Addendum

The conventional method is to have uninvolved characters comment on how exciting the action is, but I'm not sure that does anything but pad. By "action sequence" we here mean "card duel" of course. Have you ever gone back and watched Yu-Gi-Oh? It's amazingly fast-paced till the ratings came in, and then began the age of milking.

Improving Action Sequences

Have you thought about imposing a clock? Fighting games and RTS do that all the time, and people keep playing those. Well, one of them.

Addendum

I haven't thought of anything better yet, but there just has to be something. What about The Riddle-Master of Hed?

Controversial Statements

I've been holding this in for a long time, but I just have to say it: I don't think Dennis L. McKiernan's The Iron Tower is especially suitable for a fighting game. I think you could find better.

Here's What You've Been FORGETTING To Put In The Back Of Your Book!

Forget a glossary, you gotta get a movelist back there so people can follow the fights all nice and good.

Adaptation Corner

Q. What genre of videogame should the Recluce books be used in?
A. Shop sim.
Q. What about The Dark Is Rising?
A. 3v3 tag fighter.

Fighting Games

More like fighting lames! That's a pretty strange term, but most genre names are. Fighting games I mean, not fighting lames. The latter makes good, plain sense. They're more like duel games or sparring games, I would say if called to testify in court.

Speculation About Street Fighter 6

What will Capcom do to keep Street Fighter relevant for modern audiences? A hard magic system, sexy mummies, and a pirate captain with a very sophisticated parrot, probably. And tons of DLC, but you already knew that.