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World Heroes 2 (1993)

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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game World Heroes 2, played with Dragon. Dragon is a fun character to play: His dragon kick is a good anti-air, his hundred blows attack does good chip damage and pushes opponents away, and he has a great bread-and-butter combo (regular jump or triangle-jump strong kick, strong punch, ducking kick).

Death Match mode is a little silly but fun - most of the stages have extra hazards like spiked walls or a traveling buzzsaw. In the case of Janne and Kidd's stages, the extra hazard is that the loser has to shave their head! The CPU doesn't do a great job of accounting for the deathmatch hazards, so in general they work in your favor. The downside is that the opponent can recover their health one or two times, so it can take up to three knockdowns to finish a match.

This game is DRAMATICALLY harder than the other games in the World Heroes series (unless you count going for the best ending in World Heroes Jet). Like Art of Fighting, an easy first game gave way to a far more difficult sequel. In particular Neo Dio, the final boss, has a brutal moveset and a lot of RNG - he rarely allows you to land Dragon's combo. In practice, using Hundred Blows - and trying to quickly block when Neo Dio jumps in at you - seems to give a 50/50 shot of victory in deathmatch mode.