#562 Pit Fighter Bosses (1/8): Masked Warrior playthrough.
0A playthrough of the final boss Masked Warrior in Atari Games' Pit Fighter
The last hybrid fighting game to cover and, well, it definitely is the least for once. Pit Fighter is a now derided and mocked game which, although somewhat popular in its time, quickly became outdated and fell from memory into the annals of history. It was only really rediscovered when the retro revival starting taking off in 2007, and discussing bad games became a popular trend on youtube. 10 years later, well, we're still making fun of it. It's like poetry, you see; they rhyme.
I actually don't hate Pit Fighter, personally. Yes, it's a dumb brawler, with next to no real skill, and it's one of the biggest cons against the use of digitised graphics I've ever seen, but I still don't really hate it. Beat-Em-Ups are perhaps a bit too simple to really be hated, and there are plenty of worse contenders for unapologetic coin-munchers than this game. Pit Fighter is more tedious than anything else, with matches lasting longer than they really should do, but despite that it's not a particularly bad game in the conventional, just derivative and repetitive. There's also a huge campy appeal to the game nowadays, with the majority of the opponents fought (this is yet another boss-heavy fighting game, as with King of the Monsters) being hilarious caricatures of various American archetypes, such as bodybuilders, gang members, metalheads, bikers, and so on.
The greatest offence Pit Fighter commits is ironically also the one which is its greatest strength; all of its bosses are fully hackable and playable, with absolutely no problems. In 1990. Yes; this mediocre game appears to have better or more stable programming than a significant number of better games from this era. Which, quite frankly, is just sad. As a result, all of its bosses are completely playable. In terms of analogies, it's the equivalent of finding out a Trabant could outspeed a Porsche 911. Sure, in a way it would be impressive, but it still wouldn't seem quite right.
Onto the final boss himself, and he may well be one of the most generic characters in fighting game history. Admittedly, this was 1990, so I suppose you couldn't expect too much, but man did they not bother with this game. Even his name (Masked Warrior) is horribly generic, and indeed the character design is a complete mess as well. He wears Michael Myers' looking mask, along with some BDSM fetish gear and knee pads. Geez, how truly terrifying. He looks like a bad cosplayer more than anything else, really and is definitely one of the least intimidating bosses in the whole history of fighting games. In terms of gameplay though, he's not so bad. He seems a bit more powerful than the other characters, and seems to have some decent priority over them, as you might expect. He's only somewhat more powerful though, and not really broken as far as I can tell. Not a dramatically interesting boss on the whole, but then again most Pit Fighter's bosses aren't.
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