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An obscure Japan-only game from EA?s Japanese branch, Rabbit features a four-button combat system, and pressing certain buttons together can summon your animal spirit(which was mapped to a fifth button for the home release). While the game features dodges, recovery rolls, ground hits, deflections, dashes, and hops, the animal spirit is the real focus here. By dealing and receiving damage, the player?s power bar builds up at the bottom. Once filled, the player can summon their animal spirit and use it to execute special or super moves. Defeat a character in arcade, and you?ll take their animal spirit, allowing you to summon and use them. So if the player started with the rabbit and gained the snake in the first match, he could use both?s moves in the second match. This encourages players to learn all of the animal spirits, and gives them options. In Versus mode, both players have access to all of these animal spirits. It?s an interesting concept, despite the game being a bit cutesy.