A playthrough of Capcom's 1990 NES game, Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.
Despite sharing its name with two of Capcom's famous franchises, Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight isn't related to either one outside of a few creative licenses taken in the English translation. It's not a beat 'em up nor a fighting game, but rather a platformer that focuses on boss fights more than it does traditional levels.
You play as Ken (who isn't actually Ken, but some guy named Kevin in the original) who has to use his Kano/Terminator-style bionics to search down the bad guy. There are 19 (I think?) stages, and most of them revolve around grabbing power-ups and killing whatever is the designated target enemy until you collect enough energy to fill the "open" gauge. Once you've done this, the portal to warp dimension opens, allowing you to move on to the next challenge.
The levels are short and extremely varied - some will have you scaling vines in a vertical auto-scroll stage, while others will have you bouncing off of springy tree limbs in order to kill the robots. There's a ton of creativity that went into these stages, and it really helps prevent the game from becoming monotonous.
The game is pretty famous for its difficulty level, and rightly so. Calling it 'hard' really is an understatement. However, SF2010 is one of those games where, once you get the patterns down and have beaten a stage a couple of times, you can run through it with your eyes closed. Everything is logical and pattern based, but until you figure it out, it will kill you over. And over. And over. It feels like Ninja Gaiden in that respect - well, except that Ninja Gaiden never becomes particularly easy, no matter how well you know it. This one does.
The graphics and sound are pretty excellent by 1990 NES standards, and the controls are pretty smooth and surprisingly intuitive given the number of manoeuvres you have at your disposal.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that rages easily at hard games, but if you want a challenge that's steep but not insurmountable, this is a pretty good choice. It's classic Capcom, after all.
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