It would be solid enough except for the occasional hiccup of sometimes walking right through your opponent. Characters have a couple Street-Fighter-esque special moves but not really that many, and you'll probably just be better off by going for a chain combo with your two attack buttons anyway. As a fighter it is pretty simplistic, with two attack buttons, throw, and your Super move button. There isn't really a whole lot to this game. Sound is also worth a mention, not so much the sound effects but the very well-done music: the best part is your theme song coming on when you trigger your super move. And since the only models they have to render are the two fighters, they can go high poly and high texture on those, and the figures come out looking fantastic-makes me think better of this whole 'Renderware' thing they've been licensing lately. In fact, 555 probably has the very best blending of 3D foreground into 2D background that I've ever seen, it really is a lovely thing to see. As they did in Kamen ('Masked') Rider Agito ( entry 136), and by the way also in their two Sentai games, based on a different live-action show (see entry 127 and entry 188), the developers do a very good job of making the game look rather photorealistic, bearing a rather remarkable resemblence to the TV show. Paleface īandai churns out another TV-based fighting game, but I have a soft spot for these things.
