Retroism Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter (SNES Compatible) - Super NES,

Awsome product.

I've been playing fighting games casually for a long time now. This game is a great example of the time period its trying to evoke, and I do mean that as both a positive and a negative. Here are some quick highlights:+ Very responsive. It feels just like playing on an arcade cabinet. If you feel like there's input lag, it's probably your TV. If your TV has a "Game Mode", make sure it's on. Of course, for the best experience you should be playing this on a monitor or CRT.+ Fast-paced. Even the slowest character is pretty fast, and the fast ones can cross the screen in under 2 seconds. Attacks come out quickly, and your reaction time will be tested very frequently.+ Air-dashing and high-jumps/short-hops. This can be a pro or a con based on your own preferences, but to me it adds another layer to the game. Air mobility is very important in this game, and every character has at least one air special and one air super. And yes, IAD is in the game!+ Easy to pick up if you've ever played a fighting game before. All the special moves and Supers are common motions. Expect to do a lot of QCF, QCB, and DP motions. There are a couple characters with a charge move or two as well. Every character has at least two command normals, throws are simple to pull off, there is quick-rise, and there is an Alpha counter.+ Tech. My goodness there are a lot of little quirks I already noticed in the short time I played. A real lab monster would have a field day with this game. A fun, simple one is the clash mechanic. Attacks whose active frames collide will clash. This includes special and super moves. You can prevent taking chip damage from supers by clashing the attacks. This is kinda-sorta like a parry mechanic, but not quite since instead of using a joystick motion you are precisely timing your attacks to hit the oncoming attacks.+ The packaging. The box art is great, as is the manual. The cartridge itself is pretty sweet-looking too.+ Good mode variety. It has a pretty robust Training mode which is nice. You can set the CPU to auto-guard after the first hit, to crouch, to jump, or to repeat simple attacks. You can also modify the CPU difficulty to make it more like a real match, just with infinite health, meter, and time. In addition to that, there is a Story/Arcade mode, a Survival mode, and the usual VS. mode. I have yet to try Survival, but I have a little more on the Story below.- Only 6 playable characters. Unless there's a secret code or something to play as the story mode boss character which would bring the total to 7, but still, that's a pretty weak roster.- Very precise specials and supers. Unlike modern fighting games which let you get away with 'shortcut' motions for certain moves, you have to make the motions very precisely in order to get special moves out. This can be difficult to do on the SNES pad. Some people may consider this a pro, and I would probably be more inclined to agree if I had a proper stick to use with this. On the other hand, input buffering definitely exists and good charge-partitioning really pays off for the charge-characters. Negative edge can be applied to your advantage, or it can cause the wrong move to come out. It's worth keeping in mind that your mileage will vary based on your own experience level.- Balance issues. I may come back and update this section since this is just my day-1 impression, but there are some characters that are very noticeably more powerful than others, at least so far. For example, in my experience Reinhardt is on the weak side. This is due to the stubby range of his specials, and the fact that the enemy will often fall out of his supers, preventing them from taking the full damage. One of his supers actually has a gap in the middle of the animation where opponents can start blocking if they weren't previously! Conversely, Wurzel seems pretty strong. He has some Blanka-like moves that are hard to get out of unless you've mastered the Alpha counter timing, which can be very finicky. There may be some tech to be discovered that could change things up, so we'll see how this evolves over time.- The translation. Good lord this game is poorly translated. I'm pretty sure they threw everything into Google Translate and called it a day. The manual is readable overall, but the story/background lore is butchered. The dialogue in the cut-scenes in Story mode is passable at best, incomprehensible at worst. Each character has some unique dialogue with the others which is a nice touch, but again, it's so poorly translated that it can be hard to follow.- The music. There doesn't seem to be a lot of variety. In SF2 for example, each character has their own theme that plays for them. As far as I've seen so far, there's only one "battle" theme in this game, and it's kinda mediocre. Don't expect to be impressed in this regard.Overall, this game is fun. Whether it's worth the $50 price tag is up to you. If you're a big fan of the 16-bit era of fighting games or if you're an avid collector, this is worth picking up. Otherwise, see if you can try before you buy. I'm going to try to bring this around to locals at some point and see what people think.

The box looks like the classic super nintendo games from back in the day ,nice art.the manual looks very good and the materials are quality.First of all thanks to blazepro and company for making this game for the super nintendo.It's a fun game but it needs more detail ,heres a list of what it needs.1.the background needs some movement to show it's alive.2.the music is good it just needs some more variety.meaning more tracks.3.the characters are great but i think it needs more characters.4.I would like to hear some more voice tracks during fighting to show emotions.5.when a character wins or lose i would like a celebration movement or voice effect.6.the story writing is too fast i can't finish reading it .7.the background is nice but could have been more spooky or moody.NOW HERES MY LIKES.1.I like the characters.2.i love the packaging.3.I love that it's snes.4.The colors are good.5.game play is good.final thoughtsCAN YOU MAKE MORE AND MAKE SOME FOR THE SEGA GENESIS TOO!MAKE A SEQUEL AND DO IT EXCELLENT PLEASE!Thanks.

