Nekketsu Oyako - Sega Saturn Review

[@DerivitivFilms]

"Rando is a slow and powerful wrestler with a Ryu like uppercut and multiple throws, while Ryo is small but fast and uses a hammer to beat down her foes." Sega Lord X is a Poet and he didn't even know it.

[@MrSez1979]

Oh he knows it... Our Sega Sage:) 🙏

[@darktetsuya]

I remember seeing this one previewed in Die Hard GameFan back in the 90s, it definitely looked like a fun beat-em-up! in recent years I did check it out emulated (and even made room for the PSX version on the PS classic) but yeah it's definitely a fun, colorful walk-and-puncher!

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

Yup! I remember saying ‘aw man I can’t wait til that comes out here!’🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[@marcusgreene8434]

I enjoyed every minute of this game. I've always like a good beat em ups!

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

Ever since Double Dragon was in the arcade I never look back as a kid. Beat em Rule🤘

[@bananarama6808]

Excellent video bro, I wish I had the Saturn version but all I got was the PS1 version

[@ShinobiShowdown]

Sega Lord X, I am so glad I watch your YT Channel that is how I found this hidden gem it is an awesome edition to my arcade cabinet with 10,000+ games.

[@mattb6522]

I personally love beat-em-ups since I grew up with them, so this is awesome to hear one that I never even knew about! It is a shame they fell out of favor after a few years, but I feel like they made a bit of a return recently. This one looks incredibly fun and I honestly don't mind the simple, arcade action. This seems like a fun way to just kill 45 minutes with a friend.

[@SegaLordX]

It is. I've enjoyed it a number of times in co-op.

[@ezraramos6917]

I just played this for the first time with my brother.

[@CouncilEstatePopMusic]

Very nice. I’d not heard of this game before, so thanks for the heads up. Jake. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@SegaLordX]

No problem.

[@PistNRods]

I tried it out after watching your vid and you’re spot on about it being a “Super Nintendo” game. Not only does it have the look, but slow gameplay too. The biggest surprise to me was the sound. It has the muffled soundfx and snes music so common to that systems games. It’s crazy especially this being a CD game.

[@Bloodyshinta1]

Shenmue and Yakuza are the evolution of the beat'em up genre

[@franciscoluisparedesparejo5719]

I think that games like God of war, ninja gaiden or devil may cry could be more like the Evolution of the genre rather than Shenmue or Yakuza. Shenmue and Yakuza has indeed action and fights against several enemies but that's not the core mechanics of the game, but psx God of war or the Xbox Ninja Gaiden has this kind of fights as it's main game system.

[@Binmaru]

Omg I need this, how did I miss this game! Worth it just for the ost!

[@AllCoolThingsStoneMountain]

I own this. If SEGA had concentrated on brining more of these out from the arcade systems, then they probably wouldn't have sold much back then, but they would be hella collectible, now. -HERETICPRIME

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Very cool looking title. Hearing about beat em ups dying out cause of the 90's community obsession with 3d stuff is always saddening but at least the genre is making a bit of a comeback. Maybe this game could get ports again

[@hdrgb]

Great game, great work, the Lord of Sega is back. Happy New Year bud.

[@SegaLordX]

You too, my friend.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Thank you for covering this title! I've been looking at this title from Game Fan and glad to see it covered! Appreciate it greatly!!!

[@SegaLordX]

Glad I could help!

[@robmason5799]

I never heard of this game and wanted to see what the prices were on this. Damn these Saturn prices are killing my wallet to the point of my wallet telling me your not buying anything lol.

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

Have this on psx. It's alright but there are at least 50 better beat em ups. Definitely not a must play.

[@goylem91]

Maybe someone already said it, but the title is probably a reference to the famous Tecnos' license "Nekketsu Koha" (whose an episode is well known with the english title "River City Ransom")

[@BainesMkII]

HardcoreGaming mentioned one change in the Saturn version that made the game a bit more difficult, that health pick-ups in the Playstation version gave you extra health even if you were already full, while the Saturn version doesn't.

