Cardinal Syn - PS1 Gameplay - Nephra - A Dreadful MK4 Clone - As bad as Killing Zone or Criticom?
2The PlayStation One had a LOT of fighting games released on the system back in the day and in all honesty a lot of them were bad.
Whilst the system does have epic fighting games such as Tekken 3, Soul Edge, Bloody Roar, Evil Zone and others....it then has fighting games.....like this.
Cardinal Syn is one which you felt was trying to copy the look/design and feel of Mortal Kombat 4 but instead of copying that it just comes across as rather odd and like a cheap knock off.
MK4 received mixed reviews upon its release from the arcades to the home consoles with the PS1 version being the weakest of the ports. Why Kronos Digital Entertainment decided to emulate this is a mystery because instead of copying that style or flair were left with this instead.
Cardinal Syn comes across as a 3D fighting game that just BARELY comes above the abominations that are Killing Zone or Criticom (Two of the WORST fighting games ever made) and whilst this ISN'T as bad as those two this is certainly a game which most people either wont remember at all, Gets memory holed or people will go 'Oh yeah....Cardinal Crap' and that'll be it.
If I had to explain it better id say that Cardinal Syn was a game in which back in the day you rented, played for a weekend and then would return it the following Monday and never remember it or have any feelings of wanting to play it again afterwards.
Theres just so many disappointing factors with this game. One of its biggest crimes is the input lag, whilst you the viewer are watching this I'm pressing Square/Square/Triangle/Triangle/Back/Square/Triangle (To perform the fatality in round 2) but heres the insane thing about that. I can actually look at the controller, input that sequence in and only after I've finished pushing the last button does the game start to input the command I've just put in. I'm not joking, it's as if there is a 3 second delay to every button press.
You end up being frustrated and angry at playing this simply because you tell it to do something and the game just hangs up on you for a few seconds on every action you take.
Even if we ignore this and just focus on the game itself. I mean damn this game is ugly. The PS1 had limits back in the day but we had other games such as Bushido Blade, Tobal No2 and others which showed this type of 3D fighting game could easily look pretty. The developers of Cardinal Syn didn't seem to want that for either the characters or the terrible backgrounds.
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