Fierce Harmony

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Fierce Harmony
Developer(s) Indigo Moon Productions
Publisher(s) Kesmai Corporation
Platform(s) Windows [1]
ReleaseSeptember 8, 1999 [1]

Fierce Harmony is a 1999 video game from Indigo Moon Productions. The game was available in trial form in April 1999. [2]

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Development

Fierce Harmony was showcased at E3 1997. [3] In June 1997, WorldPlay Entertainment acquired the exclusive global online rights to the game. [3] [4] The game designed by Michael Pierre Price [2] was developed with a budget of more than $600,000. [5]

Reception

PC Joker gave the game a score of 42 out of 100 stating"Fierce Harmony may be quite nice as an animation demo, but as an alternative to "Virtua Fighter 2" the game fails across the board. [6]

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