Software:Beast Wrestler

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Beast Wrestler
BeastWrestlerBoxShotGenesis.jpg
Developer(s)Telenet Japan
Publisher(s)
Composer(s)Shinobu Ogawa
Takaharu Umezu[1]
Platform(s)Mega Drive
Release
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer[4]

Beast Wrestler (ビースト・ウォリアーズ, "Beast Warriors") is a 1991 fighting game published for the Mega Drive in Japan and North America. The game's cover art was created by Yasushi Nirasawa, in his position as a model-builder for Hobby Japan magazine.[5]

Gameplay

Two beasts in close battle with each other.

Beast Wrestler is a wrestling beat 'em up video game containing two modes: Match and Tournament. Match is a single-round that can be played with two human players or one player and a computer opponent, whereas Tournament has multiple rounds and requires the player to showdown with every beast in the game.[6]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
CVG26/100[9]
Famitsu20/40[10]
Console XS30/100[12]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[13]
Mega29%[14]
MegaTech45%[15]
Sega Pro30/100[16]

The presentation, although generally the most-well received aspect of Beast Wrestler, garnered a mixed response. Joystick called it the best part.[11]

Paul Rand of Computer and Video Games found the premise of monsters in a wrestling game interesting, but strongly dismissed its gameplay as "dull, simplistic and annoying in equal parts", heavily attributed to unresponsive controls.[9] He also criticized the unsuitable music and visuals.[9] Although appreciating the monsters' design, he was critical of the sprites' animation, shadows, their identical sizes, and flickering.[9] Mega also found it a "tedious" experience with very few attacks to experiment with.[14] He disliked the graphics, such as the "boring empty ring-type arena thingy" and choppy animation.[14]

Entertainment Weekly's Bob Strauss also called the gameplay tedious, despite its "thumb-busting array of holds and throws".[13] He praised the presentation, such as the "electrified, three-dimensional playing field" and "appropriately gruesome creatures (which look like something out of a David Cronenberg movie)", although also joked, "When the monsters tangle it up in the ring, you're reminded of those intricate mating rituals Marlin Perkins used to narrate on Wild Kingdom."[13]

References

  1. ↑ Beast Wrestler at Project 2612
  2. ↑ "Software List (Released by Soft Licensees)" (in ja). Sega. https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html. 
  3. ↑ Beast Wrestler at GameFAQs
  4. ↑ Beast Wrestler at RF Generation
  5. ↑ Nirasawa, Yasushi (Dec 28, 1992). Creature Core. Hobby Japan. p. 56. ISBN 4-938461-76-5. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Game: Beast Warriors". Games-X (34): 22. December 1991. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:GamesX_UK_34.pdf&page=22. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  7. ↑ "Naturkatastrophen" (in de). Aktueller Software Markt: 119. March 1992. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:ASM_DE_1992-03.pdf&page=117. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  8. ↑ "ビースト・ウォリアーズ" (in Japanese). Beep! Mega Drive: 35. November 1991. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:BeepMD_JP_1991-11.pdf&page=37. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Rand, Paul (February 1992). "Beast Warriors". Computer and Video Games (123): 87. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:CVG_UK_123.pdf&page=87. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  10. ↑ "ビースト・ウォリアーズ" (in Japanese). Famitsu (153): 39. November 1991. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Famitsu_JP_0153.pdf&page=39. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Trazom (January 1992). "Beast Warriors" (in fr). Joystick (23): 141. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Joystick_FR_023.pdf&page=141. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  12. ↑ "Beast Warriors". Console XS (1): 127. June 1992. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Console_XS_UK_01.pdf&page=127. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Strauss, Bob (June 12, 1992). "Beast Wrestler". Entertainment Weekly. https://ew.com/article/1992/06/12/beast-wrestler/. Retrieved December 18, 2021. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "One-on-One Beat-'em-Ups". Mega (15): 76–77. December 1993. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Mega_UK_15.pdf&page=76. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  15. ↑ Mark; Paul (February 1992). "Beast Warriors". MegaTech (2): 52–53. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:MegaTech_UK_02.pdf&page=52. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 
  16. ↑ Ellis, Les (February 1992). "Beast Warriors". Sega Pro (4): 38. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:SegaPro_UK_04.pdf&page=38. Retrieved January 15, 2022. 



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