King of the Monsters 2 (NGH-039) Neo Geo Generation | Basement Brothers | Neo Geo Collection 

First AES game I ever bough (Well, that and World Heroes)t! I never knew the grapples were pre-determined though, but its annoying that you have to essentially cheese the game to win, as youll never win them after a certain level. Same as 3 Count Bout. >.>

re: the "Press the button in a timely manner when landing" thing on Stage 4 and 7, there's a 2-frame window in which you have to press any of the buttons to make the monster land on his feet, and the game rewards you with a 1-Up. There's a 4 frame window before that where the monster will bounce off the ground and you get a consolation prize of 1000 points. This 4 frame consolation window doesn't exist for late presses, only early - so a lot of times you just get nothing since you don't have much time to react to the monster appearing on screen for it.

Ah yes, I loved my last trip to American City.

I always thought it was a big missed opportunity that SNK never did many sequels to pre-Neo Geo games like Beast Busters or Athena for the Neo Geo.

The music in the SNES version terrified me as a child. The laughter in the background really creeped me out for some reason.

i LOVED the SNES release! I tried playing rhe arcade version at one point and was so confused as to why it was more difficult. To see both games side by side now, it looks like the SNES port really did thr homework of improving the original

It’s funny how unlike say the movie industry. Sequels are better on games than the originals usually. Due to technology and feedback on problems with the first game in a new series. Its just unique and interesting

I'm glad it's not just me sucking at the game and other people also think it's too hard for its own good.

This game is still very visually appealing

Neo geo generation is back lets gooooo

In the falling sequences you must press the button with correct timing to land perfectly. Very hard to do, but you land successfully you're awarded an extra life (it appears as a G-Mantle icon).

Growing up I had this game for SNES. I never saw it for Sega as a kid, pretty cool you can play as the boss monsters in that version.

So glad Neo Geo Generation is back!!!

I played this when I was a kid and I had no problems with playing 1 player but it was on the SNES

Hell yeah been waiting for this review.

I played this with my cousin when I was a little kid and could not remember the name. Holy crap THANK YOU!!!

I love King of the Monsters 2 Alec. I remember playing this game and enjoyed destroying the enemy bosses. Man, the design of the hideous looking creatures use to scare me and the final bosses use to terrify me with nightmares bro. Welp, SNK sure did an outstanding job spooking the bejeezus out of me with this gem of a title. Thank you for sharing this with us Alec. Always a pleasure seeing your material you share bro. 8^) Anthony..

A mega-sized video for a mega-sized game. Swimming mechanic in a beat'em up, that's kinda cool. Probably more fun than the platforming in Double Dragon on the N.E.S.

I liked how you went into the ports afterwards. Thanks for the extra content ❤

I use to love king of the monster for the snes. We would have tournaments in it. Good times

22:11 The grappling in this one isn't about tapping the button as fast as you can, but tapping it once, at the right time. You rock back and forth in a grapple, you got to tap the button at the right frame of animation (I forget which, it's been a while since I played it: either when you are back or forth). There are 2 phases to grappling too: a winning & losing phase (see 8:57) Woo starts the grapple winning (he's shaking the boss) then he is in the losing phase (the boss is shaking him, due to tapping the button at the wrong frame of animation) then Woo loses the losing phase and has the wrestling done on him by the boss. It seems the wrestling moves do the most damage and would move the game along faster, but they are hard to execute and win. So, I never use them; the risk isn't worth the reward. It seems this game was made for 2-players and the difficulty wasn't scaled down for 1-player. This would have been a much better game without the boss rush at the end, for that, the 1st game is my favorite of the 2.

Finally Neo Geo Generation is back!🎉🎉

BASEMENT BROTHERS!

I agree about the wasted potential, this is very emblematic of "this just needed one more iteration" from SNK. Oh, I think I can FINALLY tell you and Mr. Jakes apart. Barely.

Sequel Madness Episode 1 Done! Hope Episode 2 isn't far behind!

Hopefully we get more Neo Geo Generation videos on a regular basis, I love this series and I'm looking forward to getting to the later releases on the system.

Heck yeah, a new Neo Geo Generation video. I'll be watching this later, but in the meantime please accept this preemptive like and comment

Hurray for the triumphant return of Neo Geo Generation! 🎉 Why don't you do them more often?

I've watched the entire Neo Geo playlist up until this point. Thanks so much for this series! I have only one complaint. The playlist is backwards. I had a lot of work in ordr to watch the videos in the right order, it worth it, but it was still a chore.

I played it on my NG Mini...and it's hard af..very cool and informative video btw!

A joy to watch this episode! Well summarised and reviewed! I love this game, but it is a total credit muncher!

Excited to see another episode. Thanks for putting these together. As someone who really had no interest in playing the Neo Geo either back then or today, the fact I've watched every episode multiple times speaks to the quality of the content.

