Is Tuff E Nuff Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk 

Fun Fact: The US box art was so bad, that when they released the game in PAL territories, they asked gaming magazine, Computer and Video Games if they could use the artwork they drew for their magazine cover as the official art!

The "exotic technique" refers to how, in story mode, the main characters' special moves become slightly larger and more powerful after a set number of opponents are defeated.

I played the Japanese version of this game. It's actually good, when the characters are low health they start bleeding on their faces. And there's actually ending cutscenes on each of these characters, and there's actually a Dialogue when you won or lose like Street fighter. The Japanese version of Tuff E Nuff Dead Dance is overall better.

Mom: "we have Super Street Fighter II at home"

Lol. You LITERALLY retold EXACTLY how I ended up renting this game. Everything I wanted was long gone... and I rented this game on the basis of the title alone. And my weekend was ruined. Honestly I think that’s kind of where my life started going wrong. I still haven’t recovered. I was not Tuff E’ Nuff. It wasn’t the worst thing ever, but I really hoped this was going to be a beat em up, not a 1v1 fighter. All they had was a black and white photocopied cover/back but the copy was so bad/dark you couldn’t see any of the screenshots.

They just put this on the switch online, kinda syncronistic.

Anyone else notice how the cover art guy looks like Walmart brand version of All-Might from My Hero Academia?

You're totally right, this game was always there every time I went to the video store. I never checked it out. The cover even back then was incredibly stupid. I don't think I even picked it up to read the back of the box because I didn't even realize it was a fighting game. Considering that you're also a graphic design major I wonder what you think about the typography. It's like the cover is screaming at you - I just interpret as white noise and move past it. Was this '90s marketing technique ever successful - the angry guy yelling at you? It reminds me of the Sega CD commercial and I don't think they sold many Sega CDs with that ad either.

Todays SNES DRUNK feels like that long ass LucasArts intro you can hear when you start up BallBlazer on the Atari 7800.

Exotic Technique sounds like a fire ass mixtape from the early 2000s.

YOU JUST NAME DROPPED DEAD CAN DANCE I LOVE YOU

Dude, they just released this on Nintendo Switch Online. Are they watching your videos or something?

+1 for the “Dead Can Dance” joke, but -1 for missed opportunity on a “K’s Choice” joke 😄

Always love kicking off my morning with SNES drunk...Been watching for like 5 years, and it's just crazy how consistently the episodes deliver. Thanks, and look - you're almost at 200k subs! Well-deserved!

So many sad trips to video update to hunt for rentals after begging my parents multiple times a week to take me. Those were special times, though. Things are so easy to get now. We take it all for granted.

I'd like to see a review of eternal champions

Total length of video: 300 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 9 secs. 3% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

I read that just like the Rushing Beat series, the japanese version of this game is much better. They cut all the story, blood and cut scenes, why? I think so far the only one with English patch is the first Rushing Beat.

How awesome, you know of "Dead can Dance".

Funny that this came to the SNES Online app one week after this video released

That was a very melodic intro today, you should sing a video some time :p

One thing i remember i found very cool is that your special moves would get 4 levels of upgrade, like in an RPG. I remember i loved how they would physically change with every level

That Dead Can Dance reference was 100% unexpected. I thought they were under the radar for basically everybody.

The music in the candlelit shrine stage is top notch.

I LOVE that you made a Dead Can Dance reference! One of my favorite groups, and immediately what cam to mind when I saw the original title.

Yooo, I like that Dead can Dance reference you made there. You got good taste. Im not sure too many people know what that is lol.

A friend had this and left it at my house for the longest time. Played the shit out of it. Would always make fun of the name though when playing it with my brother or a friend.

Man I remember playing this game all these 2nd rate fighting games of the 90's lol

6 days later it's now coming to SNES online.

Small detail, but it looks like they used Mode 7 on the floor plane. It has really nice scrolling and movement showing perspective shift. I like that they went to the effort.

