Fatal Fury (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
267A playthrough of Takara's 1993 fighting game for the Sega Genesis, Fatal Fury.
Played through as Joe Higashi on the normal difficulty level.
Fatal Fury: The King of Fighters was an important stepping stone for SNK and the Neo Geo, but I can't say that the arcade game was ever a favorite of mine. The graphics and sound were nice, but I always thought that it felt a bit too limited after playing Street Fighter II.
I felt just about as indifferent about it as I did the SNES port (https://youtu.be/c0onuR1xtxs ), so I was pretty surprised when I found myself getting into this Genesis version.
The gameplay is far more responsive and fluid feeling than it is on the SNES, and lane system that was cut from that version is present on the Genesis. The Sega port's special moves are easier to pull off, and the AI even retains some of the funny quirks of the arcade game's, like how Geese can easily be beaten with nothing more than throws.
The Genesis port cuts a lot of content - Billy Kane and Hwa Jai are missing, as are the bonus stages - but the general level of playability more than compensates for the loss, as do the extra moves that were added in for this version.
The graphics and sound are also pretty good here. The backdrops have been well adapted to the lower color depth and the fighter sprites are big and animate with a good sense of weight. The voices are reasonably clean, and the music sounds great - I much prefer the energetic and twangy FM sound here over the cheesy, thin sounding samples of the SNES game.
(But that grunt that Joe lets out with his win pose... does that sound to anyone else like Zangief when he threw people in SF2?)
I'm not a huge fan of the original Fatal Fury game in any format, but I was impressed by the Genesis version's gameplay. If you're looking to play on a 16-bit system, even with its missing content, this is the one to go with.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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