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RISING TACO!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Most fighting game fans love SNK's King of Fighters. But before that, there was Fatal Fury: basically the same game, but with different characters and more basic moves. Fatal Fury was a pretty cool game when it debuted, but it got even better as it picked up the pace in the later installments. Granted, Fatal Fury is nowhere near as popular as King of Fighters (tough it still holds its own), and for me, the action isn't as intense, but you gotta hand it to SNK for releasing a new Fatal Fury game for the NeoGeo Pocket Color a few years back. Sure, the system was doomed, being released at the same time as the Pokemon phenom, but this was an instant classic, and something the GameBoy Color wouldn't get: a good fighting game.

If you've never played a Fatal Fury game before, that doesn't matter. The NGPC version tosses out a story mode and goes straight into the fights. Aside from vs mode, the main game lets you pick your character and throws you right into the action. Terry, Andy, Joe, Mai, Xiang Fei, Rick, Billy Kane, Geese, Krauser, Kim and Yamazaki are at your disposal. For the most part, it doesn't matter who you pick...though Andy, Joe and Geese have some pretty cheap moves. You fight through a couple of opponents before taking on the boss of the Fatal Fury games: Geese. After that, it's over, and you're encouraged to try out the other characters. It doesn't sound like much, but fighting games are addicting, and you'll want to try out some of the characters who you thought looked stupid but turned around and took you out in 10 seconds. Gameplay is simple- the A and B buttons do the attacks, two versions of each depending on how hard you press either one, and using the control stick in different movements along with an attack button results in various special attacks. From Terry's Rising Tackle (which sounds like "Rising Taco" when he says it in the console versions) to Mai's fan throws, there's a lot of special moves that all come in handy. Some are upward attacks, others send you flying to the other side of the screen, and some are of course, fireball type attacks. And then there's Billy Kane, whose attacks are all just plain cheap in general and will take you out in like 4 hits if you walk into them. Vs mode is self-explanitory: link up your NGPC with a friend's and fight to your heart's desire. You even get an extra character in this mode to use.

The graphics look great for "just" a handheld fighting game. The sprites are basically chibi versions of their adult forms, and it works. Terry and Yamazaki in particular. Surprisingly, the animations aren't as stiff as you'd expect, though it takes characters a moment to get back up once knocked down for some reason. Backgrounds look A LOT like how they do in the big brother versions of Fatal Fury. The train tracks, arenas, streets, everything's here. As for the sound, it's alright. You won't remember any of the tracks after you stop playing. I know that I haven't, and I've had this game since June. Sadly, there are no voices for the special moves. I would've loved to hear "RISING TACO!" on a handheld from a chibi Terry. And sound effects are pretty simple too. As in "SWISH!" for spin kicks and simple crashing sounds for punches contacting. But, as with the graphics, they work.

There isn't that much replay to this game, especially since hardly anyone has a NGPC any more. So you'll most likely be stuck with the single player mode. But it'll quench your thirst for a good fighting game when you're on the go. Even in this age of the DS and PSP, neither has a worth while fighter, and neither has a good enough d-pad/control stick to pull off some of the moves.

Short but sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you have ever played a King of Fighters or Fatal Fury game, then you know what to expect. I was suprised to find that most moves from the other games worked incredibly well considering you are playing the game with only two buttons and a control stick. With this simplified translation I was pulling off moves for familiar characters right off the bat. There are 12 characters (13 if you count the special secret character only availible in 2-player mode) and they all handle differently and have their own unique moves. The graphics are great. The backgrounds are colorful and diverse, and the characters themselves, although cartoonish, are well-animated and look excellent. The music on the other hand gets old. Its nothing to turn the sound off over though, especially since the sound effects are pretty decent. My only other complaint is that this game is very short. There are only 8 stages, 9 if you meet certain conditions, and most of them are very easy. Only the boss characters are a challange. There are only two modes, single player arcade mode and two player vs mode. I would have liked to have seen a training mode to practice some of the characters moves, as some of the ultimates are tricky to pull off. I havent played the vs mode, but Im sure playing against your friends is lot of fun, since each character handles so differently. I had a good time with this game, and its a great handheld fighter. If they had just added a couple different modes I would have given it a better score.

It's fun, but it doesn't last long

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The graphics for this one are great. I didn't notice any problems, and the weird character proportioning (Geese, for example, has arms longer than his legs) seems like a superdeformed drawing style, not an error. There are only two real problems with this game, as I see it. 1) It's too short. There are plenty of characters, but the difficulty makes it easy to win every time. 2) The bosses (Billy Kane, Geese, and Krauser) are very hard. Of course, I expected this because SNK always makes hard bosses. Everything else is great.

Good fighting game with some cool characters and moves.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game with the NGPC and I thought it was a reletively good game with OK replay value. It looks great for a handheald game. Many hours at work will pass by faster because of this game :).

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