Mighty Final Fight is a beat 'em up, developed and published by Capcom in 1993. This is basically a cutified demake of the original
Final Fight. The plot is a comical retelling of the first FF game, so yeah you'll be saving Haggar's daughter from the Mad Gear Gang. There are five stages full of enemy fodder, and plenty of mini and major bosses stand in the way. The player can choose from Haggar, Cody, or Guy to save the day.
+All three protagonists are available to the player (unlike the SNES version).
+A fair amount of unique moves per protagonist.
+The level up system is nice (despite ripping off
Double Dragon in that regard).
+The sprites look good in their chibi art style.
+Nice background set pieces sell the urban atmosphere well.
+Plenty of continues, which you'll need towards the end.
-No two player mode, single player only.
-No environmental stage objects to break or throw (alas poor crates).
-You only get restoratives via bonus stages (breaking barrels).
-Later stages' regular enemies have obnoxious amounts of life.
-There are reused palette-swapped bosses, despite there only being five stages.
-Bosses can attack diagonally, but you can't!
-You have to fight that stupid sword boss THREE times.
I can't say I enjoyed this one as much as
Sarge does. For me this was a watered-down
Final Fight, nowhere near as good as the real deal. And
Mighty Final Fight doesn't even begin to compete with the
Double Dragon games on NES. However, this was certainly better than
River City Ransom or
Bayou Billy. So it's a mid-tier 8-bit beat 'em up I'd say.
Mighty Final Fight just became monotonous really quickly for my taste. Stages are sparse and simple, devoid of interactive objects, full of easy enemies, that you beat up just to level up enough to have a chance against the bosses. Some of the bosses are absolutely asinine, and completely unfair in their attack methods. To beat them takes forever as you slowly whittle their health down while abusing their AI. And the last boss was just ridiculous. However, this game controls well, looks decent, sounds decent, and offers fairly solid beat 'em up action on the NES. Well I don't know about "Mighty", but as a "Mini"
Final Fight, this could have been worse.
Ex's time to beat: 55 minutes (I had to continue twice.)
Ex's rating: 5/10