It’s perhaps a bit of an unexpected underdog in terms of placing on the Best SNES Fighting Games list, but Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 is a great fighter that brought plenty of new ideas to the table.
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The second game in the series is generally considered a step above the third, due in part to a story mode that branched in different ways depending on whether or not the player won or lost their last fight. The Dragon Ball Z SNES games had a great sense of style and uniquely creative ways to showcase the fighting action, with a split screen effect coming into play when characters were a long distance from each other and battles taking place on the ground, in the air and even underwater. The premise and action of perennially popular manga/animé Dragon Ball, which saw numerous characters facing off against each other in ridiculously over the top battles featuring superpowers and pyrotechnics, always lent itself well to fighting games (and Dragon Ball games are still going strong to this day!).ĭuring the lifespan of the SNES, the Dragon Ball franchise was in its ‘Z’ era, which was enormously popular in Japan throughout the early to mid-90s.Ĭonsequently, the Dragon Ball-related video games that released on SNES all featured the Dragon Ball Z stories and characters – with this, the second of three Super Butōden titles, being by far the most highly regarded. Though not quite as highly regarded as other SNK fighting titles, it still deserves a place on the Best SNES Fighting Games list.
They featured innovations such as ‘Super Attacks’ and ‘Desperation Attacks’ (intended to level the playing field when a player was almost out of health) and several mini-games. The first Art of Fighting was a little lacking even in its original form – despite featuring strong fighting gameplay mechanics, only two characters were available for the game’s story mode.Ī prequel series, the Art of Fighting titles chronicle the rise – or fall – of a number of characters from the Fatal Fury games.
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It was good to see SNK’s games being ported to the SNES, though of course they weren’t a patch on the Neo-Geo originals from a technical perspective, they at least featured the same great gameplay for the most part.
The only problem was the cost – with the huge cartridges being essentially an arcade board and the exact same version as the coin-op counterpart – which made the pricey console and games far too prohibitive for the average gamer. SNK’s Neo-Geo console was the stuff of dreams in the 90s, a time when arcade-perfect conversions were an impossibility on other hardware. You want easy? As Street Fighter II’s Guile says, “Go home and be a family man!”
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It’d be very easy to fill this list full of the amazing titles brought to the SNES by Capcom or the ports of Neo-Geo fighters (published by Takara on Nintendo’s console) – and yes, many do make an appearance here – but who said we ever wanted to do things the easy way when compiling our list of the best SNES fighting games? Though many were arcade ports, there were also a number of excellent releases that were created especially for consoles. With the competitive fighting scene in the arcades – kickstarted by the iconic Street Fighter II in 1991 – in full flow, it’s no surprise that the SNES also played host to a wide variety of fighting games over its lifespan. Nintendo’s fondly remembered, 16-bit SNES – seen by many as one of the very best video game consoles ever released – played host to an astonishingly varied and highly regarded library of the best SNES fighting games, with great examples of standard-setting titles in a vast range of genres, such as the best SNES RPGs.
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