Final Fight 3 (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Capcom's 1996 Super NES beat 'em up, Final Fight 3.
Played through as Dean (w/2P Haggar set to CPU Auto) on the expert difficulty level.
This extremely late US Super Nintendo release is a MUCH larger step up from FF2 than FF2 was from the original. This almost feels like a beat em up version of Saturday Night Slammasters. Several moves are done now using classic SF2 button combos, levels have branching paths, the CPU can play with you as a second player if you don't have a human (and it does fairly well!), and the music is kick ass.
It's an awesome game, plays like a dream, and has an insane amount of variety. I still can't quite get over my near obsession with Final Fight enough to say this is the superior game, but in all reality, it is. Who says that likes and dislikes have to be logical though? :)
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[@rjcupid]

Final Fight 3 and Streets of Rage 2 are 16-bit beat 'em up masterpieces.

[@capybararctic9627]

Streets of Rage 3 is overhated in my opinion. It's not flawless, but in my opinion difficult shouldn't necessarily mean bad.

[@wet-read]

Never played SoR games. FF3 is better than the original and 2? Never played 3, either.

[@rjcupid]

@@wet-read I owned the original as a kid on SNES. It’s a classic but it not being 2-player really put a damper on the experience. I’m not a big fan of FF2, but I find FF3 to be awesome. Also, the music is incredible.

[@jg2722]

@@capybararctic9627 true but for street fighter 2 its pretty bad because of the insane difficulty and overpowered AI. Yet it’s the most popular street fighter, I don’t get it. No way I can even enjoy the game tbh. Street fighter 3 is better.

[@megavolt67]

This is my opinion as well. SoR2 is my favorite followed by FF3. I think the reason Streets of Rage is more popular as a series is because it was more important to the appeal of the Genesis. In my head, SoR just seems like a more iconic series on the Genesis whereas Final Fight got lost in the shuffle on SNES. To the guy mentioning SoR3, what really hurts the game is not the sometimes cheap difficulty, but the music not being anywhere near as good as the music in the first two games and the visuals not being the kind of upgrade you'd expect over SoR2 (lots of reused assets, murkier colors, etc.). You're right of course that the game is not bad, but the overall package didn't endear itself to people like the first two games did.

[@iggy3200]

Man haggar is a beast. More mayors should take this kind of approach to running a city. Your city streets are overrun with thugs? Start benching 450lbs and beat them up yourself.

[@ancientone5903]

And lets not forget Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II, where we see Mike Haggar pile dive wrestlers right through utterly thick lairs of stone, ice, gold plates and even steel. Capcom should really do a Final Fight 4 game and have Mike Haggar pile dive gangsters in the same way he did with the wrestlers to the point where he leaves huge craters when cutting lose.

[@dragoneye6229]

Not to mention he also finances the repairs himself in exchange for royalties for a few years. So he ends up making all the money back for Metro City. Saw that in an interview Q&A with a Capcom dev.

[@ancientone5903]

@@dragoneye6229 And considering that Streets of Rage 4 will eventually happen means that Capcom should take Final Fight 4 into serious consideration in order to honor the rivalry Final Fight had with Streets of Rage back in the SNESVSGenesis days. And yes, if Capcom dose Final Fight 4, they should have it so Mike Haggar can pile dive gangsters, criminals and terrorist right through the floors to the very point where it causes an explosion every time he dose hehehehehehehe =)

[@dragoneye6229]

@@ancientone5903 One can only hope. Japan really has been a total Chad these last few years in giving us good games with mature themes and not coddling a minor vocal minority.

[@ancientone5903]

@@dragoneye6229 Indeed, for if Final Fight 4 ever dose happen, they should make it feel like your playing the Final Fight arcade again with a number of differences, 4 player co-op is one of those things among with exp, where the fighters can gain more hit points, learn new abilities and what-not, even the ability to buy stuff (Mighty Final Fight did allow player characters to gain exp). Most importantly, Mike Haggar remains the mascot of the series, he already remained so ever since he appeared in Final Fight 2 & Final Fight 3 (Tough in Japan) respectfully.

[@bifftannen1598]

Capcom really cranked out a great soundtrack for this one!

[@SurelyYewJest]

Better music than expected ya. A bit short on the number of tunes though, and maybe too much flute.

[@kcsalyer19]

my personal favorite of the trilogy Great job beating it with zero deaths!

