Alex's Cowabunga Collection Marathon, Pt. 7 of 13
THIS IS BAD
Before getting into the Genesis version of Tournament Fighters, I read Weatherby's review which describes how he got ruthlessly bodied by the CPU both as a kid and as an adult. With that warning, I lowered the difficulty in the settings to 1 (out of 8). When picking a character, it let me decide my character's speed and power, so I set both of those to 8. I was ready to mop the floor with this game.
I have since read a couple GameFAQs walkthroughs a learned that this was a big dumb mistake. Apparently, raising your power to 8 makes you incredibly slow, and setting the CPU to 1 made them marginally weaker, but a LOT faster.
If you must play this game, don't do what I did. Leave everything on 4 and hope for the best.
But if you haven't committed to beating all 13 games in the Cowabunga Collection like I have, I'd just avoid this version entirely. The controls are super stiff and combos are difficult to execute with any accuracy. My experience was similar to Weatherby's. This game spanked me, Karai in particular. I didn't even bother with rewinding, I just saved at the start of the fight and tried it 30 times until I won, because as soon as she started a combo, I was dead in 3-4 hits every time, unable to break her chain.
I'm sure all of this would be excusable if the game was fun, but it really isn't. I'm kind of shocked at how much worse this is than the NES version. We'll see how the SNES release fares!
Also who the heck are Sisyphus and Ray Fillet???
THIS IS BAD
Before getting into the Genesis version of Tournament Fighters, I read Weatherby's review which describes how he got ruthlessly bodied by the CPU both as a kid and as an adult. With that warning, I lowered the difficulty in the settings to 1 (out of 8). When picking a character, it let me decide my character's speed and power, so I set both of those to 8. I was ready to mop the floor with this game.
I have since read a couple GameFAQs walkthroughs a learned that this was a big dumb mistake. Apparently, raising your power to 8 makes you incredibly slow, and setting the CPU to 1 made them marginally weaker, but a LOT faster.
If you must play this game, don't do what I did. Leave everything on 4 and hope for the best.
But if you haven't committed to beating all 13 games in the Cowabunga Collection like I have, I'd just avoid this version entirely. The controls are super stiff and combos are difficult to execute with any accuracy. My experience was similar to Weatherby's. This game spanked me, Karai in particular. I didn't even bother with rewinding, I just saved at the start of the fight and tried it 30 times until I won, because as soon as she started a combo, I was dead in 3-4 hits every time, unable to break her chain.
I'm sure all of this would be excusable if the game was fun, but it really isn't. I'm kind of shocked at how much worse this is than the NES version. We'll see how the SNES release fares!
Also who the heck are Sisyphus and Ray Fillet???