Posted on: February 17, 2020
Megacyclo
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A sad testimony of a quirky past
Ultimate Body Blows is the sequel to Body Blows, which itself was a clone/repurpose of the home computer port of Street Fighter I (the awkward original by Piston Takashi and Finish Hiroshi, who then left Capcom to make Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting for SNK). It features a large roster of 22 characters and a limited selection of modes. The graphics were okay on the Amiga, less good on DOS. Most of the characters feel like reskins but their stats are all over the place. It's a quirky game with silly characters you'd only see in Tekken later (a dino and a dragon for instance, many robots and a puppet). If looks to me like they tried to copy Fighter's History Dynamite (Karnov's Revenge on Neo-Geo) for the character design and overall silliness... The graphics are mostly okay, but it's owerall weak. Well now the gameplay. Being based on the Amiga version, you have a single button and 8 directions. To use a move, you use the button with a direction. It's awkward and cumbersome. To use your super move you charge the button but very use demande you use it more to prevent spamming. It's unpractical. The whole game is sluggish and frustrating. I suppose implementing QCF+ATK or HCB+ATK would have been a bit hard for the keyboard at the time (although it's doable with a joystick), but they simply didn't. The arcade mode, in my eyes, is only enjoyable if you use the incinvibility cheat (type hardcore at the high score screen). I'd only recommend it if it's on sale and you're curious or too lazy to set up a DOSBox version yourself through abandonware, or if you really want to support Team17 by re-buying their old games... Otherwise, steer clear of this one. If you want good fighting games here, RBFF2 and SSVS have been updated to a proper version (or so I heard) and you have Pray for Death (fun Killer Instinct clone), KoF'98, '02 and XIII that are excellent. Maybe remaking the game would make it more tolerable, it COULD be fun, I'm sure of it.
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