1:13 So this is where Cheap Boss Type from Mugen came from? I'll be damned.

WHAT THE EXOTIC MOVES ACTUALLY WERE: If you got into a good rhythm and beat several characters in a row without a continue (excluding the first 4) then your normal special moves would upgrade. They'd become larger area of effects (like, at max level your fireball would be as tall as your character) and the animations would get progressively more intricate. If a move started out as an uppercut with a little fire on your fist, then by the final boss the same move would have your body surrounded by a flaming dragon. It was actually a pretty cool reward system for getting far.

And now this game is coming to the Switch! Thanks, SNESdrunk!

The exotic technique is the level up system per stage; fireballs get bigger and other specials have more range and stuff like that the further you get into the game.

Ranma 1/2 is another classic "rented from the video store because everything else was out" fighter that I remember being pretty serviceable too!

This was one of the 49 cent rentals at my Blockbuster. I was lucky enough to buy it when they put all the SNES games in clearance.

Perfect timing for this review as Nintendo announces this game for the Nintendo Online Service today! So everyone who knows nothing about this game should hopefully be coming here to check it out!!

No! I'm not tuff enough. Already had to prove i was a bad enough dude to rescue the president... For a buger with no cheese and coke

Nice Dead Can Dance reference for your 40+ goth fan audience.

Main thing I took away from this was how Kotono looked like Yuri Sakizaki was trying on a green-dyed version of Mai Shiranui's original Fatal Fury outfit, and how far her skirt rode up every time she used her projectile attack...

Jaleco SNES games were so meh. Makes it worse that it seems they're the only ones really bothering to release stuff on the Switch's SNES library.

When the intro was going on, for a second I thought we had another Race Drivin'-type video 😂

From the wikipeida page The four main characters' skills evolve over story mode, featuring an RPG-like element, meaning their special moves become slightly larger and more powerful after each group of opponents are defeated.

dead dance for me! and the cover art on the famicom version was really good and gave u a great idea of the game, but the american version looks like the $1 version of that guy from MY HERO ACADEMIA , ALL MIGHT might be his name...now that is interesting...i recall mags giving it a bad score due to the low number of playable characters in story mode , and it being not very interesting, as for me ? i freaking love anything jaleco craps out, pure and simple. p.s: the manual included the codes to unlock all characters and i am almost sure it had the other missing things, but sadly we were not allowed to take the manual but the codes were written on the cart itself by a permanent marker.

Gotta give a like for the Dead Can Dance reference. Props, my man.

How tough am I? I once ate a bowl of cereal...with no milk

The best part of all your videos is the beginning, i love seeing how you open with SNES Drunk 🍹

If you push select on the "map" screen you can choose special move animation effect but it's only works in vs mode because its leveling automaticly on story mode.

Heh, fun fact: I just played this game last week for the first time. Why? probably the only other reason aside from what you told: to tick it off the list. Your explanation was spot on, not bad, just... average. The ´Exotic Techniques´ thing go like this: first, yeah, that´s a fancy way to say ´Special Moves´, and every 2 or 3 fights they would evolve: fireballs would get bigger, physical attacks got a visible aura, etc, etc. But that was just a cosmetic upgrade, because your tiny initial fireball and the awesome dragon-headed one from the last stages did the exact amount of damage... But hey, it counts for something, right? I did like the character design, though. And the difficulty was just right. PEACE!

I remember renting this. Didn't the boss have a savage throw? He would pick you up slam you into the ground then fire a blast at you while down (knocking you away from him). Nowadays probably not a big deal but I don't think many fighting games of the period did something like that.

Hey Drunk, the powering up your moves is a story mode only thing. For instance, Zazi will start off the first match with only his hand glowing when he does his thunder punch. Midway through the story his whole body glows, and by the end of the game his attack looks like a blue dragon. Not sure if it does more damage, this only happens in story.

