I played this game on MAME on my PC, after I heard about the announcement of the Breakers Collection announced for release sometime in 2020. Breakers Revenge and its prequel are somewhat forgotten Neo Geo arcade games that feature a pretty awesome but small roster of some cool characters. I did a few playthroughs as Rila and I really enjoyed her moveset. Shes a charge character like Blanka or Balrog from Street Fighter so it was a very comfortable experience. The games controls are very typical for games like this and I found them very responsive, I felt the experience overall was smoother than the Fatal Fury titles of its time. Graphically the game is standard, the maps are very easy on the eyes and the animations are a bit stiff, but the moves have really cool particle effects, making landing a special move feel really cool. The mechanics for this game are pretty par for the course as well, but it includes a feature called "breakering", which allows you to perform certain moves in the later frames of hitstun in certain combos. I wasn't really able to do this to my knowledge, perhaps by mistake, but its likely very important for high level play. Of course this game is a coin guzzler and is a very difficult game to finish, but thankfully with emulation I am only limited by my own patience. I think this game is really underrated, even though it was developed by Visco it feels very on par with Capcom/SNK fighters and it was really a good time. Im highly anticipating the coming collection, hopefully with some sort of difficulty toggle. Definitely give this game a shot if you find the means.

Reviewed on Jul 28, 2020


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