[@AmanSingh-my6ql]

Final fight 3, top gear,international superstar soccer,street figher new challenges,donky kong,ninja worrier,bomper man,cotra, they made my childhood awesome...these are unforgettable games to me...🙂

[@TKDBoy1889]

The sad thing about games released at the end of a console's life is that they get ignored for the new hardware, but they are often among the best of their generation and will likely be of higher quality than their more "advanced" releases in the same time frame. Think about it; developers have had years of experience with this system so they can push it to the limit. On the other hand, developers often needed a couple years to really take advantage of a system's specs back in the day.

[@NintendoComplete]

Want a Final Fight game that can easily stand toe-to-toe with the best 16-bit beat 'em ups? Well, here ya go. FF3 was an awesome way to finish off the SNES series - it's a shame that it went virtually ignored since the SNES was effectively dead in the states by the time this arrived.

[@joanagrossa1719]

actually the end of the super nintendos life span was 1997.

[@Bloodreign1]

THIS, this game, is the grand daddy of 16 bit beat em ups, guys like Yohko M would have you believe otherwise (he's from the UK, so that explains why he's a Genesis fanboy). Giant sprites, great soundtrack, super moves you build a meter for (ala Super Street Fighter II), multiple stage paths, this game has it. Yeah Streets of Rage 2 is great, but this is the game I go to first for a beat em up after Turtles in Time.

[@2010MrIsaac]

Um... it was released in January of 1996. It wasn’t largely ignored, as the SNES still sold quite a lot in 1996. In fact, 2 of the top 5 best selling games for DECEMBER 1996 were SNES games. The system only went kinda “dead” in 1997 and 1998.

[@megavolt67]

@@2010MrIsaac Yeah. I think the issue is more that beat 'em ups as a genre were kind of dead by then. After Street Fighter 2, the versus fighter replaced the beat 'em up as the go-to genre for playing a game with your buddies. But Genesis and SNES were still going strong in 1995 and SNES was still going strong in 1996. 1997 was the first year when the then next gen consoles completely took over the top of the sales charts.

[@jacobgonzalez5986]

I really want this game to be on the Nintendo Switch Online!

[@RoyStantz]

Now, Lucia is gonna be in Street Fighter 5 as DLC.

[@Thundarr995]

Seattle and Portland need Guy & Haggard. 🤣🤣 & Robocop 🤣

[@EricLimasTPLEra77]

I am DEFINITELY keeping Final Fight 2 & 3! I already have Final Fight as part of Capcom Classics Collection Vol.1 for the PS2.

[@susanfit47]

Final Fight 3 is the second sequel to Final Fight released for the Super NES, following Final Fight 2, and like its predecessor, it was produced by Capcom's consumer division with no preceding arcade version released.

[@RabuHina]

I remember my brother and I used to play this game when we rented it from the video store XD great game

[@VJ87G]

Final Fight 2 and 3 are the best on Super NES.

[@phoenixvideo]

yes! max difficulty...now that i respect and like!

[@RodrigoLonguinho]

no level máximo, assim é melhor pra jogar at the maximum level, so it's better to play

[@roc2256]

One of the best SNES games. What they should have done is a Street Final Fight with for example you could choose between Ryu Ken & Chun-Li for a beat them up and bosses would be Balrog, Vega, Sagat, Bison and Akuma

[@remesugamer]

My favorite Beat Em Up

[@khanshabbir1425]

Heart touching back ground music

[@Seiko180]

man, that ending music is great, dat bass

[@bigjumbo9479]

54:10 guile in his level

[@KindredEmotions]

I will forever be confused how Final Fight 2 and 3 were able to offer the multiplayer that Final Fight and Final Fight Guy could not.

[@cratedivizion]

Is it just me or is the difficulty dialed waaay back compared to the first one? I just beat it on expert only using one continue

[@amso7169]

Both Streets of Rage and Final Fight need Trilogy remasters now. I can see it now... “Streets of Rage Trilogy: Remastered” - Includes 1, 2, and 3 - Lets you play all different releases - Lets you customize your game with options from other games in the series for each game to make your own definitive version of each game with tons of customization options “Final Fight Trilogy: Remastered” - Includes 1 (Arcade), 2, and 3 - Adds new extra stuff for customization - Tons of options like SORTR

[@854Z]

How can I play FF 2&3 besides the SNES?

[@amarmehta01]

Is it me, or is Alex’s Diving palm the same as Dean’s?

[@nightoffire3723]

The last boss fight is amazing.

