I’ve been an SNK head for about a year now, and I’ve noticed that their games seem to come in one of three flavors: Old School, serious games (KoF 98, Fatal Fury Special, World Heroes), New, serious games (Mark of the Wolves, KoF XI, NGBC), and the not-so-serious games, meaning that they’ve still got a good following and are pretty fun, but never really got too popular (Real Bout series, Breakers Revenge, etc.)
I’ve seen a lot of stuff for the first two categories for Capcom, but I’ve never really seen any just-for-kicks games. Could anyone reccomend some casual Capcom games to keep an eye out for?
Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
Kikaioh/Tech Romancer
Capcom Fighting Jam/Capcom Fighting Evolution
Power Stone games
Justice Gakuen/Project Justice
Warzard/Red Earth
The Muscle Bomber games
Those will keep you busy for a while. Everything else is here.
Its definitely a for-kicks game, but its got a surprising amount of depth to it. Chain combos, ridiculous combo setups with the bombs, alpha counter type move, etc.
Rival Schools. Really good game to have a fun time with friends or against the CPU. Dunno how well it fares in a competitive level, or even if enough people bothered to play it competitively, but I’m very fond of it at a casual level.