Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament

[Razer]

I love Yu Yu so much that it kills me to see what Cartoon network has done to it. However, what they've done to this game is even worse. Using a very convoluted fighting engine they've dumbed it down so much that it's complicated! Instead of making real combos you can only use predetermined combos (ala MK3). This leads to 4-hit combos that take 3 button presses. The problem is that the button presses don't even make sense. You might have a simple half-circle-punch motion but the game recognizes it as back-down-forward-punch. If you do sweep it in a half circle it reads the diagonal press and kills the combo. Also, the chars have illogical move sets anyway. Some have forward-back moves, some have up-down moves, some have L1 moves, etc. Nothing seems to flow at all.
I know everyone shouldn't copy Streetfighter but damn, why doesn't everyone just copy Streetfighter. Know what I mean?

I love the series and I will force myself to play the game but I warn you, unless you're a fan then rent this first.

BTW, they do have an interesting twist on the card game minigames that appear in most games nowadays by using tokens but it too is in dire need of logic. Damn.

[Girkon]

Well good thing i'm a fan then....though that seems to be a trend with a lot of games like this. Though Street Fighter got so mainstream no other company would dare copy for fear of criticism. Whcih apparently turns off the media zombie gamers. I say bring back a Street Fighter Type. We'd play it, we swear.