Joy Mech Fight is a cute time. I haven’t played a ton of fighting games, but this was mostly enjoyable. The controls are simple, but I definitely grew to understand them a lot more by the end of the game, which is a sign of depth. As you play through the game, you begin to pick up on the differences between all 8 of your fighters and where they excel and where they don’t, so sometimes you can beat a tricky fight by finding a better robot for the job, almost like mega man. One thing I’m not huge on is the wide difficulty range from the start to the end. This game starts off very easy, but by the end of the game characters became incredibly difficult and I had to attempt them multiple times to progress which really dragged down the pace of an otherwise brisk experience.

Joy Mech Fight might be one of the best looking Famicom games. The backgrounds especially are gorgeous displays full of life. Fighting on the moon with the earth in the background and 3 parallax layers of craters, it’s a great spectacle to cap off a game of other beautiful arenas. The character design is also quite interesting. Without arms, the mechs can have very fluid motion, and their cartoony presentation is fun.

I apologize if this review isn’t up to my usual standards. I’m up quite late writing jt because I want the game fresh on my mind when I write this so I’m writing this piece dead tired.