Game #1322: Breakers Collection

  More than a Street Fighter Clone II... I think.

 Lemme tell you about a couple of my favorite fighting games of all time, conveniently repackaged in Breakers Collection, a compilation of both Breakers and Breakers Revenge.

 In a few words, it's a Street Fighter II clone but with SNK's flair. You get four attack buttons instead of 6, while you also get 8 characters based on very generic stereotypes. You've got a Japanese martial artist that can throw fireballs, his Chinese rival, and Indian wrestler and even a Pharaoh that can stretch his limbs much like Dhalsim. Breakers Revenge adds a 9th character, a fun Ninja named Saizo.

 For all intents and purposes, Revenge makes the original obsolete, as it includes every character, move and background stage from the original plus the new character, Saizo.

 What makes these games good is just how much fun they are to play, the gameplay is fairly simple, but very solid, creating your own combos is fairly straight-forward, but the combat feels nice. Landing attacks feels weighty and the physics are satisfying. It's also fairly colorful, and the sprites are pretty nice.

 That said, the overall package is a bit... barebones. There's a bit of art to unlock, an online mode, a training mode.... and not much more, not even in the way of options. That said, both games are a ton of fun, so I can overlook it.

 8.5