[@SegaLordX]

I doubt that matters much on anything but the hardest setting. This one is kind of a breeze, otherwise.

[@Oysterblade84]

Such a nice looking game. I really do miss games like this. It would have benefited better on the Mega-CD I feel. I'm not a Saturn man but I still enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for another great video SegalordX.

[@SegaLordX]

Appreciate you stopping by.

[@melvynsngltn27]

@@SegaLordX Sega Saturn dropped the ball on a few games. This would of been a good launch title or pack in game. The Revege of Death Adder was another good one Sega dropped the ball on

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Really love 2d games. Especially if they are flashy like cps2 types.... This though looks like something a megadrive or other 16bit machine could do most of...bar that whale or helicopter etc and a few scrolling effects.. (or at least a cut down port on a special cartridge or something) It looks very repetitive too. So on this one... I gotta say- on first impressions it doesn't really make me wanna spend time on it. Looks original too which is unique on this genre. Edit. Would be more suited on a neogeo as opposed to megasnes!

[@shiningphantasy1393]

Based on Tecnosoft's pedigree and the newfound potential of the Playstation/Saturn the end result is less than hoped for; also though Tecnosoft had some of their top talent already move on from the company and they were a development group past their peak.

[@burtonvigil3481]

I'm 100% sold on the Sega Saturn. I have nothing right now but plan to invest in all the good games. Thank you

[@SegaLordX]

Buy the stuff that looks like stuff you really wanna play. Don't be afraid of Japanese versions.

[@gordyowl9455]

Well thanks for making this review because I recently started to play it on my Saturn, I haven't made it that far yet so thanks for showing up the on wale stage because I have ichtyophobia... I can't believe those fish looked realistic 😣

[@conradojavier7547]

Every Saturn Game Deserves a Steam Released.

[@CecilTheDarkKnight234]

Looks up the price of the game for Sega Saturn and PS1.. WELP EMULATION IT IS!! Also fantastic Review/contact as always SLX, keep up the good work.

[@SegaLordX]

Thank you.

[@RicardoRandom691]

I dipped out of console gaming when the Saturn and PS1 hit the market and they were just too expensive for me, living in South America. So I moved on to PC gaming. But your channel has single-handedly turned me into a Saturn fanatic. Expensive system to collect for, but very very worth it :)

[@BubblegumCrash332]

It's those damn octopuses with boxing gloves causing problems again

[@Garpocalypse]

Great video. It's always fun seeing how much more I need before I'm happy with my saturn collection :/

[@impurity77]

Gotta love the excitement felt when you see a new Sega Lord X video

[@SegaLordX]

I hope it lives up to your expectations.

[@impurity77]

@@SegaLordX always does!

[@jbmaru]

I'd say this game looks better than standard 16-bit home console releases. It's 16-bit coin-op level.

[@Ixapter]

That IS an awesome soundtrack! :)

[@jessragan6714]

Deep dive for this one. I found Hot Blooded Fighting Family to be inoffensive. Certainly not the pinnacle of the genre, but pleasant enough to play, and a bit more outrageous than the 16-bit beat 'em ups it resembles. I liked that the items you could pick up included Sega Saturns.

[@leonkent1365]

worth owning except for the massive price tag

[@MagisterHamid]

I bought the Saturn version last year. Not only does it have much better soundtrack than the PSX version. It’s also one of the best soundtrack of the 32 bit era IMO. It’s a fun beat em up. A bit easy but the comical aspects really makes it worth it

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I like this game okay, but it's definitely not up to snuff with the beat 'em ups Capcom had been putting out shortly before like The Punisher or Battle Circuit. I'd put it closer to the Rushing Beat games.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah I feel like that's pretty accurate. It feels pretty bargain basement for sure.

[@SegaLordX]

I'd love to know the development history of this. I bet it started as a Mega Drive or Super Famicom project that moved to the Playstation.

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

@@SegaLordX it definitely feels that way, almost as if they didn't expect to have all of the tools available for 32 bit effects, and then shoehorned a few in late.

