Played through nearly all of Hokuto no Ken - Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu on the PS1 this week. WOW. This game looks fantastic. The pixel art textures are amazing and the cutscenes are massive and lavishly animated. The game is a pretty simple arena brawler that tells the story up to the end of Hokuto no Ken part 1 (the defeat of Raoh (at least I think so, not got quite to tne end yet)). The game is relatively easy and easy to play without understanding Japanese.
If you are playing on original hardware the save points are wickedly far apart, oftenr equiring an hour of play between them. This is compounded by quite long unskippable cutscenes. They are all real time rather than FMV, long and all in Japanese. So if you need to quit playing without hitting a save point, you have to sit through a lot to get back to where you were.
If you are a Hokuto no Ken liker or a PS1 graphics liker, I can highly recommend this. Might be better to use save states in an emulator though. I think it's one of the best looking PS1 games I've seen.
The video that turned me on to it a while ago.
If you are playing on original hardware the save points are wickedly far apart, oftenr equiring an hour of play between them. This is compounded by quite long unskippable cutscenes. They are all real time rather than FMV, long and all in Japanese. So if you need to quit playing without hitting a save point, you have to sit through a lot to get back to where you were.
If you are a Hokuto no Ken liker or a PS1 graphics liker, I can highly recommend this. Might be better to use save states in an emulator though. I think it's one of the best looking PS1 games I've seen.
The video that turned me on to it a while ago.
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