The Punisher Playthrough on Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection with gallery & extras
8After 30 years we finally get a home console release of the arcade version, full longplay, playthrough, walkthrough, guide & gameplay as Frank Castle The Punisher. This team up with Nick Fury is a fantastic scrolling beat'em up and one that draws from a number of comic story and characters at the time. The idea for the story seems based very loosely on an unfinished comic called Punisher / Nick Fury : Rules of the Game which saw the two characters team up. The main villain of the game is Kingpin, but other characters include Bruno Costa who was the criminal who mowed down Frank and his Frank in central park. Chester Scully a short lived opponent of The Punisher, Guardroid robots made by Dr Doom to protect his castle that appeared in one issue of The Punisher. Bone Breaker a member of the Reavers who normally goes up against the X-Men, while Bushwacker is a rival for Daredevil who sometimes goes up against The Punisher.
What makes this one so good is the amount of moves the player has forward and backward along with up and down rolls and attack. Flip kick, throws, super spin kick, grenades and flying kicks. It gives the player a huge amount of options for how to evade enemies in the game and makes it a fair better game to try and clear on a one credit clear. Without to much practice it's quite easy to get to the first boss on a single credit. Used to play this one a lot in the arcades in the 90s and it's great to see the arcade version get a proper home port at last. The only home console release before was the Mega Drive port which was a heavily cut down version of the game. In fact it was so badly cut down that the port on the Mega Drive should have been better.
The game released only a few months after Cadillacs and Dinosaurs with both games share a lot of gameplay elements. It is the only game on the collection to use what is known as CP System Dash hardware, which is the CP System board with added Q Sound support. Interestingly the Japanese version of the game has an extra blue flaming kick move, done by dashing then jumping followed by pressing attack at the height of the jump. The Japanese version of The Punisher arcade game, has had two real photos removed from the ending in this new collection. These weren't present in the international arcade releases original either.
Time Stamp & Chapter Details:
00:00 Game Details & Intro (Flashing images in intro)
01:12 Stage 1 Back to War
04:12 Stage 2 Raid on Pantaberde
09:20 Stage 3 Waterfront Warfare
15:35 Bonus Stage
16:07 Stage 4 Death on Rails
22:40 Stage 5 Kingpin's Wrath
31:54 Last Stage Final Pinishment
40:39 Final Boss Kingpin
43:20 Ending & Normal Credits
46:43 Removed Planr Bonus Stage & 1CC Credits
48:15 Collection Art Gallery
51:23 Arcade Attract & Outro
Also known as: パニッシャー (Japan)
Release: 2024 (Arcade 1993)
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Scrolling Beat'em Up
Players: 1 - 2
Version Shown: PAL
Format: PlayStation 4 / プレイステーション4 (PS4)
MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5 and PC via Steam
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Footage is captured directly from a PlayStation 4 via HDMI for all games, using an Elgato Pro HD60 capture card. Upscaled to UHD 4K to improve the video bit rate, watch in HD or UHD for best video playback on YouTube.
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