You wouldn't think the NES would have a fighting game of this calibur, and for what it is, it's fairly impressive: It only has 8 playable characters, sure, but there are 36 characters in the game total (even if I wanna say half of them are powered up versions of previous, which can be funny in its own way after you beat a weak robot only to find a more threatening stronger version of that, with a silly name). Not only that but they all have 4 special moves, setting them further apart from each other, all with unique names. The game even has proper cross-ups which is impressive.
It's not all perfect though, as combos aren't really there besides a minor air juggle or two. Moves have seemingly no endlag, once your hitbox goes away you can start your next move. On top of that, there's no hitstun either, so enemies can and will quickly punish you back if you aren't careful. The AI will love to spam their strong special moves at the end of the game because of this. Grabs are also incredibly powerful and have no counterplay, just don't get grabbed.
There's a fun campaign, but it does drag. 36 fights is a lot to ask of a player, especially with how brutal they can get closer to the end. I would have just cut out one of the sections and rebalanced accordingly, and compensated elsewhere.
The biggest crime of Joy Mech Fight is its copyright getting lost for years until someone found it in a drawer, this could have been a solid Nintendo fighting series, but it just wasn't meant to be. Now that the rights are recovered, I hope something can be done with this, as I'd love to see it return with the polishes of modern fighting games.
It's not all perfect though, as combos aren't really there besides a minor air juggle or two. Moves have seemingly no endlag, once your hitbox goes away you can start your next move. On top of that, there's no hitstun either, so enemies can and will quickly punish you back if you aren't careful. The AI will love to spam their strong special moves at the end of the game because of this. Grabs are also incredibly powerful and have no counterplay, just don't get grabbed.
There's a fun campaign, but it does drag. 36 fights is a lot to ask of a player, especially with how brutal they can get closer to the end. I would have just cut out one of the sections and rebalanced accordingly, and compensated elsewhere.
The biggest crime of Joy Mech Fight is its copyright getting lost for years until someone found it in a drawer, this could have been a solid Nintendo fighting series, but it just wasn't meant to be. Now that the rights are recovered, I hope something can be done with this, as I'd love to see it return with the polishes of modern fighting games.