I played the emulated home version repeatedly, with only 4 credits on the default difficulty setting, to see how far I could get. On the first page, I said that there was a Rocky-esque training montage for this game. That's the problem at the heart of King of the Monsters 2, you see. Most of all, don't make your game a test of patience rather than skill! ![]() Second, don't encourage- or, rather, force- the player to find the cheapest, most repetitive strategies possible (such as spamming Super Geon's Earthquake) not merely to beat the game quickly, but to have any hope of beating it at all. For one, don't rely on giving the computer opponents every possible advantage (they win nearly every grapple, they have more health than you, they don't need to charge their projectiles) and force the player to eat shit and die (Power-Downs, inability to consistently win grapples, fucking Power-Downs) to make the game 'harder'. This game is like a case-study in things to not do when balancing the difficulty of your video game. Or rather, King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing has beaten us. It's HIGH SCORE TABLE TIME!!!Īnd so, for better or worse, we've beaten King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing. SNK nuts will note the appearance of Hamachi Papa as planner and director- he was producer/director for King of the Monsters and Beast Busters too.Īnd now, to end with something we haven't seen for a while on Gaming Hell. We then have the credits, of course, complete with amusing little pictures for all the staff members. Hey, SNK, stop leaving these painfully obvious sequel hooks around, will ya? Then you get a chance to have a freeze-frame pose in the sky as you're declared the King of the Monsters.Īnd you get a pointless 100000 bonus points which does nothing except irritate anyone who wants to try and beat your high score.įinally, you get a bit of guff about how you beat the aliens, you're totally the strongest, and that in 800 years, 'a few survivors will have power'. However! If you're successful in your mission, you get blasted out of the volcano as it erupts. If there's one thing that both King of the Monsters games have in spades, it's a downright macabre sense of humour. So SNK's point is that the Earth won't be peaceful until we're all dead? ![]() ![]() King of the Monsters 2 - The Next Thing - PEACE EXISTS AT LAST.Īpparently, by not killing the itty-bitty Famardy clones, you doom the entire Earth and it essentially collapses in on itself.
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