Review: Mighty Final Fight
(Mighty Final Fight by Team Sanchez)
MFF is a conversion from a 1993 NES game, which revisits the notorious Final Fight Capcom coin-op in a parodic way. The story is basically the same - the Mad Gear gang has abducted the Metro City mayor Haggard's daughter, Jessica, and it's up to the player to rescue her. However, the characters, heroes and villains alike, are depicted in a peculiar "super-deformed" fashion.
You can play as Haggard as well as Jessica's boyfriend, Cody, or Guy, Cody's training partner in martial arts. Every one of them, apart from the usual kicks and punches, can hit enemies with special moves available after filling a power meter rising with each defeated enemy. You will have to fight your way across five stages in order to complete your quest. The end-of-game screens are different for each character.
(Mighty Final Fight by Team Sanchez)
The original game's distinctive graphic style has been faithfully translated to the Spectrum, with well-designed sprites moving against colorful and detailed backdrops. Sound is equally pleasant, with several catchy tunes. Difficulty seems adequate: if you are swift enough and master the various strikes, you can negotiate even the most overwhelming enemy hordes. MFF is a superb example of gang beat-em-up, and a worthy winner of the ZX-DEV Conversion 2017 competition.
Review by Alessandro Grussu.
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