Battle Master - Kyuukyoku no Senshitachi is worth checking out. (Flawed, but very playable, especially in two player mode)

American Jaleco releases always featured weird box arts (remember Rival Turf for example)

Fun Trivia: When you defeat Gajet as Vortz, he changes his victory pose where he looks solemn. I believe they are brothers. Also., aren't you going up a tower so every fighter arena takes you higher?

I rented this game from an Albertsons back in the day. When Albertsons grocery used to have a video rental side in their stores. Good times.

I love a good long SNESDrunk intro 👍

The box art (in the thumbnail) is shown in a screen of one arcade machine in the background for the first stage in the arcade game Game Tengoku - The Game Paradise.

Love that long intro 🤙🏾

I think the Exotic technique that the game is referring to getting Level Up's is that when you progress in this game your moves tend to look a little flashier for example throw a fireball and it's a huge Fireball at the end of the game compared to the beginning of the game

you should check out the two Fighter's History games on SNES/SFC. especially the second game, FH: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu which is one of the must full-featured fighting games for its time, it has a slew of game modes, a TRAINING mode (a lot of PS1/Saturn games didnt even have this) ... AND a Combo Training which even modern games sometimes don't even have.

I have always loved the Snnnnnnnnnnnnesdrunk intro but never noticed the caption says "that's junk!" Haha!

Nice Video! Im a Tuff E Nuff Freak :D Pro Tip: If you want the Power ups in Versus mode you can hold select button and then choose a stage then you can use the power ups for every character :)

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How did you know this was coming to SNES online?

Your harmonizing is getting better, my man!

It’s pretty cool that the characters got bloodied up... that seems pretty unique

6 days ago: SNES drunk does a review of Tuff E Nuff Today: Nintendo announces that Tuff E Nuff will be added to the SNES app on Switch this month Coincidence? I think not ...now do another review of Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger so they get added next month

Did not expect to hear Lisa Gerrard mentioned in a video about Tuff E Nuff.

so this was well timed, NSO just released the game

Did you really Drop a Dead Can Dance reference? Gothtastic

have you done a video on best SNES/SFC only fighting game?

It has some cool backgrounds tho Lots of parallax scrolling and translucent effects.

Nice Dead Can Dance reference 💜👍🏼

The "upgradeable exotic technique" you're talking about is simply alluding to the fact that your special moves get cooler and more flashy looking as you progress in the main story mode. I don't even think you have to do anything, they just change from one fight to the next, usually getting bigger hitboxes or more damage, or whatever. It's a nice touch, but it's not exactly a selling point like the back of the box makes it out to be. Also, who the hell is that guy on the cover? I don't recognize that guy anywhere in the actual game.

The intro took up 0.0096% of my day. And it was glorious.

I rented this (along with such gems as BioMetal and X-Kaliber 2097) from the local Safeway in the tiny little town in Alaska where I grew up. (We didn't get a Blockbuster until after I had already moved away after high school.) None of the rental carts had the original artwork or boxes, they all just had giant labels with the game manual text typed out in generic tiny print. Needless to say, renting games there was a total crapshoot.

I got the japanese version as a child and I gotta say I loved every bit of it. Being a "humble" game, it has a lot of details in the stages and though the four characters were not that interesting, the mood was superb. One of my childhood classics.

Ah, Dead Dance. I really liked this! Edit: I assume exotic techniques meant the specials like the fireball, and they all upgrade naturally as you climb the tower beating CPU fighters in story, I can't say I ever noticed a difference, the moves just looked flashier. Ryu-clones' fireball, for instance, got bigger, then bigger, then becomes a dragon head is memory serves.

The special attacks are upgraded as you progress through the game, that's all that means. Notice that Kotono's kunai daggers have a glowing effect in the later stages. Tuff E Nuff gets a brief mention in Jaleco's later game Game Tengoku, a shooter that doubles as satire of the arcade gaming culture. The silly art is used as the backboard of a pinball machine in the first stage.

I love how the missile silo is the 2nd floor of the tower. Oh boy, someday the upper floor bosses gonna have a hell of a surprise...

