Live Magazine April May 2017 Issue

OF RETRO EDITOR, PAUL MONOPOLI’S GAMING JOURNEY...
diaries:
Butoden series, and found them to
be somewhat of a mixed bag. Super
Butoden 1 looked nice, and it elaborated
on the standard 2D fighter
by allowing you to fly in the air. If
you backed right away from your
enemy the screen would split and
you would keep moving backwards.
This meant that you could put a
lot of distance between yourself
and your opponent, allowing you to
charge energy or attack from afar.
The Ki blasts looked good, when we
managed to execute them, but the
gameplay felt very rigid.
The game engine for Super Butoden
2 felt looser, though the game was
similar to its predecessor in every
other way. I remember the character
select screen having a bunch of
blonde people and a big green guy.
The Super Play review mentioned
that he was called Piccolo, so I tried
him out but found him too slow. We
played this one for a bit longer than
the previous title. The third game in
the series is pretty much the same,
but with different characters. With
the Super Butoden games out of
the way, we moved on to Sailor
Moon.
I had watched Sailor Moon on
Agro’s Cartoon Connection in the
years prior. I was aware of the story,
an the game followed the first arc
as closely as a Final Fight clone
could. The graphics were nice and
colourful, and they reflected the
source material nicely. The game
1997 - 1998