2nd July 2009, 8:34 PM
Game Boy
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Battle Arena Toshinden (Normal) -- Really, REALLY easy game. On the default difficulty, I actually beat it, on my first try, without losing a match. I lost a few rounds, but never a second one in those matches... mash the buttons to victory! :D
In comparison, on Normal, I couldn't beat the first opponent in Samurai Shodown after several tries. I can do decently in the Genesis and arcade versions of the game, but this one's hard... shows that despite the very similar graphical styles, Takara did make these games different. Toshinden stays to its PSX/Saturn roots well, being an easy button-masher just like it is there. Samurai Shodown sticks to what it is well too, being a quite challenging, more technical 2d fighting game... both are good, though. I'd like to get more of Takara's GB fighting games; they had two other US releases, KOF '95 and World Heroes 2 Jet, and four Japan-only, SamSho 3, Fatal Fury 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, and KOF '96. Then SNK took their licenses back and started on their NGPC fighting games, which are better than any of Takara's for sure, or anything else in the genre on the GB or GBC... still, these are decent games, well worth a couple of bucks. Plus, the Super Game Boy features are very nice, and the 2-player mode on SNES with two controllers is very cool (all eight of Takara's GB fighting games have that :)).
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Battle Arena Toshinden (Normal) -- Really, REALLY easy game. On the default difficulty, I actually beat it, on my first try, without losing a match. I lost a few rounds, but never a second one in those matches... mash the buttons to victory! :D
In comparison, on Normal, I couldn't beat the first opponent in Samurai Shodown after several tries. I can do decently in the Genesis and arcade versions of the game, but this one's hard... shows that despite the very similar graphical styles, Takara did make these games different. Toshinden stays to its PSX/Saturn roots well, being an easy button-masher just like it is there. Samurai Shodown sticks to what it is well too, being a quite challenging, more technical 2d fighting game... both are good, though. I'd like to get more of Takara's GB fighting games; they had two other US releases, KOF '95 and World Heroes 2 Jet, and four Japan-only, SamSho 3, Fatal Fury 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, and KOF '96. Then SNK took their licenses back and started on their NGPC fighting games, which are better than any of Takara's for sure, or anything else in the genre on the GB or GBC... still, these are decent games, well worth a couple of bucks. Plus, the Super Game Boy features are very nice, and the 2-player mode on SNES with two controllers is very cool (all eight of Takara's GB fighting games have that :)).