Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors

Title screen of Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors.
Developer(s)	Y. Takahashi and team
Publisher(s)	Fuuki
Composer(s)	Akihiro Nishida
Platform(s)	Arcade Game
Release	December 26, 2000
Genre(s)	2D Versus Fighting
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	FG-3
CPU	68EC020 (@20MHz)
Sound	Sound CPU: Z80 (@6MHz) Sound Chips: YMF262 (@14.32MHz), YMF278B (@33.87MHz)
Display	Raster, 320 x 240 pixels, 8192 colors

Asura Buster - Eternal Warriors (アシュラバスター -エターナルウォーリアーズ-^?) is a 2000 one-on-one fighting arcade game developed and published by Fuuki. It is the sequel to the 1998 arcade game Asura Blade: Sword of Dynasty.

The gameplay system of Asura Buster is similar to its predecessor, in which it utilizes a three-button system while using a few of the same battle tactics such as air blocking, retreating and advancing, a roll and a jump up after being knocked down, a push back from within blocking, and a two-button melee attack. Like its predecessor, Asura Buster has a super gauge system, known as the Magic Gauge that's seen at the bottom of the fight screen and that a player is able to fill up their Magic Gauge through either attacking, being attacked, or using special moves. Once the player is able to gain a MAX level from within the Magic Gauge, they can then initiate either a Super Move, an EX Attack (which is a powered up variation of a special move) or a Boost Mode (which bestows special traits or characteristics upon the character for the remainder of the round, but forces them to not use Super Moves, EX Attacks, and two-button melee attacks). The combo system in Asura Buster is the same as in Asura Blade, in which moves are chained into more powerful moves, and then into specials. Three new tactics introduced in Asura Buster includes the Guard Breaker, in which a character can break through an opponent's defense and stun them for a few seconds, Break Fall, in which a character is able to automatically recover from a hit while in midair through the use of having to use up a meter of their Magic Gauge and Last Chance, in which a character can automatically come back to life after being K.O. by their opponent and is able to fight against them in a time limit last chance to win the match.

Three years have passed since the events of Asura Blade and the post-apocalyptic world has been in a state of calm and peace after the deaths of S. Geist and Curfue, both of whom were killed by Yashaou from within the last fight of the battle, but now, a new threat has arisen as the sudden and shocking sinking of a continent has placed the post-apocalyptic world into a state of chaos and destruction once more. A few of the fighters from the Asura Blade incident of three years ago, along with a few new warriors will find themselves being caught up from within a dark and shrouded conspiracy as a mysterious yet malevolent king aspires to become the new supreme lord of the world.