1117: Arcade Archives Crime Fighters PS4 \\ No mic! Options, playthrough, "Good" ending & boss rush!
0Had my settings wrong* so this is a NO MIC recording of me thinking you can hear my usual muttering as I go through the Options, then slog single-player through the modern emulation of a 1989 arcade beat-em-up in Arcade Archives Crime Fighters on PS4--2P International cabinet mode--avoiding the key at the final boss to get the "good" ending, and credit-feeding through the ensuing boss rush!
Maybe it's just as well my mic wasn't captured here since it was pretty much all me complaining about how awful the hurt boxes are and how hard it is to hit anything, and why is the game so long oh please just let it end!
The follow-up, Vendetta, is also in Arcade Archives. Guess I'll try next; hopefully it's a little less agonizing!
My Crime Fighters playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMVU46IZ80reHgmWNxicjnP
0:00 - XMB, Vendetta
1:23 - Back-Kick 3rd button in 2P JP cab version
4:01 - Options
5:58 - Manual
8:00 - 2P International version
9:10 - the sign
13:47 - windmill-maced by mohawk boss
23:49 - getting shot
39:30 - annoying foreground grr-ders
41:24 - helpful steamrollers
47:00 - chainsawed
50:05 - neon electrocution
1:01:40 - there are so many enemies
1:13:45 - dogs
1:34:21 - key choice, "Good" ending
1:35:45 - boss rush
1:48:24 - loop
1:54:22 - just make it stop
1:55:41 - leaderboard
Tortuously long beat-em-up whose horrendous hurt boxes make hitting anything a chore. Bosses on the other hand may deck you three or four more times as you struggle to your feet after an initial knock-down.
Skip the key the rotund real boss tosses out -- get it and he machine-guns you for the "bad" ending, according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Fighters#Gameplay -- and instead just beat his defenseless self to a pulp (the game also has you do this to near-dead enemies, who just bumble helplessly around you instead of attacking) to get the sexist "good" ending, followed by the bosses lining up on the high score screen for a group rush at you in which you lose the rest of your quarters.
I played the 2P, International cabinet version, which apparently loops endlessly. The 4P cab versions, per Wikipedia, manage player health like Gauntlet. The 2P Japan version has a third button, Back-Kick, that lets you sucker-hit rank-and-file enemies a la Double Dragon's elbow.
There's a tiny border around my cropped 4:3 recording screen because I forgot that Arcade Archives' default screen scaling is set to slightly under full screen size.
* Have now finally got my mic set as Default for my OBS recording software in Windows 11's "Volume mixer" panel ( https://www.digitalcitizen.life/set-default-microphone-windows-11/#ftoc-heading-3 ), so this no-mic boondoggle shouldn't happen again! ... Unless I just forget to plug it in. = P
9/16/22
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