I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected, though it might have to do with this game being more closer to trying to be like Street Fighter 2. Still, that's not a bad thing. Probably the most memorable thing about this game imo is just how this game is a goldmine of awful SNK localization, look it up if you want a real laugh.
Like with some of the Street Fighter 2 ports, I respect this game's legacy. I enjoyed the game for a while, but it's not really a FG I'd come back to. It's probably because I'm more used to fast-paced battles like the ones in Street Fighter 3 or KOF '98. So it'd make sense why this wouldn't click for me like any of the other FGs I play.
Não é nenhum super jogo (ainda mais considerando que essa versão Special veio na rabeira de SF2 Champion Edition de ter bosses jogáveis e etc), mas é divertido, daquele que tu coloca ali de bobeira pra tirar uns contras com a gurizada e dar umas risadas da farofada que rola.
Tem um bom roster de personagens, assim como FF2 já tinha, mas com retornos muito benvindos de personagens legais de FF1 e inclusive um personagem secreto.
Tem um bom roster de personagens, assim como FF2 já tinha, mas com retornos muito benvindos de personagens legais de FF1 e inclusive um personagem secreto.
duck king is my man. this game is a popular alternative to Street Fighter 2 in Japan. You can fight ryo from art of fighting if you are super good enough, but i'm not super good enough to do that. Other than that, it's pretty much an improved and slightly more balanced version of Fatal Fury 2. I was even able to finish the game on the AES mode with limited continues, which is not really something I can do when I play these fighters.
underappreciated game from the "sf2 clone" days, not especially well-balanced as you might expect but good enough that it still has a decent scene in japan! this game has that oldschool flavor of neutral i like with some really crunchy buttons and high damage. the combos, while very tricky compared to something like SF2HF, are incredibly satisfying once you figure them out. lane system is pretty silly and ultimately vestigial, but it's still surprising how well-thought out it is. saying this both for FFS and its earlier iteration in FF2, but i feel like the roster goes underappreciated, tons of strange and interesting guys as well as beloved SNK mainstays. i personally love big bear and axel hawk a lot, and for kim and mai's first appearances it's a little crazy how they basically appeared from thin air, playstyle fully-formed.
if south town was real i would go there every summer it seems like the coolest place in america
if south town was real i would go there every summer it seems like the coolest place in america
If you thought Super Street Fighter II X had the primer of cheating against you with a CPU that is reading your inputs, allow me to introduce you to Fatal Fury Special. At some point, there is absolutely no way to win besides cheesing every move. It's the SNK boss syndrome, applied to 10 fights in a row. Absolutely abominable, which is a bummer considering how pretty the game looks and how good it sounds.
I know shoot em ups have a bad reputation regarding games being considered as art, but I think fighting games, especially those from Japan, come close in being quite similar to each other, also not having the capability to present themselves as an epic experience (think Ikaruga or Silpheed's cinematic flair) and most of them falling into cliché animesque art style, characters and story, and often having an excuse to introduce fan service, like here which has a final match against a characther from another fighting game. I don't care about your pandering, do your own thing, game!
That said, the final match being against a wealthy man who put an orchestra playing in the background of his palace is pretty damn charismathic and unique
That said, the final match being against a wealthy man who put an orchestra playing in the background of his palace is pretty damn charismathic and unique
Way too many diagonal-only inputs for the special moves here. Can't the game just be hard without the essential moves being hard too? It's a trade-off I have to choose every day: the guys are cuter in SNK but the guys are easier to control in Capcom. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Anyway, you know what I really enjoy? In old fighting games like these, they always do these profiles for the characters with their likes and dislikes as if they're in a teen magazine or something. Usually this is in lieu of any decent writing or characterization, and sometimes they are absolutely fascinating. Here are some good ones I found for this game:
Terry Bogard hated thing: Slugs
Andy Bogard hated thing: Dogs (this makes him the main villain as far as I'm concerned)
Joe Higashi favorite food: deep-fried alligator meat (you do you)
Cheng Sinzan hated thing: Bimbos (I don't know, maybe someone broke his heart, and now he's into grind culture, which is why his favorite thing is "savings")
Big Bear favorite thing: Amusement park rides (he's like five hundred pounds)
Big Bear hated thing: Koalas (...okay)
Jubei Yamada hated thing: Men smelling of sweat
Billy Kane likes: doing laundry (lmao what)
Axel Hawk hated thing: Mice (my man standing on a chair and shrieking, swatting away a mouse with a broom)
Laurence Blood hated thing: women and small children (honestly, same)
And my favorite one of the bunch, Ryo Sakazaki hated thing: bugs with multiple legs. Bugs with multiple legs! What on earth could he have meant? They all have multiple legs!
Anyway, you know what I really enjoy? In old fighting games like these, they always do these profiles for the characters with their likes and dislikes as if they're in a teen magazine or something. Usually this is in lieu of any decent writing or characterization, and sometimes they are absolutely fascinating. Here are some good ones I found for this game:
Terry Bogard hated thing: Slugs
Andy Bogard hated thing: Dogs (this makes him the main villain as far as I'm concerned)
Joe Higashi favorite food: deep-fried alligator meat (you do you)
Cheng Sinzan hated thing: Bimbos (I don't know, maybe someone broke his heart, and now he's into grind culture, which is why his favorite thing is "savings")
Big Bear favorite thing: Amusement park rides (he's like five hundred pounds)
Big Bear hated thing: Koalas (...okay)
Jubei Yamada hated thing: Men smelling of sweat
Billy Kane likes: doing laundry (lmao what)
Axel Hawk hated thing: Mice (my man standing on a chair and shrieking, swatting away a mouse with a broom)
Laurence Blood hated thing: women and small children (honestly, same)
And my favorite one of the bunch, Ryo Sakazaki hated thing: bugs with multiple legs. Bugs with multiple legs! What on earth could he have meant? They all have multiple legs!