[@Mr_x_19922]

6:25 brilliant ost! The very first psx game to be released on Japan (Dec 4, 1994), along a few others (like Ridge Racer) and a very early Sega Saturn game (July 1995). Nekketsu Oyako was a great yet obscure 2.5D beat em up, with a fantastic level design and soundtrack. The Sega Saturn was such an amazing console, it was much superior to the N64 and even superior to psx in a few aspects, for example, FPS tend to be better on Saturn than on psx or n64. Considering it was not succesfull in the west, the Saturn sold much better than the N64 in Japan. * note: Saturn came out 2 weeks earlier than the psx (in Japan)

[@vasileios6301]

So could Saturn do Quake 2?

[@fazares]

@@vasileios6301 maybe...something along the lines of the ps1 version, i suppose

[@goonerlee]

£350 for a new copy of this on Ebay. Wow.

[@MONSTERGABhorror]

Great review once again. Never heard of this game but I'm pretty intrigued.

[@SegaLordX]

It's worth a play or two.

[@neogenesis7706]

Love this game. This and D&D are must have beaters on the system.

[@G.G.___162]

I absolutely love this game. Kicks the nuts right off of Final Fight. I once saw someone say that they preferred Crest of the Wolf over this.. LOL

[@richardheckmann1892]

I got to say that this game looks cool but wow the price of it is really high. Great video man.

[@fazares]

I reviewed the Ps1 one on my channel...quite an underrated beatemup, imho....but yes...it was quite lacking, gfx wise :P

[@Zahir658]

I was so looking forward to the English translation of it. I played it on PS1 but struggled with the Japanese text. I can't wait to play that game via the Saturn emulator that I have on my laptop. It was a great game :)

[@IsaacKuo]

I feel like the beat'em up genre was on the decline ever since Streetfighter II. With arcade machines, pvp fighting games ate up quarters a heck of a lot faster than coop games. Even if the cabinet technically only supported two players, you'd typically have a much larger number of players waiting their turn, so a lot more quarters to eat up before the players had had enough. Coop games could ramp up the difficulty, but it felt a lot more frustrating to only get a minute or two of gameplay because the CPU opponents were unfairly tough, than it was to lose to a human opponent who didn't have an unfair advantage. Somehow the shooter genre managed to cling on through this era, but I feel like the beat'em up was too similar to the PvP fighting game. If you had the artists and coders suitable for making a beat'em up, you'd direct them to try and make a more profitable fighting game instead. On the console side of things, I think Mario 64 really became what everyone chased after. It's really what drove the feeling that everything now had to be 3D. But developers were struggling with camera control. Having more than one player would make it even more of a headache. So coop was more of a headache to try and develop, so ... sigh...

[@shiningphantasy1393]

Sometime a year or two after Final Fight the arcade beat 'em ups became like "How much mayhem can we cram onto the screen at once?" and the genre kind of burned itself out with over-saturation and excessive repetition. That in combination with the rise of the prioritized one on one fighting game pretty much shifted developers away from the genre for the most part. The one on one fighting game had skill development and progression involved and that was a big advantage, even if that genre became over-saturated over time also.

[@starstarstar4643]

When I was kid I remember egm and gamepro heavily hyping this game up

[@kevinstrade2752]

Got this a few years ago and had a wtf? Moment with boxing octopi, freaky punks and being limited in what you can pick up. But still a decent solid game.

[@SegaLordX]

I didn't mind the health pick ups being different but the weapons get a bit irritating. I mean why can't the big guy pick up the smaller weapons, exactly?

[@VGSuite]

Sega Saturn Soundtrack is better arranged and as CD Audio on the Disc, the PS1 version sounds good too, but is "only" programmed as midi and comes from the Soundchip in realtime!