[@doublep1980]

Do you guys know,that this game has some cool ''secret levels''? In Stage 2 @ 11:39,if you break the door you can enter the bar and fight the boss ''Callman'' inside.In Stage 3,if you don't break the bus-stop sign,a bus appears and you get 2 extra levels and a boss .You then ride the bus,fighting goons inside and arrive at a junkyard,where you fight your way to another parked bus,there you fight the boss,on top of the bus.Beware,he's a total asshole with a long reach that does lots of damage. And in stage 5,in the factory,if you go inside the secret area,@ 30:27 and destroy all the big machine thingys in the background,you then finish the stage and don't have to fight the boss ''Stray'',you go automatically to the next stage.

[@doublep1980]

P.S. I forgot,in stage 5,in the sewer level,if you go up to the entrance with the ladder ,in the background,@ 25:20 you can go up.Then you get 3 extra levels and a boss.You first fight on the streets,in Chinatown,then go up,fight your way through the rooftop of a chinese restaurant,,then you fight in the restaurant and then you fight the boss,in the kitchen.He's super easy to beat,but he has a lot of health.After that,you end up on the level before the factory, @ 26:50.

[@josephjames9220]

doubleP yea cause my grandmother had some app with all the old school games on it and I played this and I got in the club to beat callman

[@figment1988]

But in order to get the best ending where Dean thanks the group and Lucia mentions that he said goodbye to his past, you have to fight Stray (this is because he is the one who killed Dean's family)

[@damianangelov7796]

Sucha Great Game !!

[@Edgecrusher66]

where can i buy the pal version?

[@lflagr]

Is there a boss missing from the end of Round 3?

[@anbernicguy]

This series needs a remake or sequel.

[@emmanuelcaceres3360]

Why is Dean grabbing the wrong weapons

[@YuriPCesar]

Where you played this?

[@dunndolo]

I never played 2 or 3. I like that you can have an AI partner. Does it affect the difficulty in game like increased enemy/boss health or something like that?

[@NintendoComplete]

I don't think so, but it does cause more slowdown

[@rucu8311]

Better than second

[@davanp3472]

What happened to Cody after #1?

[@chisoxfan708]

They made Haggar look like a gay gogo dancer

[@NintendoComplete]

I always thought he looked like a roided up Steven Segall with that corny-ass ponytail.

[@asamiyashin444]

Yeah, they made Haggar ridiculous in this game.

[@Bloodreign1]

I have and like this game (almost have the entire series outside of Revenge, yuck, and Mighty Final Fight, which is just an 8 bit fun rendition of the original game), but Hagar's attire, yikes. He looks more like he want to yodel on a mountain than fight off street thugs. Still a fun game though, shame Maki wasn't in this one too. Capcom thankfully didn't forget about her, and put her in SF Alpha 3 GBA, and SF Alpha 3 Max on PSP, as well as Capcom Vs SNK 2. Lucia kind of dropped off the radar after, along with Dean.

[@Nilaf251]

Poh hagar me surpreendeu

[@robertwilson3866]

I'm guessing Hagar isn't married anymore....

[@Bloodreign1]

Haggar's wife died before the first game, so of course he's not married anymore.

[@VilleMetsola]

Do beat 'em up game writers compete with each other on who can come up with the most ludicrous plots?

[@edwardgaines6561]

Capcom isn't known well for their plots. Just look at the MegaMan X series. Another reason to love the _Streets of Rage_ series.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

The plot is Mike Haggar destroyed one powerful street gang only for another, even more savage and violent one to rise up and take its place. Doesn't sound that ludicrous.

[@MarkDavid022]

The A.I. Helping you didn't make it in the final level :(

[@simonmejia6896]

This what FF2 should have been. I really like this game, even if is not as nostalgic as the original.

[@NintendoComplete]

Oh me too. Even though i prefer the first one, this is still one of my favorite go to games :)

[@joanagrossa1719]

yeah final fight arcade version is great but the snes version was a complete mess.and a disgrace.

[@Syklonus]

Retro Frontier I totally agree, it just didn't feel like a Capcom game at all. In fact the first thing that came to my mind when I originally played it was that it felt like Brawl Brothers or Rival Turf so a Jaleco feel is is spot on. It's decent enough but bar the Final Fight name it's just a very middle of the road SNES brawler.

[@joanagrossa1719]

retro frontier I disagree this is capcoms best. graphics ain't choppy hardly. the best animation I ever seen. in final fight. title. jaleco is okay at 2d beat em' up brawlers. their best one is brawl bros . but toe to toe it can.t compete with final fight 3. in the presentation and graphics department. I think jaleco could learn something from Capcom. on how to make their 2d brawlers look much better. rival turf is blazay. and choppy and character animation is too small.

