Software:Beast Wrestler
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| Developer(s) | Telenet Japan |
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| Composer(s) | Shinobu Ogawa Takaharu Umezu[1] |
| Platform(s) | Mega Drive |
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| 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
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
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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
- ↑ Beast Wrestler at Project 2612
- ↑ "Software List (Released by Soft Licensees)" (in ja). Sega. https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html.
- ↑ Beast Wrestler at GameFAQs
- ↑ Beast Wrestler at RF Generation
- ↑ Nirasawa, Yasushi (Dec 28, 1992). Creature Core. Hobby Japan. p. 56. ISBN 4-938461-76-5.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 9.0 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 11.0 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 13.0 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.
- ↑ 14.0 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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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