they took spikeout's combat, added a bunch more weapons, improved the combat, and added some more characters. it's a lot of fun! but then you hit the last few stages
every fight being a 1vs3 works for a while, but the latter fights have overly aggressive and strong enemies that WILL work together to combo you to death. at that point, weapons are also only for your enemies too, because picking one up will almost guarantee that you get hit and comboed the fuck out of. most weapons suck too, but the bat, flamethrower, and hammer are all godsends IF the enemies let you pick them up
however, the enemies will make damn good use of the weapons themselves. they will pick them up and throw them at you from off screen, which is easy for them because the camera fucking sucks ASS. ultimately, it just feels like you don't really have the tools to REALLY play the game in the later stages, so the best strat is to throws since that's the only thing that gives you a moment of invincibility.
the final boss is an absolute cockguzzler because his second round requires you to beat his two allies first and then beat him, all before the timer runs out because he bullshitted his own fight score to high heavens so you can't win by time out yourself. this game is short as shit but it took me literal hours to beat that guy.
though it doesnt help that i was using hikaru, because she's cool. but she feels weak and useless compared to the likes of GORN, who also has the chaddest name i've ever seen.
still tho, huge improvement over spikeout's combat. even though the game is still bullshit, it feels like bullshit that's actually beatable. spikeout felt like bullshit that was only beatable by spamming continues. the enemies not spamming highly damaging attacks that give them iframes honestly makes all the difference.
the soundtrack is a banger btw, hidenori shoji and his gang go hard
every fight being a 1vs3 works for a while, but the latter fights have overly aggressive and strong enemies that WILL work together to combo you to death. at that point, weapons are also only for your enemies too, because picking one up will almost guarantee that you get hit and comboed the fuck out of. most weapons suck too, but the bat, flamethrower, and hammer are all godsends IF the enemies let you pick them up
however, the enemies will make damn good use of the weapons themselves. they will pick them up and throw them at you from off screen, which is easy for them because the camera fucking sucks ASS. ultimately, it just feels like you don't really have the tools to REALLY play the game in the later stages, so the best strat is to throws since that's the only thing that gives you a moment of invincibility.
the final boss is an absolute cockguzzler because his second round requires you to beat his two allies first and then beat him, all before the timer runs out because he bullshitted his own fight score to high heavens so you can't win by time out yourself. this game is short as shit but it took me literal hours to beat that guy.
though it doesnt help that i was using hikaru, because she's cool. but she feels weak and useless compared to the likes of GORN, who also has the chaddest name i've ever seen.
still tho, huge improvement over spikeout's combat. even though the game is still bullshit, it feels like bullshit that's actually beatable. spikeout felt like bullshit that was only beatable by spamming continues. the enemies not spamming highly damaging attacks that give them iframes honestly makes all the difference.
the soundtrack is a banger btw, hidenori shoji and his gang go hard