[@Bloodreign1]

Joan Agrossa, the first Final Fight on SNES was an early game for Capcom, so they didn't have the experience under their belts with the SNES like they did with this game later on. First game is also on a smaller cart, so that pretty much affected the first game, and why it wasn't as good as it should've been.

[@BeerDad69]

I can't believe I let my copy go! Now they want over a hundred for a snes cart. BULLSHIT I tells ya. I may have to drop the cash on it tho. Nice work as always brother

[@NintendoComplete]

Yeah, its amazing what games get up on price sometimes. Thanks for reminding me to upload it :) glad you approve!

[@joanagrossa1719]

yup I did I dropped 400 bucks on final fight 3 brand new in box. on ebay. you know I wanted it like crazy'

[@Lupo32]

Joan Agrossa Got, it at Kmart back in the 90s. You could also go to a website Called let's play snes or let's play Sega for free

[@danielnwobhm]

1:24 Ecuador now

[@williancorreia7731]

Se você poder repassar o que eu olhei que eu acho que ninguém viu no final fight 3 , não me lembro qual versão que quando matamos os chefes eu consegui agarralo depois de morto e pude fazer até o especial no chefão

[@ehbatman4647]

willian correia dos santos muito foda esse jogo já faz tempo que não jogo mais lembro dos golpes

[@ehbatman4647]

willian correia dos santos esse jogo tem no play 2

[@ehbatman4647]

willian correia dos santos mais tem no XBOX 360?

[@bazinga116]

isso é na "beta" do jogo

[@Imurge]

way better than ff2 live the flow and smooth music and game play of this game. gonna go buy this for my snes on eBay right now

[@NintendoComplete]

I hope you aren't expecting a bargain :/

[@Imurge]

NintendoComplete lol nah man i can tell this game is expensive but hey to add to my collections it's worthed 😅

[@Imurge]

NintendoComplete I'm gonna watch your game run one more time before the night ends. great upload Nintendo 👍 💯

[@reppinseattle7974]

I actually never played a physical copy of this game, I could only find it on roms.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Final Fight 2 sucked in comparison to 3. The music was lackluster, the plot was weak and didn't include either Cody or Guy, and the fight settings around the world didn't make you feel connected to the plot.

[@user-eb8nz6wz9k]

👍🎮🕹☕️🥤🧋🎉🎊🎀 好玩都唔錯！

[@jimmylee9531]

I found Jimmy Lee From Double Dragon 😂😁

[@dastanbastan9621]

Yeah, it's a great FF, great beat'em up and I agree that FF3 turns out to be actually even better than original arcade game, even if it's graphics is still a bit worse. The only major flaw that it has is terrible restriction on the number of enemies on the screen at the same time, you literally just fight with 3 mooks basically almost everywhere and it does feels kinda disappointing, especially compare to what Streets of Rage 3 and 2 can handle. Other flaws is too minor to talk about here, so overall it's sucks that sales were apparently not impressive, cause this game deserve a success. Come to think of it, strange that SEGA decided to not even try to trick anyone and stick with 5 enemies max for both games(6 in 2 player mode on mania for SOR2, another bizarre limitation) The reason why 5 enemies is even a restriction in the first place is not only technical but also because 2p has an ability to join at any time during 1p through, which can leads to total 7-8 large humanoid sprites at the same time aka obvious maximum for Genesis hardware. But they totally could have just remove that particular feature allowing 2p to join only in the beginning of the game and nowhere else. That way in single player mode Streets of Rage 3 could had handle 6 enemies and SoR 2 even 7(!), which is an insane number compare to what all Final Fight's can barely render on the SNES. I mean, look at this epic bullshot by me: i.imgur.com/T4FcBAd.png Yet, it was never done. I wonder why? Seems like a great thing for marketing, back then SEGA used everything to mock Nintendo rival hardware. Hard to believe than an ability to just jump in the game as second player was so necessary on consoles.

[@Bloodreign1]

Sega mocked, but in the end it was all for naught. Instead of focusing on continuing to make great games for the Genesis, Sega was too busy making boneheaded decisions with the 32X and the Sega CD. Nintendo on the other hand, rode that SNES/SFC train till 2000 (at least in Japan anyway). Oh and there are instances of 4 opponents on the screen at once, watch the longplay all the way through and you'll see. SOR has smaller sprites than this game, and the bigger sprites put quite a strain on RAM (that's why Earthquake was axed from Sam Sho on Genesis, since they went with bigger sprites, while SNES went with smaller ones). Also a lot of those sprites were pretty much the same sprite multiple times,since they are mirror image sprites, might not have been too hard for the console to render them. Remember, the SNES was not built to be an arcade at home machine, it was built to be a console machine, and built more for RPG's and adventure games, those likely sold a lot more on the NES than arcade ports did (RPG's sold like hot cakes in Japan, just look at sales for the Dragon Quest series). This game is also a better looking game than the Streets of Rage game, the background detail in some of the stages is spectacular.

