Pocket Bravery

Pocket Bravery is an indie 2D pixel art fighting game, with four main button controls inspired by The King of Fighters, one for weak punch, one for strong punch, one for weak kick and one for strong kick. However, it also features Breaker system, originating from Breakers.

And the additional buttons for, grab, and combo breaker and the optional ones, two for punch and two for kick and elemental. The game has four bars for each character, the uppermost gray bar is the stun bar that fills up as the character receives a hit; the health bar is the orange one and is the largest located further down, it decreases in each hit the character receives; the power bar that fills as the player keeps fighting, with this bar the character can do special attacks or cancel enemy special attacks; and finally the elemental bar, which fills like the power bar but takes longer and with it the character attacks with more strength and can make different moves such as canceling attacks and enemy combos. The grab command is executed by pressing the two weak attack buttons and the opponent can break away from the command by pressing the same buttons. Characters can also run, dash backward, do normal and long jumps. The game also offers simplified commands that help players with special needs.

A strange phenomenon has taken over the world and few people are able to feel or manifest it. Some are able to release energetic powers through their hands, others tone their muscles, while others transfer their energy to objects and weapons. No one can understand the reason for all this and tries to unravel the mystery of this phenomenon. In the midst of this disturbance, a terrorist group called Pack steals artifacts and ancient relics from countless nations, causing chaos wherever they go.

Nuno Alves, a former member of the Pack, opposes its leader Hector and ends up being brutally punished and thrown into a captivity called place Kennel. There he meets a man called Lobo with whom he creates an alliance and gets mentored by him, teaching him how to use the strange force known as Ichor that has taken over the world. Nuno and Lobo manage to escape from captivity and plan to take revenge on Hector. On this journey they meet Mingmei who is an agent of the Ghost Hat organization that aims to stop Nuno's tormentor and in this endeavor they meet and become friends with Sebastian and Hadassa who have goals similar to Nuno's, as well as the rest of the cast around the world.

The origin of Pocket Bravery was the disappointment with the development of the game Trajes Fatais. Jonathan Silva, the creator of the franchise had previously worked on the indie fighting game 'Trajes Fatais' from Onanim Studio and was also the publicity face for the project. He started working on the project in 2016 and in 2017 he was faced with a huge lack of money raised for the game's development. The studio ended up suffering from this financial shortage and this affected many members who ended up being dismissed.

The studio's harmony was no longer the same and he decided to leave the project in 2020 but with his dream of creating a fighting game. Wanting to separate himself from the bad reputation he unfairly gained, he met Anderson Halfeld and they founded Brazilian developer Statera Studio.

Pocket Bravery received favored reviews, with GameBlast giving it an 8 out of 10, highly praising the number of single player modes, but complaining about the progress in Story Mode not being saved in the cloud. The website Round 1 praised the ease of gameplay and the educational way of teaching the game to be handled, also giving it an 8 out of 10 and emphasizing that the traditional controls seem somewhat "hard". Gamerview while also praising the gameplay also highlighted the considerable modes, despite saying that Hot Pursuit mode didn't add anything, and gave it a rating of 95 out of 100%. Siliconera gave it a 7 and praised the complexity of the cast, the fun modes and the help tools.

Retrolike jointly praised the numerous modes and the pixel art but complained about the unbalanced characters, the issues in the hitbox and blocking of attacks, finishing with a rating of 7 out of 10. 5 out of 5. Hardcoregamer expressed that the game is a tribute to classic fighting games while bringing a modern touch with various modes, options and extra content and the website Pizza Fria added that the game stands out in the saturated scene of the genre by standing out with its facets made with passion.