[@shiningphantasy1393]

Love Tecnosoft; this one looks like a run of the mill variety Neo-Geo game; based on the pros and cons I'd choose the Saturn version due to the enhanced OST. I can understand why the game remained in Japan; it would not have moved the needle at all in the USA during the mid-nineties and would have found itself in the bargain bin section before very long. Sony was discouraging 2D games to even be released in the USA for the Playstation for the first year, although they still filtered through and made it out.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

I was trying to put my finger on it....not megadrive or snes.... but neogeo!! Thank you Find my comment.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@Orzuum well there is mutation nation.... there's that really crap one (no not victory Joe or whatever its called)- karate blazers or something. I was more referring to the graphical style. I mean it hardly pushed the Saturn even the ps!! But it was just that bit too much fir the megasnes! So ...neogeo maybe? Capiche?!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@Orzuum oh fer sure

[@shiningphantasy1393]

@Orzuum I wasn't trying to slight the Neo-Geo overall by my original comment; the SengoKu games were quality beat 'em ups however there were also some lazy efforts like Mutation Nation, Robo Army, Ninja Combat, and Burning Fight.

[@shiningphantasy1393]

@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Yeah if this game were on the SNES likely a bit more of slow-down would be happening.

[@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499]

I'm curious what you thought of the actual Streets of Rage 4 that came out on PS4/XB1 a couple years back. Loved it, personally (great art, solid gameplay).

[@Vetal83]

What is up with the prices for this game?

[@lyvekis8824]

Kinda similar to Castlevania on Saturn. The Saturn version had additional content (Maria mode, bosses and areas) but ran poorly compared to Playstation. Really weird.

[@thierrydesu]

Not enough opponents. If you like fighting games with a lot of different opponents in style and pize, pick Capcom's Warriors of Fate instead.

[@Riz2336]

Looks cool an retro, never played that one

[@HCKNEOBOOM]

Great game! Thanks for the review. I found this lost gem recently on emulation. PS1 is my preferred system to play this. Saturn is a port that could have delivered a much better experience.

[@gigatywing3483]

Why do you prefer ps1 version?

[@ashleyholroyd91]

How about a review on Funky Head Boxers?

[@SegaLordX]

I've covered it before. Not sure I have the interest in it for a dedicated review. We'll see.

[@garylshawiii483]

As a beat ‘em up fan since I can remember I always wondered why the genre took so many generations to evolve…I need to pick Streets of Rage 4

[@loganjorgensen]

Art style isn't directly related to art scale, the sprites may look like something seen on the SNES but their size and number of frames are more similar to the quality scale of something like Capcom's arcade brawlers Ie. tons of memory chips. You'd have to seriously reduce the size of all the art and cut a lot of frames to fit this on SNES/GEN, I was surprised how well Captain Commando turned out on SNES in hindsight. CD game storage size is a funny matter, although it can increase the number of levels possible it can't increase the amount of video memory on the platform. This is kind of why SCD games often didn't excel much more graphically than Genesis counterparts. Only exception to that was the SS RAM cart approach. Best thing Nekketsu Oyako might have done was add some different sprites to swap between in the home ports even if they couldn't all be on screen at the same time. Definitely on the border of tech transition though in release timing, this kind of game would see a lot of graphical evolution in that time period when you look where it ended up later like Capcom's D&D games. Yeah a real shame all that brawler goodness didn't come out in NA or develop more as a genre viable more in the present.

[@SegaLordX]

Yeah, we will need to simply disagree, then. In no way does this game even remotely approach the quality of animation or number of sprites on screen of Capcom's arcade titles. Yes, the sprites are a bit larger than what we typically saw on the SNES/Genesis, but let's not get carried away here. This is far closer to a 16-bit experience than one of Capcom's efforts on the CPS line.

[@loganjorgensen]

@@SegaLordX I guess so lol, I don't want to argue either. It's definitely close though, probably with some heavy squeezing it could fit on SNES. SFA2 was an impressive crunch too for SNES when I think about it.

[@stormxjp]

My favorite genre, I think 🤔 SEGA owns all Technosoft IPs now, so this is now a SEGA title 🤣

[@SegaLordX]

Coulda been a cool Sega Ages release.

[@williampatterson1376]

Yo Sony if you watched Sega Lord x put this badass awesome game on ps5 and ps4 please looks really beautiful game

[@corneliusmercer7022]

Did the beat'em evolve into the hack and slash?

