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"SNK Classics": Nostalgia goes only so far
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Aug 2, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
3 out of 4 gamers (75%) found this review helpful
SNK Arcade Classics Volume One takes some of you back to the arcade games between 1990 and 1996. The rest will take a good look at what games look back eleven to seventeen years ago.
This collection has 16 games (which is a lot of games), including favorites such as Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug, and Magician Lord. But there are also unknowns such as NEO Turf Masters, Shock Troopers and The Next Glory: Super Sidekicks 3.
Each game has been preserved with all of the cutting edge graphics and sound - in the early to mid 1990's. Today, they just look blurry, grainy and plain awful.
They also play just like they did back in those days; your best control setup is the WiiMote/Nunchuck combo; it gives the easiest movement.
Each games has goals: beat the game on easy/medium/hard/insane, get through a level without losing a life, get a birdie, get a double play, and so on.
But the rewards for beating the goals aren't very good; you get artwork for the games (which look bad), videos for the games (which are choppy and also look terrible), music (which is okay) or you get the move list for certain characters in Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of the Monsters, Samurai Showdown, The King of Fighters '94, Top Hunter, and World Heroes.
That's right; starting off you don't have the move list to any characters in any of the fighting games.
Why make us jump through hoops to get those lists of moves? If we've bought the game, we should get all these moves up front.
Fans of SNK games won't be disappointed, but there's no reason why the rest of you should take this trip back in time.
This collection has 16 games (which is a lot of games), including favorites such as Samurai Showdown, Metal Slug, and Magician Lord. But there are also unknowns such as NEO Turf Masters, Shock Troopers and The Next Glory: Super Sidekicks 3.
Each game has been preserved with all of the cutting edge graphics and sound - in the early to mid 1990's. Today, they just look blurry, grainy and plain awful.
They also play just like they did back in those days; your best control setup is the WiiMote/Nunchuck combo; it gives the easiest movement.
Each games has goals: beat the game on easy/medium/hard/insane, get through a level without losing a life, get a birdie, get a double play, and so on.
But the rewards for beating the goals aren't very good; you get artwork for the games (which look bad), videos for the games (which are choppy and also look terrible), music (which is okay) or you get the move list for certain characters in Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of the Monsters, Samurai Showdown, The King of Fighters '94, Top Hunter, and World Heroes.
That's right; starting off you don't have the move list to any characters in any of the fighting games.
Why make us jump through hoops to get those lists of moves? If we've bought the game, we should get all these moves up front.
Fans of SNK games won't be disappointed, but there's no reason why the rest of you should take this trip back in time.
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