The selection of characters and the focus on scoring provide a lot of incentive for players to experiment and become creative with the system. Pretty soon controlling the battlefield is more about getting multiple foes into your devastating combos over survival.Ĭause really if you just take it as is the game is pretty short and very easy. While these thugs can frequently attempt to surround and overwhelm the player most of the time they're simply no match for the moves they have access to. Moves can be combined and chained together to juggle practically any foe. I'd say 90% of this stuff is completely unnecessary but who cares? It's a ton of moves designed towards creating a very entertaining combo system that rewards style and making intergalatic disputes as fun as possible.Ĭause really a beatemup system is only as good as its mechanics and this is where Makai 2 really impresses. Every character has basic combo strings, multiple special moves, a host of grab moves(some even specialize in grabbing more than one enemy for double the beatings), a handful of desperation attacks, and even some super combos. Now let's consider the offensive options available. Starting with just defensive moves every character can block, perform evasive dodges or rolls, run, jump(and even doublejump in some cases), and yeah with this alone we already have more moves than 90% of all arcade beatemups. Each character has a large selection of moves to work with. This coloful cast is not content to be a bunch of vivid palette swaps either. The eight playable characters consist of a busty cyborg, a ninja, a robot, another busty woman who is apparently part-bird, a nearly naked man, a not remotely naked man, some karate master, and an alien.
The story is a clustermuck of all of our favorite sci-fi and anime cliches.
Whatever the reasoning I went with a beatemup that for 1995 was way ahead of its time and to this day is a classic in the genre. So maybe I'm half-asleep and not in the mood for something like ESP Galuda 2 or Futari. When a new arcade controller arrives at your door what's the first game you play to break it in? Well I chose one at random and came up with Denjin Makai 2.
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