Burning Fight
| Developer | SNK |
| Meg Count | 54 |
| NGH # | 018 |
| Release | Neo Geo MVS - 5/20/1991 Neo Geo Home - 8/9/1991 Neo Geo CD - 9/9/1994 |
| Producer(s) | Eikichi Kawasaki |
| Designer(s) | Naoto Abe |
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| Composer(s) | Yasumasa Yamada |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
Burning Fight is a beat 'em up game created during the heyday of other similar games such as Capcom's Final Fight and Sega's Streets of Rage. Released by SNK in 1991, "Burning Fight" is a side-view fighting action game. Three detectives, Duke, Ryu, and Billy, play an active role in pursuit of the giant syndicate Castellara who fled from New York to Osaka. Each character fights by combining punches, kicks, and jumps, and by pressing the jump button and attack button at the same time, individually prepared special moves can be performed. Its Special Move is proud of its great destructive power, but it consumes physical strength, so use it only when it's time to do so. This work also supports simultaneous play by two players, but since each other's attacks will hit each other, be careful about the positional relationship with your friends during a turbulent battle.
Gameplay
Burning Fight follows a formula and concepts commonly seen in titles of this genre, such as Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and Final Fight: balanced character selection, objects and weapons found on the ground cause greater damage to opponents, and semi-interactive environments (players can damage objects like phone booths and 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).
There are three playable characters, each with their own levels of strength, agility and special moves: Ryu is quick but weak, Billy is slow but very strong, and Duke is a more balanced hitter. One element that helps the game stand out from its competition is mini-stages, where the player must defeat some enemies in a short period of time in order to win prizes.
Antagonists are members of Heiwa-Gumi, a Japanese yakuza gang, though there are a few Caucasian bosses and mid-level bosses (including three wrestling characters, Tom Anderson, Gary Powell and the Mad Dilly, modelled after Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage), and the final boss is Italian mob boss Castella (Casterora in Japanese). Moreover, the game has no individual endings, no matter which character has been chosen. After defeating Castella, players are presented with various scenes of the game along with the credits, and finally a group picture of the main characters.
Story
New York is a city where light and shadow live together. A huge syndicate that is overwhelmingly dominant. There was a detective who confronted the first "Casterola Family" with only two people. After a radical investigation, the monster combi "Duke Edwards" and "Billy King" hunt down to the point where the organization is destroyed, but allow them to flee the country. What they saw when they grabbed the information and flew to Japan was the appearance of the "Casterola Family" who teamed up with the criminal organization "Peace Group" that controls the night in Kansai and devastated the city of Osaka with their own faces. was. In Osaka, the two met a brilliant detective, "Ryu," who, like them, challenges the destruction of an organization by himself. However, the investigation is difficult due to the sneaky technique of diving through the law net. "I can't leave them alone anymore." The three numbness left a pistol, a proof of the detective, and finally decided to rush into the enemy hideout. Now, in a neon glittering city, the justice and evil of Japan and the United States scatter sparks violently. Will the men's battle come to an end?
Characters
Playable Characters
Bosses
- Yujiro Heike - He is a member of a Japanese yakuza gang known as Heiwa-Gumi and Azusa Heike's husband; he appears as a boss in stage 1 then as a mid-boss in the final stage together with Azusa.
- Tom Anderson - A Hulk Hogan look-a-like wrestler that appears in the second level. A recolored variant of him appears in the final level as Mad Dilly which bears a resemblance to Macho Man Randy Savage.
- Azusa Heike - She appears to be one of the members of Heiwa-Gumi and Yujiro Heike's wife; she appears as a boss in Stage 2-B with her bodyguards named Harold Carr and reappears as a mid-boss in the final stage together with Yujiro.
- Gary Powell - A wrestler-like enemy that appears in the third stage. He is a spriteswap of Tom Anderson, but his head is different.
- Nitou Ryuji - He is possible to be a leader of Heiwa-Gumi; he appears as a boss in Stage 3 then as Nitou Ryugo in the final level of the game.
- Marshall - He is a vicious punk and Duke's rival; he appears as a boss in both Stage 2 and 4 then as a midboss in the final level.
- Casterora - He is the final boss and Italian or Spanish mobster who is responsible for the crimes in Osaka city.
Cartridge/CD Shots
US Home Cart
JPN Home Cart
US MVS Kit
JPN MVS Kit
US CD Cover
JPN CD Front
FAQs
Burning Fight FAQ/Walkthrough v0.9 by SubSane
Reviews
Burning Fight Review by Bobak!