The big
oversized sprite Neo Geo fighter complete with zooming screens comes to
the Mega Drive thanks to Sega but how does it compare to the Neo Geo
monster? Hmm, obviously it’s not going to be anywhere near as good so
maybe we should compare it to the Super Famicom (SNES) version from KAC
(Takara).
In stills the Mega Drive version looks much closer to the Neo Geo
original thanks to the rich detail in the backgrounds. The characters
are a lot smaller than the Neo original and the SFC version however they
still look pretty good. This is where the plus points end. You see, the
Mega Drive version of Art of Fighting is so stripped down you wouldn’t
believe it. It’s as if Sega wanted to produce it on the smallest memory
sized cartridge possible. Gone is practically all the speech unlike the
SFC version. The music is pretty poor overall plus missing some and what
speech is there sounds bloody awful. Of course the scaling effect from
the Neo Geo version isn’t present which does make a difference to the
way the game plays. In the Neo and SFC versions you can use the zooming
of the screen to make jumps of the walls a lot more easier.
Over all Art of Fighting on the Mega Drive is a bit of a let down. It
could have been so much better if it wasn’t stripped down to the bare
bones.
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