Mutation Nation (Neo Geo AES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- A playthrough of SNK's 1992 beat 'em up for the SNK Neo Geo AES, Mutation Nation.
At first glance, Mutation Nation, much like Burning Fight, bears a strong resemblance to Capcom's classic belt-scrolling brawler Final Fight. But, not content to merely rehash what's already been done, Mutation Nation adds a few new twists to the formula. The biggest innovation on offer here is the power up system: there are several different-colored orbs that can be picked up, and each of these will give you the limited-use ability associated with that particular one. Some create fireballs, while others create waves of lightning, amongst others, and picking up any if these orbs will also slightly replenish you're health. Besides the power up system, the game doesn't deviate too much from the typical examples of the genre, but the controls are responsive and the enemies generally put up a good fight without being too cheap, which is a bit of a rarity for SNK.
I love Mutation Nation's style, though. If the title hasn't clued you in already, you aren't fighting against the garden variety of street thugs. You're taking on a metric butt-ton of gross but insanely cool looking mutated people - football players with some form of mollusk for heads, robot man-walruses, wolfmen - it certainly shows some imagination. My favorite probably has to be the boss fight at the nightclub - she resembles Goro with her spidery arms, and she likes to launch robotic bugs at you. The music is also pretty good, especially a game from 1992. Lots of (surprisingly good) guitar riffs and boomy orchestra hit samples mix with the constant drone of thuds, thwacks, and screams to create a gloriously brash cacophony of arcade goodness.
All of this is courtesy the cartridge's 54 megabit (6.75 megabyte) storage capacity, according to the front of the box, which was clearly a huge selling point. As any avid reader of gaming magazines knew, that meant a massive upgrade from the SNES Final Fight's 8 megabit (1MB) cart, or the Genesis's 16 megabit (2MB) Streets of Rage 2. It even blew away the original Final Fight arcade game, for that matter, which consumed about 27 megabits (3.3MB)! Mutation Nation was designed to impress, and it really succeeded. Just check out how fluid that animation is!
I always wanted to play this after seeing a GamePro review raving about it, and finally got the chance to play it many years later via emulation. It has also been getting quite a bit of play on my Switch thanks to the ACA Neo Geo line of releases.
If you loved Streets of Rage or Final Fight, I'd recommend picking this up. At a price point below $10 on all of the current consoles it's a steal (the AES cart was well over $200 when it came out!), and it'll certainly keep you busy for awhile before you're able to just blow through it.
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Mutation Nation is almost like Streets of Rage if the enemies had all been replaced with gross generic experiments and robots. I love how everything blows up into nasty gooey piles. Great stuff!
I agree. This game is truly something special due to its material.
It's impressive this was made by a team of first-timers at SNK.
Love this game! Fighting both mutants and cyborgs! IT’S SUPER SICK! What more could you ask for?! Thank you, NeoGeo!
27:36 The face of the final boss is more terrifying than all of the enemies combined...
Hell yes! I wasted a lot of quarters on this game. They had it in my movie theater when I was a kid
One thing I've always loved about this game is the sound effects for the punches and kicks.
Agreed. Especially how the main characters go "GRRR! HAH!" when they use a special attack.
I don't remember playing this one at the arcades but it looks cool I'll have to grab it once I'm reunited with an AES console, wish I'd kept mine great days these were
Scary dystopian that can be a reality.
I remember these were $200 for one cartridge. I'll trade the new games for this any day. Reminds me of growing up!
Wouldn't it be cool if we could see Ricky Jones and Johnny Hart in King of Fighters?
Snk need to make more games
They still do, but mostly fighting games.
Although not mentioned anywhere in the game, the two players you play as are named Ricky Jones, and Johnny Hart. Ricky is the one with the red hair and motorcycle outfit.
Why does ricky jones always looks like Kyo kusanagi?
My brother and I used to play this game all the time as kids. We had the home neo for. Thanks for my dad for buying it we never beat it ugh
There were people who actually thought that Kyo Kusanagi was player 1’s character. LOL
Same here 😆
Maybe he inspired the design
Like lisa lisa from jjba and rose from street fighter alpha
About the nightclub boss fight - those aren't robot flies. The woman is a mutant human/spider hybrid who is birthing her mutated larvae children to attack you during the fight. O_O
thecowboy2 Oh. Ugh, that's much worse lol
They predict the future but not that kind of mutation
Shame.
Every boss you Find try to Not to keep dyeing but area 5 is like a subway & sewers
i played this on arcade machine back in 1997
Kyo adventures
yea Mutation Nation ...i used to play this while i was young
The squid head guys have such a funny ready animation.
Isn't player one character looks like Kyo Kusanagi?
In my humble opinion, I think he kinda looks like Pete Rose, LOL.
Yeah, its because his hair is red. But when I saw his sprite, I thought he was wearing a helmet. But that's because of the low resolution graphics so it was kind of hard to tell it was his hair.
Oh shit! Year 2020, the year of the coronavirus 😱
Oh f*ck!
one of the more impressive side scrolling brawlers for the neo geo aes. the only way the two lead characters could appear in a kof game was if a third member of their team came from another snk franchise. the first three bosses though would be good inclusions in a bosses team comprising of bosses from some other snk franchises. this could form the basis of a future metal slug game with ricky and johnny teaming up with fio, marco and company from metal slug to take down morden who joins forces with the mutant scientist from mutation nation and the aliens from the subsequent entries in the slug series. the second boss makes mortal kombat's goro look tame in comparison.
Looks cool
perfect
Gmn cara download nya ya
Final Fight and burning fight ripoffs, so these boss monsters reminds me power rangers.
Excelent
Whys mutation nation reminds me of Contra 3?
this game re uses the same bosses wayyyy too much, big disappoint when that happens.
Where can I get this game
It's on Switch, Xb1, and PS4
@@NintendoComplete and super console x ...(mame)
Lets put these guys in Resident Evil
Zānim
Year 20XX, So... It's under Trump rule then. O_O
Santo Tan best joke I’ve heard this morning.
2000 to 2099
Asset recycling off the charts
Like most beat em ups...
Good times Wesley snipes and some guy with red hair busting up mutated freaks lol