#359 NeoGeo Battle Coliseum PS2 \\ All 1P modes + unlocking Athena & Mars People!

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Published on January 18, 2021 1:10:32 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyq_bcB5MTw

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NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (2005)

Duration: 1:52:22

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I got a lot of things wrong here! NeoGeo Battle Coliseum on PS2 *doesn't* have an AI problem (unless you're trying to play it entirely in Practice mode, as I was for a while back in the day :p); I at least finally figured that out in the course of this video, but I also, in the course of this video, put my foot in my mouth about *other* things, and didn't realize it until I looked them up afterward:

- Kisarah is not Kyo's girlfriend; she's a character from the one-on-one isometric beat-em-up (often mistakenly called a fighting game :ppp) Aggressors of Dark Kombat by ADK--who also made World Heroes
- The game whose name I couldn't think of, that Shishioh (aka King Lion) is from--he's a boss character here in NGBC, well actually two of them I think--is Kizuna Encounter (or its predecessor, Savage Reign, if you must, but that one has platforms and eh); Rosa is the name of the other character from that game whose name I couldn't think of, she's in the background of that ugly brownish giant skeleton stage (57'38)
- Now that I'm not going to play using [?] random select anymore, I might as well save after unlocking bosses in Survival Challenge; I'm actually rather interested in trying out King Lion, since he might not be too overpowered
- The first boss, Mizuchi, is supposedly a *clone* of Orochi from KOF '97 :p)
- The evil corporation in the game is "WAREZ," which even in this Japanese version (the game *did* come out in the States later, but I already had this imported version) is spelled out in English characters, is of course a play on pirated software, which SNK felt was partly responsible for their recent bankruptcy
- "Mr. Karate" *was* originally an alias used by Takuma Sakazaki in the first Art of Fighting, but the Mr. Karate in this game is actually his son, Ryo, which explains his different look and moves (trivia: Ryo's Wikipedia page says he was modeled after Patrick Swayze :P)
- Hanzo and Fuma (whose name is sometimes spelled elsewhere as "Fuuma"), from World Heroes, are sort of the Ryu and Ken from that series, having similar move sets, which may explain (partly :p) why I was getting them mixed up
- "Genjyuro's" name is usually spelled "Genjuro" :P
- My old video in which I spent a lot of time trying to unlock bosses in Survival challenge https://youtu.be/GUwfQr5iWmQ was played using the downloaded Japanese PS2 Classics version on PS3, which explains why I didn't have any bosses unlocked here in the actual PS2 version :P
- I think I *will* only go through three of these SNK PS2 games that I dug up when left in the lurch after my awaited mystery game fell into USPS shipping limbo; the fourth I was mulling over a bit was KOF XI, but upon review I'm reminded that in addition to its serious balance issues and mostly horribly dull backgrounds, it also has a vicious double white screen flash on KO, fairly ugly presentation, and some annoying and unnecessary mechanics, and eh I just really don't like that game anymore

Probably a lot of other stuff I got wrong that I'm not remembering right now. :ppp

0:00 - start & intro video
3:20 - Game Option
8:50 - Gallery
13:16 - Arcade Play (as [?])
27:20 - Tag Play (as [?]) - play-through, Mars People unlocked
48:32 - Practice (vs CPU)
59:22 - Survival Challenge (as [?] = Lee & Shiki), Mizuchi unlocked (then reverted my save 'p')
1:17:48 - considering characters
1:23:39 - Arcade Play (as [?]; easy settings) - play-through, (platformer) Athena unlocked
1:38:05 - Practice (vs CPU) - Athena supers
1:49:03 - wrap-up & what's next!

The character portraits are by Eisuke Ogura, in a looser style than, say, his later work on such games as KOF XIV. A few of them (Terry :o) are maybe a bit iffy, but a lot of them are really good, fresh takes on the characters.

So "Arcade Play" mode with its timer is awful, and vs CPU that you can set up in Practice is too easy, but Tag Play and Survival Challenge are fairly workable, so far; Tag Play feels a bit short--6 tag matches, then boss--and you *do* have to face Mizuchi after 5 matches, I guess, in Survival, but it's a much less powerful version of that darn boss, so maybe I can be okay with that--and then I gather the other three bosses come along at some later point as well, and beating them unlocks them.

Anyway for now it seems I can add NGBC to my big huge fighting game play rotation! = oo I'll have to make random select script to pick characters for me though, there are too many I don't like that [?] insists on giving me. ; )

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