameplay video they put out:

Impressive stuff! Adorable, yet brutal. If you want to see more, there’s a whole two hours of unedited gameplay footage on their youtube channel, but I assume most of you are satisfied enough just to wait until a public beta or final release version goes live. The development crew (known as Mane6) strongly repeat that this is an entirely non-profit fan-work, and don’t even want to receive donations. Anything that would bring the wrath of Hasbro down on them is to be avoided.

Much as I feel like I’ll be cursed by terrible cosmic forces for saying this, but MLP: Fighting is Magic looks pretty damn good, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. The development team seem to be fairly talented on all fronts, too, from art to design to music. We’ll be keeping a keen eye on this one, and you can keep up with the project on the official dev-blog here.