Half the fun of the arcade game was jumping in with a friend and beating up the Mad Gears together. This is single-player Final Fight, which almost doesn't make it Final Fight at all. Finally, in the most offensive of sins, the SNES version stripped out the cooperative multiplayer component. Third, all the female enemies have been replaced with generic male punks (presumably because someone found the idea of fighting women offensive, though it was A-OK in the NES version of Double Dragon). Second, it's missing one of the levels from the arcade game. First, Guy, the third playable character in the arcade version, isn't in this one. The differences between this version and the arcade original are numerous. This is far from the ultimate version of Final Fight-heck, it's not even the penultimate version (that goes to either Final Fight One on the GBA, or Final Fight CD for the Sega CD). Well, you could start by asking for the version of Final Fight that came out in arcades, not the hacked-up SNES version. This is what we like to call 'taking care of mayoral business.' Boss fights are challenging, lots of enemies pop up in every level, multiple weapons present themselves throughout the game, and you get to break barrels to find hidden barbecued meats that replenish your health.
There's more depth to it than meets the eye, and that the enemies you face come at you with such varying patterns of attack makes things all the trickier. Both Cody and Haggar can string together some basic attack combos, as well as pull off jumping attacks, grab attacks, and spinning maneuvers that prevent them from getting surrounded. Though Final Fight's combat system consists of the usual two-button control scheme that most brawlers from this era used, it holds up surprisingly well. So, Mayor Haggar does what any good politician would do-he gathers up his daughter's boyfriend, a handsome martial artist named Cody, and hits the streets to beat the snot out of every Mad Gear that crosses his path.Īnd boy, is it ever fun to do so. The Mad Gear gang, the primary force behind the crime wave, doesn't like Haggar's clean-up-the-city initiatives, and opts to kidnap Haggar's daughter. In Metro City, crime runs the show, until former street fighter Mike Haggar is elected into mayoral office. Maybe next time you won't park it in such a bash-friendly spot. Still, even for all the details the SNES version mucks up, many of the core factors that make Final Fight so appealing are still intact, and you're bound to have a fun time with it, even in spite of its multiple blights on the arcade game's good name. This is the compromised SNES version, not the arcade original. However, the version of Final Fight just released for the Wii Virtual Console isn't necessarily the one you want to play.
Between some of the most memorable enemies in beat-'em-up history, a still-great combat system, a slick art style, and the greatest action-hero politician of all time, Metro City mayor Mike Haggar, you absolutely need to play Final Fight at some point in your life. Final Fight is perhaps the single greatest side-scrolling beat-'em-up of all time, a near-perfect realization of the "gang kidnaps someone's girlfriend/wife/daughter/niece/random-damsel-in-distress so you go beat them all up" formula.
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