Rocket Knight Adventures, Street Fighter EX, & Cary Elwes
By skrutop 1 Comments
Now that my edits automatically go live, I imagine that I'll be more tempted to make more, smaller edits. But, I did put some work into a few pages.
First, I came across the Rocket Knight Adventures page, which is an amazing game for the Sega Genesis. You're some sort of rodent, in armor, who has a jetpack on his back. You can dash in any direction with the jetpack, and a few of the levels are side-scrolling shooters. The art direction is amazing, the enemies well thought-out, and - most importantly - it's fun as hell. This is one of my favorite Genesis games ever. The page had a bunch of info, but it needed a lot of cleanup.
Next up is the Street Fighter EX series, which is the ugly stepchild of the Street Fighter franchises. While I can understand why people bash it - SF2 and SFA are certainly far superior - I still love EX. The new fighters are imaginative, the game plays smoothly - if a bit slow - and I'm a huge fan of the super cancel system, which allows you to link together super attacks. I owned the game, so I was way better than my friends, but they still had a blast even after I performed a combo that linked 2 super fireball attacks with the super hurricane kick and took off 3/4 of their life. I think this game might've been better received if it didn't use the Street Fighter license, if for no other reason than the new characters were a ton of fun to play, and offered a surprising amount of variation from the standard Street Fighter character types. That being said, nobody would've paid any attention to it without Ryu.
I also chanced upon the Cary Elwes page, which needed some major revisions. Two fun facts:
- He has only done voice work for one game, the totally forgettable Bard's Tale for the PS2/Xbox.
- Not only did he do The Bard's voice, he also wrote his dialogue.