[@gc3k]

Essentially. Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, pre-reboot God of War and Bayonetta have a lot of similarities to classic beatemups. Only thing they haven't really attempted is coop mode There's also the long-running Dynasty Warriors which at least managed to make beatemup gameplay work in 3d, though it's not exactly the same

[@pointlessfailure]

What's your suggestion for playing Saturn on modern HDTVs? I just got mine out of the storage and realized I only have an RF adapter, but surprisingly it works and I can still play it, although it's very grainy.

[@MaidenHell1977]

If your tv has RF input, it must be rather old, that being said, if it has S-video, that's the next cheapest upgrade you can get without spending a lot more money. Look up HD Retrovision, I think they have a component cable to really increase the quality of the picture.

[@pointlessfailure]

@@MaidenHell1977 2020 LG OLED. Infact almost all modern TVs still have coax cable hook ups because cable companies still use them. Hell, I still use an antenna on one of my TVs from 2015 with a coax. But thanks, I'll check it out.

[@MaidenHell1977]

@@pointlessfailure oh wow I had no idea, I was under the impression that coaxial was a thing of the past. Good to know.

[@dududu5189]

@@MaidenHell1977 Coaxial cables still exist. You were thinking of _feminine_ women which have been gradually phased out in favor of 300lb purple haired Man hating lezbos...

[@LIAGWP]

👍👍

[@jamesmoss3424]

Hot blooded family should have been released in the USA in the first place. 😀👍🎮

[@SegaLordX]

With so many people having a hard on for polygons, I bet Sega didn't look twice at it.

[@jamesmoss3424]

@@SegaLordX that is true.

[@afriend9428]

*another good fighting games are Crows and Warriors of Fate!* 💡

[@イノセント-h7j]

サターンは影やライトがメッシュですね。プレステは半透明処理されてます。

[@vanessatrotter69]

👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@WiLLiW_oficial]

Noice!

[@mistamontiel00]

Convert to DeepL translator, very boss. Hot blooded father+son

[@jpdunphy1]

Selling it a bit short, I think. Looks more of a Neo Geo quality to me.

[@SegaLordX]

Early Neo Geo, maybe. Later games destroy it to my eyes.

[@xtremegold2950]

it look more like a late 16bit beat em up snes beacuase of the color palatte similar to rival turf or rushing beat not the neogeo it had superior visuals in more stuff on screen

[@CasperEgas]

If is were a lot cheaper, I would buy it. 150€ seems too much.

[@SegaLordX]

Yeah, the price is kinda crazy.

[@siempregamer4967]

I tried this game in 2018 when i bought my saturn and didnt like it at all. It feels cheap and lazy.

[@Vulpas]

Music and art is good but this genre is not too hot even at its best.

[@armdrk3233]

Shenmue made love with Streets of Rage and Yakuza was born (before they ruin the gameplay with turn based style nonsense of Yakuza 7).

[@JohnSmith-nj4zq]

Guarding Hero sucks compared to this game. I don't know why people think it's better. Maybe they just don't like older games.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

This game used to be cheap, not anymore

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yep the new retro economy is not good.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Japanese Retro is Cheap Saturn included. Just a few games are up there. Average Japanese Saturn games go between 10-$50

[@stevesteve0521]

I picked it up for $28 about 16 years ago without even really knowing what it was and at that time I felt like I overpaid for it. The prices for the game now are ridiculous

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

@@stevesteve0521 interest in Technosoft and the Saturn in general. I got it maybe for around $40-50 10 years ago

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@PopeTheRevXXVIII Yeah it's mostly a matter of getting a hold of a Saturn at this point. From what I understand I guess the US one can easily be made to play Japanese discs. (and I believe visa versa) but considering some of the best games are in Japanese and there's no way to fix that I would think at this point it's just easier to emulation or have an emulated drive in an actual Saturn at the very least.

[@AB.BABY.]

The sound design is awful and about as low fidelity as it comes

[@Michael59197]

Octopus with boxing gloves? This is Streets of Rage when you get high. Streets of Stoned.

