This was something I came to after my 400 followers thing with Castlevania, wanting to go back to obscure and short retro games to go through my backlog a lot quicker and get more done.

Brutal: Paws of Fury is your typical tournement fighter, however, there are many issues I have with it too in regards to the controls and design.

Now the art is amazing, especially for the Fox character named Foxy, but that's about where the best parts of it end as the game has a random difficulty spike and you learn moves after every battle. Without a manual, I can't tell if they were all in there beforehand, but after every match you are shown and given the chance to master a move, but the controls were a little stiff and made it a difficult game to play at times.

After this, something that I feel broke the difficulty of the game is that you have a move that acts as a kind of taunt, however, all it does it heals up you! With rocky, it meant slapping her ass at her opponent. Normally, you don't heal yourself in a fighting game, so the inclusion here felt strange, but it was also fairly difficult anyway.

I can't recommend this game, beyond the sexy fox lady in it!

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When thinking about why this game failed, it's easy to look at the terrible AI (it's possible to stunlock enemies with flying kicks even on the highest difficulty), the weird special move inputs (some of these special moves are even harder to do than specials in the original Street Fighter), or the wonky gamefeel (I have nothing to say about this - you really have to feel it for yourself).

But I think the biggest problem with Brutal: Paws of Fury is that it didn't really know exactly what it wanted to be, so it just threw a bunch of stuff at the wall and served us what stuck. The characters have a bunch of punny names (Dali Llama and Tai Cheetah are two of the reasons why this game didn't score lower) and the graphics are cutesy, so why does the main story take itself so seriously? And in trying to come up with a gimmick to spice the game up, they made the player start the story mode with no special moves at all (not even a taunt!) and have to grind for them, turning a bland game experience even blander.

It's a shame because the premise is actually quite cool and could have made for a nice 'cult-favorite' type of game if it had a bit more content and played just a little better.

L'IA più stupida della storia, probabilmente

I moveset più brutti della storia, probabilmente

Il Leone di merda a un certo punto ha iniziato a spammare la sua chitarra come un pazzo, attacco a distanza senza senso, e nonostante questo ha perso ogni volta miserabilmente