I always tried the Street Fighter button combos when playing a new fighting game from this era. Most of the time, they worked.

This was my second SNES game (after Super Mario World, which I found inside the SNES box). I remember being stuck on my bed during the summer for an accident when I was 7 and my dad bringing home this game (the European box art is way more serious and captivating). He said "I was looking for Power Rangers but it was sold out everywhere. The guy at the store said it was similar to this". It was NOT similar at all, bit I'm glad. I loved the hell out of this gamr, played it so much and still do. It has something that stands out for some reason.. Maybe the music and overall tone of the game. It's average, yes. But still a must play for SNES gamers (and I would also say it's among the very good games on the system).

Truly admire your passion 16 bit gaming. Love your videos.

Hey man, I know you may never see this, but thank you for your channel. Your videos are always pleasant to watch, you seem enthusiastic about your work here, and I really appreciate the time you put into making these videos. The dedication to dissecting the artistry of older console generations and their games is something really fascinating to behold, and I think you're doing an amazing job. Thanks again!

SNES Drunk is a prophet, excited to use some exotic techniques on Switch

I've heard of Tuff E Nuff before, but for some reason I always thought it was a side-scrolling beat 'em up like Final Fight. Looking at the box, it proudly proclaims there are "4 colorful main characters to fight as," so that's probably the reason for my confusion. 4 playable characters is typical for a beat 'em up, but what fighting game only has 4 characters? Or, in this case, has a roster of 11, but only lets you play as 4 people for some reason.

I remember I did a playthrough and the US got a 'Congratulations' screen. Either play on Easy or Hard, it's not worth it. The Japanese release has 4 endings on the Heroes if you play the hard difficulty, of course. VGMuseum has a translate rom of that. But hard to find it.

Dead Can Dance? Finally, a reference I understand!!

In the story mode as you progress the main two characters reverse punch gets bigger like the glow effects. But only in the story mode.

As you play through the story mode, your special moves level up through several levels. It is pretty novel. Also, yeah, those guys play like ken and ryu when you only use the 2 moves that they share with ken and ryu. Try to hit select when picking a character in vs. mode. Also, a specific projectile that passed through other projectiles on one character was something unique.

--->>> Almost Perfect Analysis! You forgot to mention the evolution of moves. I met this as Dead Dance as you mentioned good memories on this! Great video!!

@0:52 and 1:10. Both these stages look like places from the series Yu Yu Hakusho. @0:52 it looks like the parking lot garage the younger Toguro brother took Yusuke to to show off his power. @1:10 it looks like the dark tournament stadium.

Jaleco had a run of beat-em-ups & SFII clones in the SNES era that were good enough to play but in general weren't great games. They were the consolation prize compared to most of what Nintendo, Capcom, Konami & others pumped out in those days. I enjoyed renting them but I never did end up buying any Jaleco games back then.

I had some japanese cityfunk playing in the bg when I clicked on, and your SNESSSSSS lined up perfectly with the tune. nice.

With a precisely 5-minute video, when the intro started the way it did, I thought this might be another quartet and comment showcase episode.

I remember renting this one because it was about the only thing available at 7PM on a Friday night back then, and the cover art looked like the comics I liked so why not. It was actually much better than I was expecting and even today I find the fights memorable, like the final one on the roof. I might have even rented it a second time intentionally.

This was the fighting game I played the most after SF2 Turbo on the Snes. Back then I never thought about SF clones so much as assuming that the SF style was just so good all fighting games should use it. Love the game's ost to this day and the sprite work is also really impressive at times. Thanks for covering a childhood favourite.

I literally saw the boxart last night in Ashens' "Gallery of Shame" video! Sidenote, who knew that All Might was a 90's Image character?

Oh snap! So many great memories as a teen ....Tuff Enuff was a good fighter to me lol

I enjoyed this game back when I played it, but the excessive hit-stop that happens every time an attack lands is definitely a huge deal breaker.