Best of the Best: Championship Karate for SNES

Review #59

Best of the Best: Championship Karate

Kumite Scoring System: The Game

SNES 1992 Electro Brain Fighting Fighting › 1v1
Best of the Best: Championship Karate screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
1 / 5

Gameplay

As near as I can tell all buttons can initiative an attack. You hold one of the right directions on the d-pad and then press a button.
Quickly becomes a button masher since the game rarely does what you tell it to do. Even when it does it's such a slow and grounded fight that the experience is incredibly boring. I guess it's supposed to be a simulation, but man is it boring.
Also, the scoring system is confusing. I knocked down the opponent dozens of time but never took off any health. Took me a while to figure out that the traffic lights above the ring were actually a health meter.
Just a boring game

0 / 5

Level Design

Every fight is identical.

1 / 5

Theme

Karate matches aren't a dynamic source material

2 / 5

Art Style

Sprites are very detailed and well animated. However they're very small.
There's only one arena so there's nothing to look at

2 / 5

Audio

No music during the fights

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