[@metalsuccattack6317]

@@Bloodreign1 oh the thing about sega making bad decisions is right, but streets of rage series still had better games

[@asamiyashin444]

Let's get real. No one Beat'em up is better than the original all mighty Final Fight 1. Saying otherwise is not knowing anything about Beat'em ups.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Just a shame they couldn't have included an SA-1 or something in the cartridge to allow for more enemies onscreen and less slowdown, especially given that they allow 1P games with an AI partner, the game can struggle with just a handful of enemies onscreen. Good game, but could have been better.

[@RodrigoLonguinho]

no level máximo, assim é melhor pra jogar at the maximum level, so it's better to play

[@marcovirtual]

So many slowdowns in this third game. I still prefer the first one.

[@Panthro-lo2lh]

Nostalgia goggles are strong here. I played this quite a bit and SoR2 blows it away by quite a bit. This had more features but more isn’t always better

[@huezandosempreira4446]

Game's good but the amount of slowdowns happening kinda of ruins It.

[@stephencheney9811]

It's too bad Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle on Switch only has arcade originals and not FF2 & FF3.

[@danlliepatterson2572]

I bought this game back in 2000 for $10 bucks now this game worth $300 or more so if you have it keep the price might keep going up!!!!

[@montgomeryward9952]

That Dave boss sure looks awful alot like Eddie boss in the first one just saying 🤔

[@butterboy5621]

Haggar needs to lay off the roids.

[@eugenehills8371]

Dean Guy Hagger detective police 🚓🚓🚓 Metro city Nunchucks weapon slam body

[@SalDOWN]

It looks the gameplay is way too slow!

[@Bloodreign1]

Not everything needs to be at the speed of a Benny Hill comedy skit you know. You're fighting street thugs, not having a race with them.

[@SalDOWN]

@@Bloodreign1 Okay. :D

[@asamiyashin444]

@@Bloodreign1 But he has a point. The game is slower than the original Final Fight and there are many unforgiveable slow downs through the game.

[@MrWashu12]

Final fight 1 2 and 3 the best never played final fight guy final fight streetwise was good here and there but the spirit of the game and team work were gone why does some of capcom's games end well where others end badly like dino crisis 3.

[@tmadden8556]

AI parent is garbage lol..should have went it solo

[@marcosrusso4442]

2 play very nobb

[@LawmanIL]

This game looks like a gay bdsm club

[@chriscock6584]

Their fighting styles are awful.

[@captkool4336]

I don't get this hype at all, I think Final Fight 1 and 2 are much better. This feels like it wants to be Streets of Rage too much and has annoyingly unnecessary flashy moves.

[@Bloodreign1]

This is far better than the first two Final Fight games IMO. You don't have to use the flashy moves if you don't want to,but the flashy moves are pretty much in every beat em up belt scroller out there.

[@asamiyashin444]

This is not a Final Fight. It is too far from the original concept. Like someone else said, this looks like some Jaleco Final Fight wannabe or some Streets of Rage (which is another Final Fight wannabe). Nothing beats the original arcade Final Fight 1. It's a shame that it never had a decent sequel.

[@pleasedontwhipmemaster2353]

This version sucks i like the original better.

[@yasir161083]

I do not understand that how the final fight 1 is better than the others came after it. This retro game they made Haggar a gay!!!

[@NintendoComplete]

+riz razee Lmao, you sound like my grandma. "Oh, is he a gay?" :p

[@vatoslocos5478]

riz razee thats reaally true. The final 1 is much better then this

[@Bloodreign1]

How is Haggar gay? I don't think you know what that word means I'm afraid. This is a man that took his oath of office seriously, beating the ever living shit out of the Mad Gear gang, not once, but twice. No other mayor you know of would do, or could do that.

[@asamiyashin444]

@@Bloodreign1 I think that he is referring to his looks in this sequel. Haggar in the previous parts didn't look so ridiculous.

[@HeNnEsSy_HiCcUpS]

This game is wack ,sonic blast man 2 is so much better

[@Bloodreign1]

This game is great, Sonic Blast Man 2 is great.

[@HeNnEsSy_HiCcUpS]

@@Bloodreign1 2 is coop