Shaq Fu for SNES

Review #488

Shaq Fu

Shaq Poo

SNES 1994 Electronic Arts Fighting Fighting › 1v1
Shaq Fu screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
0 / 5

Gameplay

Controls are very floaty and imprecise
Jumping sends you the entire length of the screen and you can't effectively attack while flying so it leaves you vulnerable. As a result the fighting is mostly grounded.
Shaq is incredibly slow compared to most other fighters. Makes the game impossibly difficult
Weird control layout where L seems useless and R is a dedicated taunt button. For some reason. The other buttons are kick and punch.
Can't figure out any special moves.
Animations are so long that you're open for attack constantly.
Zero fun

1 / 5

Level Design

Boring arenas. Some have foreground scrolling but they're otherwise uninteresting
Normal versus, story, and tournament modes. Story can only be played as Shaq

0 / 5

Theme

Embarrassingly stupid concept. Might be even worse than the Michael Jordan title.

3 / 5

Art Style

Tiny sprites but excellent animations
Character models aren't particularly interesting other than the two bosses, Sett and Beast

1 / 5

Audio

Music is your standard bouncy video game stuff. Very 90s with eclectic sounds like a DJ's disc scratch, percussion, and digital keyboard sounds. Ugly stuff
Sounds are comical, especially Shaq's grunts and yips. He does his best Bruce Lee impression and it's hilarious to hear

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