I actually had a boxed copy of this game for the PC back in the day, and seeing the game here on GoG, I was eager to fire it back up. And man is it just as hard as I remember, this is one of those fighting games where the CPU controlled characters have a much easier time block and reacting to your moves. I think this is partly game design....but alot of it is the controls. I can see how the control scheme was designed with a single button joystick in mind. You have one button for attack, WER for the up/jump controls. SD for left and right. And ZXC for the down controls. The idea being you hold attack and press the a direction to do different attacks. The problem is not only are the characters clunky to control, but the pre defined keys are AWFUL. You can re-assign them in dosbox, but to be honest, it doesn't help much. The effects are of a quality you'd expect from a game of this era, with some characters speech being easy to understand and some having you say "Huh? What'd he say?" The music is really nice, but I found that the in game music differed to the music in the downloadable soundtrack. Overall, I would say steer clear of this game unless, like me, you have some nostalgia for the title, it just doesn't play well enough to be a game I could recommend. (And even with the nostalgia goggles on it's hard to recommend, it really does play that badly)
