Game: Burning Fight
Time to complete: 1h 30min
Rating on a 1-10 scale
Difficulty:3
Fun:3
Burning Fight, wait...that looks allot like...
...Final Fight
Where to start with this one...
Ok I owe a big "You were right and I was wrong" to my buddy Brian. For years he has referred to this game as being crap. I, for some unknown reason, disagreed. I had some odd impression that it was actually a positive take on the "Final Fight" side scrolling beat'em up. What I have now come to tearms with is that this game is nothing more then a shameless, plagiaristic copy of the fore mentioned game. When I say "shameless" what I really mean is pathetic, lame, poor, crappy, etc...
Ok to the review. As I've stated in the open this game is really nothing more then a shameless clone of final fight. Now you may say, "well lots of games of that era took their cues from Final Fight due to it's comercial success" and I agree. There are a wide number of games that I love that owe allot to Capcom's Final Fight. The fundamental issue here is that we are not talking about a game that leveraged the concepts Final Fight presented, and builds upon them. What we are talking about is a game that literally tries to recreate Final Fight with just enough alteration to not spend the next decade in court.
Beyond the Final Fight issues the game is just not that much fun. The graphics and animations are OK. Music is so so and the levels are pretty bland. Beyond the elevator and subway stages there is not much in terms of creativity and what is there is is straight up stolen. This game heavily relies on making you fight the same enemies, albeit in different colors, in addition to a end level that makes you fight all of the earlier bosses over again, which is a real pet peeve of mine.
In closing I strongly recommend you play this game. Really I do! The trick is to also play through Final Fight. Only then, as I did, will you realize the true glory of Burning Fight. Every thing that Final Fight did well, Burning Fight somehow manages to take and make bad. This is truly, in my humble opinion, SNK saddest hour...
Ok I owe a big "You were right and I was wrong" to my buddy Brian. For years he has referred to this game as being crap. I, for some unknown reason, disagreed. I had some odd impression that it was actually a positive take on the "Final Fight" side scrolling beat'em up. What I have now come to tearms with is that this game is nothing more then a shameless, plagiaristic copy of the fore mentioned game. When I say "shameless" what I really mean is pathetic, lame, poor, crappy, etc...
Ok to the review. As I've stated in the open this game is really nothing more then a shameless clone of final fight. Now you may say, "well lots of games of that era took their cues from Final Fight due to it's comercial success" and I agree. There are a wide number of games that I love that owe allot to Capcom's Final Fight. The fundamental issue here is that we are not talking about a game that leveraged the concepts Final Fight presented, and builds upon them. What we are talking about is a game that literally tries to recreate Final Fight with just enough alteration to not spend the next decade in court.
Beyond the Final Fight issues the game is just not that much fun. The graphics and animations are OK. Music is so so and the levels are pretty bland. Beyond the elevator and subway stages there is not much in terms of creativity and what is there is is straight up stolen. This game heavily relies on making you fight the same enemies, albeit in different colors, in addition to a end level that makes you fight all of the earlier bosses over again, which is a real pet peeve of mine.
In closing I strongly recommend you play this game. Really I do! The trick is to also play through Final Fight. Only then, as I did, will you realize the true glory of Burning Fight. Every thing that Final Fight did well, Burning Fight somehow manages to take and make bad. This is truly, in my humble opinion, SNK saddest hour...
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