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Clay Fighter 11-30-14 07:14 PM
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Origin of the ClayFighters
ClayFighter was one of the many fightin' games to show up in the early 90's era. For whatever reason, fightin' games became very popular at the time, and even moreso the idea to have them on yer own home consoles; so instead of spendin' a lot of money in an arcade, ya pay once for a game of the same genre then play to yer content. No credits, no quarters, no nothin'.
Back then, that was a huge, HUGE deal. Thus, fightin' games came out of the wazoo to cater to the craze, and this was one of them. Not to mention that Claymates was in production around the same time, with Claymates eventually bein' released first, but that's another story.
Anyway, the thing 'bout ClayFighter was that it wasn't really bringin' anythin' new to the table in terms of mechanics or game play. Though, as inspired by havin' photographic sprites for a game, the gimmick was to make everyone made of clay, and build a story behind it. However, this wasn't just a mere spritin' style, oh no; everyone literally had clay models created that were later digitized. Ya can see proof of this from the cartridge/manual artwork (where I'm gettin' my clay kicked by Tiny while Frosty just gee tee eff ohs). Other than that, we're just knock-offs of other fightin' characters, and don't even get me started on the ad campaign that literally tells ya that people from Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc don't stand a chance against us.
Really now, even if one of the reasons to play ClayFighter states that we're immortal (which, due to introduction of Claytalities in 63 1/3, is now null and void), I'm pretty sure we'd get our clay handed to us on a silver platter by those other fighters. Give them some slack; in MUGEN we're really pathetic!
So, the game itself. The first thing yer gonna notice is the fact the story isn't so thoroughly explained. If ya happen to have the manual, however, the full story is written in there, as well as more in depth descriptions of the characters aside ... Read the rest of this Review
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