Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle / Fuu'un Super Tag Battle (J)
System: Neo Geo
Publisher: SNK
Release date: 1996-09-20 (J) / 1996-11-07 (U)
Version | Date | Author | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1.00 | 2017-09-03 | The Golden Horse | Initial release. |
[Source] Fuu'un Super Tag Battle / SNK Pony Canyon / Scitron PCCB-00236 Dec 16, 1996 [Generator] MAME 0.152 (modded by Valley Bell), Universe BIOS Jukebox Player Despite "Savage Reign" not turning out well, SNK took a crack at a sequel. Or at least apparently decided to fit the cast into an unrelated game, an impression one can get with the two new characters drawn in a completely different style and nobody redrawn to match. From the same team as "Art of Fighting 3", "Kizuna Encounter" (what is a "kizuna" and how do you encounter one?) ditches the multi-plane gameplay and instead features tag-team gameplay similar to Capcom's "X-Men vs. Street Fighter" (released the same month). It ditches the colorful settings for darker ones (yet with nobody in the colorful "Savage Reign" cast changed), and this is reflected in the soundtrack which goes for darker-sounding music. It's still of great composition and instrumentation, of course, but with a different feel from the previous game, even with some of the previous game's songs included in the soundtrack (6, 8, 10, 14, 21). General weirdness aside, this soundtrack makes for recommended listening. Enjoy! TRIVIA 1: The European AES version of this game is among the rarest Neo-Geo games in the world, with no more than _five_ copies known to exist! TRIVIA 2: The arcade version of "Fuu'un Super Tag Battle" (Japanese version) also saw an alternate release, the "Special Version", that supported two-on-two gameplay with four human players. This too is among the rarest Neo-Geo games ever made, as it was never mass-produced. Its most notable appearance was at the 7th Ura-Tougeki in 2012, which ran a "Kizuna Encounter" tournament using this version among many others. The title screens of this version (including its never-released localized counterpart, the "4 Way Battle Version") are included in this pack as well.
Source: VGMRips
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