Sunday, September 21, 2025

Brutal: Paws of Fury for Sega CD


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Brutal: Paws of Fury

Zoo Nope ia


Genre: fighting - 1v1

Publisher: GameTek

Year: 1994

System: Sega CD


Gameplay Score: 1

Gameplay Notes:

Enemies love to stun lock you even on lowest difficulty. You can also abuse this by pushing the enemy to the edge and mashing the weak attack. Not as difficult as the SNES version but still stupid hard. Standard SF2 controls but with only 3 buttons you only have a weak, med, or heavy kick. Bad hit detection and minimal reaction to getting hit. It just doesn't feel very tactile. Feels like if one of the bad THQ licensed games were a fighting game. For example if you jump and land inside the opponent's hit box you both sort of slide away from one another. You can attack during this movement but the hits won't register until your hitboxes are no longer touching.


Level Design Score: 3

Level Design Notes:

Lots of stuff in the foreground obscures the view. No animation in the background Interesting but kinda boring as well


Theme Score: 2

Theme Notes:

I'm not a furry so yeah, this does nothing for me. Has a Kung Fu Panda vibe, just without any personality


Art Style Score: 3

Art Style Notes:

Smooth animation and ok artwork, although the sprites are small. The new cutscenes, on the other hand, are hilariously bad. They look like those old cartoony DOS games from the 80s/90s.


Audio Score: 4

Audio Notes:

The music takes a massive leap over the SNES and Genesis versions. I think it's the same compositions, but they sound so much better here.


Overall Score: 41

Review ID: 12015



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