Game:

Battle Arena Toshinden (1995)

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Funny how Battle Arena Toshinden played a large part in the Playstation's hype build up in the west and turned out to be one of the worst launch titles come the big day on the 9th September 1995. Past the admittedly impressive graphics, there wasn't much of a game to Toshinden. And with the three sequels that followed, it got mighty repetitive fast.

Despite being released only a year after the Playstation version, Battle Arena Toshinden Remix successfully succeeds in repeating the same mistakes made by it's earlier revision. Visually it looks solid on Saturn, though missing the 3D backdrops and lighting, the textures are smooth and the animations are as they were on PSone.

Yet the gameplay suffers still. I'd even argue it is worse. Not only does Toshinden Remix's fighting move much slower than it did on Playstation but the hit detection is broken to bits and the controls feel as sluggish as ever. How this port ever failed to maintain simply the basic structure of the original is astounding to me but Nextech were underwhelming with this port.

Sega did however revamp the presentation. The original plain opening has now been replaced with a suitably designed CGI FMV along with a story mode featuring unique character interactions before each stage. The voice acting remains to be laughably brilliant too.

I'm sure you understand what I mean regardless. Don't buy this, heck, don't buy the original. Battle Arena Toshinden never deserved attention aside from it's existence as the glorified tech demo it were back in 1995.

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