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Originally an unreleased game developed internally by Sega of Japan, BF:FS is a head-to-head fighting game featuring eight fighters and could be considered your standard Street Fighter clone. The game was originally based off of a very buggy prototype, but J2Games in cooperation with GoodDealGames have patched the game up into a playable state and released the game in limited quantities for avid Sega CD enthusiasts. The game is still incomplete (featuring various bugs, missing the final boss, and several movies aren't linked into the actual game, plus more explained below), but you can witness most of what needs to be seen by playing the game or putting the CD into your personal computer as well as witness other odd things.

The proto the game is based on was rumored to be around sixty percent complete and there are a variety of features that haven't made it to this release. There are a few options that can be highlighted on the main screen that can't be utilized, one which boots you back to the title screen and another which brings you to a memory management screen you can't use. When selecting characters, there is also a save/load feature that can't be used, and when the game is completed, untranslated footage is played with seemingly inappropriate audio that doesn't finish before the footage gets cut off. You also can't adjust game difficulty. It's unlikely that we'll ever know what other features may have been incorporated into the game and it may have been much more interesting in a complete state, but based on what can be seen, it doesn't look or sound too bad... definitely not great, but not bad... looks worse than most of the fighters on Sega CD respectively, but visually looks better than Revengers of Vengeance and Black Hole Assault, and it's incomplete! Of course, RoV at least had other features that made it somewhat appealing as it was a finished game and BHA had quality cutscenes and voice acting for its time.

As for the characters, they are fairly generic and I can't say much about their backstory because they don't appear to have one. The game doesn't come with a manual that talks about them in any detail and I can only glean basic info about them based on their one victory quote, country of origin, and few cutscenes. Case in point, Shi San Mei is from Hong Kong and supposedly utilizes Kenpo, but also likes to work in the circus and do various acrobatics. Cool. The gameplay is basic fighting fair... the hit detection for some attacks could use some work, but the game is pretty functional overall. The main highlight of the game is that the game prides itself on characters having many secret moves, and they are performed in different ways for different characters. Some are less obvious than others but if mastered, can make some characters cheaper than others. Shi San Mei has complex moves (two half circle motions, half circle motion + down and punch, etc.) but is one of the cheapest characters once you learn them (seriously, a nearly fullscreen fireball...). You must learn how to do moves precisely as inputs are quite sensitive too. The audio is decent... nothing remarkable, but the sound quality is fairly high; it's a shame that the music resets between rounds.

You can find the game at:

http://www.gooddealgames.com/Publishing_SegaCD_BurningFists.html
http://www.j2games.com/2/15177_Burning-Fists--Force-Striker.html