Riot Zone Longplay (TurboGrafx CD) [QHD]

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Game Info
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Developer: Westone
Publisher: Hudson Soft
Year of Release: 1993
Game Review & Impressions
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As soon as I started playing Riot Zone, I was struck with a strange sense of Deja Vu. In fact, I HAD played something very much like it, because Riot Zone is effectively a port, albeit with some changes to character sprites, of Riot City, a 1991 arcade release also created by Westone. Riot City was released on Sega's System 16 hardware, and it's one of the most boring beat 'em ups I've ever played: overly long, with too few moves and little in the way of merit.
Riot Zone is pretty much identical to Riot City, except the lead characters have had their names and artwork changed. Hawk is the spitting image of Axel Stone from Streets of Rage, who was already a facsimile of Cody from Final Fight. In fact, Riot Zone is pretty much a Poundland/Dollar Tree version of Final Fight, featuring stages and enemies that look like those from Capcom's seminal fighter, but are nowhere near as good. In fact, the goons you fight here are all kinds of weird: the elderly Chinese guy with walking cane who looks like he's sucking his thumb; the big guys in the shirts whose sleeves are too long; the wrestlers with elbow pads so tight that the blood flow to their worrying atrophied arms has clearly been cut off.
There's no getting away from the fact the game on which Riot Zone is based was pretty dull and crusty to begin with, and I suspect the reason this got made at all was in response to Final Fight CD, which released on the Sega Mega CD, and is considered as the definitive home version of that particular coin-on. Riot Zone is simply a reskinned Riot City with a cheesy synth-rock soundtrack on a compact disc, and offers little else. It's not a bad game as such, just achingly dull, and one that's unlikely to be remembered with much fondness.
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@Dr.UldenWascht 2 месяца назад

I remember loving the walking animation. It's like an 80 year old man jogging in the park 😄

@LPetal86 2 месяца назад

This protag is honestly one of the strangest dudes I've seen in a beat-'em-up. You're right about the geriatric walk cycle, and is it just me or are his forearms a bit too long? 😂

@Shyning77 2 месяца назад

Another beat 'em up I was unaware of, great video! An obvious Final Fight + Streets of Rage rip-off (just look how Hawk is basically Axel), but with rather uninspired stages and enemies.

@autofox1744 2 месяца назад

Fun Fact: This is actually an adaptation of a Sega arcade game, Riot City; licensed by a third party, obviously, but there's some Streets of Rage DNA in there.

@ibrokemykeyboard 2 месяца назад

To this day, the bossman is still in the DragonZone.

@brunofirpo8860 2 месяца назад

Totally not Axel, this is hawk!

@regicorp6514 2 месяца назад

Axel and Cody's son.

@PerryR1985 2 месяца назад

The names are hilarious. An old karate master named "Jim Bob", a ninja named "Carlo;" and a large martial artist (in traditional garb) named "Big Al."

@blackflame4506 2 месяца назад

This is very dull looking paint by the numbers beat'em up and heck Burning Fight looks better and marginally plays better than this one lol. The soundtrack is kind of decent in a way that is the saving grace for this game. Thanks for the play through Al.

@LPetal86 2 месяца назад

Gotta love a good buddy cop beat-'em-up, but this is... Well it's functional. Doesn't look too fun compared to classics like _Final Fight_ though. EDIT: This hilarious music and the fact that one of the enemies is named "Jim Bob" has ratcheted up my respect tremendously for this.

@winningjubbly9712 2 месяца назад

I like how the men sound like they're being sick as they go to the floor, and the women like cats meowing.

@danchavyn 2 месяца назад

The soundtrack is really good for such a boring game. Some characters have great assets that could even be used for fan games. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the scenarios, as most of them consist of closed places with few elements.

@Bobaklives 2 месяца назад

In your description I would swap “dollar tree” with “store brand” to get the American equivalent of what I assume Poundland implies. Here the supermarket’s privately branded cereal was the inferior one to the popularly advertised product. Also “off brand” is sometimes used here.

@theodorehsu5023 2 месяца назад

The trick was to keep the enemies in the center of the screen. There were no breakable items to hide bonuses, so you had to rely on the enemies to have them. But you had to be able to grab them to use the bonuses (one was knocked too far to the side for you to grab in time).

@jorgeblast9756 2 месяца назад

Love this beatem up games, so 90s

@gamerparuhwaktu 2 месяца назад

He is Cody and Axl brother

@markula_4040 2 месяца назад

So they took an arcade game that already resembled Final Fight and then ported it to console and decided to make changes to the main character to look even more like Cody? What, were they hoping to trick consumers into a purchase?

@danchavyn 2 месяца назад

I liked these scenarios: 07:33 29:27 42:00

@Bilterofficial809 24 дня назад

What is the name of this game

@joeschmoe5231 2 месяца назад

Textbook copyright infringement of Streets of Rage, smh.

@SpearM3064 2 месяца назад

"Side-scrolling beat-em-up" is not something you can copyright. If it was, we never would've had Cadillacs & Dinosaurs or Aliens vs Predator. This is not _any_ kind of copyright infringement, or Sega would've sued. Having said that... if you simply mean this is a poor knockoff of Streets of Rage, I'd have to agree with you. It's definitely NOT the best side-scrolling beat-em-up I've seen. The only saving grace is the music, which is pretty good for the standards of the time.

@edwardgaines6561 2 месяца назад

Yeah, but it's Hudson Soft? Who else were they gonna use? Master Higgins? 😅

@marcoschukerberga1418 2 месяца назад

come on people!!!! the glass half full in this one, this game screams 90's for all over the place and I love it, yeah for modern gamers this is a dull slow game but for nostalgia reasons this game is awesome, the music and the bosses, maybe not so much normal enemies but that's ok, is still a hidden treasure

@waynecuff3140 2 месяца назад

To me this is better than the majority of today's shit games.

@marcoschukerberga1418 2 месяца назад

@@waynecuff3140 exactly my point, thank you

@retrocatalog 2 месяца назад

@@waynecuff3140Some thick rose-colored glasses on that one. This game's alright... You're better off with the arcade version though... The music's nicer here for what it's worth. P. S.: Pulling down something to make another thing look better only makes the other thing look worse...

@wongyc5585 2 месяца назад

No two players mode, obvious waste. No weapon either,how to play through with just punches and kicks

@condrecomics 2 месяца назад

Bosses are so weak it's depressing. Last one had good music tho

@weirddudehi 2 месяца назад

The designs are horrible, this game has a Demo version in which there are small changes,if i remember well some voices are different,and some attacks,i really prefer AneSan over this one.