[@StoneMonkWisdom]

PS1 version has a very small file size for Nekketsu Oyako and it has an English Patch.

[@adamphillip5305]

Yeah just downloaded one thats 4.47mb, The PSP eboot is 11.2mb

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@adamphillip5305 That really is small.

[@frankderossi795]

For a Saturn game, visually I'm not impressed.

[@maroon9273]

Look like developers only used utilize only the vdp1.

[@MrSez1979]

Love my "backup" copy of this:)

[@Captofthisship]

Ohh that looks kind of fun, but that Ebay price ain't. Emu, here I come.

[@amirprog]

Its ok game due to problematic gameplay - the hit box is not good. Though the graphics is great, colorful, detailed, the music is good to great. They should have worked on gameplay much more and it could be much more known game. Just played it on saturn. Overall enjoyed it, just set your expectations for ok game.

[@initial_C]

Man you're putting out the content almost faster than I can get to it. Keep up the good work, Sega Lord!

[@Gatorade69]

Right ? And it's all good, though simple. I really enjoy his reviews and thoughts on games. There's youtubers with millions of subscribers that can't churn out content this good and regularly.

[@initial_C]

@@Gatorade69 I've really come to appreciate the more chilled out reviewers these days. Between Sega Lord, SNESDrunk and LGR there's a lot of good old school content to relax with.

[@Gatorade69]

@@initial_C When I was reading your comment I instantly thought of SNESdrunk and saw you mentioned him, and LGR is great of course. The whole "angry" schtick has run it's course, I feel, with so many reviewers faking it or playing it up or just fake reviews without even playing the game (AVGN is guilty of all of this). It's nice to just have a simple review of a game from someone that has played it. If you like SNESdrunk check out his friend NESFriend though he keeps his videos about NES games.

[@SegaLordX]

Thank you. Your kindness and support is much appreciated.

[@MAuro1973ful]

the price of this video game is absurd, I hope sooner or later the manufacturers will sell reprints of the video games, to stop speculation😥

[@vipset87]

yoooo i had this game on a blank cd, this was actually the most fun game for me on sega saturn but i only had 12/13 games to begin with. NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THIS (around my way in NJ atleast)

[@sega-re-trop-vieux]

Not a bad game but damn I hate the dithering mesh system and that game use it a lot.

[@maroon9273]

Most likely the vdp1 high color pallete. I don't know why sega never expand it to true color pallete.

[@craigvard1639]

Mesh transparentcy in games like this is unforgivable. With only simple, non distorted, nonzoomed sprites even VDP1 alone could do real halftransparentcy. Looks like rushed port.

[@SRC267]

That game translation description is funny. Now I'm not sure which port to play. Graphically the PS seems better, but the music on the SS is better. Hmmm hard decision.

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

Sprites, while big, are an entire generation behind 5th gen SNK, and two generations behind 5th gen Capcom. Guardian Heroes, D&D Shadow over Mystara, 3 Dirty Dwarves, & Rampage World Tour are the beat em up gold on Saturn. It’s a real shame Capcom didn’t re-use their existing sprite catalog for a ton of Marvel & $treet Fighter beat em ups with branching paths and hella enemy & weapon & super move variety

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

@@apollosungod2819 exactly. It was a previous gen title, ported right away to a system capable of much more. It’s still a fun little game, just has lackluster sprite work compared to all the elite sprite work on the Saturn in years after launch. If only I could somehow rewind time and convince Capcom to use these street fighter alpha series, versus series, and Street Fighter 3 series sprites in branched path beat em ups with stages that went both right and left, even some sprite scaling helicopter escape levels or racing escape levels to mix gameplay up a bit. 94-00 Capcom spritework >>>>>> anything else close

[@GzegzolkaDA]

Maybe not an awesome game, but it can give some joy. Music and sprites are great, only some backgrounds looks like mixed quality, sometimes they fit nice stage and sometimes they look like poor scanned photos mixed together.

[@SegaLordX]

The graphics definitely could have been better.

