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Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015)

Duration: 13:55

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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game Tao Taido, played with WolfMAME 0.254. Papa's butt-charge move is pretty effective: Hold A+B to charge up to the second power level, then hold forward and release.

Tao Taido doesn't work well as a fighting game. The moves are INSCRUTABLE, the dodging and blocking mechanics are unexplained and badly-implemented, the three-stage charging is impractical and disrupts the flow of a match, the character designs are off-putting. Tao Taido makes it onto some people's lists of "Worst Fighting Games Ever". There are far worse games out there (like The Last Apostle Puppetshow) but Tao Taido is definitely very bad.

At least it's bad in interesting ways - full of little surprises, even if some are unwelcome. There's a wide variety of creative (if mostly useless) special moves. The soundtrack doesn't sound anything like a typical arcade game - I actually like the soundtrack because I love gamelan music. One trivia point is that the character Malcolm later found his way into the Sonic Wings series, a much more successful venture by Video System.