Quest hunter rumble4/2/2023 One of my favourite things about the Rumble Fish 2 is when you batter your counterpart so severely you achieve the eye-wateringly-named Parts Crush. Once this is full you can enter a semi-invulnerable state and access boosted moves. Below the Guard bar is the Boost Dive indicator. If you are able to max out both the OFF and DEF bars, which is a pretty rare occurrence, you can pull out a Critical Art, an all-powerful, usually absolutely ridiculous attack which is about the coolest way to finish off an opponent. Offensive Arts and Defensive Arts have their own three-segment bars that allow you to hit a plethora of super moves and defensive counterattacks, some of which can knock your opponent across the screen. Lud can build up stocks that allow him to perform super powered versions of his specials, whereas Boyd’s cool-monikered Scorpion bar is filled by nailing certain signature moves and when maxed out allows him to deliver crushingly powerful Offensive Arts. This blew me away at the time and was the first time I can recall such bespoke mechanics for specific characters. In addition to this, two of the characters have their own very special unique gauges. The size of this bar varies depending on character, which is a nice touch. The HUD consists of a health bar, and a Guard gauge which shows how many more hits can be blocked before your guard is crushed. There are plenty of gauges to keep your peepers on. It has a great chain combo system, and thanks to a simplified four button control scheme (plus block), it is relatively easy to pick up and play. This is a seriously fun game, with a real sense of heft and oomph to attacks, and a slower, more methodical combat than some other turbo charged fare. I won’t spoil too much here, other than to say that you need to be made of stone not to break out a chortle at the name of the fighting tournament that serves as the raison d’etre for your chosen combatant. It adds a bunch of new characters from its predecessor and improves upon it in just about every way.Īs with any fighting game worth its salt, there is a suitably bonkers plot underpinning the reason for your characters beating each other up. Produced by Dimps, who went on to play a huge role in creating a fighting game renaissance with the era-defining Street Fighter IV, The Rumble Fish 2 is a cracking little fighter with an interesting and varied line-up of characters, great battle system and sumptuous 2D artwork and animation. What you can now hold in your hands – or play on the telly if you wish – is a fine port of the 2005 arcade classic, The Rumble Fish 2. The fabled Atomiswave hardware was home to perhaps the best of these – the batshit crazy Hokuto No Ken tie-in, the slept-on King of Fighters: Neowave, and the Rumble Fish series – the latter of which have never legally made it into the home console market – until now. But unless you were willing to import or indeed travel to Japan, you may have missed several absolutely brilliant efforts that dropped during this period. SNK Playmore were still a thing, even releasing KOF games at a budget price point in PAL land. Apart from Fighting Jam, Capcom were dormant. Arcades in the UK mainstream had begun their descent into the barren state they find themselves in now. She is also a sometime blogger over at You can also follow her on Instagram at the handle she’s ecstatic about publishing her first picture book would be an understatement! She believes The Rumble Hunters will be the first of many that spark imaginations for generations to come.Back in the early to mid-2000s, the 2D fighting game scene was in a strange place. She has the great honor of homeschooling three of her four beautiful children! When she’s not tackling lesson plans or chasing her (almost) toddler, Courtney writes curriculum for The Gospel Project for Kids with LifeWay Christian Resources. This is why The Rumble Hunters’ enchanting sense of childlike wonder will appeal to all.Ĭourtney is married to Curtis, the love of her life, who willingly endures her famously corny jokes. She’s got a hunch that amongst her younger readers, she’s not alone.įor those whose childhoods are a faint memory, The Rumble Hunters might remind you of a time when you, too, heard your first curious bedtime sounds. She smiles now, but as a kid, Courtney was a scaredy-cat and would never dream of exploring in the dark. This raucous tale comes from the creative mind of first-time author, Courtney B.
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