un tss un tss un tss
get into a fight in complete silence
spam punches and kicks
un tss un tss un tss
That is the whole game
From the moment you boot up the game:
It's a 90's CGI cutscene with that same do do doo leitmotif, followed up by absolute silence when you can actually input commands (either the main menu or in battle). The first time it happened I was laughing non stop; all that build up for such terrible gameplay in complete silence.
I guess everything being connected by CGI cutscenes is kind of a cool idea, but the fighting is ass. You can only use 1 (one) character, that is not even a robot, and the whole roster of characters, including your opponents, is smaller than the first Street Fighter, another fighting game where you only use 1 character (that game has 10 enemies plus ryu and ken).
Your main character (cyborg) has 2 standing attack animations, 2 crouching, and 2 jumping ones. You have 3 punches and 3 kicks. The only difference between light and heavy attacks is that the animation plays slower on the heavy one (and it does more damage I guess).
You just mash. There are no combos. Sometimes you can't even tell if you actually landed a hit or not. Hitstun is minimal and sometimes you can get punished on hit. I guess that's another similarity this game has with Street Fighter 1 huh... that is a sad similarity, and this game is worse than SF1. At least in SF1 you have the iconic hadoken, shoryuken and tatsumaki. Here in Rise cyborg can punch, kick and... tackle?
One last thing, that final boss was absolute bullshit. It has 2 near instantaneous moves that it can decide to throw out even if it got hit. One is a mantis attack that can loop into itself and does massive chip damage. The other is a jumping needle attack that works like a get off me move.
The cherry on top is that the boss also has an instantaneous, fully invincible, healing move... at any time it can melt and heal almost half a life bar.
The Supervisor (that's the final boss's name) took me a ton of tries, and even after beating it the game had the balls of giving me a bad ending for playing on normal mode. I had to admit it was very funny, just like when I lost to Military and the game allowed me to continue, then, after beating that robot, it made me start over from scratch.
get into a fight in complete silence
spam punches and kicks
un tss un tss un tss
That is the whole game
From the moment you boot up the game:
It's a 90's CGI cutscene with that same do do doo leitmotif, followed up by absolute silence when you can actually input commands (either the main menu or in battle). The first time it happened I was laughing non stop; all that build up for such terrible gameplay in complete silence.
I guess everything being connected by CGI cutscenes is kind of a cool idea, but the fighting is ass. You can only use 1 (one) character, that is not even a robot, and the whole roster of characters, including your opponents, is smaller than the first Street Fighter, another fighting game where you only use 1 character (that game has 10 enemies plus ryu and ken).
Your main character (cyborg) has 2 standing attack animations, 2 crouching, and 2 jumping ones. You have 3 punches and 3 kicks. The only difference between light and heavy attacks is that the animation plays slower on the heavy one (and it does more damage I guess).
You just mash. There are no combos. Sometimes you can't even tell if you actually landed a hit or not. Hitstun is minimal and sometimes you can get punished on hit. I guess that's another similarity this game has with Street Fighter 1 huh... that is a sad similarity, and this game is worse than SF1. At least in SF1 you have the iconic hadoken, shoryuken and tatsumaki. Here in Rise cyborg can punch, kick and... tackle?
One last thing, that final boss was absolute bullshit. It has 2 near instantaneous moves that it can decide to throw out even if it got hit. One is a mantis attack that can loop into itself and does massive chip damage. The other is a jumping needle attack that works like a get off me move.
The cherry on top is that the boss also has an instantaneous, fully invincible, healing move... at any time it can melt and heal almost half a life bar.
The Supervisor (that's the final boss's name) took me a ton of tries, and even after beating it the game had the balls of giving me a bad ending for playing on normal mode. I had to admit it was very funny, just like when I lost to Military and the game allowed me to continue, then, after beating that robot, it made me start over from scratch.