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Post by Ex on Mar 6, 2018 0:46:29 GMT -5
You guys wanna play a wtf beat 'em up? Give these a go...
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Post by chibby on Mar 6, 2018 1:44:02 GMT -5
Woah... I watched a little bit and I feel like I'll never need to take mushrooms...
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Post by anayo on Mar 6, 2018 10:20:11 GMT -5
You guys wanna play a wtf beat 'em up? Give these a go... omg, I actually tried Pu Li Ru La not last year or thereabouts. I lasted maybe forty-five minutes then turned it off and never went back to it. Too weird for me. XD
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Post by Ex on Mar 6, 2018 10:48:40 GMT -5
omg, I actually tried Pu Li Ru La not last year or thereabouts. I lasted maybe forty-five minutes then turned it off and never went back to it. Too weird for me. XD At least you played it! I beat it co-op with a friend many many years ago. I liked it, but I tend to enjoy weird stuff. I'm that doof who enjoys this:
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Post by anayo on Mar 6, 2018 11:05:51 GMT -5
Aka-champion? So they just combined akachan (baby) and champion? Good grief, the Japanese can be so silly. I love it. XD
The little red strip on the center says "THIS IS THE WORLD'S #1 BABY FIGHTING GAME". Somehow I don't think they're exaggerating.
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Post by chibby on Mar 6, 2018 13:57:00 GMT -5
I feel like if you tried to make this game in the U.S. politicians would argue that it was leading to cases of child abuse...
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 6, 2018 22:44:12 GMT -5
Forgot about this one! I owned this growing up and played it a lot. Good co-op and a lot of branching paths. Cool secret characters to unlock using some codes at the start. It's part of a trilogy under the Rushing Beat name for Japan, but all the localizations didn't bother to keep them together. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushing_BeatJapanese title American titleRushing Beat (1992) Rival Turf! (1992)Rushing Beat Ran — Fukusei Toshi (1992) Brawl Brothers (1993)Rushing Beat Shura (1993) The Peace Keepers (1994)
I liked how the final boss looked like someone out of DBZ or something. Admittedly, I haven't beaten this game in like 10 plus years now. It's a bit on the slow side going back to it, even vanilla enemies are HP sponges that take awhile to whittle down. It's pretty basic and does drag. I dabbled into the first two games as well and they seem a little too chunky for my tastes. There's some weird BGM issues with the localized Peace Keepers too, the music is off by default I believe, and then the music placement is different than the Shura release. Pretty strange. A bit average in retrospect, but I played this one a lot back in the day and it's worth a look if you really dig the genre and want more. It does get more interesting the further it goes, with cooler enemies and interesting levels, some really cool ninja stuff and then your usual sci-fi robot armies in the end haha. SNESdrunk has a quick rundown on them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18r6LrVjTk
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Post by dunpeal2064 on Mar 7, 2018 3:33:19 GMT -5
I've tried many times to get into the Rushing Beat series, but it just never really clicked. Peacekeepers was the closest to pulling me in though, its a vast improvement over Rival Turf.
I actually played that Gurume Sentai Barayo game some time ago, when I was just loading up random roms. I remember the character (I only played the chick) having something weird, like a taunt or really ridiculous animation. It played okay though from what I recall, might have to give it another visit.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 7, 2018 8:18:33 GMT -5
Yeah, could be a case of just being one of those games I had as a kid with little options, so I played it all the time anyways haha. One cool beat em' up I discovered last year from a VGM podcast is Undercover Cops for the SNES/arcade by Irem. It's funny how they have such a signature pixel art style, the game definitely looks similar to their R-Type and Metal Slug games. www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=70942It's pretty good, though a bit long so you really need to be in the mood. I'd like to get through it sometime though. Top notch OST:
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Post by toei on Mar 8, 2018 14:45:11 GMT -5
I kind of hate Undercover Cops, myself. It looks like it's going to be a good game, with the post-apocalyptic setting and so on, but like Irem's other beat-'em-ups, it's really not. The pacing is terrible, with later levels dragging on for far too long, and enemies get extremely cheap and annoying around that time as well. It's the type of game you can play for 15 minutes and come away thinking you've found something good, but it doesn't stand the test of an actual playthrough. Off the top of my head, no one outside of the big 4 of the genre (Technos, Capcom, Sega, Konami) really made anything first-tier, with the exception of Natsume's take on Fist of the North Star and their Master System remake of Renegade. EDIT - In keeping with Gourmet Sentai, there's another crappy food-themed beat-em-up on the Super Famicom: U.F.O. Kamen Yakisoban. The protagonist was a mascot for a brand of ramen noodles. It was made by KID and reprises the front roll kick running attack from their Genesis game Mystical Fighters, but is much worse in every way.
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