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THIS is why the PC-FX failed
…yeah…this is a pretty bad video. When someone has absolutely no idea how to play a game whatsoever (losing every match) they really shouldn’t be going on and on about how terrible it is. That’s a bullshit move even for crap games/systems like this. I don’t think Madden 2021 is a bad game, I just have zero idea how to play it and never will so it’s totally useless to me. That’s not the same thing. (Football itself is a terrible game, obviously).
I don’t remember how to play this game but I know I’ve seen people go through it, maybe I even saw the ending. For sure it is an actual game.
I have other games that are weird and hard to figure out and people often say are bad like Initial D for GBA, menu based driving, and Dragon Ball Z for PC Engine which is menu based choujin fighting. These are honestly both really good games for the intended audience: those who are total maniax for the subject matter, who are into something new, and who read Japanese. It’s profoundly difficult for anyone who’s not good in all three categories to understand a single thing in these games so people on English speaking forums call them bad. Lots of stuff is “bad” if you can’t read it or you don’t know at what point in Dragon Ball the kamehameha was first used or what gutter drifting is.
Also, from my experience this isn’t a game people use as evidence that the FX sucks, in fact I’ve heard more people say that it’s the best game on the system because it’s basically Prize Fighter for the Mega CD redone by the North Star guy and it flows well once you figure it out. Also back then in the US it was almost impossible to get anything for FX except this game, galgets, *maybe* Power Dolls, and Anime Freaks vol whatever so the only thing worse that buying an FX with Battle Heat was buying an FX without Battle Heat.