JonB wrote:I like a bit of Magic Sword, and Black Tiger, the arcade version at least. I tried Hagane for the first time recently and found it horribly frustrating. Awkward controls and unfair deaths.
Moot_Geeza wrote:I played the first few levels of Two Crude Dudes in the arcade on Sunday. Standard stuff, but plenty of fun in two player. I'm looking to play one I remember from an arcade in the early 90s, though in all likelihood it was an older cabinet. There's not much point in me trying to describe it to jog someone's memory - all I can remember is there were three or four playable characters, one possibly had a mohawk and one of the earlier levels was set in a scrapyard. I'll look for a complete genre list online, see if I can spot it. It wasn't much more advanced than Final Fight visually.
JonB wrote:It wasn't until towards the end that I remembered the double tap forward plus punch move though, and then remembered that's it's a beast with Axel. A little too spammable perhaps. Took care of the 5th boss pretty quickly after I was getting trounced as Blaze. I never did play SoR3, as I heard it wasn't as good. Is that the case?
That move is absolutely killer. That SFX that go with it are forever burnt into my skull.JonB wrote:It wasn't until towards the end that I remembered the double tap forward plus punch move though, and then remembered that's it's a beast with Axel. A little too spammable perhaps
Moot_Geeza wrote:This has a knock-on effect against computer controlled characters, as when they grab you from behind, instead of being able to attack from the full nelson a la SOR1 & 3, you just stand there limply waiting to be attacked.
Funkstain wrote:Not so! You can kick out, and once you have kicked out at least once, you can throw the holder over your shoulder.This has a knock-on effect against computer controlled characters, as when they grab you from behind, instead of being able to attack from the full nelson a la SOR1 & 3, you just stand there limply waiting to be attacked.
JonB wrote:I played through Vendetta. Good fun actually, well above average with lots of nice little touches and stuff to throw about. The main annoyance is that you often get hit multiple times in a row without being able to do much about it. Not a problem with infinite credits of course. One thing I'd forgotten was how similar the enemies are in a lot of these games. Ok, fair enough there are a lot of 'punks' of various kinds, but the odd one is how there always seems to be whip wielding dominatrices in there, as if they're also quite a common form of street criminal. I dunno, it's too much to be a coincidence.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Vigilante completed, Madonna rescued, ginger-haired skinheads defeated.
I enjoyed this on the Master System (borrowed it a few times, as a kid, had a few odd glitches), and played the TurboGrafx version on the Virtual Console quite a bit, but this was my first experience of the arcade version. Unsurprisingly, it seemed far less forgiving. The last boss in particular would have cost me around £3 in 20ps, as I couldn't work out an effective way of hitting him - I just had to gradually wear him down and hope certain moves connected. Good though, but sadly not as good as I remembered - perhaps the home versions were better.75%
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