A rhythm/timing game is Guitar Hero. China Warrior is a turd the janitor at the dev company shat out, shaped like a HuCard.
People who don't think China Warrior is rhythmic usually suck at it.
*cue "hell no I beat that games ass like a pro it just sucks" *
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If it's really a rhythm game then that makes it even worse, because the whole music game genre is the single genre I hate most of every major gaming genre, and it's probably the genre I am worst at as well.
It's not music related. It's punch-shit-properly-related. Punching to the beat of the chingchong music is for expert players only.
But it isn't, not really. It's a terrible side-scrolling beat 'em up which requires precise timing at all times.
"its not a timing/rhythm game. You just need precise timing. It sucks."
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The game mostly exists to show off how big they could make sprites on the system, and the sprites are indeed huge, but they sure didn't put much into the gameplay.
This, coming from someone who later says Ninja Warriors is the best, makes my brain hurt.
Did you know there is a giant fist attack? There's oolong tea. You beat the shit out of Jesse the Body Ventura and his black twin brother.
You end the game by beating some drunk hobo up in a cave.
I have Vigilante for the Master System. I beat it in what was likely under half an hour and haven't touched it since.
Play it on PCE. It'll change your life.
They're both in the side-scrolling beat 'em ups genre, yes. Other examples of games in that genre (not quite the same as the Kung-Fu style stuff, but still in the broader genre) include stuff like Bad Dudes, Wonder Momo, The Ninja Warriors, and Cyber-Cross. None of those games are all that great either, though at least Cyber-Cross has a bit more variety than some of those other games. Perhaps the most fun side-scrolling beat 'em up is the SNES Ninja Warriors game, which is actually decent.
China Warrior is an auto scrolling game that doesn't allow you to turn around. Did you notice how none of the games you mentioned (except Kung Fu) play like China Warrior?
What part of Bad Dudes or Cyber Cross launched a barrage of sticks/monks/rocks/fireballs at you that require PRECISE TIMING AND RHYTHM TO GET THROUGH EVEN THOUGH ITS NOT A RHYTHM GAME.
Kung Fu is all about timing and rhythm in the first place. You don't just get into a kung fu match where you flail wildly. If you do that, you usually get Bruce Lee'd in the face and drop to your knees faster than a hooker in desperate need of some more crank money.
Also, to say that China Warrior has not much in the gameplay department, but Ninja Warriors does, makes no sense.
There is more to China Warrior than there is to Ninja Warriors. Ninja Warriors just has really cool music and graphics.
and, anyone who thinks Kung Fu is a classic, but China Warrior sucks, is a scrotum licker.
also, lol, scroll down! Inferno for MSX appears.
https://www.google.com/search?q=kung+fu+pc+engine&client=firefox-a&hs=fkM&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Jku0Ura1COT8yAGdxYH4BQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=633aw yeah.
