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1-2 Players

Fight to be the ultimate fighting master in this uh.. fighting game! I haven’t played any other Battle Arena Toshiden Games, so I can’t really comment on how close this comes.

Graphics: 8/10
Super deformed anime characters all around plus the occasional cut scene sequence. There’s even a nice little animation of Ellis at the beginning. It’s easy to tell your fighter from the other fighter and when a character fights himself the opponent is darker in color. I haven’t played two players ever so I don’t know if the player controlling is always normal colored to themselves. It’s also Super Game Boy enhanced with it’s own border!

Sound: 7/10
A good selection of music is nice, and the sound effects are pretty good. No digitized voices or anything though, all blips and beeps.

Game Play: 7/10
Each character has strengths and weaknesses as should be expected for a good fighting game. However like any good fighting game it can be repetitive as it’s the same thing over and over and over. It’ not too hard though and is fairly easy to get to the later bosses, who are quite a bit more difficult. The text speech between battles is cheesy. There are 8 normal fighters and at least two boss fighters (probably four). I forget if there is a way to play as the bosses.

Overall: 7.3
This is one of my newest Game Boy games, I bought it so I would have a fighter besides Mortal Kombat 2. I’d say it’s pretty good, if you need a Game Boy fighter I would recommend this game.

Tip: I have no tips for this. I don’t even know any moves.

Review – Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge (GB)

Capcom | 1 Player

What’s better than a console Mega Man game? Well not necessarily a portable one, but who am I to say? Too bad they left out Guts man and Bomb man.

Graphics: 7/10

It’s Mega Man, what do you expect? Well ok, the Blue Bomber is now the Grey Bomber and he doesn’t change color when a different weapon is equipped. The sprites seems big as well, which is a plus and a minus. Plus, they are easy to see, there are less per screen, you don’t have to navigate for a mile to exit the screen, ect. Minus because, it’s hard to dodge? I suppose they may seem weird next to a NES Mega Man game.

Sound: 6/10

No new music really, it’s just rehashed from Mega Man one on NES. I guess Elec Man’s theme will always be Elec Man’s theme. The sound effects are Ok I suppose, nothing spectacular.

Gameplay: 8/10

Well, like I said, it’s Mega Man. Despite being almost identical to every other Mega Man game, it’s fun. Plus it seems a lot easier than the NES games, which is saying quite a bit. At first there are four bosses and levels from Mega Man 1, then you fight through a Dr. Wily stage and fight 4 more bosses from Mega Man two. On an additional note, the rest of the Game Boy series nicely continues this trend, with MM2 having the remaining four Mega Man 2 NES bosses then four Mega Man 3 bosses.

Overall: 7/10

Pretty good if you like Mega Man games. The only other MM GB game I’ve played though is Mega Man 2. I think 5 had completely original robot masters, so you may want that instead if you don’t want NES rehashes.

Tip: My suggestion is to try beating Elec Man first, he has an easy pattern. Then fry Ice Man, cool off, Fire Man, and finally, put the heat on Cut man.