VGEsoterica
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It's interesting when it comes to gaming and large developers like Capcom, Konami, Sega or Namco....they were all prolific makers of games and they had a ton of hits...which seemingly means some of their best output almost feels forgotten about by most people.
That's 100% what feels like what happened to The King of Dragons. It's just an absolutely incredible beat em up that can stand toe to toe in my opinion with Final Fight, AvP or The Punisher...yet its one of Capcom's arcade games that rarely gets mentioned in any list of "best beat em ups of all time"
You can 100% see how Capcom used the formula of The King of Dragons to make the two D&D games that came out on the CPS 2 (Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara) as the light RPG and upgrade system in those two games is borrowed whole cloth from The King of Dragons...which is a good thing!
But it got me thinking...what other games are legit amazing that time seems to have forgotten about? Because I can think of a few but I always love learning new game suggestions from Gaf people I may not have encountered yet
That's 100% what feels like what happened to The King of Dragons. It's just an absolutely incredible beat em up that can stand toe to toe in my opinion with Final Fight, AvP or The Punisher...yet its one of Capcom's arcade games that rarely gets mentioned in any list of "best beat em ups of all time"
You can 100% see how Capcom used the formula of The King of Dragons to make the two D&D games that came out on the CPS 2 (Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara) as the light RPG and upgrade system in those two games is borrowed whole cloth from The King of Dragons...which is a good thing!
But it got me thinking...what other games are legit amazing that time seems to have forgotten about? Because I can think of a few but I always love learning new game suggestions from Gaf people I may not have encountered yet