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Oct 17, 2010
It ain't Legend of Zelda, but it tries.
1 of 2 found this helpful I bought this game years ago at Electronics Boutique when such as place still existed in retail land. Anyhow, I loved it. I'm pretty sure it was one of the final releases on Sega Saturn by anyone. The now-defunct RPG warehouse Working Designs ported it to America.
At one point, the game was supposedly 100 percent voiced-over but a test group didn't appreciate digitized voice actors yapping at them, so the bulk of the voice acting was scrapped. I don't know if agree with this decision or not. I have never read the manga or seen the animes, but I thoroughly enjoyed this game. MKR is wonderful, I'm glad I still own it. Great action RPG. If you like a traditional "JRPG", try "Albert Odyssey" instead.
MKR has a similiar perspective and play control to Nintendo's "A Link to the Past" Zelda game, but none of the girls who you play as are as versatile as the Linkster!
Oct 17, 2010
Quck background
2 of 3 found this helpful I'll just state if it hasn't already been stated before that this is an American release, part of a trilogy of games. The first and second were released on Super Famicom in Japan and not ported to American SNES.
I very much enjoyed this game. It is a traditional JRPG.
Jan 06, 2007
Not quite the arcade version I wanted.
1 of 2 found this helpful If you didn't already know, Final Fight was released between Street Figther I (a game few people probably played) and Street Fighter II (perhaps the most modded & rehashed OFFICIAL game ever released in the history of console & arcade gaming). Why? Because at the time side-scrolling "beat-em-ups" had been popluair for years since the release of such games as "Double Dragon" and "Golden Axe." SF I might not have been as well-received as Capcom had hoped, so out came this classic franchise.
Oddly enough even though the game features Guy (the third playable char from the original arcade game who wasn't accessible from the original Super Nintendo port of the game), for some reason the names of many of the enemy chars still are censored. The first boss isn't named "Damnd." And the katana wielding boss isn't "Sodom." Plus, having been released on Sega CD, the game suffers from a slightly deficent color palatte owing to core system (Sega Genesis) only being able to produce 63 colors. Although a good bonus is that the beginning cinema sequence is much better animated whereas in previous versions they were a series of still pictures.
If you've played only the SNES version, bear in mind that one of the female punks from the arcade game was changed into a skinny male punk for that version. I guess Nintendo didn't think having even one female char beatup was a no-no. There's also an extra level with the a boss char named "Rolento" to contend with.
A nice addittion to the game which I'm not sure had been featured elsewhere is a time attack or survival mode where you plunked into a special stage and must beat the living crud out of as many punks as you can possibly can before your life bar runs out. I'm sure you won't find this in the compilation pack recently released for PS2 (Capcom Classics Collection volume 1).
Final Fight CD is a rare game to find. You should check it out if you're curious what kinda games came out in the days when the CD-ROM format (popularized by PSOne and replaced by DVD on PS2) was still considered new. Otherwise if you just want to have a straight port of the arcade, then hit up the game Capcom Classics Collection volume 1 I mentioned earlier.