Slap Happy Rhythm Busters [PS1] - play as Baron-Volt

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This is a playthrough using Baron-Volt in the PS1 game Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. Read on for more information...

Baron-Volt (or Baron & Volt) is a hidden character in the game. He can be fought against in Arcade Mode as a regular CPU opponent, and is an unlockable playable character.

===== HOW TO UNLOCK BARON-VOLT =====

Beat Arcade Mode twice.

===== ABOUT BARON-VOLT =====

Doctor Volt is a 48-year old mad scientist who likes to conducts in all sorts of unorthodox experiments. He is the one who created Nitro and Baron, in which the former - being a hard-to-control creature - eventually ran away.

Baron is a gorilla from the Congo, and gets up to all sorts of antics which embarrasses Volt to no end. In gameplay, Baron is the one who does the fighting while Volt is in the background watching on and following his companion.

===== GAMEPLAY =====

Baron has some good range basics on him, especially his standing HP. One of his special moves is a Blanka-style cannonball which comes out fast and is very effective in combos and catching falling opponents. Both his super moves are more powerful versions of his two special moves, both which can be combo'd in the same ways.

Dr. Volt himself does not enter the gameplay. He just spectates and moves around, much like the inactive partner character in Groove On Fight.

===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / TRIVIA =====

---- He has the same neutral stance as Oreg and Sledge, however he is not a clone and plays differently to him.

---- In the PS1 fighting game Vs. (also made by the same company Polygon Magic), there are some characters from it that has been brought over and resigned into SHRB. These characters are Ramos, Mia and Oreg/Oleg.

---- When you win a match, the announcer who says "Winner" sounds very much like the Tekken 1 announcer.

---- The main single-player mode is called Arcade Mode, despite there being no arcade version of the game.

---- The game only saw a Japanese release.

---- Despite being Japanese region-only, the entire game itself is in English.

===== ABOUT SHRB =====

Slap Happy Rhythm Busters is a PS1 fighting game where the character designs and game aesthetics are inspired by the hip music youth culture in Japan.

The in-fight character graphics consist of a cel-shaded style (I think) of polygons, which looks pretty good considering that this is the PS1 hardware. The backgrounds are 2D and have a very modern hip cartoon look.

The music of this game features compositions from various real-life DJs. The tunes are mixed, but most of them do gear towards an electric-techno-dance genre.

The gameplay is solid and is your typical old-school 2D affair. It features a flexible chain combo system which can be cancelled into specials or supers.

Perhaps the stand-out aspect of the gameplay is a universal super move called the Beat Rush - if this is activated (by hitting the opponent unblocked), you then get whisked into a rhythm-style game where you have to press the D-Pad or buttons in sync to the on-screen brackets which appear. It works like the arrows in DDR and PIU. The better you do, the more life depletion you'll dish out to the opponent after the session is over. On a deciding round, if you perform a Beat Rush (with the opponent having a depleted amount of life that can be defeated with a Beat Rush) and do well you'll then enter Fever mode, where it'll show a special finishing sequence for your character.

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