I've been playing the Megaman ZX games lately, and they're fantastic little platformers, feeling more akin to a Metroidvania than the usual level based titles, the graphics are beautiful, and the 'biometal' armours fantastic
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Street Fighter's Hugo is a great character design.
Inspired by Andre the Giant, debuted in Final Fight, surprising mobility for a grappler, awesome signature grabs, cool name, resembles Frankenstein's Monster and even manages to make pink look threatening - what's *not* to like?
18 years on, it still feels surreal Jeno Reno being one of the two stars of Onimusha 3?
It all adds to the appeal of this fantastic game though, his character Jacques has an awesome moveset (later he can even bodyslam big enemies!) and some truly outlandish weapons
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More awesome work from Piotr and ahuizotl13, the beginning of the Lava Cave stage is one of the few shots in the game of Trisolde without her helmet, as she wipes the seat from her brow
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I've been playing Maximo on PS2 lately, it's a fantastic 3D actioner and worthy spiritual successor to the Ghouls 'n Ghosts series - and just like the latter, it's rock 'ard!
I might have to check out the sequel, Army of Zin next...
#RETROGAMING
Fans of Irem's better known series R-Type might recognise the tentacle mechanic as being the same used by the RX-12's Flexible Force, in a nice little nod.
One of SNK's most distinctive villains, KOF's Rugal Bernstein.
I suspect his odd name may be a mistranslation from Japanese, L's and R's tending to be switched - this would suggest that his name is meant to be 'Luger', which given he's German, would make perfect sense? 🤔
Haggar was a bit of a meme long ago, with various ridiculous (though not so ridiculous) stories of his sheer machismo allowing him to perform seemingly godly feats of masculinity, such as piledriving sharks.
But all good things must come to an end...
@GameMistress Many cute (but now forgotten) mascot imitators showed up in the early-mid 90s trying to take a slice of Mario and Sonic's glory.
And Bubsy might still be the WORST...
@OwlFrenchie And also it's sequel Ring of Destruction 💪🏼
That series featured another sadly underutilised Capcom character in Victor Ortega, who had an awesome look and moveset - a grappler with a projectile!
They should perhaps leave out the golden codpiece next time though? 🤔