Burning Fight

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Burning Fight
Composer(s)
Yasumasa Yamada
Platform(s)
Release
1991
  • Arcade
    • WW: 20 May 1991
    Neo Geo AES
    • JP: 9 August 1991
    • NA: 9 August 1991
    • EU: 9 August 1991
    Neo Geo CD
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
Mode(s)
Arcade system
Neo Geo MVS

Burning Fight

Neo Geo AES, it was released on Neo Geo CD as the only other home version.[3]

The game is produced by Eikichi Kawasaki, one of SNK's founders and the man behind various well-known SNK titles, such as Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and Samurai Shodown series.

A re-released version of Burning Fight is included in SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1, which was released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii in 2008.

Story

Duke Edwards and Billy King, two popular and renowned New York City Police detectives, are hot on the trail of a dangerous Japanese crime syndicate. Their investigation has led them to the mean streets of Japan where they meet a police officer and martial arts expert named Ryu Saeba. Ryu agrees to join the NYPD detectives as they track down the crime syndicate bosses and end their reign of terror once and for all.

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot showcasing the first boss.

Burning Fight follows a formula and concepts commonly seen in titles of this genre, such as

street signs along the way). The game is set in a fictional version of Osaka city (during a train station scene the platform even shows an "Umida
" station sign).

The five levels must be completed (Casterora is the last enemy) to win the game.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Burning Fight on their June 15, 1991 issue as being the eighth most-popular arcade game at the time.[19] Likewise, RePlay reported the game to be the second most-popular arcade game at the time.[20] The title received generally mixed reception from critics since its release in arcades and other platforms, with most reviewers comparing it with better known competitors in the beat 'em up genre.[21][22][23][24] Both the Neo Geo and Nintendo Switch versions hold a 55% and 30% respectively on the review aggregator GameRankings.[4][5]

Guy with two of the playable characters. Unlike Knight, both Rand and Boone praised the visuals, sound, gameplay and longevity but criticized the absence of unlimited continues in the AES version.[8]

GamePro's Slasher Quan remarked that it was similar to Final Fight in terms of visuals and gameplay but also praised the presentation and music.[10] Both Joypad's Steph and Joystick's Jean-Marc Demoly compared Burning Fight with Final Fight, Ninja Gaiden and Streets of Rage but praised the audiovisual presentation and controls.[14][15] Player One's Cyril Drevet compared its two-player mode with Double Dragon but commended the visuals, animations, audio, difficulty and longevity.[16] However, Sinclair User highlighted a sense of dullness in the game, stating that "Burning Fight is a competent journey along the usual beat-'em-up road..."[17]

Burning Fight has been met with a much more mixed reception from critics in recent years,

Nintendo Life's Damien McFerran and Dave Frear were critical of the title when reviewing the Virtual Console and Nintendo Switch releases respectively, comparing the playable cast of characters with those of Final Fight, while McFerran criticized the poor character animations.[12][13]

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: バーニング・ファイト, Hepburn: Bāningu Faito

References

  1. ^ "SNK". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 1545. Gzbrain. July 26, 2018. (Translation by One Million Power. Archived 2019-12-23 at the Wayback Machine).
  2. ^ "VG: バーニングファイト". Beep! MegaDrive (in Japanese). No. 17. SoftBank Creative. February 1991. p. 131.
  3. ^ "Neo•Geo CD: The Arcade In A Box - Burning Fight". GamePro. No. Premiere Supplement. IDG. Spring 1996. p. 104.
  4. ^
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  6. ^
    All Media Network. Archived
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  7. ^ a b Loulou; El Nio Nio (January 1992). "Neo Geo Review - Burning Fight". Consoles + (in French). No. 5. M.E.R.7. pp. 34–35.
  8. ^
    EMAP
    . pp. 34–35.
  9. ^ a b Whitehead, Dan (June 2, 2008). "Virtual Console Roundup - Paradroid, Burning Fight, Pokémon Puzzle League and Samurai Shodown". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  10. ^ a b Quan, Slasher (January 1992). "Neo Geo For Real! - Burning Fight". GamePro. No. 30. IDG. pp. 101–102.
  11. ^ a b M. Thomas, Lucas (July 7, 2008). "Burning Fight Review". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  12. ^
    Nintendo Life. Nlife Media. Archived
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  13. ^
    Nintendo Life. Nlife Media. Archived
    from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  14. ^ a b Steph; Demoly, Jean-Marc (November 1991). "Test - Neo Geo - Burning Fight". Joypad (in French). No. 2. Yellow Media. pp. 122–124. Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
  15. ^ a b Demoly, Jean-Marc (October 1991). "Tests - Neo Geo - Burning Fight". Joystick (in French). No. 20. Sipress. p. 131.
  16. ^ a b Drevet, Cyril (January 1992). "Tests De Jeux - Neo Geo - Burning Fight". Player One (in French). No. 16. Média Système Édition. pp. 80–81.
  17. ^
    EMAP
    . July 1991. p. 39.
  18. ^ a b Gould, Trevor (October 18, 2017). "Review: ACA NEOGEO Burning Fight (Nintendo Switch)". Pure Nintendo Magazine. Pure Media, LLC. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  19. ^ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 405. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 June 1991. p. 25.
  20. ^ "The Player's Choice - Top Games Now in Operation, Based on Earnings-Opinion Poll of Operators: Best Software". RePlay. Vol. 16, no. 10. RePlay Publishing, Inc. July 1991. p. 4.
  21. ^ Knauf, Andreas (January 1992). "News - Neo Geo - Burning Fight". Video Games (in German). No. 5. Future-Verlag. pp. 10–12. Archived from the original on 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
  22. ^ Yanma; Itabashi (July 1992). "Super Soft 大特集 - 今、『NEO・GEO』がおもしろい！: バーニングファイト". Micom BASIC Magazine (in Japanese). No. 121. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation. p. 209.
  23. ^ Noak, Philipp; Hellert, Stefan (August 1993). "Special - Neo Geo - Burning Fight". Mega Fun (in German). No. 11. Computec. pp. 28–30. Archived from the original on 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  24. Hobby Hi-Tech
    (in Spanish). No. 1. Hobby Press. March 1995. p. 29.
  25. ^ Osange, Elliott (October 1, 2017). "ACA NEOGEO BURNING FIGHT Review". bonusstage.co.uk. Bonus Stage. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2020-05-22.

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