Great work as always, truly preserving what made this game special

I'd love to see a KotM 3 someday, but I definitely think it would be a full-on fighting game by now, so I just figure I'll play Gigabash or War of the Monsters (PS2 Classic on PS3 and PS4) and enjoy those while giving props to Atomic Guy. Speaking of, I loved Neo Geo Battle Colosseum and got WAY into it on the PS2 (never got quite as good during the XBLA HD re-release though), and never knew until now that the new characters Yuki and Ai could turn into Atomic Guy! Thanks for showing off that little tidbit! Time to fire up NGBC on my Series X and see if I can figure this whole thing out 😄

Awwww yeah, Neo-Alec is back with a vengeance! I've been waiting for this one ever since I saw the first game's review. Interesting that they added beat-'em-up elements, but I likewise think this was for the best. Kind of a shame they cut the cast down to three. Kinda hardcore how they explained that the other three a) got eaten by Geon, b) their brains were used to help build Cyber Woo and c) Atomic Guy, being based on Ultraman, probably killed them. As for quarter-munching, it does seem standard for fighting games back in the day, sadly. And as with beat-'em-ups to this day, I do find that flying solo is a bigger challenge than bringing at least one friend along with. Let alone about an hour being the length to complete one. But that boss rush in practice, yikes. Still, seems like a decent enough time, and I'm glad one of the home console ports lets you play as all but the final boss. Weird side note. The death animations for Atomic Guy and especially Geon caught me off-guard. I can see Atomic's happening, but what's with Geon and that frog boss both partly melting into big mounds of goo? Is that a Godzilla reference or something? Kinda disturbing.

That’s a rather impressive library. Wow!

I really enjoyed this video! Great stuff! 😀👍

I love the first stage music so much it makes me wish I liked the game more

Very good indepth review of King of the Monsters 2! I thoroughly enjoyed it! It's good to know that 1 and 2 play differently and that 2 is the better of the 2 games. I happen to own the Super Nintendo port of it so that is a win for me!

This show has made me realize just how many bitchin games are on neogeo

I got this game on SNES because it has co-op like the neo geo, one example where the Sega version was inferior

Great review

Sengoku 2 next, oh yeah!

Call me biased, but I think the one where the monsters all die is the objectively good ending. :D

It's great to see another Neo Geo update!

Hahaha, I'm with HG101 in this one, the Mega Drive version is the best because transforms it into a full fighting game like the first one: "The version for SNES, developed by Genki, is a disaster - even though you've been given the ability to block, it doesn't work well enough to make the game any fairer. Combined with poor control responsiveness, this version is nothing short of a frustrating mess, although at least it's a bit easier to win grapples. Another port was released for Genesis, with several modifications made to it, as it was ported by a different company, a small outfit called Betop. The most noteworthy changes are that the pre-boss fight sections have been removed entirely, you can select every character in the game except for Famardy, the matches are in a best-two-out-of-three format, and most of the levels have been replaced with levels from its predecessor. Grapples are also a tad easier to win, so it's a bit fairer. There are extra moves for each character, and the commands for projectiles have been changed to Street Fighter II-style controller motions - meaning that the CPU can, and will, spam projectiles like crazy. Still, with all of its changes, the Genesis port is definitely the best version of the game."

That Neo Geo collection is quite the flex.

I played KotM on my genesis all the time, ugh! I'd also get jealous when kids on Nick Arcade got to play it on a cab. I never quite clicked with the second, though. I don't know why. It has everything I wanted from a sequel but maybe it was too much or something.

I love this game!!

I do agree it is better than the first one.

Love me some NEO•GEO goodness ☺

maybe rampage get inspired by this game

😊 oh so much fun

Kom was a fun game. Kom2 was good too but it could have been soo much more. Neo geo made too many fighting games

A SNK Monsters 👻

there we Are. 🚬🕶️✊

Tekken 8 Story: The Dark Awakens.

The Simpsons clips are evolving into Simpsons edits!

You forgot to mention if B button (I think) was held down, the character would charge up and unleash the special move from the previous power level

You recording this one sick, Mr Jakes? You sound smoky, mysterious.

Is it possible to 1cc this game?

If you dig King of Monsters (1 or 2), check out Dawn of the Monsters. It was originally supposed to be King of the Monsters 3.

Cutting in half an already tiny roster is just... lame. No "graphical fidelity" is worth it. Worse yet, they deleted 3 more-less original creations in favor of Godzilla, Mecha-Kong and Ultraman rip-offs.

26:26 what did he mean by this?

Avoid grappling, they often don't go in your favor. Using the specials to get the boss caught in a loop is often the fastest way, but timing the charge is crucial. The grappling bonus game against the CPU is impossible to win just by tapping, it's just not fast enough. The only guarantee is with autofire.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Uca6fY7AOg.htmlsi=HG6jt_s3ZT3QC4dy&t=29 What's happening here on the left side of the screen? Is this some kind of widescreen hack?

Whatever happened to King of the Monsters 2???? Well, it got released, and people played it. What's up with this title?