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Post by esauce on Mar 8, 2018 20:27:36 GMT -5
I grew up on Konami TMNT and Battletoads. Most people talk about TMNT II which is the one based off the original arcade beat 'em up, but I actually owned TMNT III: The Manhattan Project as a child and have a way bigger soft spot for that one. It has so many cool levels and even a fun story arc with floating islands and crazy stuff. Beat it all the time with my grandpa. I think I still like it more than Turtles in Time personally. I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Manhattan project is fantastic. Absolutely my favorite Turtles game. I play it probably once a year at least. Here’s a stinker for the list: The Tick (Genesis) The first level is called Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas and it is hardly an exaggeration. The game looks incredible but you will fight the same ninja over and over and over again until you eventually can’t do it anymore and turn off the console. Honestly I’m not sure if it has a second level or if the whole game is an elaborate prank.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 12, 2018 14:55:15 GMT -5
Wow, The Tick looks awful. There's a longplay that takes two hours to get through? Good grief.
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Post by toei on Mar 16, 2018 13:21:16 GMT -5
Oh yeah, The Tick is garbage. I've never even finished the first level. The "comical" animations are the worst. Software Creations made like one good beat-'em-up and a half by accident (the Spider-Man & Venom games), but the rest of their output in the genre was horrible. They made Renegade III. I challenge anyone to play through that shit.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 16, 2018 14:25:28 GMT -5
Which one is Renegade III? I see one made by Imagine Software. Is Target: Renegade on NES related? That game was awful.
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Post by toei on Mar 16, 2018 14:36:38 GMT -5
Which one is Renegade III? I see one made by Imagine Software. Is Target: Renegade on NES related? That game was awful. Oh, seem I was wrong there, it's been a while since I'd checked. Those two were also developed by UK companies, and they're really awful, but it doesn't seem Software Creations was involved.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 16, 2018 16:20:20 GMT -5
Well, I agree most of their stuff was terrible, regardless.
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Post by Xeogred on Feb 25, 2019 10:21:19 GMT -5
Another Neogeo Switch port I'm curious about, Johnny Turbo's Arcade: Night Slashers. Looks pretty solid:
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Post by Sarge on Feb 25, 2019 10:26:30 GMT -5
I played through it last year. It's... a'ight. I know people that like it a lot more, but I didn't care for how the game felt.
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Post by Xeogred on Feb 25, 2019 10:31:37 GMT -5
Hmm, how about this Sengoku trilogy?
EDIT: Few more on the Switch eshop:
Mutation Nation Robo Army Burning Fight Ninja Combat
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Post by toei on Feb 25, 2019 15:55:00 GMT -5
Xeogred Surprisingly, despite being VS fighter giants, SNK couldn't make a decent beat-'em-up to save its life. Sengoku Denshou has some of the coolest level and enemy visuals ever, hands down, but it plays really poorly. There's a SNES adaptation by Data East, I think, that plays more like a legit beat-'em-up, but looks really plain in comparison. It's not great either. SD2 is similar - amazing visuals and atmosphere, plays slightly better when you have a sword, but the gameplay is mediocre at best. Sengoku 3 was made many years later by another company that made a few other beat-'em-ups in the same style around that time. It's much smoother, with combo-oriented gameplay, but enemies have way too much health (cause they expect you to pull a long-ass combo every single time) and the levels just never end. It's incredibly tedious, and the atmosphere is much more generic. I hate that game. Burning Fight, Mutation Nation and Robo Army seem cool at first, but they're crazy stiff, and Burning Fight has some major issues with attack range where your punches and kicks don't have enough reach to hit enemies without being hit immediately. Seems like something you can adapt to in the first few levels, but it becomes completely unplayable by Level 3 or 4. Again, some nice background and enemy art, though. One of the first boss fights has you facing yakuza in the subway. Ninja Combat was made by ADK and it's very different - it's one of those early BEUs before the genre had really settled. It's kind of fun for a while, then it becomes really tedious. I never had the patience to finish it.
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