A port of Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
The supreme trial of strength awaits! 19 of Fatal Fury's hottest heroes collide! One year since the fearsome conclusion to "Real Bout", the hungry wolves ready themselves for a new battle, "Real Bout Special" - the paramount pugilistic proving ground!
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(Used Andy Bogard for my Playthrough)
This is a pretty impressive port of the Neo Geo fighting game from 1996. Done by developer Gaibrain who had ported Garou Densetsu games in the past, did a very good job here. I have never played the original but this was pretty fun with some fast paced gameplay with a dash and backdash mechanic along with that lane changing. There’s a little bit of slowdown but the game feels good to play which feels rare for the system. This game out in one of the last notable years for the handheld and it shows. I was surprised how easy it was to get input moves down and had no struggle doing them. The only real issue I had was I’m not sure how to do grabs and could only do them a few times. The music is also pretty good of what I’m assuming are conversions of songs from the original game.
The AI is also pretty easy though should be noted I played on the Normal difficulty. Even till the very end I probably only lost like one or two rounds. I also felt the timer was too strict at the default so I moved it to infinite time to not get cheap time over victories. If you’re playing on the SGB, you get some cool colors, a wonderful border with Terry and Mai on it, and even 2 player support without a link cable. You can also fight two secret characters being Geese and Iori. Iori is actually unique to this version and apparently this is the only Garou Densetsu game he is in, not even in the original Neo Geo version. I do wonder how Geese is alive though, I thought he died?
This was a joy to play and really just shows how far the GB has gone when even a fighting game can be fun by 1998. Some may say this port is irrelevant nowadays to play but if you’re looking for good GB games, this isn’t a bad one. In some ways it reminds me of what SNK would later do on their NGPC for fighting games. It’s weird to think this is one of the higher rated games on the system for me but sometimes I love surprises.
This is a pretty impressive port of the Neo Geo fighting game from 1996. Done by developer Gaibrain who had ported Garou Densetsu games in the past, did a very good job here. I have never played the original but this was pretty fun with some fast paced gameplay with a dash and backdash mechanic along with that lane changing. There’s a little bit of slowdown but the game feels good to play which feels rare for the system. This game out in one of the last notable years for the handheld and it shows. I was surprised how easy it was to get input moves down and had no struggle doing them. The only real issue I had was I’m not sure how to do grabs and could only do them a few times. The music is also pretty good of what I’m assuming are conversions of songs from the original game.
The AI is also pretty easy though should be noted I played on the Normal difficulty. Even till the very end I probably only lost like one or two rounds. I also felt the timer was too strict at the default so I moved it to infinite time to not get cheap time over victories. If you’re playing on the SGB, you get some cool colors, a wonderful border with Terry and Mai on it, and even 2 player support without a link cable. You can also fight two secret characters being Geese and Iori. Iori is actually unique to this version and apparently this is the only Garou Densetsu game he is in, not even in the original Neo Geo version. I do wonder how Geese is alive though, I thought he died?
This was a joy to play and really just shows how far the GB has gone when even a fighting game can be fun by 1998. Some may say this port is irrelevant nowadays to play but if you’re looking for good GB games, this isn’t a bad one. In some ways it reminds me of what SNK would later do on their NGPC for fighting games. It’s weird to think this is one of the higher rated games on the system for me but sometimes I love surprises.