Yuu Yuu Hakusho Final: Makai Saikyou Retsuden
What is this? A fighting game for ants?Genre: fighting - 1v1
Publisher: Namco
Year: 1995
System: SFC
Gameplay Score: 3
Gameplay Notes:
Thirteen fighters. Fast movement but short reach because your sprites are so tiny. I could only find one special move per fighter and the balance was awful. A few fighters are so OP it's not even funny. Still, the movement is decent so it's not a terrible game. Just a boring, by the numbers SF2 clone.
Level Design Score: 3
Level Design Notes:
Story, tourney, and 2P VS modes.
Theme Score: 2
Theme Notes:
I don't know anything about Yuu Yuu as a manga or anime, so it's just bunch of angry looking teens and some big hair rock band baddies. I guess there's a demonic look, almost like Ninja Garden, but with no English translation I don't know what's going on. And there's a lot of text and menus.
Art Style Score: 2
Art Style Notes:
Embarrassing graphics. This looks like a 1991 title rather than a late 1995 release. The sprites are miniscule! Sure they animate decently well but they're like bugs jumping around the screen. They've got so little detail! Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but this is some awful pixel artwork. The backgrounds fare much better tho they again don't compare to games of the same era. Even the cutscenes look more like an NES title than, say, Metal Warriors. Poor work all around.
Audio Score: 3
Audio Notes:
Ok music that won't win any awards. All tracks have the same fast beat but also have this weird pipe organ spooky sort of sound interspersed, along with what I can only describe as an underwater xylophone. It's not a terrible soundtrack by any stretch but the sample sounds used leave much to be desired.
Overall Score: 57
Review ID: 1961
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