[@HellTantrumbull]

When I first played this game years ago the graphics and the way the characters are animated actually reminded me of games made on certain arcade boards like what Taito used instead of snes and genesis. guess that silliness the game has along with being a brawler since I was looking for more to play on Saturn is why I didn't mind playing it even though it's not using the consoles power to its advantage. At the same time I remember thinking back in the Saturn era "where are the graphically enhanced versions of Streets of Rage 1-3 along with where is SoR 4?" I really would have been playing Saturn even more than what I was already doing if I could have played a better looking, sounding and animated, sounding version of SoR2 since that game is what kept me and my friend up so many nights since the game was just that good. Still hurt the Saturn didn't get ports of Sega's own arcade brawlers like both Golden Axe games, Alien Storm and Arabian Fight and Capcom also left a number of their brawlers off the system. Sailor Moon also didn't make it to Saturn and we got that garbage fighting game for her instead which was a stain on Saturn and PS1. >_>

[@atomiswave2]

You should do a Captain commando w/ 3 player PlayStation 1 review

[@hakimdania5015]

This saturn version way more exp than the ps1 version

[@stevesteve0521]

The only beat em up on the Saturn that feels like street of rage

[@mah2mah]

It's like a SNES game ported straight to a 32-bit machine.

[@Mitjitsu]

The game has special moves which aren't included in the manual and took me several hours of playing to document them. I suspect the developers added moves and the people who made the manual copied the moveset from the PSX version.

[@dududu5189]

What are those special moves?

[@Mitjitsu]

@@dududu5189 I do have them, but I'm not sure URLs work here, but I do have them in a pastebin.

[@3jane821]

Paste the movelist here.

[@Mitjitsu]

@@3jane821 RANDO: Beast King Fist DP + A Oyaji Smash Up, Down, Forward + A (can also be performed during jump) Oyaji Straight HCB + A Oyaji Burst Rush Up, Down, Back+A (only during low health) Body Press Down + A midair Tackle A while dashing Dash Kick A during a Tackle Sliding Down + A while dashing Tombstone B while holding an enemy Back Drop A while holding an enemy RIO: Hammer Drift QCF + A Super Spin Attack QCF + B Hammer Breed Back, Forward, Back+A Pressure Wave QCB + A (can also be performed during jump) Pogo Stick A + Down Spin Attackk Up + A midair Dash Kick A while dashing Slide Kick A + Down while dashing TORA: Dragon Claw Slash DF, Down, Forward + A Dash Attack A while running Smash Kick A during a Dash Attack

[@3jane821]

@@Mitjitsu Thanks.

[@SegaCDUniverse]

I always wanted this and Crows, I doubt it will ever happen now. =(

[@garrynorth6269]

Great review, for the ultimate beat em up try final fight ultimate lns for the open bor engine.

[@zackerychapman7193]

I dont think I even tried to burn this game. Just looked middle of the road. Played Guardian Heros, Crow, Batman, Die Hard arcade instead

[@nidoqueenadvance6798]

I wonder if the somewhat basic visuals could be attributed to the fact that this game was a very early release on both the Playstation and saturn. Also I wonder if an arcade version was ever in development.

[@agamemnon8163]

Nice. My wife’s son is coming to visit this weekend. My wife only allows me to play games when he is around. I am going to unplug his computers video card so he will have to play hot blooded family instead of fortenite.

[@MaidenHell1977]

You sound like you need a divorce.

[@dududu5189]

@Agamemnon You need to look into the *Red Pill,* Bro. If you treated your wife as disdainfully as she treats you everybody around would throw a fit.

[@agamemnon8163]

@@MaidenHell1977 If I divorce my wife I won’t be allowed to game with her son at all 🙅‍♂️

[@MaidenHell1977]

@@agamemnon8163 oh yeah that's true, but at least you'd be able to game whenever you like. Better yet, you can find a new wife after your divorce who enjoys gaming as much as you do and you can forget about your ex-wife and her son. ☺️

[@agamemnon8163]

@@dududu5189 we made a deal. I don’t play video game and she not allowed to hangout with those Arabic guys at the bar. Relationships r built on compromises