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Free GBVS for all of yâall delay-based netcode fans 
(Iâll probably play it anyway)
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GBVS is pretty fun single-player. : ) But if you like it it WILL make you want to buy a horde of DLC.
I will gladly give cygames money for non-gacha things
nah, itâs okay
just some casual gambling
câmon, live a little
(note: I do not actually endorse gambling or gacha)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
NES, Genesis, SNES versions, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection on PS4
These are not very good fighting games. But they were early in fighting game historyâlate '93, and early '94 for the NES oneâand probably the only thing that would have felt better at the time would have been Street Fighter IIâŚmaybe the first Samurai Shodown as well (Iâm thinking of the arcade versions, because I havenât really played the old home ports much, and also Iâm quite possibly mostly confusing SamShoI with SamShoII). And for Turtles fans, maybe especially vs other humansâwhich I have not doneâthey couldâve been a hoot.
The AI is bad in all of them: sometimes it will go on a seemingly unstoppable killing spree; other times you can hit it with the same move until it dies. The final boss in the SNES version was brain dead, the difficulty and weird fighter strength settings in the Genesis version (I got âbadâ endings in the Genesis and SNES versions for playing them on the easiest difficulty : p) seemed to make no difference, and I kept one AI twitching in the corner for almost a full roundâuntil I intentionally âlet it outâ by backing awayâin the NES versionâalthough that one I could actually play on the default difficulty, albeit with save scummingâŚbecause these games just didnât feel good enough to try to play for real, and because they had limited continues, ugh.
Backgrounds in all three are decent, and some in the Genesis version are even rather cool. Character sprites arenât badâI really like the NES spritesâbut the animation in the Genesis version is terrible.
Throws in all versions do too much damageâalthough I suppose even SFII had thatâand are worst in the Genesis version, where the AI seemed able to counter-throw ANY move on block, or after its own moves; heck, in that version, the AI could do any of its other moves while its own fireballs were only partway across the screen!
In general the fighting doesnât feel good. Pushback is wildly inconsistentâalthough in the NES version, basic footsies and blocking actually feels kind of good. In fact, once in a while something that seemed almost like a cool fighting game thing happened in the NES version, like when I would make a last second comeback on one pixel of health with a super moveâand the shtick there of picking up a bouncing ball to do a super move, only your opponent can knock you down and take the ball for themselves, is SORT of interesting.
Playing on an arcade stick, it doesnât help that you canât remap R1 and L1; this was particularly annoying for me in the SNES version, with four, KOF-style buttons, where I would normally have HK on R1 (my stick buttons are re-wired for a Brook NEOGEO adapter), but here had the buttons together in the center of the stickâand youâre still at risk of accidentally triggering the R1 Pause menu, DQ-able in a real tournament.
Static SFX in the Genesis version appears to be a shortcoming of the emulation: it wasnât a problem in the other Genesis game in this collection, Hyperstone Heist, and is better in this non-Cowabunga-Collection of Genesis Tournament Fighters by Loading Geek Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis 1993) April O'Neil [Playthrough/LongPlay] - YouTube , and much better in this one by NintendoComplete Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Genesis) Playthrough - YouTube .
Hit another input bug that I reported to @DigitalEclipse:
PS4 Tournament Fighters (Genesis): If you map Taunt (C) to Circle, then load a save state saved in neutral during a match, when you hit Circle to back out of the R1 Pause menu, your character in the state you just loaded will be taunting.
In the Genesis version, I missed that when your health is low, Taunt will do a super move! Wasnât in the Strategy Guide. Move lists period wouldâve been niceâonly the SNES version has them.
Maybe coming out later than the others helped the NES version; it ended up being my favorite. None of them feel like games Iâll want to come back to for gameplay.
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Everyone I knew who played TF has switched over to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Justice League Turbo By NewsTeam6 for I.K.E.M.E.N. Go
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Hm. Why stop there, though?
They made April into Blaze + google glass?
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spinning bird kick to helicopter myself to new areas like a street fighter castleroid
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copy and pasting my own tweet:
street fighter one-upping soul caliburâs oc generator by also letting you take part in âcanon characterâs prize studentâ fanfiction
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huh.
hmm.
well.
this looks like a dream game to me like it might be the final straw to get me to buy a modern console
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Wasnât that basically the gist of SC6âs create-a-character story mode?
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maybe? i havenât played that mode since the game was new, but i think you start as the student of the training mode dummy character, and you meet the other characters as you travel the world after that.
i might be wrong, though
Wasnât looking for a full-on create-a-fighter mode really but eh hm I guess itâs happening. Aside from the electricity, I like the goofy stage hazard stuff at 2:28.
I recall Zasalamel teaching you stuff, but I could be wrong. I could google this to find out but I think itâs better to leave it as an unsolvable mystery.
Koihimeenbu is like 3 bucks on J-PSN should I a rube even bother?