More fast-paced than Virtua Fighter, and with a cast of interesting and varied characters, Fighting Vipers is a pretty fun fighting game!
It seems like this game emphasizes juggling more than its slower contemporary, and with the addition of walls in the stages, it can lead to some pretty funky strings that I love to do, especially as Mahler!

Also, having the Japanese Sega Saturn version allowed me to play as Pepsi-Man, and while his moveset is nothing out of the ordinary, he's just so damn fun to play!

Virtua Fighter is one of my favorite game series ever. Sonic The Fighters is one of my favorite games ever. This is just the bridge between. A lot of cool fundamental shit akin to Sonic but a lot of the advance shit you're able to do like Virtua Fighter make this game very fun to learn and hard to put down. My girlfriend wants to play more fighters with me and she was able to pick up and learn this one pretty quickly and I was able to watch her learn and grow in a fighter in a pretty dope way. The armor breaking mechanic is also very smart and makes you think before vice versa of being the armor breaky or the armor breaker. You lose more health but also do more damage so it becomes of mind game of whiff punishing or grabbing when you reallllly need to.

I only dock off points for the final boss. He already is advance ai you don't have to make his attacks do 292838238 damage too!

A very unique fighting game for its era, Fighting Vipers is a very physics-based game that has a unique feel to it. Characters will bounce around depending on the momentum of your attacks and your actions in battle show this. The fighters are all very unique. I played as Bahn and Raxxel and I loved both their playstyles. Additionally, since I played the Japanese version, I got a special appearance from Pepsiman, who serves as a secret final boss. Overall Fighting Vipers is a fighting game classic, and I urge anyone to check it out!