Virtual Console Reviews

ah, the debut of Mai and Kim. but i think i will wait until Real Bout before getting any from the Fatal Fury series.

I always like the original Fatal Fury better than this one.

Maybe it's a bit unfair to say, but I think it looks slow, clunky and 'rigid' going by that video.

Still, more Neo Geo games certainly isn't a bad thing

The original Fatal Fury was a pre-SF2 fighting game, and played completely different from what you'd refer to as a fighting game today. This, however, is Fatal Fury done in the Street Fighter 2 style. It was released at roughly the same time as Art of Fighting, but uses the (better) Fatal Fury style of play. If you like fighting games, this one is worth a closer look.

But yeah, there ARE tons of sequels to this. If you're a patient fellow, it might be worth it to wait a while longer. Still great stuff, though.

Err, you sure about that, Adamant?
SF II hit arcades in March 1991, whereas FF did in November of the same year.

It takes more than a couple months to design a game. The Fatal Fury developers wouldn't stop their half-finished game and say "Hey, Capcom just reinvented the fighting game genre. Let's scrap this game we're working on and make a clone of their game instead!"

Look at the playing styles of the two games. FF is clearly an old-style fighting game.

I'm not arguing on them playing differently, I just didn't like the term pre-SF II, as it suggests that SF II would have borrowed ideas from FF.

How come? SF2 is th evolution of the concept seen in the original Street Fighter, which Fatal Fury also clearly took a lot of inspiration from. But while Fatal Fury more or less perfected the genre, SF2 took it to the next level, inventing a new one which proved much more popular.

I think it's a bit too kind to say that FF and SF2 are different genres. FF was good, SF2 was better, simple as that. And I will never see them as games from different genres. Let's not forget that one of the men behind SF quit Capcom and started working on SNKs fighters. I don't know the details, though. Feel free to fill me in.

The FF games are pretty much uncharted territory for me though, and I liked FF's oldschool huge sprites and colorful pixels. So I'll probable give this one a go. Does this game have the plane-shifting mechanincs from FF too? And does it work any better than it did there?

Cool dunno if this is better than Fatal Fury but at least it brings us closer to Garou: Mark Of The Wolves (its in the fatal fury series)