A fantastically weird and over the top fighting game released by SNK in the heyday of arcade fighting games. World Heroes Perfect is the last game in the series of 4 games, and features the largest roster and most clean mechanics, now up to speed with SNK's better games of the mid to late 90's. Previous entries in the franchise felt good, but were slower and the inputs were more confusing than the streamlined game we get here. The game is graphically appealing with nice cartoony characters that are brought to life very nicely with great particle effects, sounds and sprite work. As opposed to games like Fatal Fury or Street Fighter, this game is completely outlandish, taking fighters like Rasputin or the football player Johnny Maximum to fight it out on top of an actively erupting volcano, complete with screenshake and noises to show just how insane the situation is. The large roster of characters from seemingly all time periods and places around the world will have someone to appeal to just about anyone, and while the game is somewhat challenging to play it is easy enough to understand. I played this game on the World Heroes Anthology on PS2, which is a port of the Neo Geo home console version, and so like its other home console releases it features a difficulty selection. To be honest, even on Beginner, this game is unforgiving. The AI is relentless, using just about every move in their arsenal as soon as the first opponent. And of course with classic SNK arcade fighter fashion, the final boss is a broken mess designed to take your precious quarters away. Thankfully as a home release you can try as much as you can take, but it makes the game harder to ease into than it should. Overall though, I think this game is a lot of fun to play, and would work well with groups of friends even with no experience, because most characters have really fun to use and generally easy to input special moves that can make a battle interesting even if no one knows any combos. The games mechanics are absolutely basic, with one special meter and very simple hit chains. You have one ultimate move that can be used when your health bar is in the red and you have a full meter, but that's all there is to it. If you want to give this game a try, its easily accessible thanks to the PS2 collection as well as its release on the Nintendo Switch for about 7 dollars, and I recommend it. It's a lot of fun and is really something special, and is likely the end of a very unique series.