Author Topic: Is Riot Zone better than its Japanese version? (Read 777 times)

MotherGunner · « **on:** October 10, 2005, 03:13:04 PM »

In what ways?

Thanks

GUTS · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2005, 03:15:58 PM »

The main character sounds like Bullwinkle the moose when he yells "Twister!" in the US version, I don't know if that's in the Japanese version or not.

MotherGunner · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2005, 03:19:10 PM »

Quote from: "GUTS"

The main character sounds like Bullwinkle the moose when he yells "Twister!" in the US version, I don't know if that's in the Japanese version or not.

How about stuff like cut scenes, etc?

Is there alot? Would I benefit more from the story line if I understood it in English as opposed to japanese?

Thanks

Keranu · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:33:38 PM »

I've only played the Japanese version, but the Bullwinkle voice is still in there. The only difference I know of is that the Japanese version is called "Crest of Wolf".

MotherGunner · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:35:35 PM »

Im debating which one to get....hmm. Will meditate on it.

Keranu · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2005, 04:38:48 PM »

It's probably the same exact game except different names at the Japanese version has the cinemas in Japanese.

Jammaniaclord · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2005, 06:45:17 AM »

It's the same exact game. Bullwinkle exists in both versions, except the cutscenes are in Japanese.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2005, 08:56:29 AM »

Since TTI was so lazy, its safe to assume that whenever possible, little or no changes were made in translations.

cybersalad · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2005, 11:51:59 AM »

I recently played through this whole game. It's funny--I bought it, and beat it in one night. (Who says games today are getting shorter?)

The game is a standard beat 'em up--but missing a lot of stuff. The coin-op had breakable items etc. The levels just feel bare without any breakables.

Anyway--I gotta say, graphically this is one of the best PCE games I've seen. HUGE sprites, detailed backgrounds etc. Towards the end it gets really repetitive--the same 2 or 3 bad guys over and over and over.

Every single boss can be beaten with a jump kick.

sunteam_paul · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2005, 06:55:13 AM »

Gah although technically impressive, the background graphics were a right old scribbly mess and the sprites could have done with a bit of fine-tuning. Final Fight it is not.

Jammaniaclord · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2005, 06:57:18 AM »

Agreed - same bad guys over and over and it's really lame. I hate any game that does that, and if they do change it up, all it is a outfit change in color only. Was this an arcade game? I ask because i thought it was just a ripoff of Final Fight, and what a bad one, but a good move for TTI/NEC to make a Final Fight clone for their system....just too bad it was weak. The game could have been so much better with the "smashables" and more enemies, and less stiff jointed animation, more moves, faster pace, some parrallax scrolling, better cutscenes,.............redesign the whole game. LOL!

cybersalad · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2005, 08:00:56 AM »

Yeah it's a coin-op running on Sega's System 16 hardware. You can play the original in MAME.

I can understand why each level only has 2-3 guys with color changes adding to the mix. There's not enough memory for more--especially with sprites that huge. But they could have added new characters between scene loads.

mamonohunter · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2005, 09:13:19 AM »

I havent seen the game in action until most recently when I whatched the PcenginefxTV-episodes. I praise and bow to this show!

ParanoiaDragon · « **Reply #13 on:** October 17, 2005, 02:38:18 PM »

Yeah, it was called Riot City in the arcade, which ofcoarse they were going to call the US version. The levels are mixed up. As an example, you could say, that scene 3-2 in Riot City is scene 1-4 in Riot Zone(not exactly like that, but, that's the only way I can think of to describe it). I think the music is all different, but I haven't played thru the entire arcade version yet. The 2 main char's are different. Well, I remember atleast the white punk rocker is a black guy in Riot City.

Keranu · « **Reply #14 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:29:24 PM »

I thought the graphics were great and the elevator stage had a very nice background. I like the game overall too because the gameplay is linear and the soundtrack is pretty rad.