Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 15: Jaleco Collection

Round two of playing as porn parody M.Bison (he got swole ya'll) and its certainly a step up from the first game. While its still very much a case of 'We want to mimic Final Fight's success', I would argue it actually does a half decent hob with it this time.

Attacks feel chunky and weighty, there's a rather polite variety of characters to pick from and damage scaling feels fair and useful. Im not going to pretend its an amazing game though. The graphics are rather basic and the overall gameplay doesn't really rise above a pleasant breeze the entire time (also a couple of the levels are FAR too long). Despite this its still a decent enough way to while away an hour or two.

Just stopped my third attempt, abandoned now. Coming from the really good classics like Turtles in Time, Super Double Dragon and the recently played King of the Dragons or Knights of the Round, this one simply disappoints. Generic characters and enemies, lack in variety. Furthermore awful hitboxes which tend to be unfair and make it hard to read the game. Early on - sewers in stage one - it's trial and error to find the exit; all means to lengthen the game. Tried first on normal, second attempt as well - too annoying. Then, this third one, i tried on easy - still unfair. On the plus-side: they've created some memorable graphics ("smash!") and a - in theory - wide moveset for every character. Also the character change on "Continue" let you check out the other characters more easily. But besides that it's also the most generic story as well. Did only see one (the first) boss fight, which has a nice twist in terms of using the environment. But that's that. In a nutshell - not worth my time, especially in regards of much better Beat'm up cousins out there.