Smash Champs Arena

Smash Champs Arena puts the champs of Kiloo's Smash Champs games into a one-on-one fighting game. Pick your champ on the title screen, Jag the jaguar, Teddy the polar bear, or the fox, the gorilla, the hyena or the alligator, each with its own moves, speed, power and health. Press Fight and the arcade run begins: five worlds, one per rival arena, with two challengers and the arena's champion in each, then the Shadow boss in the dojo. Sixteen fights, best of three rounds, sixty seconds a round.

The controls follow the modern fighting-game layout: walk with the arrows, jump up, dodge down, and hold away from an attacking opponent to guard. Four buttons do the rest. Light chains up to three hits, Heavy hits hard and lunges when you press toward, Special is an uppercut launcher that becomes a guard-breaking leap toward and a sweep away, and Super spends a bar of the three-level meter you fill by landing hits, taking them and dodging. You can attack out of a jump as well, and a taunt builds meter while the other champ is down. On a gamepad the face buttons do the same, and on a phone or tablet the buttons are on screen.

Every fight pays coins, more for later worlds, champions, perfect rounds and long combos. Spend them on the character screen between fights: a second and third skin for each champ, and head, body and leg gear in three tiers that add power, health and speed. The computer opponents gear up as the run goes on. Your coins, outfits and collection are kept on the device. The seven stages are the Smash Champs arenas, the Dojo, the Temple Hall, the Arctic Crash Site, the Temple Garden, the Pueblo Plaza, the Toxic Sewer and the Bayou Swamp, each with its own music.