Few weeks ago I released a review on my blog at Wordpress. I am reprinting it here for those that are on the fence about getting this game. Hope this is helpful for someone.A new game released for the SNES in 2017!!! This is the first time I made a pre-order on a video game. I always wait for the bargain bin special. But I figured that something like this would only go up in price due to collectors. First impressions? I have been looking forward to this game. Now that I have it……………hmmmmm, I don’t know. In order to do a fair review, I was thinking that, I am going to need to pit it against Street Fighter Alpha Zero 2. Both are 32meg in size. And maybe better throw in Fatal Fury Special, also a 32meg. There are a few other fighters on the SNES that are the same size but I don’t think we need to go there, this will be enough to “get the idea.”First, I love the box art and the fact that my cart is Super Famicom in shape, I didn’t expect that at all. Don’t worry, it contains the places in the cart to allow it to be used on the SNES. I like the smoked black see through plastic cart. The cart feels solid, equal to any official SNES cart. Nice to have a booklet where character moves are listed, makes a good reference. The whole package speaks quality and professionalism.This game did not use any special chip, so that, in and of itself, lowers the bar. This game is not going to be a “Street Fighter Alpha Zero 2” on the SNES. So that places it in the category with Fatal Fury Special in expectations. So how should I judge this? Graphics, animation, gameplay, re-playability, and music. Sounds like a winner to me.Push in, flip the power button and I am greeted with a musical loop of about, is it five or six notes? Am I being generous? This starts to grind while sitting here waiting for some sort of demo, that never comes. The screen is red with the title, what?! Come on! No artwork here? No intro? At the very least they could have had all of the characters in a pose like the box art. But come to think of it Fatal Fury Special wasn’t fancy either. But still, this is supposed to be something special because it has been such a long time since we have seen a release of a fighter on the SNES. Okay I get it, no love there…mumble.. mumble, mumble. A loss of creativity?Each stage’s background is like a painting, no animation. There is a hint, at times, of parallax scrolling between a foreground and background, but it is subtle, spoiled by a poor use of color. Background should had been a little lighter to create depth. Maybe it should have been implemented in a different way? Or at least give me some animation. (The whole screen will not fit on my cathode tube TV, it is a little cut off on the left side. What gives, this is the SNES.) So the backgrounds look good, but lack any life and are flat in appearance while fighting. Characters seem small. Marking my screen with tape, I quickly put in Fatal Fury Special, Oh my, Fatal Fury Special's first stage with Andy Bogard, blows away Unholy Night, I'm serious, that first stage alone destroys the whole game Unholy Night, sorry. (So does the first stage of Garou Densetsu 2) The Fatal Fury characters are a lot bigger, taller and the Unholy Night fighters are about 20% smaller. And there is not much distinguishing difference in character height among the six fighters in Unholy Night. I do find Unholy Night character designs appealing, but lacking in detail and part of that is due to the size. The animation is really no different than a lot of other fighters on the system, except for Street Fighter Alpha Zero 2. (Unholy Night is gum stuck to the bottom of Sakura’s shoe when it comes to that fighter.) Still, it works, you just feel like you are sitting farther away. The artwork, and story, of the game, as a whole, gives me a sort-of, a Night Warriors Castlevania slant, feel, atmosphere in a very vague way. That just came to my mind as I was playing, which is not a bad thing. And this flavor sort-of stays with you whenever playing. With only six fighters to choose from, not including, maybe, your mirror image of a different color? But I have found no way, as of yet, how to access those other colors. Adding two more fighters would have placed it in the ballpark of the norm for the time period. I am not sure where to go with that. I don’t know if there is anything to unlock at this point. With a good game design, plus hidden things, unlockables, that type of challenge in a game motivates me to play, sort-of like a tease. I am hoping the end boss is playable after he is defeated. Not holding my breath on that one. If there is nothing more, this game is going to be short lived in the re-play department. Some of the fighters seem a bit clunky and stiff. Some were more responsive, with noticeable frames missing in their attacks. I found only half of the fighters enjoyable to control.I don’t think enough effort was put into making the game a good single player experience. The AI is very poor. Your opponents aren’t even aggressive until you put it in hard mode. Easy mode the only challenge was the end boss. In the normal mode it was like knocking over bowling pins until I got to the character I was using, then I felt it was actually fighting. I have not been able to defeat the end boss yet. You really feel unprepared for his difficulty having no challenging opponents leading up to the match. In Fatal Fury Special you are not going to blow through that game on easy first time you pick it up. And Unholy Night just does not have that “arcade feel” I want in a fighter. Now here is where I switch gears. Practice mode is a great single player