Originally posted by Asura
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KOTR holds up against Final Fight and any other Capcom Belt Scroller you can name. The fact that it was the first scroller (as far as I'm aware) to introduce a parry/counter-attack mechanism is wholly significant in the context of belt scrollers.
The medieval/steampunk setting is pretty inspired too and very different from the Final Fight/Double Dragon ripoffs that were around in early 1990s coin-ops.
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