Review:
Kizuna
Encounter is considered the sequel
to Savage Reign, even though it obviously has a completely different
name. (I guess since Savage Reign kinda flopped, they might as well slap
on a shiny new name and hope for the best?) Anywho, Kizuna Encounter
brings back most of the characters from Savage Reign and adds in a few
newcomers as well.
Your chest needs a haircut.
Kizuna Encounter
plays like a mix between Art of Fighting and King of Fighters.
Along with the new "tag" element, some new defensive maneuvers have been added since Savage Reign, such as
dodging/rolling, but the overall gameplay (and animations) still came up short in
1996 when compared to many other 2D fighters. In my opinion, the main flaw in
this game is the character roster. Only 12 characters, and they're certainly not
the best designs around.
Where's your muscles Tung
Fu Rue?
Kizuna Encounter was one of
those obscure fighting games that never became all that popular... probably due
to the uninspired characters and the fact that the game wasn't all that
innovative besides the tag aspect. If you could somehow get past the oddball
characters, the gameplay was solid enough to play at least and some quality
match-ups could be had. Still, this title couldn't compete to the top fighting
games of 1996.
The tag system was decent for the time, but X-men VS Street Fighter was
definitely the king of tag-team fighting games in 1996. Even though it was
inferior to many other fighters at the time, Kizuna Encounter is an interesting title to check out
for the odd characters and cool backgrounds; but there's not much
lasting appeal and the gameplay becomes tiresome and repetitive rather fast. ~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG
), November 7th 1996
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