experience. Who would have thought? Set your opponent up to attack and the AI to 8. It is a blast to play. If only you had these adjustments for the story mode, it would have changed this review tremendously. And this is where I had most of my fun apart from a two play game. The only place this game shines. It is a shame that you cannot play through the game in practice mode. Grab someone who likes fighters and are into retro gaming, two player is more fun. Learning the special moves is a must. My first experience with two player, the game crashed after the bout was over, reset. I wonder why there was no VS CPU for a single player game? I guess story mode covered that?In the option menu you have two choices, turn off the sound and adjust the games difficulty. No controller configuration? Just listening to the music during gameplay will answer any question as to why the options did not include music sampling. The music, I would grade it as 8-bit game tunes with many 8-bit games destroying anything this game has to offer. The capabilities of the SNES is better than this. Okay I will leave it alone. I would have liked an added feature of putting in my initials when I have achieved a highscore from the fights I have won. And the story line is a very bad translation to English with bad mis-spellings and poor sentence structure. To even complicate that more, I don’t have time to read it. Playing the game, you have the choice of , story mode, verses mode, survival, and practice. Only three attack buttons (weak, medium, & strong) with one button to build your energy bar for special attacks and same button for defense, or crouching also acts as a defense against an attack.I know nothing about programming a game like this, let alone something for the SNES. So it is easy to sit back and give a critical analysis. And I am sure developing for a 27 year old gaming system that has long been thought dead by the gaming community, I’m sure there was no help from Nintendo, can be daunting. 32megs? I am very puzzled by that. Maybe no compression was used? Little to no options, only six fighters, poor music, missing frames of animation, small characters sprites. Not sure what they were trying to avoid by limiting this game. They built this game up, “from creators of past masterpieces,” “32 MEGS of 16-bit fighting bliss,” and “developed by a team of ex-SNK staffers who had previously worked on the Samurai Showdown and The King of Fighters series.” When you make promises like that you build the expectations and you had better be able to deliver. I see an opportunity here that falls flat in many ways. Maybe it was the failed Kickstarter campaign that crashed and burned this project? I say this because I see so much potential. I have got to keep in mind that this is only going to appeal to a niche market. When compared to other top fighting games on the SNES, this game is only average. I know there were good intentions, but I am not sure how this is going to be received by the retro community. I really want to like this game. But it is not that deep of a fighter. I am thinking that this is really for those who collect every SNES game. I personally want to support efforts like this because I want more. This game, hmmmm, it just might be an acquired taste. I did start to enjoy it more as I learned moves. With Nightmare I am able to do a 7 hit combo, and accomplished a 9 hit with Emily. I find Nightmare, Emily, and Wurzel the most enjoyable and playable fighters.I keep asking myself, “Is this worth the price of admission?” To the one who loves SNES fighting games, “Would this be enough?” There are mixed feelings here about this game.A Final Word:I think with a bit of tweaking, it could have been awesome. All they had to do is refine the one player mode a little, allow some options from the “practice mode” into the rest of the game(like AI adjustment), add a couple of more characters, throw in unlockables, get someone to beef up and work on the music arrangement, slow down the cut scenes to give time to read, and it could be a winner. Most gamers that purchase this game will possibly be using the single player mode, which is poor, IMO. Two player mode is fun because it is two gamers playing. I feel like the game is unfinished. In certain ways the game is unbalanced. In a round about way I really like the game. It is because, I can sense what they were going for, but did not quite achieve. Bottom line, If you make the one player mode sweet, then everything else will fall into place.

I am a big super nintendo fan and glad new games are coming out so I bought this, now this game is really fun on the short side but fun and the graphics are top notch quality but.... the game is glitchy if I play survival mode with a certin charcter the game just goes black everytime.

Great game it got me to take the snes out of the closet and turn it on again after a long time, the game mixes old school fighters gameplay with some new stuff you didn't see back in snes games, and plays great with the snes controller

A mi parecer tiene buenos gráficos y jugabilidad, pero se juega a la misma velocidad que otros juegos de pelea para snes con un ritmo un poco más lento, como el SFII o Weponlord. Otro detalle es que el cartucho es de super famicom pero solo el cartucho no el juego, entrando con dificultad en consolas clones como las de Retro-Bit.

pésimo, solo sirve como objeto de colección, el juego es realmente malo. por salir en 2017 unonpodria pensar q el nivel de programación en un snes podria ser magistral, pero es todo lo contrario. no le llega ni a los talones a juegos como street fighter. lamentable :(